October 16, 2018
I assure you, this isn’t one of those painful ‘When I was your age…’ lectures your father might unleash about ‘…how hard life was back in MY day.’ (Although much to my consternation, I still haven’t identified his school route that was uphill BOTH ways.) But to be sure,…
Drummer and fantasy football fanatic Alex is TEC Communications’ Systems Engineer, and the company’s resident Video-Voice-Messaging Collaboration and Wireless & Mobility specialist. He’s getting married in 2021, and can’t stand the taste or smell of popcorn. (Those traits are not necessarily related.)
July 3, 2018
Cloud storage is a rather straightforward concept – a service where data is remotely maintained, managed and backed up, allowing users to store their information online with access from ANY location – anywhere in the world – via the Internet (with a private cloud hosting solution residing on an…
Systems engineer.
Spartan. (Go MSU!)
Ironman (2.4 miles, 112 miles, 26.2 miles. 5 times.)
May 3, 2018
THINK AGAIN.
According to identity theft protection company IdentityForce, reported year-over-year data breaches in the U.S. increased +40% in 2016, with the largest breach in history (affecting more than one billion – yes, BILLION – Yahoo accounts) leading the way. That trend only gained momentum in 2017, with significant quantities…
Greg is a 22-year marketing and advertising veteran who is Director of Marketing for TEC Communications.
March 2, 2018
Does your data center have the secret sauce? Does it have that special ingredient that creates a simple and thorough solution? Does the following list describe your data center?
One IT Platform for all its needs
Data Resiliency
Scalability without complexity
Business Continuity
Data Redundancy
Centralized Management
A fiscally…
Systems engineer.
Spartan. (Go MSU!)
Ironman (2.4 miles, 112 miles, 26.2 miles. 5 times.)
January 22, 2018
What Does It Mean for Data Center Management?
What is hyperconvergence? To understand what hyperconvergence is, it helps to understand where we’ve come from in the data center space.
The data center – or “server closet”, depending on the size of your business – used to be a room that kept…
Systems engineer.
Spartan. (Go MSU!)
Ironman (2.4 miles, 112 miles, 26.2 miles. 5 times.)
January 18, 2018
A Firewall Replacement shouldn’t wait until the technology gets outdated.
There’s the old adage: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This is not the case with technology – especially when it comes to network security. Learn why a university, with a tight budget and a two-year-old firewall, contacted TEC…
January 15, 2018
By Frank Keogh
While the name, “Next Generation Firewall” sounds like one of those “hype” terms that marketers often use to get you excited about a product, this is one instance where the technology really lives up the to the name.
To understand what a Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is, it…
Frank is a systems engineer, specializing in network consulting for LAN, WAN, cybersecurity and data center/hyperconvergence.
Credentials? Plenty. CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCSP, VCP5-DCV
December 4, 2017
By Frank Keogh
As technologies evolve, fancy new names have to be created by technology vendors in order to differentiate today’s super-cool technology from yesterday’s super-cool-but-now-outdated technology.
This is the case with the label “Advanced Malware Protection”, or “AMP”. AMP is the name given to the most current iteration of antivirus…
Frank is a systems engineer, specializing in network consulting for LAN, WAN, cybersecurity and data center/hyperconvergence.
Credentials? Plenty. CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCSP, VCP5-DCV
November 21, 2017
TEC Tech Quick Hits
In Cisco’s 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report, Cisco’s SVP of Security, John N. Stewart, had the following to say:
“It’s really quite simple: The more attack vectors that go unnoticed and the longer we allow attackers time to exploit our systems and infrastructure, the greater their chance for…
Frank is a systems engineer, specializing in network consulting for LAN, WAN, cybersecurity and data center/hyperconvergence.
Credentials? Plenty. CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCSP, VCP5-DCV
October 3, 2017
Guest wifi is now considered to be a given at venues, stores and restaurants. About 1 in 10 customers admit to leaving a venue if free wifi isn’t available for them to utilize. The fact of the matter isn’t if you should have guest wifi, it’s what kind of…
