Recent events in the Ukraine have left many people uncertain of what's coming next. Our hearts and thoughts go out to the families who’ve been affected by this tragic mark in history, and we hope they can reach a peaceful accord soon.

If you’re a technology leader at an enterprise, you’re under pressure to develop and deploy a secure IT infrastructure that supports and scales to a hybrid workforce. And you need to do it fast. Otherwise, your organization’s recovery from the economic conditions of the pandemic could stall. As your team continually battles relentless cyber-attacks, you could also see productivity plummet as a result, affecting the company’s revenue.

You may be hearing a lot about SASE these days. That acronym stands for Secure Access Service Edge. Some IT folks pronounce it “sassy,” and it’s an architecture, not a product. In short, SASE enables you to combine networking and security functions into a single, seamless cloud-based architecture. This way you can provide secure access to all your organization’s data and apps from anywhere your users may be working.

IE has a new partner! F5 specializes in application delivery networking, application availability & performance, application security, multi-cloud management, network security, access & authorization, and online fraud prevention.

In November at Cisco’s annual partner conference, we were honored virtually with the Execution Excellence: Regional Partner of the Year – Blue Ridge for our innovation, leadership, and best practice as a Cisco business partner across the southeast.

We’re excited to announce that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, named us as a 2021 Triple Crown Award winner. This award celebrates standout solution providers for the impressive accomplishment of being featured on three of CRN’s prestigious lists.