The SDC 2021 Awards celebrate the high achievements of end-users and solution providers in the IT industry. Nominees and finalists are recognized for successful achievements centered around digital transformation.
As an IT Systems Reseller/Managed Service Provider of The Year finalist, Clear Technologies is being recognized for our extensive experience delivering IT Solutions to our clients for over 25 years. Our solution experts specialize in a wide variety of platforms and vendors and work to create customized solutions to meet the client’s needs.
You can help us WIN IT Systems Reseller/Managed Service Provider of The Year.
Voting is now open! Click Here Voting closes on November 17th.
Learn more about Clear Technologies’ IT Solutions HERE.
In today’s fast-paced world of continuous change, IT decision-makers are being challenged to maintain existing IT systems and create a foundation for future innovation. The challenge to migrate legacy operations and adapt for the future while improving overall productivity and business performance proves difficult for many IT teams.
The goal of IT modernization is to get more out of your IT investments while freeing budget and time to prepare for the future. By shifting to modern software, platforms, and processes, you can accomplish faster delivery of software and services to meet internal and external demands. Modernization is an essential transition for success in the digital world.
Standardization
A complex IT environment requires additional time, resources, and budget to manage. Inconsistent processes impact the opportunity for growth and cause a need for reactive maintenance. Multiple platforms require increased training, support, and operational budget. By implementing a standardized operating environment (SOE) with Red Hat, you can achieve consistency across your organization. This allows IT teams to reduce costs and accelerate IT while supporting innovation.
New technologies including hybrid and private cloud connectivity, cloud-native development, and containers are supported on a modern solution. Standardization also provides enhanced security and compliance with policies and regulations. Centralizing the life-cycle management of your platform supports increased speed of installations, upgrades, and patching.
Digital Transformation
Digital transformation has many different meanings across IT environments. But one thing remains constant, all IT teams are facing the need to digitally transform their platforms, processes, and resources to maintain business continuity and adapt to evolving technology. By modernizing your IT environment, you can free up budget and resources for innovation in the age of digital transformation.
Lower your total cost of ownership and achieve a return on investment and deliver self-serving capabilities to IT users by automating processes with Red Hat Ansible Automation. Modern software not only improves IT efficiencies but also prepares you to adopt cloud-native and container-based development practices to help you become more agile. With an optimized hybrid cloud environment, you can increase flexibility and efficiency by replacing old infrastructure without downtime.
Strategic Migration
Modernization is ongoing and requires IT decision-makers to continuously assess and migrate to new solutions with increased IT and business value. The adoption of a new technology platform poses obstacles concerning infrastructure, security, and deployment. Migrate what makes the most sense for your environment.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform helps you develop, deploy, and manage existing and container-based applications seamlessly across physical, virtual, private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructures. With Red Hat OpenShift, you can increase operational efficiency, enforce security and compliance standards, and ensure uptime and availability.
Red Hat Consulting
As a premier partner in digital transformation, Clear Technologies offers the expertise needed to help manage your multi-site environment efficiently and securely. Whether you are looking to automate your IT processes with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform or accelerate application delivery with RedHat OpenShift, let Clear Technologies help modernize your IT environment.
Dallas, Texas – [September 21st, 2021] – Clear Technologies, a leading solution provider of IT consulting, server, storage, and software products, today announced the unveiling of a new service offering, Capacity Planning-as-a-Service, taking their storage expertise to the next level. In partnership with Visual One Intelligence®, the Capacity Planning-as-a-Service (CPaaS) solution is a significant advancement in the future of storage optimization.
Digital transformation heightens the need for continuous storage capacity analysis for determining critical IT infrastructure, application and financial resource needs. The CPaaS solution provides on-demand, comprehensive, actionable insight into the utilization and performance of any storage environment. CPaaS also eliminates the costly risk of over-provisioning cloud storage. With CPaaS, IT executives can ensure staff resources remain focused on normal workloads and suspend manual capacity planning. Paired with the human intelligence of Clear Technologies’ storage experts, IT executives will be well equipped to confidently make decisions for provisioning on-prem and cloud storage capabilities, at scale.
“We’re committed to building a strong, service-oriented relationship with our customers. In some of our discussions, we noticed customers conducting manual capacity planning outside of normal business operations and utilizing outdated tools. With turnover, the skillset and intricate excel spreadsheets were left to team members without the knowledge or time to complete manual reporting. We identified a strong need for accurate, on-demand capacity planning to help these customers save money and maintain normal workloads,” said Phil Godwin, Clear Technologies President and COO. “We’re excited to unveil the new Capacity Planning-as-a-Service offering to ensure customers are optimizing their storage environment and making confident, data-driven decisions for the future.”
Key Capacity Planning-as-a-Service Benefits:
Proactive Analysis – Actualize storage capacity needs on-demand with one centralized tool. Make confident, data-driven decisions in a timely manner.
Human Intelligence – Optimize storage capacity based on expert analysis and recommendations. With CPaaS, storage experts will factor in plans for acquisition, data migration or storage refresh.
Operational Equity – Build a risk-free IT Operations forecast by eliminating the financial pain of extended time and additional resources caused by manual capacity reporting.
“Developing the Capacity Planning-as-a-Service solution enhances the capabilities of the Visual One Intelligence® tool,” said Van Symons, Visual One Intelligence® Chief Technology Officer. “We created Visual One Intelligence® as a client-driven tool to continuously meet the needs of our clients’ storage environment. Capacity Planning is the future of storage optimization, and we are helping clients take a modern, proactive approach.”
About Clear Technologies
Clear Technologies partners with enterprise organizations to deliver customized IT solutions designed to increase operational efficiency. Unlike other solution providers, Clear Technologies utilizes Visual One Intelligence® (SRMaaS) to help enterprises discover performance insights, simplify storage management processes, and increase ROI. With over 25 years of experience and a premier offering of cloud-based infrastructure and services, combined with Visual One Intelligence®, Clear Technologies is the preferred partner in digital transformation.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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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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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:
Allocate new lun to prod and run cfgmgr
Create clone to new lun via “alt_disk_copy -B -d <hdisk#> -O“
Wake up clone via “alt_rootvg_op -W -d <hdisk#>“
Remove all entries in /etc/filesystems other than rootvg
Put clone back to sleep via “alt_rootvg_op -S -d hdisk#“
Remove cloned vg via “alt_rootvg_op -X altinst_rootvg“
Remove disk from prod via “rmdev -dl <hdisk#>“
Unallocate lun from prod and over to standby and run “cfgmgr” on standby
Change bootlist to boot from the newly added disk via “bootlist -m normal <newhdisk#> <currentrootvghdisk#>“
Reboot standby via “shutdown -Fr“
Recreate hostname, IP, subnet mask via either ifconfig or smitty mktcpip
Gather node id information about both nodes from primary node via “lsprnode -i”
Run clusterconf to import and activate CAA via “clusterconf -r reposhdisk#“
Stop the CAA cluster on local/restored node via “clmgr offline node <nodename> STOP_CAA=yes“
Note original node id of cloned node and use it in the command “recfgct -i “<orig_ct_node_id> -F” to restore the original ct_node_id back onto the cloned node.
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
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
