Posts made by Josh

I'll try and get the specifics tomorrow.

Just trying to help out a customer find some good full-time IT support working for the county. Do you all know anyone in Lubbock/Amarillo area?

@Dashrender sure thing Dash. Just email me at [email protected]

Thanks everyone. I'll be reaching out to you individually to start the process. We've still got a few spots left.

Hey guys and gals - What are we calling Mango Lassis these days anyway?

I have a proposition for you. We are introducing our first visibility app called Bandwidth Monitor.

Here's the synopsis:

Bandwidth Monitor is an application that provides bandwidth usage visibility across the entire network and at a fine-grained device or user level. With this app, you can identify insights such as the top bandwidth consumers, peak usage times & servers/resources that are being taxed the most. All this information helps in cost control, compliance, operational planning and productivity enforcement.

Here's my ask:

I need 10 volunteers to dive into the app with our VP of Product via approximately a one hour web "experience". Our goal is to recruit a range of user backgrounds (ie MSPs/IT consultants, IT Pros @ companies 100-500, and IT Pros @ smaller offices up to 100).

Requirements:
You have remote users or multiple offices
You are a current Pertino customer or are at a minimum, familiar with Pertino
You realize that a bandwidth monitor is not an actual monitor that you plug in
You are a member of the Mango Lassi community

If this is of interest to you, please email [email protected] and I'll get you on the list. Again, we're looking at the first 10 that fit those profiles.

Thanks Lassis!

Well I'm glad I didn't come in too soon! SAM hit the nail on the head. We provide the connectivity. You provide the services and permissions.

I haven't heard a ton of great things about Windows syncing capabilities, but Pertino can provide the connections depending on OSes involved. You could also look at OwnCloud, Sher.ly, etc. Much cheaper alternative to cloud storage, just be prepared for versioning issues with any cloud storage solution where you are enabling local copies.

@Dashrender said:

I just read @bill-kindle post about a new 2012 R2 book that appears to focus on DirectAccess.

We've touched on it here in these boards recently - but what do you think?

I've been meaning to get around to setting up a DA lab with @tomta1 to see the differences personally. We've had customers choose to PAY for Pertino networks despite haveing both hardware VPNs and Server 2012 w/ DA due to two reasons: complexity to deploy (both) and end user experience (hardware/OS support for DA).

To be honest, when I first came to Pertino and saw DA, I was a little nervous. Competition isn't always a bad thing, especially when you're trying to create a new market, but it is a challenge when it is a "free" product packaged with a software our target customers are going to deploy anyway. Then I started to read about the limitations - Enterprise editions, Win 7/8 only, Win 7 is a completely different setup process, server has to compute all the network connections = single point of failure, no support, etc.

This is something we need to investigate first hand, but we aren't expecting it to impact our target user base all that much given the reliability, OS requirements, and configuration differences.

Thanks for bringing this top of mind!

@Bob-Beatty said:

Wow - this is a plethora of information. I've read all of the posts and now have learned more than expected - I was looking for Scott's video, can you throw that link in here? I didn't see it. Thanks for all of the input, this is a great resource - now, can we take this post and file it as a "whitepaper" of sorts, or just leave it as it is for users to search for?

We also host weekly demos on Thursdays at 2 PM EST. Here's the latest registration link.

@dashrender In regards to the site to site configuration, that is an ongoing discussion over here. For your use case of 5 devices at each location, then it's less than $300/year and those devices are no longer location-dependent. It's a compelling story for many scenarios. Once you get a greater number of devices on the local network then there are more factors that play into the ROI.

Where Pertino really changes the game is in enabling you to instantly and securely connect seemingly disparate devices, whether physical or virtual, located behind firewalls that you don't control. Then there's the "always on" connectivity for replication, eliminating annoying timeouts, user error, yada yada yada...

And like the guys have said, today it's all about being able to easily deploy and manage networks and making it easier for your users to access the resources they need.

@PSX_Defector said:

@Josh said:

Bob - thanks for setting this up! Much easier to stay on top of threads.

Security: Pertino is installed on each end point that you want connected to the network, so we are able to deploy 256-bit AES encryption end to end. The connection is an SSL connection. Data passes through our hosted "routers" to get to each destination. Each network is completely separate, and no data is stored or even cached. Device or user-based access to resources can be restricted with just two clicks.

Now all we need is those [moderated] I went around and around with a while back who were saying you were gonna get hacked if you used Pertino.

I'm still trying to get the thing to work in a point to point fashion. Lots of folks have devices behind the firewall that won't be able to either use Pertino or they don't want to have the talk with users about installing it on their personal devices. If only you would release it in source I could compile the thing on something I can work with in that regards.

@psx_defector - We use outbound port 443 SSL to make the connection, so your users should be able to connect despite being behind the firewall. You can literally close all inbound ports and still connect to your Pertino resources.

Are you looking at getting it on your Linux boxes? We've got a Debian package available and an RPM in private beta.

No plans for true point-to-point connection at this point. We're still doing all the routing via localized hosted routers.

Bob - thanks for setting this up! Much easier to stay on top of threads.

Security: Pertino is installed on each end point that you want connected to the network, so we are able to deploy 256-bit AES encryption end to end. The connection is an SSL connection. Data passes through our hosted "routers" to get to each destination. Each network is completely separate, and no data is stored or even cached. Device or user-based access to resources can be restricted with just two clicks.

@scottalanmiller @steve

That is too cool. I'm thinking we've got a case study in the making.

I'm glad I got on here early. I'll be able to sell my "Josh" handle for some serious bucks one day!

@scottalanmiller

Hey guys. Josh from Pertino here. Scott is correct. Install Pertino on the Vcenter and it will feel as if you are directly connected.

iOS is definitely on the roadmap...