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Securing the Enterprise: Is Your IT Department Under Siege
Siobhan Byron, President - Forsythe Technology Canada
Dragana Vranic, Director - Managed Services
InSecure 12.01.2012
In the last five years, enterprise IT departments today are facing a never-ending, always-increasing global onslaught of threats at a time their budgets have either been frozen or slashed. |
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Managed Mindset: How to Select the Right Managed Service Provider
PC Today 12.01.2011
When selecting a managed service provider, companies are often faced with a dizzying array of choices that can lead to an improper fit if they didn’t perform due diligence. Dragana Vranic, Director of Managed Services for Forsythe, recommends finding answers to key questions to determine the best MSP fit for your company. |
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Cloud: A Risk/Reward Proposition
Siobhan Byron, President - Forsythe Technology Canada
SC Magazine 10.03.2011
Is going to the cloud worth it? Even with today's tough economic conditions, many IT and business executives wonder whether the cost, flexibility and efficiency advantages of migrating to the cloud are worth the risks. |
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Why Don't We Use BI to Analyse Security and Storage Data?
IT World Canada 06.24.2010
Shane Schick, editor-in-Chief of IT World Canada, reflects on comments he made about future trends in security and storage in his keynote speech at the 2010 Forsythe Customer Council (FCC) hosted by Forsythe Technology Canada in Greater Toronto in June. Schick's role provides him with a perspective on IT events and trends being reported throughout Canada and North America. In addition, as editor-in-chief of several online and print publications, he has personal experience in running a business whose primary focus is, literally, information. |
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Social Media Isn’t Friends with Enterprise Security
IT World Canada 04.08.2010
Social media is rewriting the rules of IT security and changing the jobs of enterprise security officers, a consultant says. “Social media is quite the challenge for our industry right now,” said Jeff Sizemore, managing security consultant at Skokie, Ill.-based Forsythe Solutions Group Inc. “It’s hard to be proactive in a security manner with social media sites, versus reacting and reading log files … it’s much easier to be proactive and limit data breeches, for example, in e-mail.” Social media sites are “very sophisticated because they are very well-packaged,” said Sizemore. “It’s very tricky because you have to manage to allow a user to use a Web site, but not access specific pieces of a Web site,” he said. |
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Is IT Keeping Up with a Changing Infrastructure?
ITWorld Canada 03.12.2010
As IT infrastructures become increasingly converged and components increasingly interdependent, IT admins are still not factoring in the collateral impact of individual changes to the IT environment, said one exec. Joe Wolke, director of IT strategy for Skokie, Ill.-based IT consulting firm Forsythe Solutions Group said that while technology trends like virtualization, storage consolidation, cloud computing and hosted applications serve to streamline IT functions, they do change the traditional IT equation. |
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Top 5 Solution Providers to Watch in 2010: Forsythe Solutions
Computer Dealer News 02.02.2010
Forsythe Solutions Group Inc. has been under the radar in Canada for the past two years. The large consultant and technology reselling power from Skokie, Ill., entered the market without any fanfare after delivering 38 profitable years in its domestic market. But that's all about to change. |
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Big U.S. Solution Provider Expanding to Canada
itworldcanada.com 11.04.2009
While many Canadian solution providers have heard of Forsythe Solutions Group, Inc., based in the Chicago suburb of Skokie, Ill., not too many have realized that the large consultant and technology reselling powerhouse has actually been operating in Canada for quite some time now. |
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The Virtues of Virtualization
Canadian Electronics 06.06.2009
Virtualization technologies have graduated to the big time, but it didn’t happen overnight. While early virtualization application experiments can be traced back to the 1960s, it is only in the past decade that there has been growing acceptance of this cost-saving technology. Virtualization technologies have come a long way, James Geis, director of integrated solutions development at IT consulting firm Forsythe Solutions, says, because evaluating capacity was once difficult. But thanks to improved capacity management tools, that task has been simplified and has become a mainstream means for resource planning. |
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16 Ways IT Can Do Less With Less
ITWorld Canada 03.16.2009
Tough times call for tough measures. Layoffs and cutbacks are rampant. Even if your IT budget is relatively stable, you will probably be asked to do more with less. For years, IT managers have been taught to think strategically and plan for the long term. But for many organizations, the future is now, says Joe Wolke, director of IT strategy at Forsythe Solutions Group. |
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No Holiday Break for Cybercriminals
ComputerWorld Canada, also ITWorld Canada 12.19.2008
Cyber Monday, on Dec. 1 this year, is the day when online shopping is typically at its highest. But with the boost in Web transactions, cybercriminals are on the prowl for confidential information they can snatch from unsuspecting shoppers. Forsythe security consultant Dale Masi provides perspective on what retailers are doing to protect themselves and their customers from cybercrooks. |
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