TECHNOLOGY
“ Instead of one guy taking care of 15 locations and 200 devices , I now have a company I can call that can send a person out to each location ”
– Ron Dinwiddie , CIO
Partnerships with a number of key players have played a major role in the transformation – moving over to Juniper for Ethernet switches is a key example of this : “ They all have a common operating system so we didn ’ t have to learn an OS for different models , configuring them was easy . The switches themselves even saved me some money ,” he adds .
Once the decision was made to use Juniper , the Trust engaged a local provider , M & S Technologies , to request some senior network engineering assistance to help with the implementation and configuration . Dinwiddie explains : “ We were
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changing our entire IP scheme as well as upgrading the switches , M & S provided two excellent engineers that were indispensable in getting this project completed in a timely and proper manner .”
TXTCU also needed to adopt next generation firewalls - Dinwiddie had encountered Solutionary ( now NTT Security ) in several previous professional circumstances and knew they could be relied on to provide responsive , 24 / 7 firewall provision and monitoring that would enable threats to be logged and identified instantaneously . “ I have a lot of trust in them . They ’ ve done an excellent job ,” he says .
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