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In it to win it: Strategies as a Cisco Partner

April 20th, 2012

        By Krissy Kelley, Force 3 VP of Marketing Doing something great doesn’t come easy. You have to be dedicated. Just like practicing for the Olympics, building … [ Read more… ]

How companies can save money if employees work from home

March 29th, 2012

            By Jason Oh In this economy, more and more companies are reevaluating their current IT infrastructure and going back to basics to cut costs … [ Read more… ]

Predictions of 2012: 5 trends for federal mobility

March 8th, 2012

By Sudhir Verma With mobility now an enabler of government efficiency, we are all interested as to where this will lead. Federal employees not only use mobile devices every day, … [ Read more… ]

What’s in a name?

February 1st, 2012

By Scott Perry, Solutions Architect       With the recent addition of twins to my family, we found one of the greatest challenges during our pregnancy was picking baby … [ Read more… ]

Cisco ISE monitoring capabilities demonstration

December 1st, 2011

      By Rob Chee, Security Team Lead Watch and listen to Rob Chee, Force 3 Security Team Lead, demonstrate the monitoring functionality of Cisco’s Identity Services Engine here. … [ Read more… ]

Catch up to your employee’s demands: Go Beyond the Desktop!

October 4th, 2011

By Scott Perry, Solutions Architect, Collaboration Take note, workforce. We have entered a new era: The “Post-PC Era”. No longer does the PC tie employees down with its chains. Studies … [ Read more… ]

Leveraging vPC/VSS with ASA 8.4

September 1st, 2011

By Greg Stemberger, Security Team Lead, CCIE (R/S, Security, Service Provider) Virtualization technologies such as VMware ESX Server and clustering solutions at such as Microsoft Cluster Service currently require Layer … [ Read more… ]

Introduction to Cisco ISE and its scalability potential

August 24th, 2011

By Rob Chee, Team Lead, Security Consulting     The Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) provides a way to ensure that only authorized users gain access to the network and … [ Read more… ]

Repurposing Desktops as PCoIP Zero Clients

August 16th, 2011

  By Chris Kostolini, Data Center Engineer With VDI gaining a lot of popularity, a lot of companies may want to “test” this solution before investing their time and money … [ Read more… ]

VDI at home: building a 10-user environment for $500 (Part 2: VMware View Installation)

July 15th, 2011

 By Sam Lee, Data Center Team Lead Unlike the ESXi install, VMware View installation was straight forward.  I spend most of the time updating windows during the installation process.  Plan … [ Read more… ]