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Study Group: Network Security Solutions and Services Sellers

Council Members in this Study Group: 117

This study group may include experts knowledgeable on topics such as IT Services, consumer electronics, wireless devices, software, hardware, information technology, semiconductors, media, cable, satellite, internet, broadband, global positioning systems, advertising, online media, telecommunications, networking, wireless, and data storage, among others.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Michael Horsch Fizz, Senior Advisor, FCI Inc.Michael Horsch Fizz

Senior Advisor
FCI Inc.
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Michael Horsch Fizz is a Senior Advisor at FCI, a company providing system integration and strategy consulting services. Mr. Fizz specializes in monitoring and predicting industry trends coupled with quantitative and qualitative reviews of technology vendors. Tech Sectors include unified computing,...

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Mark Teter, Chief Technology Officer , ADVANCED SYSTEMS GROUP Mark Teter

Chief Technology Officer
ADVANCED SYSTEMS GROUP
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Mark Teter is the Chief Technology Officer at Advanced Systems Group, a value added reseller and systems integrator. He is responsible for managing major accounts with Sun Microsystems, IBM, NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, Symantec, Qlogic, Emulex, F5, Cisco, Quantum, Brocade/Foundry and Checkpoint....

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John Pironti, Chief Information Risk Strategist, Archer Technologies, L.L.C.John Pironti

Chief Information Risk Strategist
Archer Technologies, L.L.C.
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John Pironti is Chief Information Risk Strategist at Archer Technologies, a Governance, Risk, and Compliance solution provider. Previously, he was the President of IP Architects, a management consultancy. He is formerly the Chief Information Risk Strategist for CompuCom (Dec 08). He has designedand...

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Ian Ash, District Sales Manager - NY.NJ.CT , Softchoice Corporation- CCIan Ash

District Sales Manager - NY.NJ.CT
Softchoice Corporation- CC
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Ian Ash is a District Sales Manager, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut at SoftChoice, a software and hardware reseller in North America. Softchoice currently sells 400,000 IT products and provides services in all areas of IT. He is responsible for managing sales of hardware, software and services...

Mark Frye

Vice President of Sales
Venture Technologies
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Mark Frye is the Vice President of Sales at Venture Technologies, a company providing systems integration services. Mr. Frye is experienced in managing partner relationships with Check Point, Nokia, Packeteer, Websense, AdTran, Cisco, F5, Dell, HP, IBM, Sun, Cisco, Aruba, VMware, Juniper, Nortel, Computer...

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Lisa Prichard

Sales Executive
WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY, INC
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Lisa Prichard is a Sales Executive with World Wide Technology, a $2 Billion dollar privately owner reseller and integrator. She has knowledge of various hardware and software, including but not limited to Cisco (Gold Partner - second largest supplier of Cisco in the US) over $1 billion a year, HP,Sun...

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Bill Yassinger

Networking and Security Solutions Manager
INCENTRA SOLUTIONS, INC.
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Bill Yassinger is a Networking and Security Solutions Manager at Incentra Solutions, a national systems integrator, specializing in complex server, storage and network solutions with multiple security offerings for host and network security. They are a reseller of F5, Oracle, Microsoft, HP, Sun, Cisco,...

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Thomas Flynn

Executive Director
FOUR POINTS TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C.
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Thomas Flynn is the Executive Director of Four Points Technology, providing IT products and Services to the Federal government. Previously, he was the Executive Director - Partners & Programs at Apptis...

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Cisco's advantages and challenges. Comparisons to Juniper, ProCurve, Brocade.

August 5, 2009

Michael Horsch Fizz, Senior Advisor, FCI Inc.

Cisco’s Sales Will Drop as Much as 17%, Chambers Says | www.bloomberg.com

Cisco's strengths and challenges for their first fiscal quarter and beyond can be further defined when we compare them to their competition.  Juniper, HP ProCurve, Avaya, Brocade (Foundry), Nortel, 3COM are vendors that can help us define and understand Cisco. Cisco's success may very well be due to...

Carriers running scared of Google (voice)

July 28, 2009

Hans van Rietschote, Former Technical Advisor, QLAYER BVBA

Apple Silences Google Voice On the iPhone | theappleblog.com

Carriers are running scared of Google entering their market with Google Voice. They are trying to block the Google Voice app for the iPhone but they don't seem to bother with the Android phones or the blackberries. Why is this?

As the Twitter security breach and Sarah Palin's email account show: passwords are evil!

July 16, 2009

Hans van Rietschote, Former Technical Advisor, QLAYER BVBA

Lessons from Twitter's security breach | news.cnet.com

Passwords are evil: they are either easy to guess or the password recovery service allows the hacker easy access, as was shown by the Twitter "security breach" and the break-in into Sarah Palin's yahoo email address. But there are companies out there solving this problem, one of them is a stealth start-up...

Why has Yahoo allowed themselves to become the RC Cola of search?

July 16, 2009

Hans van Rietschote, Former Technical Advisor, QLAYER BVBA

Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me | www.nytimes.com

Companies providing only Internet search do not have a long lifespan. Microsoft's main interest in acquiring Yahoo was not their Internet search technology but rather to use them in their fight against Google.

Less desktops being sold but more netbooks/laptops being sold, what is going on?

July 14, 2009

Hans van Rietschote, Former Technical Advisor, QLAYER BVBA

Desktop PC Sales Decline For the First Time Since 2001 | gizmodo.com

PC desktop sales in Q1 2009 declined 8.1% compared to Q1 2008. And this is not due to the recession because sales of notebook PCs (laptops and netbooks) are up 11.7% for the same quarter.  So what is going on?

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Members in this Study Group include these company types:

  • Value Added Reseller (VAR)
  • Systems Integrator (SI)
  • Security Software
  • Distributor
  • Individual/Small Consultancy

Members in this Study Group often have these job titles:

  • President
  • Account Manager
  • Director
  • Sales Manager
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Principal
  • Chief Technology Officer
  • Consultant
  • Regional Sales Manager
  • Account Executive

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GLG Webcasts

Webcast: Enterprise Network Equipment: Consolidation and Recovery? (2:00 PM EST/19:00 GMT)

November 3, 2009

GLG Webcast: Introduction to Enterprise Hardware and M&A Potentials - April 16, 2009 at 2:00 PM ET

April 16, 2009