Logicalis Staff

Why are Apps Central to Digital Transformation?

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Dec 20, 2016 | Digital Ready Infrastructure, Digital Transformation, Digital Workplace, Mobility |

Reading Time: 3 minutesOver 700 IT leaders respond to Logicalis’ fourth annual Global CIO Survey The statement “every company is a software company” has practically been on repeat over the last few years. When it was first uttered, it was more of a future-gazing, stake-in-the-ground pronouncement – and its application to today’s world is probably still a bit premature. Not every business is a software business – yet – but Logicalis’ 2016 Global CIO Survey suggests that we’re getting there, with the help of a few shining lights along the way. In 2013, a Forbes article (“Now Every Company...

Can Government CIOs ‘Virtualize’ Social Work and Improve Outcomes?

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Dec 20, 2016 | Healthcare |

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy Adam Petrovsky, GovEd Practice Leader, Logicalis US Nearly everyone has read or heard a tragic story that was the result of something slipping through the cracks because an overworked social worker had too large of a caseload. What if this could be changed simply by digitally enabling some of the time-consuming, behind-the-scenes documentation tasks that take up so much of a typical social worker’s day? The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the typical social worker has an average caseload of more than 12 cases, which means they’re dealing with as many as 70...

Making Predictions in an Unpredictable World

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Dec 20, 2016 | Digital Ready Infrastructure, Digital Transformation |

Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Chris Gabriel, Chief Digital Officer, Logicalis Europe In the year of Brexit and Trump, Chris Gabriel, Chief Digital Officer for Logicalis Europe predicts that electronic digital crime will explode, data privacy breaches will claim scalps, automation will be 2017’s buzzword and the open source movement will challenge profit-making business models in his 2017 tech predictions. It’s the time of year to engage in the oh-so risky game of making predictions for what is going to be hot for our customers in the coming year. Risky, because stunning twists and turns can take us off course...

Using Technology to Transform Public Meetings

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Dec 15, 2016 | Communications & Collaboration, Digital Ready Infrastructure, Digital Transformation, Digital Workplace |

Reading Time: 2 minutesBy Adam Petrovsky, GovEd Practice Leader, Logicalis US For many government and educational organizations, public meetings are a very important part of the democratic process. Citizens with an interest in observing or participating in public meetings often attend school board meetings, city or county council meetings, zoning commission meetings or zoning board meetings. As advances in technology have improved, however, public meetings have adopted a handful of common tools. Solutions such as live broadcasting via cable networks or the web, audio reinforcement with better microphone and PA systems, laptop use, and projectors displaying presentations are regularly...

What Would an Umbrella Approach to Security Look Like for Your Enterprise?
Part 2: A Secure DNS

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Dec 15, 2016 | Security |

Reading Time: 2 minutesRon Temske, Vice President, Security Solutions, Logicalis US In Part 1 of my article, I discussed what seems like an insurmountable obstacle. While we require DNS to resolve IP addresses, this also allows it to be leveraged for a variety of malware and attacks. It’s estimated that 97 percent of all attacks involve DNS in some capacity, so the ability for DNS to play a role in security is extensive. Download and read the entire article: What Would an Umbrella Approach to Security Look Like for Your Enterprise? That’s the premise behind Cisco Umbrella, formerly OpenDNS,...

What Would an Umbrella Approach to Security Look Like for Your Enterprise?
Part 1: Potential DNS Vulnerabilities

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Dec 14, 2016 | Security |

Reading Time: 3 minutesRon Temske, Vice President, Security Solutions, Logicalis US The starting point for enterprise connectivity to anywhere is the Domain Name Services or DNS. Why not start there for cybersecurity? The purpose of DNS is to resolve names, which humans can remember, into IP addresses used by computers and other connected devices. Comparing DNS to a phone book (Ed. For those of you old enough to remember them!), or your contact lists in Outlook or your phone, is a good analogy. It’s difficult to remember phone numbers for all your family, friends, work colleagues, suppliers and customers,...

Advanced Threats Need a Next-Generation Approach to Cloud Security

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Dec 13, 2016 | Cloud Solutions, Security |

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBy Jason Malacko Let’s face it. Traditional security methods just aren’t up to the task of protecting organizational infrastructures and data from theft and ransomware. That’s a huge problem, because as organizations increasingly embrace a number of cloud-first platforms for everything from customer relationship management (CRM) to marketing automation platforms (MAP) to enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms and beyond, they are increasingly at risk from malware and cybercrime that is more advanced and harder to thwart. Enterprises need a next generation – or Advanced Threat – approach to cloud security. This requires a comprehensive methodology...

Logicalis US Earns Architectural Excellence Award in Security at the 2016 Cisco Partner Summit

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Dec 6, 2016 | Hybrid IT, Security |

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBy Logicalis Staff At Cisco’s recent annual partner conference in San Francisco, California, Logicalis US received Cisco’s Architectural Excellence Award in Security for the Central US in recognition of its innovative practices, leadership and outcome-focused programs as a Cisco business partner in the United States. A Cisco Gold Partner, Logicalis US helps its clients evaluate the effectiveness of their IT security solutions and develop holistic, adaptable, risk-aware strategies for managing security threats across the entire attack continuum – before, during and after an attack occurs. It also offers a portfolio of managed security services designed...

The Rise of the Shadow IT Department

Posted by Logicalis Staff | Dec 5, 2016 | Advisory & Managed Services, CIO, CIO Survey, Digital Ready Infrastructure, Digital Transformation |

Reading Time: 4 minutesOver 700 IT leaders respond to Logicalis’ fourth annual Global CIO Survey As Logicalis’ top executives assess the results of the company’s fourth annual Global CIO Survey, it’s clear that digital disruption is changing the way businesses procure, manage and consume technology – and that significant changes are on the horizon for CIOs and their teams. One of the most significant changes the study revealed was a shift in thinking about shadow IT, a practice once thought of as a symptom of the fast-paced nature of digital transformation, but something which has now become so commonplace...

Author: Logicalis Staff

Why are Apps Central to Digital Transformation?

Making Predictions in an Unpredictable World

Using Technology to Transform Public Meetings

What Would an Umbrella Approach to Security Look Like for Your Enterprise?
Part 2: A Secure DNS

What Would an Umbrella Approach to Security Look Like for Your Enterprise?
Part 1: Potential DNS Vulnerabilities

Logicalis US Earns Architectural Excellence Award in Security at the 2016 Cisco Partner Summit

The Rise of the Shadow IT Department

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