Posts by Darren Schriever
Reduce IT Costs: Consolidate Vendors and Applications
Does your list of vendors keep growing while your budget keeps shrinking? Managing all those vendors takes time and the intricacies of layering multiple applications into your environment is probably costing you efficiency and productivity. Working with multiple IT vendors can spread your spending power (and your employees) too thin. Consolidating into a smaller list…
Read MoreCisco Meraki Partner: The Easier Way to Manage Your Business
With every migration to the cloud, business leaders want to be cleared for takeoff. Change is scary enough; you don’t need the added stress of having to worry about whether or not you should have stuck with those on-prem servers (and kept your feet on the ground). In today’s digitally transformative world, there is nothing…
Read MoreSkyTerra Completes SOC Audit Exam
SkyTerra is excited to announce that we have successfully completed the System and Organizational Controls (SOC) 2® Type 2 Audit examination for our managed services system. The SOC 2® Type 2 report is completed by an independent auditing firm and provides an understanding of a service organization’s suitability of the design, implementation and operating effectiveness of its…
Read MoreWhat Having a Microsoft Enterprise Partner Means for Your Business
Just like in the Olympics when athletes participate in games to take home the gold, professional cloud managed service providers remain ever vigilant in their efforts to stay ahead of technology and be the best-in-field for their clients. A Microsoft enterprise partner is a vendor with deep knowledge and expertise in a designated solution area…
Read MoreMimecast Partner: Security and Simplicity in One Platform
If you’re ready to lace up the boxing gloves and go 10 rounds with your technology, it may be time to get a managed service provider that can rein in your tech and help you avoid being knocked out of the ring. Your technology should be helping your business thrive, but too often you’re just…
Read MoreWant to Boost Productivity and Creativity? Modernizing Endpoints Is a Start
In today’s world of business, being a remote employee is common. We have quickly created a new culture within the workplace, where screens have all but replaced conference rooms and water cooler chats. To keep up, improve collaboration and help employees work efficiently, modernizing endpoints is key. First things first, what is an endpoint? Hint:…
Read MorePreparing Your Business for SOC 2 and CMMC Compliance
Technology is an integral component to the way you run your business. It has both tangible and intangible benefits that will help you make money and meet the demands of your customers, no matter the size of your enterprise. Your technological infrastructure affects the culture, efficiency and relationships of your business. It also affects the…
Read MoreWhat is DaaS and Why Do I Need It?
If you work with an IT services provider, they may have brought up DaaS. So what is it? Desktop as a service (DaaS) is a cloud computing offering that allows a service provider to deliver virtual apps and desktops from the cloud to any device via the internet. It comes as a per-user subscription and…
Read MoreProblems Infrastructure as a Service Solves
Today’s companies have to stay nimble as conditions shift and business needs fluctuate. Being able to justify new hardware expenses, gearing up to survive a manmade or natural disaster and preventing your business from becoming vulnerable to cyberthreats are all problems infrastructure as a service solves.There are various types of cloud computing, each beneficial in…
Read MoreMicrosoft GDAP Pilot Launched
Late last year Microsoft introduced GDAP (granular delegated admin privileges), which allows cloud solution providers, like SkyTerra, to control more granular and time-bound access to their customers’ workloads. Background The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) continues to detect nation-state (Nobelium) activity that exploits partner trusted relationships and admin privileges to gain access to downstream customers.…
Read MoreDoes Your Business Need an Ecosystem or a Garden?
How many times have you heard the term ‘Ecosystem’? “You need to manage your ecosystem!” The various technical elements that make up your business are all important in their own right. They all deserve your attention. But do they work together? Were the solutions you’re managing selected to fulfill a need, because they work well with…
Read MoreManaging for Success: Darren M. Schriever Joins SkyTerra
At SkyTerra Technologies, we believe that struggling with IT should be a challenge of the past. To make that struggle a distant memory, we need more than killer strategy and amazing partnerships — we need to build a top-notch company. To do that, we need to bring incredible talent on board to not only deliver…
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