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Kindling the iPad Fire
By: Bill Waldron A close friend told me one day to “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” So I was a career changer. One of those lucky guys that realized one day their hobby was...
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Think Outside the Chassis
By: Bobby Grewal The scene: Your data center The situation: Your Cisco 6500/4500 chassis is end of life Your budget: Not a lot The solution: Cisco Nexus 5000 It is...
View ArticleABS Named as One of North America’s Top 500 Technology Integrators
ABS Technology Architects today announced it has been recognized by UBM Channel as a part of CRN’s 2012 Solution Provider 500 list, which ranks the top technology integrators in North America. Formerly...
View ArticleABS Achieves Cisco Master Unified Communications Specialization
Designation Recognizes Channel Partners with Highest Level of Unified Communication Expertise, Lifecycle Services and Success in Sales ABS Technology Architects (ABS) announced today it has achieved...
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Are We Really Secure?
By: Jonathan Taylor Security is one of those concepts that sits in the back of one’s mind but is never put into practice until something happens. Ever heard the comment “I have an antivirus and a...
View ArticleAdding Another CCIE
Email and Facebook went crazy last week when ABS learned that Stephen Lynch passed his CCIE lab. What does it take to obtain a CCIE distinction? Well if you ask Stephen Lynch, a lot of study and...
View ArticleACHS students learn about technology alternatives
Article as written by Stephanie A. James and appeared in the Times-Virginian on October 10, 2012. To view the original article click here. Kicking off career week, Appomattox County High School...
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40 Years: ABS Technology Architects
Two-thousand and twelve was a mile-marker year for ABS as we celebrated our 40th anniversary. Inside Business, Hampton Roads business publication, produces and year-end recap of organizations that...
View ArticleEleventh Year Earning Cisco Channel Customer Satisfaction Excellence
Cisco Systems has announced that ABS Technology Architects has achieved, for the eleventh consecutive year, Channel Customer Satisfaction Excellence. ABS has achieved this customer satisfaction rating...
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Citrix Certified Advanced Administrator and What That Means to Your Business
ABS Senior Virtualization Engineer, Hersey Cartwright, earned his Citrix Certified Advanced Administrator (CCAA). This level of certification with Citrix builds on his CCAs for XenApp and XenDesktop...
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XenDesktop 7 Released
By: Hersey Cartwright, Senior Virtualization Engineer XenDesktop 7 was released for download on June 26, 2013. This much anticipated release provides a unified architecture of Citrix virtual desktop...
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Cisco Live 2013 – From a Geek’s Perspective
By: Alex Hannah, Senior Unified Communications Architect ABS is unique in that our engineers pride themselves on being up to date on so called “bleeding edge” technology. Every year in early summer...
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Forget Lions, Tigers and Bears. Today’s IT Organizations are facing BYOD, MDM...
By: Somer Wilson, Account Manager Per Gartner, “By 2014 90%…of organizations will allow personal devices for work use.” Representatives from ABS recently attended a joint workshop to prepare our...
View ArticleCisco Core Upgrade with Virginia Utility Protection Services
ABS Technology Architects completed a Cisco Core upgrade for Virginia Utility Protection Services in Roanoke, Virginia. Debbie Hofbauer, Director of IT, talks about the process and benefits of using...
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VDI-in-a-Box
By: Hersey Cartwright, Senior Virtualization Engineer Citrix VDI-in-a-Box is a virtual desktop infrastructure all-in-one software deployment that has been packaged as an easy to deploy virtual...
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ABS Technology Architects Joins Inc. Magazine’s Exclusive List Of America’s...
Inc. magazine has ranked ABS Technology Architects (ABS) 3315 on its seventh annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most...
View ArticleThe price of simplicity: Cisco ASA vs. Meraki MX
By: Jonathan Taylor, Senior Network Engineer As an architect walking into a meeting for a firewall refresh the number one question I get asked is “how easy is it to configure and maintain?” For me I...
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VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook
Who is hungry? The answer may depend on what time of day you are reading this, but if you are looking for some new IT recipes to cook up we have just the book for you. ABS’ Hersey Cartwright recently...
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Hackers Know Your Vulnerabilities, Do You?
Your organization should have a set of processes or even better a program that systematically reviews your risk. In banks and hospitals managing risk is mandated by regulation. Given the prevalence of...
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How the Consumer Market is Driving the Commercial Phone Market
A colleague and I were recently talking about how his high school aged daughter only uses text and FaceTime. Voice calling just doesn’t happen. This made me reflect on how far we’ve come since I first...
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