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Trade Association Protects Organization and Streamlines Communication with Cloud-Based Solution Client The client is a trade association that supports over 15 million U.S. jobs and represents a nearly $400 billion U.S. industry. With support from the client, more than 2,200 companies enjoy membership benefits such as policy advocacy, market research, technical education, industry promotion, standardsRead more

4 Winning Tactics for a Downtime-Free Move Couldn’t make it to our last event Game-Changing Move Strategies: 4 Winning Tactics for a Downtime-Free Move? Catch up on what you missed by watching the webinar recording. Tune in as ARG’s Chief Revenue Officer, Mike Shonholz, and ARG’s Director of Mobility Services, Patrick McGugan, along with aRead more

Couldn’t make it to our last event Using Cloud Communications to Lead Business Transformation? Catch up on what you missed by watching the recap video. Tune in as Principal of ARG, Mike Shonholz, and ARG’s Director of Consulting Services, Meredith Vines, walk you through the top 7 benefits of UCaaS. Unified Communications as a Service, mostRead more

The reality of any cloud solution is that architecture and planning is vital, and at the end of the day service is only as good as the support you want and need. 

The idea of desktop virtualization has long been promising businesses an opportunity to empower end users to work when they want, where they want, on whatever device they choose.

How do you improve employee satisfaction while increasing productivity and providing a rock solid business continuity plan?  Technology and a commitment to giving back to the community!

Cybersecurity regulations from the Washington DC based National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are built to provide flexibility for organizations while protecting critical infrastructure.

SD-WAN offers bulletproof reliability, optimization and robust management tools, Learn how it works and how your company can benefit.

Cloud computing offers unique solutions as organizations struggle to ensure compliance across both internal and third-party technology environments.

High levels of availability and productivity can be achieved with the cloud, and the right partnerships can help you get there.

Follow these five tips to learn how you can make sure your business has a successful cloud migration.

Companies are increasing turning to the cloud to retain employees, increase productivity, and provide internal and external customers with the best service.

Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) vendors give small businesses affordable access to the expertise and resources needed to back up their critical infrastructure without the pain of a long window for recovery.

Moving to the cloud can offer SMBs countless benefits. Is your company ready to take advantage?

Cybercriminals are now using “ransomware” to hold organizations’ own documents captive until the company pays for their release.

Fusing traditional IaaS and SaaS models, cloud-enabled hosting relieves overburdened IT departments while improving business agility. 

Learn the whats and whys of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and why you’d have to be insane not to at least examine it as an alternative to the normal IT procurement cycle in ARG’s latest cloud education blog.

Sample Use Case for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

An ARG client for voice and data was on the verge of making a substantial investment in infrastructure. Even though time was of the essence, we asked them to consider an alternative to resolve their situation. Rather than just replace what they had, we encouraged them to think differently. The results speak for themselves…

Beginning in 2014, ARG saw interest in cloud services start to grow substantially. Our clients were getting comfortable with the solutions and 3 key elements were being addressed to their satisfaction:

·         Security. The concern that the cloud is less secure than their own datacenter. Gartner and other independent analyst firms have studied the risks, concluding that cloud is generally more secure than premises-based implementations.

·         Savings. 

Here at ARG we are proud to have one of the best Cloud Advisors on our team heading into 2016. The cloud market is a daunting place for company’s looking to cloud their infrastructure, but luckily, we have the right person on our side that can now be on yours. To see what we’re talking about, here’s ARG Cloud Advisor Jim Begley’s take on the state of the cloud market at the end of 2015:

ARG has been working in the cloud space for years now but increasing demand from customers has built to a point where we needed additional resources.  We spent months exploring the market and speaking with the best technical minds to find the breadth of experience that we felt would most benefit our clients.  We alsoRead more

It seems like hacks and thefts of information are in the news daily, from Ashley Madison to the US Government, airlines, and businesses, no one seems to be exempt from the threat.  So what can you do to protect your organization and your client or members’ information.

Tuesday September 22, 2015 | 7:30 – 10:00 AM | 7926 Jones Branch Drive, Suite 1150, McLean, VA

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Don’t miss this opportunity to indulge in a global perspective of UC, and bulletproof your network with ARG.

The market for hosted voice is getting larger and more competitive by the second. As the market continues to evolve and new providers come to market, what is the impact on the company with the largest market share, Broadsoft, and how can ARG help you decide which platform is right for your business?

It has been reported that more than two thirds of businesses were not going to make the upgrade deadline, which leaves their networks, servers, and possibly their entire IT infrastructures susceptible to bugs, cyber criminals, compliance issues, and more.  In 2013, Microsoft issued 37 “critical” updates to Windows Server 2003, and another 21 in 2014, suggesting it is still extremely vulnerable to bugs that have not yet been exposed. 

News Flash: There is a technology that has a 96% purchase rate after clients tried the service. As unbelievable as that may sound, ARG knows it to be true. In 2015, most IT departments are still implementing one of the following problematic options:

Microsoft has made a big announcement: Microsoft Azure Stack. The new addition will be just one of the services Microsoft plans to add to the initial Azure program. Though it will not become available until 2016, techies all around the world are excited for its launch. But what exactly is Microsoft Azure Stack?

Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) are quickly becoming the “it” service of 2015. We here at ARG use VDI, and are strong proponents of integrating it into the workplace. Not sure why DaaS or VDI could help you? Well a recent survey on the State of the Desktop seems to have all the answers. So, here are some of the key findings we find most helpful when making this important decision.

If you can’t, or aren’t ready as of yet, to cloud your primary environment – consider what by-the-hour, or by-the-month servers that are built by you with your specs could do for your business! We’ve seen folks use it to test the effects of OS revisions and such on their applications prior to rolling them out.