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This year’s AWS re:Invent has come and gone. This year 45,000 people from around the world descended on Las Vegas for one week. Participants were treated to a myriad of breakout sessions, labs, certification exams, and parties (it is Vegas after all). For the first time re:Invent spanned multiple convention centers. The Sands Convention Center was the main center with the Mirage, Aria, and MGM...

Security has been a leading topic throughout 2017 across all industries. Malware, more specifically ransomware, has been a dominant cyber threat with damage costs predicted to exceed $5 billion this year, according to Cybersecurity Ventures.Cisco recently released their 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report. This year is the 10-year anniversary of the annual report, which provides key insights and...

In this Fireside Chat CEO, Sean Barr, sits down with Principal Network Architect, John Li, to discuss one of the hottest IT topics of 2017: security. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this Fireside Chat. 

Security is something that most IT folks have a love/ hate relationship with. OK, mostly hate… because data security is not easy and it’s not something you can just do and forget about, instead you must continuously adapt your network security to keep up with evolving threats and mitigate risk.

Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and we wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you to our wonderful customers and partners. We are thankful for all the wonderful people we get to work with every day!

If you don’t have Cisco Umbrella (Formerly OpenDNS) in your environment yet, you should really take a look at it. I’ve had to support on-premise solutions for URL filtering in the past and in my opinion, there are no good ones. No matter the vendor, administration tasks are more complicated than they should be, and they always add a little complexity and more points of failure in the environment....

I have recently been working with a customer on designing and building out a new Data Center. This task is something that is not as common as it once was, with many of our customers adopting a cloud first methodology (AWS, Azure etc.) when it comes time for a DC refresh. Since it’s a been a while since I have dived into DC technology I figured it was about time that I take another look at Cisco...

In this Fireside Chat CEO, Sean Barr, sits down with Senior Solutions Architect, Chris Marshall, to discuss SD-WAN updates that have happened throughout 2017. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this Fireside Chat.

In January of this year LookingPoint Senior Solutions Architect, Chris Marshall, wrote a blog highlighting a technology we had just started hearing more about, SD-WAN. To recap, SD-WAN is an acronym for Software Defined Wide Area Network, and is a specific application of Software Defined Networking (SDN) that simplifies WAN management and connects enterprise networks. SD-WAN provides aggregation...

My wife and I had a baby recently which has been wonderful…save only for the lack of sleep it has brought us. Sitting up with our son and my wife at night has given me not only insight into the amazing amount of work mom’s do but, also some time to think (and catch up Golden Girls re-runs). It was still dark out, sometime early this morning, while my wife rocked our young son to sleep (again),...