Strongbow Consulting Group

Hybrid Cloud Strategy In The Developing Enterprise World

The evolution of connectivity has shown that hybrid cloud solutions are a cornerstone of the modern enterprise.  While many organizations want to leverage the scalability of cloud, they also have requirements to maintain on-prem for security or latency reasons.  Strongbow's Hybrid Cloud practice Director, Alex Petrov, discusses some of the new market options that are on offer to customers, as well as the risks and rewards of various strategies.

5G Trends - Stagnant or Coming Soon?

In our recent company meeting, Strongbow's own Barry Platzman presented some updates on a hot topic in recent years - 5G.  This episode focuses on some questions on future trends and when/what we can expect from this buzz worthy technology in the future.  Hank King (Strongbow's Director of Business Development) and Barry discuss...

ONUG Review - Spring 2022

Some of our team members attended the Spring edition of ONUG (Open Network User Group) and we even had a chance to moderate some of the discussions on deck.  Strongbow's Barry Platzman and Alex Petrov got a front row seat and debrief on the trends emerging out of the conference for this year.

Women's History Month - Female Leaders in IT Infrastructure

As we bring Women's History Month to a close, we thought it pertinent to bring together two prominent members of our Strongbow team.  Our Founder Cathy Horst-Forsyth discusses her career with Managing Consultant Peggy Tierney, along with some of the changing trends in IT Infrastructure leadership.

MPLS vs. Internet Pricing - A Decoupling

Traditionally the market had seen parity in the pricing between MPLS and internet pricing.  But, as transformation and modernization is taking hold of a lot of large enterprises (SDWAN etc) this has meant that traffic tends to be more localized, creating a supply and demand based decoupling of the two services.  Supplier diversity means that a large swatch of Tier 2 ISPs are delivering viable alternatives to the traditional big guys; Chris Woodward and Barry Platzman of our Engagement Management team discuss.