Telecom Reseller / Technology Reseller News

Today, more than ever, it’s important to dispose of data and other IT gear, properly and responsibly. Corporate integrity and corporate responsibility are a part of the picture. In this podcast, Anuar Garcia of GreenTek Solutions, outlines the importance of properly managing assets as they approach the end of their utilization. GreenTek is two levels of R2, ISO45001 and ISO14001, certified. This means that equipment going back online has been properly treated to erase all memory, and items that will be recycled are processed for materials. Garcia explains the importance of ITAD to all parties, end users as well as dealers. Garcia’s company has joined the ASCDI, looking to bring together people who share the values of maintaining high standards.

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Recently Telinta, a global leader in cloud-based white label VoIP switching and billing solutions, announced new additions to its Auto-Provisioning capabilities for Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs). In this podcast, Telinta’s Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Anthony Stiso, walks us through the announcement along with other recent developments. Stiso notes that their service is available for a wide range of the industry’s most popular phones, enabling Telinta’s partners to offer a choice of pre-provisioned phones without tying up labor and other assets to execute. Stiso also offers a brandable softphone, and options for users who would like to use their own mobile devices. “It’s really extremely flexible and it really lets’ our customers build their business the way they would like to,” says Stiso about the Telinta platform and the company’s commitment to a thoroughly white label program. Stiso describes how Telinta’s full portfolio of white label carrier-grade solutions is highly customizable. This includes Hosted PBX, SIP Trunking, Business and Residential VoIP, Mobile Solutions, WebRTC, Audio-Conferencing, Calling Card, Pinless, Wholesale VoIP, and more.

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A Virtual Private Network (VPN) for all work-from-home employees can be quite expensive as well as labor intensive.  Since most work-from-home employees are using their own PC or laptops, the once secure company network has now been corrupted.

Marcus Whittington, Chief Operating Officer of SentryBay, describes their solution to Don Witt of The Channel Daily News, a TR publication. Since the technology has been developed prior to the pandemic crisis, there are already numerous major enterprise companies using their technology around the world.

Marcus Whittington

Experiencing an 88% increase in sales this year so far, they are expanding their United States presence into the reseller channel. If you want to protect your data and network from currently unsecured endpoints – check this technology out.

SentryBay is a UK-based company with a global customer-base. It has pioneered technology that approaches data security issues from a different, and more proactive, perspective. Endpoint data protection is essential to provide a secure, cloud-based IT ecosystem that avoids the weaknesses inherent in both technology and users. SentryBay’s ‘secure framework’ within which applications can run, underpinned by anti-keylogging technology, allows these weaknesses to be overcome. The company’s product is used by some of the world’s largest enterprises, from global banks and a central bank to SMEs.

For more information, go to: https://www.sentrybay.com/solutions/enterprise-software or call +1 949 394 4902

A recent Gartner survey of 317 CFOs shows that 74% expect at least 5% of their workforce who previously worked in company offices to become permanent WFH employees post-COVID. Many expect the number to be 10% or more. WFH and recession have put SD-WAN back on the radar, both to save money and as a means of addressing challenges that occur with a newly distributed workforce. In this podcast Ben Niernberg, Executive Vice President of MNJ Technologies discusses how SD-WAN is central to the industry’s response to these challenges. Niernberg tells us about MNJ Technologies, which provides vendor-agnostic SD-WAN service. “Not all SD-WAN are created equal,” Niernberg says, laying out several criteria on how to shop for SD-WAN and how to compare one service from another. Niernberg provides real time use cases, where MNJ Technologies SD-WAN has resolved WFH, and other current challenges, while allowing organizations to meet new stringencies on cost.

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Before the quarantine, it seems like everyone was talking about the new workspace, huddle rooms and so on. Collaboration was about adding tools to a place where people had already gathered. Earlier in June, PGi rolled out several new enhancements to GlobalMeet Collaboration designed to improve how people, teams and enterprises productively connect and collaborate. With work from home (WFH) emerging as the dominant work mode, there remains a need for businesses to carry out internal communications not to mention communications with the outside world. In this podcast Mark Roberts, CMO at PGi, takes us through GlobalMeet, now with more HD video screens. GlobalMeet has several new enhancements including G Suite integration, a virtual whiteboard and mobile scheduling. GlobalMeet enables companies to up their ‘home game’.

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“The service providers are challenged on how to provide high quality networks while still having to focus on coming up with new features or trying to compete with the new competitors in the space,” says Chakra Devalla, CEO of tekVizion. In response to that challenge, tekVizion has come up with tekVizion360. tekVizion360 is designed to help the service providers meet their need for continuous testing, continuous integration and continuous deployment. In this podcast, Devalla offers an overview of tekVizion360, and the role of automation. We learn how service providers can maintain high quality without having to draw out large resources. Devalla discusses the benefits of the product and outlines use cases.

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Teams with analytical tools. You will likely need more. That’s the message in this podcast with Tim Armstrong, VP of Product Marketing at Nectar. Armstrong makes the case that better customer experiences are possible and critical, and that Nectar’s unified approach to troubleshooting and analytics can help deliver on the promise of Microsoft Teams to transform office communications into something new. We discuss direct routing for PSTN calls, confronting incumbent infrastructure, including the migration from Avaya, that many enterprises are looking at in this migration process. Nectar enables organizations to monitor and assess their networks and maintain network health.

Visit https://www.nectarcorp.com/

When you say the word branding or brand, a word picture might appear in your mind of an iconic logo. The FedEx logo with the arrow or that famous, “when is absolutely, positively must be there…” slogan that went with the logo. Andy Abramson thinks that contemporary branding is different in at least two fundamental ways: it’s much more than an icon and a logo, and it’s much more personal. In this podcast, Abramson urges listeners to build what he calls “the legend of you”. Your online reputation, your in-person reputation, the way people see your work, and the way you reply to an email are now a part of a whole cluster of things that brands you, brands your business and/or brands your professional reputation. In an economy where we are socially distanced from bosses or customers, all of this has taken on a new urgency. Abramson walks us through what is imperative and explains how anyone can get started and needs to get started.

Visit http://comunicano.com/ to learn more about Andy Abramson and visit www.skyswitch.com where Andy serves as CMO.

During a sharp decline of the UK economy, battered by a global pandemic, Velez Managed Services is staffing up. The company has hired fifteen new employees. In this podcast, Sean Price, CEO, discusses how Velez is growing and serving customers by not only focusing on product and service quality, but also by focusing on people. “Anybody can have a business doing IT services…” says Price, but the companies that stand out and last offer in house capacities that are not as widely shared, and in turn those capabilities require the careful curating of skilled professionals. In this podcast, Price outlines Velez’s service and products, the company’s long-term track record and industry reputation and the resources the firm offers the market. These services include, global third-party maintenance and management including asset management, data center services, server maintenance, storage maintenance managed it services with 24/7 support and network support. Price cautions that many companies make claims on their ability to deliver similar services, but a much smaller group of firms can deliver on these set of needs. Price discusses the company’s new membership in the ASCDI, which like Velez, is dedicated to setting high industry standards.

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“Don’t wait for 5G.” That’s the big message in this podcast with Mark Bole, CEO of Quortus. As 5G advances as the new standard for mobility, it has occurred to many people in the channel partner community that 5G can potentially deliver a disruptive change to the entire way companies and organizations manage their internal communications of all kinds. That might be causing a big pause in the way channel partners are thinking about their long term and even intermediate futures. Bole outlines a significant opportunity available now in using Quortus products to develop private wireless networks to their customers, creating a needed service today that can migrate as 5G emerges. Bole talks at length about his offerings, some new developments and recent news of proactive investment in the company that will fuel the firm’s plan to grow its presence in the US and Canadian markets. The company has noted success in manufacturing, agriculture, among other verticals, notable since some of these industries have been looked over by the UC community. Bole urges action now, to make the most of 5G and avoid the company-killing “opportunity cost of time”.

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