Clearpath’s Blog on IT Infrastructure, Hybrid Clouds and IT Security

Reston, VA, October 12, 2020 – Clearpath Solutions Group announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized Clearpath as a 2020 Triple Crown Award winner. 

CRN Triple Crown Award winners are among the largest IT solution providers in North America from a revenue standpoint on the Solution Provider 500 list, while ranking as one of the fastest-growing organizations in the channel with recognition on the Fast Growth 150 list, and have received the highest-level certifications from leading vendors on the Tech Elite 250 list. While it is an impressive accomplishment for a solution provider to earn a spot on any of these elite lists, being named to all three in the same year is a great honor that should receive special acknowledgement and celebration.

Reston, VA, August 3, 2020 –Clearpath Solutions Group is proud to announce that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company®, has named Clearpath to its 2020 Fast Growth 150 list. Each year, CRN® recognizes the fastest-growing technology integrators, solution providers, and IT consultants across North America for the substantial growth and performance they’ve achieved over the previous two years. The elite group of companies named to this year’s list have generated a combined total revenue of more than $37.8 billion between 2018 and 2019.

As more companies leverage remote work, it’s important to not to become lax about security. Instead, businesses need to find ways to maintain secure remote network access no matter where their team members are located.

More people are working from home than ever, and that’s a reality that’s unlikely to change. Even before the pandemic, your employees were likely using phones and tablets to work on the go. Unfortunately, each of those devices has unique security vulnerabilities. How does your organization’s remote device security stack up?

Information Technology Operations teams, or IT Ops, as I'll refer to them in this article, sit at the center of the digital transformation trend that is sweeping IT. IT Ops can either be a conduit or a barrier to digital transformation efforts depending on their operating model. Their success is determined by a combination of the speed and accuracy by which they deliver services to internal and external users. This agility is achieved by elasticity, which is the foundational concept behind the 'Cloud Operating Model.' 

As much as digital advances make it easier to work from anywhere, improve efficiency and reach business goals, cybersecurity risks continue to grow and evolve alongside these advances. And while a number of technologies and strategies have emerged to help combat security risks, ranging from multi-factor authentication to VPNs to DNS-layer security, managing all of these different security solutions can be confusing.

Instead of managing security threats on a fragmented basis, using a combination of tools that each need to be managed in their own silos, companies need a more streamlined way to handle security.

July 10^th, 2020 — Clearpath Solutions Group today announced that it has become a Principal-level partner in ‘Data Center Virtualization’ and ‘Network Virtualization’ IT paths within VMware Partner Connect.  This achievement demonstrates Clearpath’s continued efforts in becoming an expert in VMware solutions and services.  Further, Clearpath has taken the necessary steps to ensure both pre-sales and delivery technical engineers have met the level of expertise required to be a Principal-level partner and demonstrated a growing company sales performance. 

Reston, VA, June 8, 2020 – Clearpath Solutions Group announced today that CRN_® a brand of The Channel Company, has named Clearpath as #315 on the 2020 Solution Provider 500 list, moving up 13 spots from #328 in 2019. Each year, CRN releases its list of top 500 solution providers, a ranking of the leading IT channel partner organizations across North America by revenue. CRN’s Solution Provider 500 list serves as the industry’s benchmark for recognizing the top-performing technology integrators, strategic service providers, and IT consultants, and as a valuable resource for technology vendors looking to partner with top solution providers.

Back in March, VMware introduced their application modernization strategy and with it, the biggest release of vSphere in over a decade. This followed the VMware ‘Project Pacific’ announcement Joe Beda made during VMworld 2019 where he made the remark "Kubernetes is a platform for creating platforms."

VMware makes very good use of the intellectual property gained by the Heptio acquisition and fully adopts Kubernetes into vSphere by leveraging Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG). This allows centralized management of both virtual machines and containers from the interface we all know and love, vCenter Server. Sound familiar? Yes, vSphere Integrated Containers aimed at a similar result minus Kubernetes a few years back. This time around, however, VMware fully embraces Kubernetes with TKG and provides the vSphere Pod Service as well as namespaces and several other services which together improve performance, security, access, and management of Kubernetes in a vSphere environment. There is plenty to be excited about here.  

Remote employee initiatives just skipped the line to be the most important item on many organizations’ IT to-do lists. In an effort to make sure you are aware of what our partners VMware, Cisco and Dell EMC are doing to help support remote employees, we put together a list of vendor initiatives as well as other important information to help you through the challenging times.