During our search for new team members, ProActive Solutions looks for IT professionals with extensive experience. When we chose Ken Foote as our new IT Infrastructure Leader, we were impressed by his credentials as a nearly 30-year IT infrastructure expert.

ProActive is excited to announce that we are taking our AWS cloud solutions and services to the next level. With the help of TD SYNNEX, ProActive has achieved AWS Channel Partner Private Offers (CPPO) status. With CPPO status, ProActive can expand our business opportunities as an AWS software reseller while enhancing our customer experience through AWS Marketplace's custom pricing and terms.

At ProActive Solutions, we are committed to expanding our team with professionals who bring valuable expertise to better serve our clients. We're excited to introduce Aaron Brown, a seasoned expert in IBM Power Systems with over 25 years of experience in engineering, architecture, and IT. 

Now is the perfect time to explore this year’s technology conferences so you can decide which ones you want to attend, start registering, and make travel plans. Spring and Summer are busy conference seasons and some dates for events in Fall and Winter have already been announced. 

Now is the time to start looking into which technology conferences you want to attend this year. Spring and summer are the prime conference seasons, with some events already announced for the fall and next winter. The Microsoft Azure AI conference just took place in early December in Orlando, Florida.

Please tell us if you plan to attend any of these conferences so we can stay connected during the event.

ProActive Solutions is excited to announce that we are presenting at IBM TechXchange Conference 2023 in Las Vegas on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. Kevin Nickerson, Client Technical Specialist at ProActive, will be presenting “Fortifying Storage Systems: A Deep Dive into IBM Storage Virtualize & FlashSystem Cybersecurity Features” as part of a Product Tips & Tricks Session.

Companies face many challenges when trying to keep up with the rapidly evolving threat landscape. Cyberattacks are becoming more severe and sophisticated, making them difficult to detect, prevent, and remediate.

Connecting, celebrating our community, and always learning are ingrained in our culture. Now that we are back in person, we appreciate the opportunity to participate alongside our customers and partners to learn, connect and celebrate together. We hope to see you out and about soon!

For those of you looking to travel in 2022, there are a lot of conferences rewarding safely gathering in person. The large ones are remaining in the Las Vegas city of lights while there are others that offer new locations each year. There are also still hybrid models which make it easy to maximize your time and expense. Here is an overview of this year’s schedule where together we can learn, engage and explore the future of technology.

On December 15th a subsequent vulnerability, CVE-2021-45046 has been discovered in the patch that Apache released for Log4j that may allow attackers to launch a DOS attack by adding malicious input data through a JNDI lookup pattern. We expect that subsequent CVEs may be discovered over the coming days and will continue to provide updates to support detection and remediation of post-compromise threat activity.