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Working from home in southwestern Colorado in mid-February, Mark Gigliotti was deeply concerned about the weather 850 miles away in Dallas. There, a snowstorm and freezing temperatures had blanketed the city and the state, revenging its energy grid and leaving businesses unplugged. While there was nothing he could do about the weather, Gigliotti and Terralogic […]

It’s something Rob Reynolds can’t help but notice while applying his infotech expertise to the construction and engineering companies that work for telecoms and cable providers. The builders build what they build best, which is the infrastructure itself. But their IT is typically behind the curve. And that can set back their progress, render them […]

While attending high school in his native Louisiana, Aaron Keating helped a handful of area companies build their e-commerce platforms. He enjoyed every aspect of the process, from designing and creating the websites to solving big-picture business problems. He was also ingrained with a passion for football—particularly by his late father, who would take his […]

He anticipates a trend, the outsourcing of data protection that his employer is well-positioned to assume on behalf of corporate clientele. For many companies, it’s a question of when, not if, they’ll be hacked, Matthew Ireland warns, and they may not even know about it for three to six months while the consequences accrue. “We’re […]

The call came while Aaron Leiberman was attending an industry conference in Las Vegas for partners and customers. A ConRes client had been hit with a ransomware attack, and he and his team of solution architects and engineers were urgently needed on-site to guide incident response and recovery efforts. Leaving the conference immediately, Leiberman, the […]

At first, the story of the family owned agricultural producer was obviously a successful one as it grew to five manufacturing and processing plants and 15 sales offices in three European countries. But success in a competitive market became harder to sustain and the company needed an independent review of its operations to prevent further […]

As the father of an autistic child who was non-verbal during the early part of his life, John Steinmetz knows the value of communication—and happenstance. Through a friend of his wife, who was looking for someone to help with an SaaS product, he met Jarrod Musano, the CEO of Convo Communications, a Texas-based video relay […]

Having plied his technology skills in both the private and public sectors, Tom Yeatts now finds himself in something of a hybrid role—employed by the former but serving the latter. To say he understands the differences between the two would be an understatement. “I used to be in government and there’s a reason why it’s […]

You’ve been working hard and enjoying your job, but there’s still that voice inside reminding you of untapped potential. Discovering how and where to begin the path to advancement isn’t always easy—even performance reviews may not illuminate a path to advance in one’s career. That, says Vinod Uniyal, is where the Your Learning talent development […]

It was a lesson he learned on the rocky coast of Maine, but it’s not lost in translation now that he’s deep in the heart of Texas. As Cameron Kilton was working to expand broadband internet service to Maine’s coastal islands, he stopped at a home with a view of the ocean typically found on […]