Cybersecurity Resilience: Preemptive Protection for Your Storage Environment

Cybercrime continues to grow at an alarming rate. Companies have seen the highest average financial impact due to ransomware attacks in 2021, increasing from 3.86 million USD to 4.24 million USD.  Many companies are faced with the question of “When?” and not “If?” an attack will happen to them. Stop wasting time thinking about what could happen and focus on the reality of what to do when it happens. Is your cybersecurity resilience strategy airtight?

Protect your most valuable assets and mission-critical applications during the recovery of a cyberattack. Build a multi-level strategy to reduce downtime, save money and decrease human error.

Analyze Your Storage Environment
The first step in defining a cybersecurity resilience strategy is being able to recognize warning signs such as certain changes in your storage environment. Identify risk by utilizing Visual One Intelligence™ (Visual One), a storage resource management service (SRMaaS). Visual One simplifies your storage management process by organizing independent data elements into a unified, visual analysis across your multi-vendor storage environment. With a single-pane-of glass-dashboard, you can view current and projected storage capacities. This level of insight helps detect unexpected activity – some of which can be a sign of security breaches.

Visual One Intelligence™ – Risk Detection for Your Storage Environment 

Protect Your Data
With immutable copy, your data is encrypted as a read-only copy. If data cannot be changed, then it cannot be encrypted by ransomware. Attackers often target backups and snapshots first, limiting your recovery options. Once an attack happens, IT security teams need to work quickly to identify where it’s coming from to prevent the encryption of an entire network. Immutable copy reduces the impact of an attack because it is unaffected.

Clear Technologies – IT Security & Compliance Solutions

Maintain Business Continuity
Cybersecurity attacks will continue to evolve, and your storage environment must remain vigilant to maintain business continuity. Your storage infrastructure is regularly tested by utilizing IT Security and Compliance services from Clear Technologies to ensure confidence and compliance with the right resources.

The cost of ransomware and manpower is extreme. Cyber resiliency is priceless.

Be proactive about your company’s cybersecurity resiliency. Schedule time with one of our Security Experts.

Contact Us Today! 

[Career Opportunity] Hybrid Cloud Sales Specialist

Hybrid-Cloud Sales Specialist:

Looking to make a dramatic change in our company’s strategic plans moving forward while taking advantage of one of the industry’s best commission plans?  If so, this position is for you.

We are seeking a Hybrid-Cloud Sales Specialist to lead in the development of the technical solution or offering and in translating the business needs into technical requirements. The right person will be able to identify gaps, strategic impacts, financial impacts and the risk profile in the technical solution or offering and be able to relay these to clients and prospects. 

As a Hybrid Cloud Sales Specialist, you’ll be constantly learning about new technologies and how they can be applied to solve enterprise challenges.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Play a key role in building a cloud practice.
  • Prospecting to SMB to large enterprise clients to drive meetings (virtual or in person)
  • Meet quantitative performance expectations.
  • Collaborate with the sales organization to advance key infrastructure and cloud management opportunities.
  • Contribute to sales and marketing strategies in the infrastructure and cloud management solutions portfolio.
  • Present at events or webinars to raise awareness of Clear’s infrastructure and cloud solutions portfolio.
  • Partner with distributor and manufacturer partners to drive new opportunities.

Required Skills

  • Strong understanding of data center technology and cloud
  • Effective influencing and negotiation skills
  • Client oriented approach
  • Business communication, leadership and project management skills
  • Innovation skills and vision
  • Business architectural, analysis and planning skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Required Experience

  • 5+  years of experience in solutions sales role
  • Extensive experience in technical sales in data center infrastructure, cloud, and cloud management solutions
  • Good communication and technical skills that enable customer relationship development to all  levels

In order for our team to consider you for employment, you MUST fill out this Pre- Employment survey below:

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[Career Opportunity] IT Services Manager

We’re searching for an energetic, and action-oriented leader to head up our IT consulting group.

This management position is accountable for a group of client facing consultants. The head of consulting services is responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of all consulting contracts as well as pre-sales engagements.

This position will contribute to the development and execution of the company strategy.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Play a key role in building a cloud practice
  • Lead and grow a team of consultants to support a client base of SMB to large enterprise clients
  • Manage resource allocation between pre-sales support for the sales team and billable consulting engagements
  • Provides strategic direction and oversight for the team to keeps up skills and ensure quality delivery of projects and client support.
  • Works with the sales team to properly scope and deliver SOW’s for project based services
  • Acts as a trusted advisor and builds and maintains relationships with the sales team, partner companies and clients to develop a clear understanding of business needs

Required Skills

  • Visionary leader with an eye for the future of data center technology and cloud
  • Client first mindset
  • Strong project management acumen
  • Understanding of current and emerging technologies and practices
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and technologies to business leaders.

Required Experience

  • 5 or more years of experience in IT and/or consulting business
  • 1 years of IT leadership experience

In order for our team to consider you for employment, you MUST fill out this Pre- Employment survey below:

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[Career Opportunity] Marketing Manager Position

Job Description

We are looking for a detailed and dedicated Marketing Manager to join our team in Addison, Texas for an in-office position. The Marketing Manager is responsible for executing e-mail and social media activities to generate leads to expand our B2B Reseller partner and customer base and increase our revenue by acquiring new customer accounts.

Specific responsibilities include working with minimal supervision to leverage prospect, customer, partner lists to conduct live event, online event, and creative marketing activities. Other activities include outbound marketing, including email, SEO, copywriting/editing, graphic
design, and videos to customers, prospects, partners, and media outlets. Other duties may be assigned where necessary.

Requirements:

  • 4-5 years B2B marketing experience.
  • Sound understanding of marketing principles and correlation to ROI.
  • Ability to win partner sales force mindshare through novel and innovative marketing activities.
  • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office 365, Photoshop, Illustrator, marketing automation platforms, WordPress, and all social media platforms.
  • Leveraging digital technology and social media to identify prospects and source leads.
  • Using Salesforce to pipeline prospective clients using company acquired leads.
  • Excellent command of written English with copy accuracy.
  • Confident and upbeat personality.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing or Business Administration.

Skills: In addition to the requirements listed above, the following skills or experience are needed to successfully perform the job:

  • Proven strong administration and organizational skills
  • Strong project management skills
  • Ability to multi­task, prioritize, and manage time effectively
  • Discipline to setup, track, and analyze marketing campaigns and online activities
  • Skill to write B2B-focused articles and promotional materials
  • Flexibility to assist with cold-calling
  • Ability to work effectively under pressure
  • Ability to adjust to rapidly changing priorities

In order for our team to consider you for employment, you MUST fill out this Pre- Employment survey below:

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Clone a PowerHA node from another

First, this is NOT, an officially supported process so use at your own risk.

Backstory. I had a customer that corrupted their rootvg contents on their standby node after loading some additional packages and application updates. Trying to remove corrupted some libraries. Unfortunately they did not clone or create a mksysb prior to performing these actions. So we created a clone from their primary PowerHA node.

Also know that prior to creating the clone, you can either enable the ghostdev parameter or use the “-O” flag when creating the clone to make it forget about things like hostname,ip, vgs, etc as shown in the video

Note in this case the standby node was still up and running we just needed to get back to a known good state prior to the changes. So we added a new lun to prod, cloned to it, then moved the disk over to the standby and changed the bootlist to it. IF it wasn’t available this procedure would have involved an SMS boot to choose the new cloned boot disk.

Now not shown is also the potential cleanup/changes needed to made on the standby that we don’t want from prod. For example, cronjobs may need to be disabled. There may also be other misc cleanup but the primary focus here was getting the cluster functional again.

So our procedure consisted of the following:

  1. Allocate new lun to prod and run cfgmgr
  2. Create clone to new lun via “alt_disk_copy -B -d hdisk# -O
  3. Wake up clone via “alt_rootvg_op -W -d hdisk#
  4. Remove all entries in /etc/filesystems other than rootvg
  5. Put clone back to sleep via “alt_rootvg_op -S -d hdisk#
  6. Remove cloned vg via “alt_rootvg_op -X altinst_rootvg
  7. Remove disk from prod via “rmdev -dl hdisk#
  8. Unallocate lun from prod and over to standby and run “cfgmgr” on standby
  9. Change bootlist to boot from the newly added disk via “bootlist -m normal newhdisk# currentrootvghdisk#
  10. Reboot standby via “shutdown -Fr
  11. Recreate hostname, IP, subnet mask via either ifconfig or smitty mktcpip
  12. Run clusterconf to import and activate CAA  via “clusterconf -r reposhdisk#
  13. Import shared vg via “importvg -y vgname -V major# -n hdisk#
  14. Sync cluster from prod node via “clmgr sync cluster
  15. Assuming no errors, restart standby node into cluster via “clmgr start node

Check out the following video showing these procedures.

Clear AI Vision Solution Inspects Weld Discontinuities In Real Time

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Transcript: 

All rail car manufacturers today use X-Ray technology to ensure quality welds within their rail tank cars.  But due to the extremely manual and time-consuming nature, the physical x-rays get damaged and scratched in the process. In addition, it takes hours to get all x-rays completed, developed, and back to the facility for review.

The interpreter’s fatigue hampers their consistency. The pressure to increase production also takes a toll on the final product.

The Clear Intelligence AI vision solution automatically detects weld discontinuities on x-rays of the rail tank cars -in real time- to send back to the interpreter for final review.

Once the rail car is completely welded together, the numbering belt will be wrapped around the girth seams in order to locate potential discontinuities. The tank will then be sent through an x-ray gantry. Once completely x-rayed, the digitized images will be sent via FTP to a secured server for inferencing. (inferencing is shown as bounding boxes around the detected discontinuities).The digitized x-rays will be inferenced automatically upon arrival to the server.

The images will then be sent to the interpreter’s Clear Intelligence dashboard via FTP for review. The x-rays containing potential defects will be printed out and brought to the tank for further review or repair, if necessary.

How does Clear Vision make a difference?

  • Fewer manual processes required
  • Identifies discontinuities accurately and immediately
  • Streamlines production
  • Higher accuracy detection with fewer false positives
  • Creates a competitive advantage

Imagine all of the best quality inspectors combined into one technology solution. That is Clear Vision

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Red Hat Ansible Workshop

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April 15th | 1 PM CDT

Clear Technologies Red Hat Ansible Workshop

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Join us April 15th as we take a deeper dive into how Red Hat Ansible amplifies the impact of IT professionals by automating repetitive inefficient task, streamlining IT leading to an increase in revenue.

Below is a sample of what will be covered during the workshop. The workshop will be designed around the specific instances that attendees want to see:

  • Introduction to Ansible automation
  • How Ansible works for network automation
  • Understanding Ansible modules and playbooks
  • Executing Ansible playbooks to:
    • Make configuration changes
    • Make routine changes
    • Gather information (Ansible facts)
  • Using Jinja to template network configurations
  • Using Ansible Tower to scale automation to the enterprise
  • Configure Cisco switches to work with Ansible

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[Career Opportunity] IBM I Technical Specialist

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Are you a self-starter and naturally a good problem solver?  Do you know there is only one right answer?  Are you a process oriented individual who excels at improving upon previously established norms?  Do you have an innate sense of urgency and consistently beat deadlines?

If you are an approachable, well spoken individual capable of effective communication and detailed discussions with all levels of IT personnel from administrators to management, then take the first step towards success with Clear Technologies by completing our short survey at the link below:

https://www.cultureindex.com/c/PX97z1X84m

The primary purpose of this position is to design and implement iSeries solutions for our current and new customers.  This position requires providing pre-sales, implementation, and consulting support for a variety for our iSeries customers including technical design and implementation skills for both hardware and software.

 

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

  • Perform enterprise customer assessments including current assessment and future recommendations
  • Must have hands on implementation experience with a iSeries LPAR environments including familiarity with:
    • VIOS Implementation
    • External Storage solution design and implementation
  • In conjunction with the Sales team, take an iSeries opportunity through the complete lifecycle of solution architecting, system configuration, implementation and on-going support.
  • Bring current knowledge and future vision of IBM Power solutions to sales and technical teams to maintain the company’s competitive position
  • Write statements of work for implementation and ongoing management of IBM Power solutions sold by Clear technologies.
  • Assist with proposals, presentations and responses to client requests
  • Build strong technical relationships with clients, IBM Power CTSs and coworkers
  • Escalating to Vendor Support and project managing critical issues
  • Drive automation and efficiency in clients’ environments
  • Be an active user of Clear Technologies’ storage reporting and analytics service, Visual One Intelligence™, for assisting you in all storage analysis opportunities as well as participate in implementation and recommendation of Visual One to all storage customers.

Basic Qualifications

  • At least five (5) years of experience developing and implementing iSeries solutions
  • At least two (2) years of experience analyzing complex infrastructure environments and making recommendations to meet business requirements
  • Demonstrated ability to structure, organize and storage projects
  • Demonstrated communication, documentation and presentation skills
  • Demonstrated ability to multitask and to prioritize workload under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment and ability to delegate when appropriate
  • Experience with mission critical systems in multi-site environments
  • IBM Power System Technical certifications for sales and implementation

ISeries includes IBMi, Power Systemssss and PowerVM including VIOS

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Welcome Mark Reynolds – New Director of Sales

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Mark Reynolds

Director, Sales

Clear Technologies, Inc.

469-360-4083

mreynolds@cleartechnologies.net

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As Director of Sales, Mark’s mission will be to grow the reseller division at Clear Technologies.  A key focus for the team will be on new client acquisition, growing the existing client base, bringing on new strategic partners, and working with the other leaders to create new sales processes to keep up with an ever-changing marketplace.  Mark will try to build on an already incredible workplace culture which lives by the Clear Technologies Way.  The Clear Technologies Way is comprised of 30 fundamental beliefs.  These are the values, behaviors, principles and practices that are the foundation for everything that Clear does.

Prior to joining Clear Technologies, Mark was most recently a District Sales Manager for Pure Storage which allows him to bring knowledge of an incredibly competitive, fast-growing segment of the hardware industry with him to Clear.  Mark also spent 5 years at Service Express, a third-party maintenance company, where he was employee number one in Texas and helped grow his TOLA team to the top producing region in the company.  He brings an extensive background of success in the telecommunications industry where he spent 6 years at Time Warner Cable Business Class and 7 years with Logix Communications.  Mark was also a member of the US Army where he served 4 years including deployments to Korea and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Those who know Mark attribute his success to his ability to get the right people on the bus and creating a culture that breeds high producing teams.  He puts the goals and needs of the client above his own and makes every decision revolve around doing the right things all the time.  He hates to lose more than he likes to win which drives him to not only write out goals but to work daily to achieve them.

Mark is originally from St. Paul, MN but moved to Texas at a very young age.  He received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of North Texas.  He is married and has 3 sons and a granddaughter which all reside in McKinney, TX.

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Partner Spotlight – Measuring and Monitoring Software Usage

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Are you struggling to manage your software license consumption? Do you have PVU, sockets or RVU licensing? Is your IBM software running in a virtual environment?

The IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) is a free tool created by IBM to help you measure and monitor software usage. ILMT is a mandatory tool for any company using IBM software in a complex environment, however, getting it up and running, and managing and analyzing the data it collects can be challenging.

If you need assistance setting up or managing ILMT, Clear Technologies software partner, All Blue Solutions, supports hundreds of clients with all different levels of experience with ILMT. All Blue Solutions has deep understanding of IBM software licensing terms and conditions and technical experience working with ILMT. This expertise allows them to help you with everything from installing, configuring, upgrading or managing the infrastructure.

BENEFITS OF ILMT:

  • Ensures Compliance:Proper use of ILMT allows you to maintain an up-to-date inventory of your software assets and ensure you have the appropriate number of license entitlements so you can maintain continuous license compliance.
  • Saves You Money:By constantly monitoring your license consumption, you can understand current and predict future consumption providing you with the opportunity to optimize your license costs so you’re only paying for the software you need.
  • Valuable Data Insights:ILMT provides you with deep insights into your software inventory to help manage your infrastructure. You always know what software, you have, where it is and how its being used.
  • Constant Audit Readiness:UsingILMT can help reduce the risk and costs associated with a software audit. By constantly monitoring your license consumption, you can avoid any unplanned license compliance settlements.

HOW ALL BLUE SOLUTIONS CAN HELP:

  • Installation & Configuration:Review of ILMT installation and agent configuration on all servers across the enterprise.
  • Quarterly Review:Run, maintain, and reconcilequarterly audit reports. Review reports to identify any variances between entitlements and usage.
  • Free Cloud Hosting:Free cloud hosting of ILMT server saving your staff significant time installing, upgrading, managing and maintaining the server.
  • Patching & Upgrades:ILMT environment patching and upgrades based in IBM release schedule, and upgrade, maintain and monitor ILMT on an ongoing basis.

To learn more about the benefits of ILMT and how Clear Technologies and All Blue Solutions can help ensure your software license compliance and mitigate risk download our whitepaper. Contact your Clear Technologies rep today!

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