Category Archives: Managed Service

ITogether join Amazon AWS Partner Network (APN)

When we’re asked to quote for co-location hosting or physical or virtual managed servers, price is very high on a customer’s mind. It was getting impossible to ignore the value and strength of Amazon EC2 (Elastic Cloud 2) So we’ve joined the Amazon Partner Network as a Consulting Partner. It is currently a Beta program, but Amazon expect to launch it…

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How does customer premises wireless differ to cloud wireless ? Why should I consider both ?

At ITogether we essentially have two offerings when it comes to wireless products for data, voice or BYOD. One is Cisco based (customer premises based customer owned controller which customer or ITogether manage, or Cisco controllers in our data centre, which again, ITogether or customer can manage) and the second is Meraki based – which is again ITogether managed or…

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Check Point SSL Inspection – How Does it Work ?

Check Point are very keen to promote their new abilities to inspect SSL traffic. This is ‘not’ a ‘new’ technique to the industry. In fact Webwasher (Mcafee) was doing this nearly ten years ago. Putting this to one side, Check Point have produced a very clear animation and video to explain how their own method works and why you would want…

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Check Point anti-Bot Protection – What is it and how does it work ?

Check Point GAiA brings a new anti-BOT Blade to the range. This clip by Gabi Reish from Check Point explains how it works with useful animation.  

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Hot off the press: Check Point R75.40

Just as the dust settles from Check Points R75.30 release of the Gartner Leading Firewall product then BAAAAM they release the latest iteration of their Award Winning Firewall offering R75.40. You can watch Gil Shwed’s Webcast here. So what can we look forward to in the latest generation of R75? Check Point ThreatCloud™ New Anti-Bot and enhanced Antivirus Software Blades…

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New Managed Service Customer – Welcome to Yorkshire

We’re very pleased to tell you that we’ve been awarded the managed IT services contract to support Welcome to Yorkshire from hereon. We’ve been working with them since 2009 when we helped them re-locate from York to Leeds. The service involves everything including network, connectivity, security, user management and ongoing monitoring and on-site support. It was a natural win/evolution for…

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Simon Richardson is in BQ Magazine this Quarter

I’m in BQ-Magazine on Friday, it’s a paper magazine and online which looks very much like ‘GQ’ Magazine, which means its quite smart. The subscription is pretty exclusive and interviews entrepreneurs in the region. It has good photography in it as well. Well worth a subscription !  If you want to read it, have a look at this link.

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Would you like a free Check Point 3D Risk Assessment?

Check Point have teamed with ITogether to provide a free Risk Assessment and 3D Security Analysis Report. Vija McNeil from Check Point has spent the day at the ITogether HQ she has been assisting our sales team setting up a number of Check Point 3D Risk Assessment’s for our existing customers. This report could show the potential security risks that you organisation could…

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What is the ITogether PDSL Service ?

ITogether have had a a Private DSL (PDSL) service for a few years now. It is a service we’re very happy with in terms of the ‘boxes’ it ticks for ITogether and our customers. It is secure, readily available nationwide, fully managed by ITogether 24×7. We have a PDF datasheet now for customers to browse through. ITogetherManagedPDSLDatasheet

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Why Tufin ? This video clip explains what it is, and why you need it

We often get asked “what is Tufin and why do I need it ?” – this Tufin video clip featuring Ruvi Kitov – Tufin CEO – explains in more detail.  

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