These guys took over for a contract that I left. I'm going to keep this objective. \r
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Immediately they started making recommendations. They recommended replacing our ASA 5510 Firewall (with 20 SSL Licenses) for a Sonicwall SOHO. Examine any fortune 500 company and see how many are on Sonicwall vs Cisco. Sonicwall does generously reward partners.\r
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Second recommendation - replace our Enterprise Kapersky with Symantec. Our Kapersky was good for servers, email server, and 2-years of licenses. Get the feedback of users happy with Symantec vs Kapersky. Symantec does also reward their partners with commission as well.\r
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Third recommendation - Replace existing tape backup system with online LiveVault. Client has a 3mb Internet connection backing up 100gb of data. All servers house onsite. (Email, CRM, and Sharepoint) Online Backup jobs running will render these services inoperable. LiveVault offers generous commission and they are also pushing client for a Co-Lo. (which offers commission as well)\r
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These guys will come in and start making changes immediately that will make it very hard to get them out. Evaluate their recommendations very careful to make sure they are best for the client and not because of the commission associated with them. They will be expensive.\r
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I think they will get the job done once they get you on their partner systems - just get expect to pay a lot.
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