Dynamic Solutions Group, Inc. Awarded Digium® Pinnacle Partner Award for Outstanding Sales and Service of Switchvox Business Phone Systems and Asterisk Custom Communications

Dynamic Solutions Group, Inc., a leading provider of VoIP business phone systems and I.T. Support Services has been awarded a Digium Pinnacle Partner award as Partner of the Year for North America. These Pinnacle Partner awards are presented annually to leading Digium partners who have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with Digium and driving customer success for either Switchvox Unified Communications (UC) or Asterisk Custom Communications solutions. Dynamic Solutions Group is one of the outstanding organizations selected based on annual sales and commitment to customer satisfaction.

DSG seen rapid growth of our Digium business and are honored to receive this award, which recognizes our fast growth status and collaboration with Digium. Our company’s VoIP expertise and UC capabilities combined with Digium’s compelling product portfolio has led to our continued growth. By partnering with Digium, we believe we are able to offer customers the greatest value and advanced features for their office communications.

"These awards demonstrate Digium’s commitment to the growth and recognition of our channel partners who are contributing to our remarkable growth,” said Jim Butler, director of worldwide channel sales.  “We are happy to have the opportunity to present these awards to those organizations who have shown a commitment to growing their Digium business and expanding our worldwide customer base. We have seen significant growth of our Switchvox UC solutions because customers are looking for feature-rich, affordable alternatives for their business phone systems.”

For more information on how we can help your business improve its business communications, contact us for a free demo or consultation. Learn more about our capabilities at www.dsghelp.com or call 800-979-4374 today!

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Why Your Small Business Should Outsource IT Support

Running a small business in today’s world is tougher than ever. With the economy stretched as thin as it has been in recent years, many small business owners have felt the brunt of this downturn hit them the hardest of all. On top of maintaining cash flow, overhead expenses are ever-increasing, and technologies are evolving at an unprecedented rate.

With that being said, one are of business that can realize a significant cost reduction through outsourcing, is IT Support. IT is critical and unavoidable in today’s world, and running IT effectively and efficiently can reduce costs in all areas of your business.

Benefits of outsourcing IT are numerous; increased efficiency, steady and controlled IT expenses, and reduced labor costs are amongst the benefits. Most importantly however, outsourcing your IT Support allows you more time to focus on your core business.

Alternatively, employing an in-house team in even a small business would require 2-3 employees at best. Not only is it very expensive, but you will also be “locked-into” the expertise of only those few you have on staff. Most IT Providers employ experts in every area of the industry, thereby affording your business the options you need for any solution.

In summary, by outsourcing your IT support, you can get all of the support you need, without the associated high cost of staffing your IT in-house. This is an excellent solution for any small business owner.

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DSG Now an Official Meraki Partner

DSG is now an official Meraki Partner. What is Meraki?

Meraki is the first and only solution that provides device based security policies, built-in NAC, and built-in mobile device management. Meraki includes everything you need for a secure, reliable, headache-free BYOD network — 100% integrated, without added cost or complexity.

The number of user-owned devices has grown at an unprecedented pace in recent years, with new iPads, Androids, and smartphones connecting every day. This has become a new and often very frustrating problems for administrators to deal with. While there is a clear need for access for these devices, security and administration of these devices becomes a serious concern. It’s imperative to keep network access secure and apply device-specific policies without opening security holes or causing an undue support burden.

Built-in BYOD Support 

With built-in BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) support, Meraki makes it easier than ever to securely support user-owned iPads, tablets, smartphones, and laptops – without extra appliances, licenses, or complex VLAN configurations.

Automatically Identify Devices Connected to Your Network 

Integrated Layer 7 client fingerprinting technology lets you see all the iPads, iPhones, and Android devices on your network, with no configuration required. Client devices are automatically identified and classified, letting you distinguish between iPads and iPhones, device operating systems, and even manufacturer.

Manage all Your Company's Device

Meraki's Systems Manager provides web based centralized management, diagnostics, and monitoring for all mobile devices managed by your organization. Systems Manager monitors all devices, showing useful metrics including client hardware/software information and recent location, and even lets administrators remotely lock and erase devices.

Automatically apply policies by device type

Device-specific policies can be automatically applied to restrict, quarantine, or throttle user-owned devices.

Meraki’s client fingerprinting technology immediately recognizes iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac devices, and even lets you apply more restrictive policies for unknown devices.

Protect LAN resources

Isolate your network from user-owned devices or integrate them securely using additional, automatically applied device-specific policies. Configuration takes just two clicks.

 

Protection against viruses and malware

Integrated network access control (NAC) prevents unmanaged devices from spreading viruses and malware on the network. All commonly affected devices are scanned, ensuring antivirus software is installed and running.

Clients that fail to meet security requirements are placed in a quarantine, where antivirus software can be downloaded.

Analyze all device activity activity with automatic reporting

See how many devices are connected, measure the bandwidth they’ve used, and even see their percentage of total traffic.

Network summary reports are delivered to your inbox at any time or on an automatic, monthly schedule.

 

Interested in Trying Meraki for Free?

Contact DSG today to find out how you can receive a complimentary Meraki 802.11n access point, request free evaluation gear, or start an instant live demo.

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Dynamic Solutions Group® expands. Now services Lakes Region, New Hampshire

Dynamic Solutions Group®,  has expanded and now services many areas in New Hampshire. With New Hampshire headquarters conveniently located in the Lakes Region, Dynamic Solutions Group® offers our full line of IT services in areas including:

• Manchester 
• Portsmouth 
• Concord 
• Dover 
• Rochester 
• Laconia 
• Nashua 
• Derry 

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Cloud Based File Storage and Collaboration for Business

Cloud based storage and collaboration has become an increasingly competitive space in 2012.  With hefty offerings from Google and Microsoft this past month, as well as existing offerings from Dropbox, Amazon, Box, and numerous others, cloud based file storage, at a minimum has reached the mainstream, and is here to stay.

While the companies listed above are competing heavily to grab everyday consumers, Egnyte, another Silicon Valley company has chosen to take a different approach.  Egnyte was founded to deliver cloud based storage and collaboration solutions to address the more complex needs of businesses. In 2008, Egnyte launched it’s cloud based file server solution to provide on-demand infrastructure services to small, medium and large businesses, and has continually received acclaim and recognition for their product since.

Where Egnyte differs from many other services is that it only focuses on paying business customers. These customers have different needs for cloud solutions and Egnyte offers a great solution with it’s HybridCloud. This whitepaper from Egnyte shows a comparison with Box, and is an excellent demonstration of why Egnyte is a superior business driven solution.

HybridCloud offers businesses a way to access and share files with team members, while at the same time allowing IT to control and monitor all access. With a new streamlined HTML5 interface, and apps on every major mobile platform, Egnyte plugs seamlessly into nearly any existing infrastructure. The Object Store Architecture allows scaling to 1 billion files and supports 10,000 concurrent users. End-to-end encryption ensures the ability for IT to protect data.

Dynamic Solutions Group is a reseller of Egnyte, and have successfully implemented many integrations with our clients.  If you would like to schedule an online demo of Egnyte with a DSG representative, please click below and let us know. 

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Business Telecom | Phone Bill Analysis

If you haven't reviewed your business telephone bill recently, you may be very surprised to discover just how much you could be saving each month.  No matter what your monthly cost, factoring in the incredible changes in telecommunications in the past few years alone, an analysis of your current bill will almost certainly reveal substantial savings. The fact is, most business owners don't have time to stay on top of these changes as fast as they occur, as this can be a time consuming and tedious undertaking.

Dynamic Solutions Group, Inc. in Palm Harbor offers detailed analysis services that will identify erroneous billing practices, errors, and underutilized services and help clients efficiently manage their telecom expense lifecycle.

Click below to learn more about how we can lower your phone bill today!

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SMB's Rapidly Adopting Cloud Based Services

Small and medium sized businesses often struggle with trying to keep IT costs down while growing business simultaneously.  These companies are increasingly turning to cloud based services to achieve just that goal.  

A recent report by O’Reilly Media shows SMB’s on average save 30% on IT costs over a three year period when opting to employ cloud based services as opposed to on-site implementation. Another study performed by KPMG shows that 81 per cent of businesses are either planning, are in the early or advanced stages of experimentation, or already have complete cloud implementations.

10% of SMBs are already running all core IT services on the cloud and an additional 13% are currently implementing plans to do so.

76% of business leaders surveyed said economic factors were encouraging them to embrace cloud-based technology, while 80% said they were looking to improve processes, offering more agility across the enterprise.

There are numerous cloud based services available that integrate seamlessly with existing technologies, allowing for access to business critical email, documents and services from anywhere, on any device with a browser. 

With IT services becoming more reliable and readily available in the cloud, these alternatives are now very attractive to decrease sometimes overwhelming IT costs, and to be more predictable and scalable. By migrating applications hosted in-house to services in the cloud, it becomes possible to better optimize the cost of software, paying only for whatever is used.

When transitioning services to the cloud, business owners can expect:

• Lower implementation costs
• Reduced time and cost of management
• Enhanced team collaboration
• Secure and readily available data storage
• Access to that data from anywhere

All of these benefits allow you to stay focused on your core business, be more collaborative, and get your products/services to market sooner by leveraging a service infrastructure that was once available only to larger companies.

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Why Use a Password Manager?

Password Management Software helps keep your personal information secure and helps save you time storing and remembering passwords for tens, or even hundreds of websites.

Password managers act not only as a storage mechanism for all your logins, but employ some of the most powerful encryption methods available to secure that information in a database, as well as during data transfer when logging into sites. As your usernames and passwords are stored by the password manager itself, most offer dynamic password generation to create sophisticated and complex passwords for sites, leaving you to only remember one master password to log into the manager itself. A dynamically generated password is nearly uncrackable by brute force password crack programs, as these programs are written to systematically attempt words from dictionaries, proper names, and lists of common passwords. Only when those options are exhausted, will these programs begin attempting random combinations of characters up to 8 or 9 characters. Password managers are designed to create dynamic passwords much longer and complex.

By installing the password manager on all your computers and devices, you will be able to log into sites without manual input, which will eliminate the possibility of a keylogger capturing your input.  As logins are tied to specific URLs for future use, you'll be protected from logging into malicious phishing sites that otherwise look identical to your intended destination.  Many password managers also include auto form-filling features, which can store all your pertinent contact information, which is needed to sign up for new sites.  Not only will you once again avoid potential keylogging software from grabbing that info, you will save the time needed to sign up.

In the most recent 2012 Global Security Report published by Trustwave, findings show that once breaching a system via malware, or other means, 80% of security incidents in both large and small companies can be credited to the use of weak administrative passwords.

The study found that the top ten most widely used passwords within companies are:

1. Password1
2. welcome
3. password
4. Welcome1
5. welcome1
6. Password2
7. 123456
8. Password01
9. Password3
10. P@ssw0rd

A password manager eliminates the need for using these easy to remember passwords in addition to the other security benefits listed above. 

What to Look for in a Password Manager

Features: A good password manager will not only provide a means of storing login information, but also any information that would be required for signing up on a new site.  Besides providing additional security, you will see a great deal of convenience in filling out forms.

Security: Make sure your password manager provides government level 256-bit AES encryption to protect your passwords. There are also DES and Blowfish algorithms.  As long as you passwords are encrypted and not stored in clear text, they are safe.

Ease of Use: Your password manager should be able to sync all your data everywhere so you can access it anytime you need it. A good password manager will allow you to sign up on sites and login with very minimal effort.

A great free solution for password management is LastPass Password Manager. CNET and many others have given LastPass excellent reviews with CNET saying, “Password security and management have long been a deficient part of any browsing experience, and LastPass solves that problem while also making your passwords accessible anywhere. Cross-platform, cross-browser, and secure with a hefty range of options, this is the gold standard for password management.”

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DSG reaches new milestone

Dynamic Solutions Group, Inc., is proud to announce that we have reached a milestone in our 11-year history, by reaching 20 employees.

DSG has consistently grown, even through the downturn in the economy. With excellent customer service, premium service offerings, competitive pricing and community involvement, we have become and continue to remain a premiere small and midsize business IT solutions provider.

With locations in Tampa Bay and Chicago, we can help your business increase efficiency while reducing costs by leveraging today’s top technologies and best practices in implementation and integration with your existing systems. DSG is a Microsoft Partner, Microsoft Small Business Specialist, Digium Switchvox Select Reseller and a proud member of the Apple Consultants Network.

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