Cisco has long been known as the digital Fort Knox of the network security world. Their breadth of products offers an all-encompassing path to internet security, and includes a multitude of security fronts.

HARTFORD, CT – Kelser employees helped raise awareness and funds in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease at the second annual Brain Ball presented by the Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter at the Connecticut Science Center.

Of course, Microsoft wasn't going to miss out on the cloud-computing revolution. In fact, Microsoft spearheaded the change by making one of the first large software-to-the-cloud solution moves with the Microsoft Office 365. Microsoft Office 365 is similar in look and feel to the industry-standard Office suite software, but in contrast, it’s now in the cloud. This move to the online world has helped simplify Microsoft’s licensing into a buy-only-what-you-need approach. It also offers ample additional features, including automatic security updates, and automatic backup. Microsoft Office 365 is a significant change from the decades-old Office software. Think of it as an Office 10.0. It is no longer a simple suite like Word and Excel, but rather, a collaboration-based solution.

HARTFORD, CT – Kelser joined other Connecticut VMware experts and leaders at the 2016 Connecticut VMUG UserCon at the Connecticut Convention Center.

With the proliferation of devices in the workplace, IT asset management is turning from a 'nice-to-have' to a 'must-have' concept. It’s no longer acceptable from a high-level IT perspective to have a smattering of devices without knowing relevant, critical information about them such as how old devices are, what components they use, what they cost (then and now), their effect on network security, and their expiry date.

The popularity of the Cloud is unquestionable, with the majority of U.S. businesses using cloud computing. But, with this increased usage, cloud-based Disaster Recovery (DR) has become even more crucial.

Project management is a challenge in any vertical with hurdles that include changing deadlines, high expectations, constantly-changing requests, team cooperation, and of course the simple fact that at least one thing will go disastrously wrong. On top of that, IT specifically has its own unique challenges.

Over the weekend, a colleague sent me a link to the recent NASA data breach (the one where they hijacked a drone). The drone hijack is really the highlight of the article, but two things really resonated with me as well: