Akibia is committed to helping our customers realize the value of the investments in their IT infrastructure - to make it a strategic asset that enables agility within the organization. To that end, in this issue of Bandwidth we chose a different format to showcase the breadth of solutions being offered by our partners. The articles highlight the latest updates and features being offered by many of the solution partners we recommend. These solutions focus on issues and technologies that provide protection, increase performance, or help improve regulatory compliance.

These themes are framed and addressed in different ways depending on the technologies and challenges they are intended to solve. Technology issues covered include platforms, connectivity, acceleration, identity, Vo-Fi, Network Behavior, and host protection, all of which are enveloped by the ever-increasing specter of compliance requirements.

Ultimately, our goal is to help our client's build and manage a secure infrastructure that is adaptive to the ever-changing operational environment and facilitates an organization's ability to bring new products and services to market rapidly. By connecting people, information, and business processes, Akibia helps organizations increase their market responsiveness, identify and eliminate inefficiencies, and enhances security by mitigating risk in their environment.

Akibia works with our customers to assess and plan their IT initiatives that help them optimize their IT infrastructure assets, enabling them to realize the full value of their strategic IT assets and investments.

In other news, Akibia Network and Security Solutions is expanding its services to several major markets in the United States. Akibia has recently invested in new resources and personnel in Chicago. This office is the 3rd market in the United States for the Network & Security Solutions team and complements our New England, New York, and EMEA offices. If you have offices or partners in those markets that can benefit from our security expertise and knowledge please let them about Akibia Network and Security Solutions.

We invite your comments about the articles in this issue and suggestions on what you would like to read about in future editions. Please contact us at bandwidth@akibia.com.