Englewood, Colorado, March 18, 2024 — Zunesis, a ProCern Company, today announced that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has honored Zunesis on its 2024 Tech Elite 250 list.
This yearly compilation showcases solution providers based in the U.S. and Canada, that have distinguished themselves by attaining top-tier certifications and specializations from leading technology vendors in the areas of infrastructure, cloud, and security.
To help customers navigate today’s IT complexities and harness the advantages of state-of-the-art solutions, solution providers—ranging from strategic service providers and systems integrators to managed service providers and value-added resellers—strive to uphold rigorous levels of training and certification from strategic IT vendors, often aiming for the pinnacle tiers within these vendors’ partner programs.
“CRN’s Tech Elite 250 highlights leading-edge solution providers within the IT landscape, distinguished by their comprehensive technical proficiency, expertise, and commitment to achieving top-level certifications in critical technology areas,” said Jennifer Follett, VP, U.S. Content, and Executive Editor of CRN at The Channel Company. “These solution providers persistently strengthen their capabilities to bring the advanced IT solutions to market that customers need.”
Coverage of the Tech Elite 250 will be featured in the April issue of CRN Magazine and online at www.CRN.com/techelite250.
Zunesis can help your organization compete in the digital economy with infrastructure transformation aligned to your business goals. We have more than 19 years of experience serving customers throughout the Rocky Mountain Region and Southwestern U.S., including Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Nevada. Our staff of solution architects have decades of expertise and in-depth product knowledge to customize IT solutions with success. www.zunesis.com
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Zunesis Contact:
Rachael Stiedemann
Zunesis
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The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education, and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers, and end users. Backed by more than 40 years of unequalled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelcompany.com
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© 2024. CRN is a registered trademark of The Channel Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The Channel Company
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In the dynamic world of network technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are more than just buzzwords; they’re forces propelling us toward a future where networks have the power to self-regulate and self-improve. With advanced algorithms that can learn from data, identify patterns, and make decisions with minimal human intervention, these groundbreaking technologies are revolutionizing the way networks are managed, offering unprecedented levels of efficiency, security, and performance optimization.
Today’s modern network infrastructure requires intelligent connectivity. To keep up, networks must be able to learn from data to optimize performance, secure data and communications, and streamline operations. AI and ML are the driving forces behind this evolution. With the ability to handle massive data flows, these technologies offer a sophisticated analytical engine that can analyze traffic to anticipate and resolve bottlenecks, prioritize data delivery, and automatically adapt to network conditions on a continuous basis. With the ability to self-adjust, predict needs, and thwart security threats autonomously, AI and ML offer a proactive approach to network management that facilitates seamless operations, which leads to reduced latency and a superior user experience.
Before AI and ML, network teams would scramble to identify and rectify problems reactively as they arose, disrupting business and placing strain on resources. AI and ML technology is revolutionizing this approach, with the power to analyze trends and identify anomalies in real-time—transforming the network into a self-optimizing entity that forecasts and mitigates potential issues before they occur. The resulting efficiencies give network teams more breathing room to focus on strategic initiatives that support business goals rather than putting out fires.
As cyber threats become more complex, traditional security measures can’t keep up. Cyberattacks are too sophisticated and evolving too quickly. AI and ML introduce dynamic and intelligent network security capable of identifying, detecting, and even predicting and preventing advanced, previously unseen attacks. With a security posture that is both resilient and adaptive, businesses can focus on growth and innovation, confident that their network security is equipped to handle new and highly sophisticated threats as they pop up.
Modern networks are complex, supporting a myriad of interconnected devices and applications, each with its own demands for bandwidth, security, and latency. At the same time, they must accommodate the rapid pace of digital advancement and the growing expectations for uninterrupted connectivity. AI and ML simplify this complexity by automating routine tasks such as configuration, deployment, and network device management, allowing IT staff to concentrate on strategic initiatives. This highly streamlined approach transforms network management from a daily grind into a strategic asset.
Navigating the intricate web of today’s modern network infrastructure requires a shift from manual processes to automated intelligence. AI and ML stand as pillars in this transformation, offering a more manageable framework that simplifies intricate processes of configuring, deploying, and managing network devices. With an AI-driven network management solution like HPE Aruba Central, Zunesis can help you harness the full potential of AI and ML to transform your network infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance, enhanced security, and streamlined management that aligns with the evolving complexities of your modern connectivity needs.
For more information about HPE Aruba Central, contact us here.
NASHVILLE, TN, Jan. 11, 2024 – Zunesis is pleased to announce that Channel Insider, a TechnologyAdvice brand, named Zunesis to its inaugural Hybrid Solution Provider 250 list. This list recognizes the 250 most progressive IT solution providers and resellers in North America based on their commitment to advanced technologies and client success.
To be considered a Hybrid Solution Provider, or HSP, a business must continue to adapt to changes in customer consumption requirements, complexity in emerging technologies, and stakeholder approval — with the ultimate goal of becoming a better partner for their clients.
“Channel Insider is committed to enabling the connection between best in class IT Solution Providers, such as those recognized on the HSP250 list, and the worldwide decision makers and users who benefit from their expertise,” said Rob Bellenfant, CEO of TechnologyAdvice. “Through this annual list, we will be providing yet another way for IT buyers to find the right support for their most urgent technology-related initiatives.”
The full 2024 Hybrid Solution Provider 250 list can be found on www.channelinsider.com.
About TechnologyAdvice
TechnologyAdvice delivers access to a global audience of over 100 million highly engaged technology buyers through its network of 20+ digital media brands and over 500 global team members, representing 12 languages and presence in the US, the UK, Singapore, and Australia. Notable brands such as TechRepublic, eWeek, and Channel Insider contribute to the 10+ million monthly individual readers who engage the TechnologyAdvice ecosystem. www.technologyadvice.com
In the last three years, 96% of global IT decision-makers have experienced at least one outage. The average downtime following a ransomware attack is three weeks. And according to ITIC’s 2021 Hourly Cost of Downtime survey, 91% percent of mid-sized and large enterprises say just one hour of server downtime would cost them $300,000 or more—half of whom believe it would exceed $1M.
Data is the lifeblood of any business. Without a reliable and robust disaster recovery plan in place, any unexpected disruption—whether from hardware failure, natural disaster, or a cyberattack—can result in data loss, prolonged downtime, crippling financial losses, and reputational damage.
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) has emerged as one of the most effective and efficient approaches to disaster recovery in recent years. With the ability to back up all cloud data and applications in a managed data center, the pay-as-you-go cloud service model not only safeguards critical assets, but also ensures rapid restoration, minimizing the impact of disruptions on business operations. In essence, DRaaS simplifies disaster recovery, keeping your business resilient and operational in the face of adversity.
Disaster recovery is a critical component of your business’s IT strategy. With a DRaaS approach that is well managed, you can solidify a resilient footing against disruptions, safeguard your critical assets, and ensure the continuity of your business operations in the face of what could otherwise be catastrophically damaging events.
At Zunesis, we can help you adopt a comprehensive DRaaS approach that protects your critical data and applications. With advanced expertise in HPE’s backup, recovery, and ransomware protection capabilities, we’ll partner with you to ensure your business stays resilient and operational, even in the face of unexpected events.
For more information, contact us here.
In today’s digital age, the traditional workplace is evolving. Remote work—at least to some degree—is here to stay. Despite the growing trend and many benefits of flexibility, improved work-life balance, and increased productivity, it has also introduced a slew of challenges and areas of opportunity for businesses—chief among them: ensuring secure, reliable, and efficient connectivity for dispersed teams. In response to this shift, businesses must prioritize innovative technologies and strategies that not only accommodate remote workers but also fortify the ever-expanding digital perimeter. Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) has emerged as a pivotal solution to address the intricate demands of modern work environments.
Unified SASE is not just another tech buzzword; it’s the answer to modern connectivity and security challenges. By combining Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and Security Service Edge (SSE) into one cohesive platform, it gives businesses the best of both worlds: optimized network performance and leading security protocols.
From unstable internet connections to security vulnerabilities, remote work comes with its share of unique, and potentially crippling, challenges. Unified SASE addresses many of these concerns by offering:
The remote workforce is here to stay, and your business needs to keep up with the growing trend to remain competitive. Unified SASE offers an integrated and adaptive framework that helps you ensure optimal performance while maintaining the integrity of your security posture.
Unified SASE represents the next step in the evolution of secure, efficient connectivity—and Aruba Networks is at the forefront of this revolution. Offering advanced expertise in Aruba Networks’ SASE technology, Zunesis can help you implement unified this solution to streamline your network management, bolster security across all remote endpoints, and guarantee a seamless, high-performance experience for your dispersed teams.
For more information about unified SASE, contact us here.
Today’s sustainability goals are igniting the synergies between technology and environmental responsibility. As businesses continue to expand, the demand for cloud services and IT resources has grown exponentially. But is this digital expansion eco-friendly? And how does the cloud contribute to environmental sustainability?
There is a common perception that because data is stored in the cloud, it is somehow ethereal and has limited impact on the environment. In reality, the infrastructure supporting it has a tangible and profound impact. Data centers, which power the cloud, are among the highest consumers of electric power, while the cooling systems that maintain them require vast amounts of water. Developing new cloud technologies that prioritize energy efficiency and minimize resource consumption while balancing the rapid pace of technological innovation are imperative in ensuring a sustainable digital future.
The good news is that many manufacturers are taking proactive measures to address these environmental concerns, championing innovative solutions that prioritize sustainability without compromising on performance. In fact, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has publicly committed to becoming a net-zero enterprise by 2040, helping businesses advance sustainability agendas with a holistic approach to carbon footprints across the IT estate, edge to cloud.
For businesses turning to HPE GreenLake, they’re not just adopting a cutting-edge technology solution, they’re embracing a vision of operational efficiency against the backdrop of environmental responsibility. Specifically, with HPE GreenLake, Zunesis can deliver businesses measurable environmental efficiencies across the following core pillars:
The increasing ubiquity of cloud computing in modern business operations requires an urgent pivot toward sustainable practices. Every bite of data stored, every computational operation performed, and every millisecond of uptime has an energy impact. Cloud sustainability isn’t just a catchphrase—it’s an urgent imperative. As businesses increasingly rely on data-driven decisions, it becomes crucial to ensure that the underlying processes are environmentally sound. Massive data accumulation without purposeful use or retention can lead to unnecessary energy consumption.
Zunesis is ready to stand at the forefront of this transformative journey. By delivering efficiency at every step, from equipment to data management, HPE GreenLake represents a holistic re-envisioning of what cloud sustainability can look like. With our advanced expertise in this solution, Zunesis can help you optimize your workloads with less energy and smaller footprints—while maximizing value across the asset lifecycle, engaging in the circular economy.
The education sector has experienced a significant transformation over the last few years, with traditional classrooms expanding into virtual spaces. While this shift has opened up new possibilities and enhanced educational experiences for students and educators, it also exposes educational institutions to more cybersecurity risks.
Last year, the education sector experienced a staggering 65 individual ransomware attacks, affecting 1,436 schools and as many as 1,074,926 students. These attacks resulted in an estimated cost of $9.45 billion, while individual institutions lost 11.65 days in downtime, on average. The disturbing trend continues in 2023, with 37 confirmed attacks reported in the first half of the year, surpassing the 26 incidents recorded during the same period in 2022.*
The alarming rise in ransomware attacks targeting educational institutions underscores the pressing need for robust campus network security measures. If you’re not taking proactive steps to protect your institution’s network, you leave yourself vulnerable to devastating consequences. This includes data loss, a disrupted learning environment, a tarnished brand image, and, of course, significant financial devastation.
Fortunately, there are steps you can take to fortify campus network security and protect your institution from these emerging risks:
By taking proactive steps to safeguard your campus network, you can establish a robust defense against evolving cyber threats. This allows your organization to provide a secure and uninterrupted educational experience for your students, faculty, and staff.
Not sure where to start? Zunesis can help. With advanced expertise in Aruba Networks’ comprehensive campus network security solutions, our team can help you protect your network infrastructure. We have the expertise to help you maintain a secure environment for your institution and the students you serve.
To stay competitive and adapt amid a rapidly evolving digital and economic landscape, keeping up with emerging technologies is not a nice-to-have; it’s essential. Those that fail to do so risk falling behind their competitors, missing out on valuable opportunities for growth, efficiency gains, and innovation in today’s highly dynamic and interconnected business environment.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing industries and driving transformative changes across various sectors. But, as models and data continue to grow, massive computer power is required to train and deploy AI systems.
HPE GreenLake offers supercomputing capabilities that are equipped to handle the constantly growing demands of AI workloads at scale. And with that, you can unleash the full potential of your AI initiatives, ensure real-time processing of complex data sets, and foster innovation.
Here are five ways HPE GreenLake can help you leverage AI to power growth and maintain your competitive advantage:
1. Improved productivity: With the ability to power AI models trained on large amounts of textual data, HPE GreenLake can help you leverage AI at a deeper level, using profoundly more data, to tackle emerging AI challenges more effectively, automate processes, streamline operations, and better allocate resources for increased operational efficiencies and productivity.
2. Data-driven insights: HPE GreenLake delivers a trusted, enterprise-grade AI/ML and analytics cloud-like experience that allows you to mine continuous streams of value from data, uncover trends, identify patterns, and make critical correlations across large-scale data sets. These data-based insights empower you to make more strategic and profitable business decisions to optimize processes, improve customer experiences, and stay ahead of the competition in today’s data-centric business landscape.
3. Quicker time-to-innovation: By providing on-demand access to powerful compute resources in a scalable infrastructure, HPE GreenLake reduces the time required for AI model development, so you can experiment with new ideas, iterate quickly, and adapt to changing market demands. This, in turn, empowers you to bring innovative products, services, and experiences to market faster, while also staying agile and responsive to customer needs.
4. Scalability and flexibility: HPE GreenLake makes it easy for you to scale your AI capabilities as needed to accommodate fluctuating demands and next-generation architecture. Plus, using continuous monitoring, you can right-size capacity and even enable capacity-bursting on-site, on demand.
5. Sustainable AI: Large AI models require massive computing power and energy to train. With its supercomputing capabilities, HPE GreenLake enables you to train, tune and deploy your AI models using renewable energy. Beyond cost efficiencies, a commitment to sustainable AI practices will boost your brand image and may even help you attract and retain top talent.
As AI continues to take the world by storm, the speed and ease with which you are able to operationalize AI models that can harness massive amounts of data can mean the difference between staying ahead of the competition and falling behind in today’s fast-paced digital landscape. By delivering a trusted, enterprise-grade AI/ML and analytics cloud-like experience, HPE GreenLake can help you rapidly integrate and leverage AI technologies in your business processes—so you can maintain a competitive edge and thrive in the ever-evolving digital landscape of today.
Contact Zunesis for more information on how to unlock the power of AI with HPE GreenLake.
Englewood, Colorado — Zunesis, announced that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has honored Zunesis on its 2023 Tech Elite 250 list.
This annual list features solution providers of all sizes across the U.S and Canada that have differentiated themselves by achieving the highest level and largest breadth of certifications and specializations from key technology vendors in the infrastructure, cloud, and security spaces.
Businesses rely on solution providers to maintain the highest levels of technical prowess across critical products and services to help them meet today’s IT challenges and take advantage of the benefits of cutting-edge solutions. To meet these demands, solution providers such as strategic service providers, systems integrators, managed service providers and value-added resellers strive to maintain high levels of training and certification from IT vendors and achieve the highest tiers within those vendors’ partner programs.
“CRN’s Tech Elite 250 list features the leading solution providers in the IT channel with the most in-depth technical knowledge, expertise, and certifications for providing the highest level of service for their customers,” said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. “These solution providers have continued to extend their aptitudes and abilities across various technologies and IT practices, demonstrating their commitment and value to their customers.
Coverage of the Tech Elite 250 will be featured in the April issue of CRN Magazine and online at www.CRN.com/techelite250.
About Zunesis
Zunesis can help your organization compete in the digital economy with infrastructure transformation aligned to your business goals. We have more than 18 years of experience serving customers throughout the Rocky Mountain Region and Southwestern U.S., including Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Nevada. Our staff of solution architects have decades of expertise and in-depth product knowledge to customize IT solutions with success. www.zunesis.com
Follow Zunesis: Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
Zunesis Contact:
Rachael Stiedemann
Zunesis
rachael.stiedemann@zunesis.com
About The Channel Company
The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education, and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers, and end users. Backed by more than 40 years of unequalled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelcompany.com
Follow The Channel Company: Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
© 2023. CRN is a registered trademark of The Channel Company, LLC. All rights reserved.
The Channel Company Contact:
Natalie Lewis
The Channel Company
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the world of storage and data management at an unprecedented pace. This emerging technology is not only streamlining the way organizations store, process, and manage enormous volumes of data, but it’s also significantly improving the insights gleaned from this information. Offering advanced algorithms and machine learning capabilities, AI is powering the future of storage and data management—and is expected to transform the way businesses handle and use their data.
As organizations generate and store ever-increasing amounts of data, AI will continue to play a crucial role in helping businesses manage and utilize that data to drive innovation, optimize operations, and make data-driven decisions that fuel growth.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), with solutions like HPE InfoSight, is leading the charge in harnessing the potential of AI-driven storage and data management technologies. At Zunesis, we are committed to helping you capitalize on HPE’s AI-powered solutions to ensure a seamless, optimized, and forward-thinking data management strategy tailored to your specific needs and objectives.
For more information about how to transform your storage and data management processes with HPE powered by AI, contact us here.