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Back To School Season

Technology can help transform a classroom to facilitate the highest level of interaction between students, faculty, and administration. As education changes, schools need to change with it and the implementation of dynamic computing solutions can advanced a student?s education exponentially! The use of technology in education keeps improving every year and at Info Advantage, we believe that the more that educators depend on technology solutions to provide their students with a quality education, the more cost-effective support they will need. Ed Tech Magazine noted that the post-pandemic future of higher education will require institutions to prepare better for what lies ahead. A few of the trends that highlighted include: the rise of videoconferencing platforms, an increased use of augmented and virtual reality, the proliferation of outdoor Wi-Fi, and new ways to give remote exams. Each academic institution has unique challenges they face while attempting to provide their students with an education that they can use to become productive members of society. Educause highlighted the Top 10 Education IT Issues of 2022, acknowledging that developing a shared transformation vision and strategy that guides the digital transformation of educational institutions is an important first step. Info Advantage knows that students often benefit from a hands-on approach to learning, because of that we offer IT solutions that you can leverage to present powerful and interactive learning corridors. Teaching and learning is made easier through Info Advantage?s IT and bandwidth consulting, hardware and software procurement, IT support, and mobile device integration solutions. Digital learning tools in the classroom can increase student engagement, help teachers improve their lesson plans, and facilitate personalized learning, all while helping students build essential 21st-century skills. And, as we all know, knowledge is indispensable. Utilize today?s greatest technology solutions to education the professionals of tomorrow! With all types of hardware, software, networking, and other IT-related products, Info Advantage is your one-stop shop for all of your educational technology needs. At Info Advantage, our mission is to improve the overall effectiveness of our public and independent K-12, higher education, and library clients by providing information technology solutions that extend beyond the chalkboard. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help your school leverage its IT assets into a dynamic workplace for your educators, as well as an equally dynamic learning environment for your students!

Partner Spotlight: Barracuda

Today we want to introduce you to another of our partners, our friends at Barracuda! Envisioning a safer world for businesses everywhere, Barracuda delivers innovative security products that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. More than 200,000 customers trust Barracuda to safeguard their employees, data, and applications from a wide range of threats. By building cloud-first, enterprise grade security solutions, Barracuda provides easy, comprehensive, and affordable solutions for email protection, application and cloud security, network security, and data protection! Email Protection: Barracuda’s email protection allows you to get started in minutes and provides complete security that stops all 13 email threat types and protects Microsoft 365 data. Their products include Threat Prevention, Data Protection and Compliance, and Post-Delivery Detection and Response. App and Cloud: They offer complete web application and API protection (WAAP) platforms to secure your workloads in the cloud. Their products include API Security, Cloud Security Guardian, Advanced Bot Protection, Web Application Firewall, and WAF-as-a-Service. Network Security: Leverage the benefits of enhanced protection and optimizing your network. Their products include CloudGen Firewall, Zero Trust Access, Industrial Security (IoT/OT), Secure Access Service Edge, Secure SD-WAN, and Web Security & Filtering. Data Protection: Barracuda protects your data wherever it resides to minimize downtime and prevent data loss. Their products include Cloud-to-Cloud Backup and Data Inspector. With solutions targeted at healthcare, retail, financial services, education, and state and local government organization, Barracuda partners with organizations, like Info Advantage, that are aimed at providing customers with world-class products, service, and support. As a technology consulting company, Info Advantage helps businesses improve operational efficiency, increase productivity, and strengthen network security using technology. We?re unique in our ability to be human at all levels of the IT hierarchy within an organization and relate to and understand what people tell us to help them maximize technology. Don?t miss out on our upcoming event with Barracuda and Nutanix! Join us at The Distillery in Rochester, New York on August 24th for a Lunch N? Learn where you can join us for lunch, networking, and engaging presentations to Secure Your Data?s Future! Register for the event or contact us today for more information on our partnerships and how we can keep your business up and running!

Partner Spotlight: Nutanix

Nutanix operates multi-cloud architecture to solve the toughest cloud challenges. By simplifying cloud complexity with an open, software-defined hybrid multicloud platform, Nutanix allows you to focus on business outcomes and new innovations. Whether on-premises or hybrid, you can ensure business continuity through centralized management, one-click operations, and AI-driven automation with Nutanix. Your Apps: Nutanix makes it easy to deploy, manage, and provision your apps. Your Infrastructure: Compute, storage, virtualization, and networking are converged and driven by software on the Nutanix Cloud Platform. Your Cloud: You can move apps effortlessly, anywhere you want, with zero data loss. The Nutanix Cloud Platform comprises hybrid cloud infrastructure, multicloud management along with unified storage, database services, and desktop services, to support any application and workload, in any location. Numerous industry leading organizations, such as Home Depot and Toyota, rely on Nutanix to deliver their mission-critical applications, desktops, and data across private, edge, and public clouds. The Nutanix Cloud Platform advantage features three distinct benefits: Power of Simplicity: One-click deploy, patching, provisioning, and scaling, the power for users to provision their own apps and services, and AI-powered application automation, self-service, cost, and security governance are just a few of the simplified services of the Nutanix Cloud Platform. Data Centricity: Integrated protection to protect your data, integrated storage for bare-metal workloads, and simplified database operations across any cloud result in lead to data centricity. Customer Choice: Choice of hypervisor, the ability to run Nutanix software on servers from any of the major vendors, and workload portability across clouds offer the freedom of customer choice. With Nutanix you can modernize your datacenter, unify all your clouds, and run any app at any scale! At Info Advantage, we have an enormous amount of appreciation for the businesses we partner with. By working with industry leaders like Nutanix, we are able to provide our clients with best-in-class solutions, therefore ensuring the best business outcomes! Don?t miss out on our upcoming event, Secure Your Data?s Future, with our friends at Nutanix and Barracuda! Taking play on August 24th at The Distillery in Rochester, NY; the upcoming Lunch N? Learn provides a great opportunity to enjoy lunch while networking and taking part in engaging presentations. Visit our events page to register for the Lunch N? Learn or contact us today to learn more about our services and how we utilize our proven process to ensure the best results for your business!

Partner Highlight: Unitrends

Unitrends is built on 30 years of innovation, creating solutions to your problems! Increasing uptime, productivity, and confidence in a world in which IT professional must do more with less, Unitrends offers all-in-one backup appliances that simplify data protection, application spin-up, and SLA policy automation. Unitrends introduces backup appliances and cloud data protection that leverage cutting-edge technology to automate manual tasks, eliminate management complexity, and deliver tested hardware and software resilience. They claim 2 exabytes of data protected, 100 petabytes protected in the cloud, 30,000 customers, and 98% customer satisfaction! Their solutions paired with our consultative approach will help you cut management time by 50%, reduce costs by 33%, and have 100% confidence in recovery! Unitrends emphasizes simpler, better, smarter IT and provides that through: More Productivity with All-in-One Simplicity More Uptime with Cloud Continuity More Confidence with Business SLA Analytics More Free Time through Smart Analytics & Proactive Support More Flexibility with Broad Technology Integration At Info Advantage, we recognize the importance of strong partnerships and the resources they can provide to our clients. Our Proven Process provides a clear roadmap we follow to create consistency and deliver an optimal customer experience. Part of the process is crafting a solution, and it?s that piece which really lets the solutions from our partner?s shine. Our team of experts can become your outsourced IT department; responding to issues quickly, often before you even know about them. Covering everything from your servers and network infrastructure to your computers, workstations, and mobile devices, we provide end-to-end solutions for all of your technology needs. Hosted by the Genesee Brew House in Rochester, NY, the upcoming Business & Brews event provides an opportunity for to enjoy after-hours networking, food, and drinks. Don?t miss out on a fun night with Info Advantage, Unitrends, and Palo Alto Networks, register today and you’ll get a $25 Amazon gift card just as a thank you for spending your valuable time with us!

Partner Highlight: Palo Alto

Info Advantage has been serving the IT industry since 1992; and our experiences have allowed us to build and develop the infrastructure needed to keep our prices affordable and our clients up and running. Part of that infrastructure is the partnerships we?ve developed over time. Today we want to share more about one of those partners, our friends at Palo Alto Networks! Palo Alto Networks is a global cybersecurity leader that continually delivers innovation to enable secure digital transformations. With over 85,000 customers, in more than 150 countries, they provide the visibility, trusted intelligence, automation, and flexibility that help complex organizations advance securely. By delivering a comprehensive portfolio and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, Palo Alto Networks is at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Palo Alto Networks offers a variety of solutions for businesses in any industry; these solutions include network security, cloud delivered security services, secure access service edge, cloud native application protection, endpoint security, and security operations. As one of the world?s cybersecurity leaders, Palo Alto Networks offers seven reasons why they?re the right company for your business to work with: Their comprehensive, best-in-class cybersecurity portfolio Delivering The Zero Trust Enterprise Enabling the future of secure access Best-in-class protection for multi-cloud Leading platform for the autonomous SOC Your true partner for digital transformation World-class threat intelligence and incident response We?re in this business to help other business grow and move forward and we?re drive by the philosophy that if we help businesses solve their IT issues so they can become more profitable and successful, then we will inherently grow along with them. Having partnerships like the one we have with Palo Alto Networks is a major part of that equation. Together, with our friends at Palo Alto Networks and Unitrends, Info Advantage is happy to bring you our upcoming Business & Brews event. This event will take place at the Genesee Brew House located at 25 Cataract Street in Rochester, NY from 4:00pm ? 7:00pm on Thursday, July 21st! Don?t miss out on this fun opportunity for after-hours networking, food, and drinks. Register here today or contact us with any questions you might have about the Business & Brews event or our partnerships with companies like Palo Alto Networks!