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Pinnacle Introducing
a Pipeline of
Initiatives, Eyes
Billion-Dollar
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2. Ntiva – Furnishing reliable IT services,
cybersecurity services, and IT consulting for
today’s technology-dependent businesses
T
echnology has come a long
way since the days of break/
fix IT, and the reality is that
most internal IT services aren’t
equipped to keep up with the pace
of innovation. As a result, many
organizations find their IT to be
reactive rather than proactive,
and that their systems struggle
to keep up with the demands of a
growing business in a digital world.
If you’ve ever scoffed at the idea
of outsourcing support to a third-
party provider because you think
your current IT structure is fine
or because of concerns about cost,
now is the time to reconsider. There
are numerous benefits to managed
services.
One of the benefits of managed
services is that it frees up your
employees to focus on the jobs they
were hired to do. It also enables you
to fill in gaps as needed. A genuinely
qualified managed services partner
will offer a flexible service model
that allows you to determine what
level of service you require, whether
that means just keeping the lights
on or outsourcing your company’s
entire IT department. One of the key
advantages of the managed services
model is that it enables you to hire
an entire IT professionals team at a
flat monthly rate.
Meet the formidable leader
Steven Freidkin serves as the CEO of
Ntiva. His current focus is working with Ntiva
clients to align their organizational initiatives
and growth efforts with technology, develop
strategic growth plans for Ntiva, and create
an environment for top technical talent to
develop. Mr. Steven started his first IT consulting
company in high school. He furthered its efforts
during his college career at the Robert H. Smith
School of Business at the University of Maryland.
Steven Freidkin, CEO
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3. Ntiva is one such firm that
empowers thousands of clients
to grow their businesses based
on technology’s effective use.
Almost every business today is
completely reliant on IT services
when their network is down,
their computer freezes, or their
applications crash, productivity
grinds to a halt. Every business
needs what they do, but choosing
the right Managed Service
Provider (MSP) is a challenge.
It’s difficult always to keep every
client happy, but Ntiva is on a
never-ending course of continual
improvement to combat this.
Innovative services
offered by Ntiva
Managed IT Services
Platform: A Managed Services
Provider (MSP) can take the
burden of managing your
business technology services off
your shoulders. This can range
from completely outsourcing
your IT needs to arranging for
co-managed services with your
existing in-house team. Ntiva is
one of the top 50 MSPs in the
U.S., offering more than 250
technicians who are ready to
serve you around the clock. The
firm offers competitive pricing
based on a flat-rate monthly
subscription service, including
unlimited remote support
provided by a U.S.-based help
desk. Its team of world-class
talent genuinely cares about
relationships and providing
solutions to your business needs.
It understands that response,
accuracy, and care are the
fundamental keys to a successful,
long-term partnership.
IT Consulting Services:
Many businesses are challenged
to keep pace with today’s fast-
moving IT landscape. Fail to
react quickly and accurately
and you risk being outpaced by
your competitors who are using
technology to their advantage.
Successful organizations look
ahead, identify where they
need to be, and map out the
technology that will get them
there. For many organizations,
IT consulting services is a big
part of that roadmap. At Ntiva,
its mission is solely focused
on helping its clients leverage
their technology investments to
improve business performance.
Cyber Security Services:
Cybersecurity is the practice of
protecting systems, networks,
and programs from digital
attacks by hackers. The goal of
all cybersecurity is to prevent
malicious actors from gaining
unauthorized access to your
hardware, software, and data.
Unfortunately, the average
business does not have the
resources to combat today’s
sophisticated cyber threats and
attacks effectively. That’s where
Ntiva comes in. Ntiva provides a
wide range of advanced security
solutions that can protect your
business from unrelenting
attacks, providing proactive
protection around the clock.
Cloud IT Services: Cloud
computing is a model for
enabling on-demand access
via the Internet to a shared
pool of computing resources,
including networks, servers,
applications, and database
storage. These resources
can be easily configured and
provisioned with minimal effort,
which is what makes cloud
computing so convenient and
cost-effective. Ntiva can help
you with your cloud migration
journey, recommending various
technologies and helping you
choose the cloud services that
are right for your business and
budget.
“We empower thousands of clients to grow their
businesses based on the effective use of technology.”
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4. CloudPassage – Unified cloud security and compliance
platform safeguarding cloud infrastructure for the
world’s best-recognized brands
Software as a Service (SaaS)
is a software delivery method
where applications are hosted
remotely by a vendor or service
provider and are made available
to customers over a network.
Simply put, users rent the
software instead of purchasing
it. Most SaaS providers offer a
usage-based subscription that
can be purchased on a monthly
or yearly basis. Although it is a
departure from the conventional
purchasing software method, SaaS
can provide extremely notable
advantages in the business
environment. As the integration of
cloud computing increases, many
software providers are adding
SaaS capabilities to lead to huge
gains.
CloudPassage is a security
pioneer awarded the first-ever
patents for universal cloud
infrastructure security and is a
leading innovator
in cloud
asset
visibility. It is an award-winning
security solution purpose-
built for the cloud that helps
customers automatically discover
cloud assets, reduce their attack
surface, and find and respond
to critical risks other tools miss.
It provides unrivaled visibility
and continuous compliance for
the cloud deployments of some
of the world’s most demanding
IT shops in technology, finance,
security, media, e-commerce, and
hospitality.
Revolutionary products
and services offered by
CloudPassage
CloudPassage Halo: It is a
unified cloud security platform
that automates cloud computing
security controls and compliance
across servers, containers, and
IaaS in public, private, hybrid,
and multi-cloud environments.
Halo’s extensive automation
capabilities streamline and
accelerate workflows between
InfoSec and DevOps. CloudPassage
Halo unifies and automates all
cloud computing security and
compliance controls across
your cloud infrastructure,
cloud servers, and containers.
Halo was built to provide
cloud computing security
across any mix of public,
private, hybrid, and multi-
cloud deployments. The Halo
platform operates seamlessly
across environments, without
requiring multiple product
deployments as some products
do. Halo even enables workload
migration between environments,
a critical requirement for lift-and-
shift projects.
CSPM (Cloud Security
Posture Management)
with Cloud Secure: In just
minutes, Halo Cloud Secure gives
you full visibility into the security
and compliance posture of your
entire cloud environment and
opens the door to fast, consistent,
automated remediation
workflows. Cloud Secure is the
means to establish and maintain
a strong IaaS security posture
automatically. No static rulesets
that change without notice
with Halo’s CSPM capabilities,
unlike the alternatives. Cloud
Secure provides comprehensive
policy and rule templates along
with very easy, flexible policy
management features. When rules
are applied, the raw data collected
from IaaS APIs, manual auditing
instructions, the rationale for best-
practices, and explicit remediation
guidance are delivered alongside
every rule. Cloud Secure
delivers truly actionable data
in truly actionable ways. The
CSPM automatically aggregates,
normalizes, correlates, and
enriches data from cloud service
provider metadata (including
“At
CloudPassage,
we make cloud
computing safer and more
secure for everyone from
large and medium enterprises
to technology startups,
building their product in
the cloud.”
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5. user-defined tags) across different
IaaS providers, delivering seamless
functionality and intelligence.
CWPP (Cloud Workload
Protection Platform) with
Server Secure: Server Secure
is the cloud workload protection
platform (CWPP) service of the
Halo cloud security platform. It
automates security and compliance
management for Linux and
Windows servers across any
mix of public, private, or hybrid
cloud hosting environments.
Halo Server Secure addresses
the new security and compliance
demands of cloud-hosted servers
and workloads in a matter of
seconds—opening the door to fast,
consistent, automated remediation
workflows. Server Secure’s CWPP
capabilities establish and maintain
cloud workload protection
automatically. No static rulesets
that change without notice with
Halo’s CWPP capabilities, unlike
the alternatives. Server Secure
provides comprehensive policy
and rule templates along with very
easy, flexible policy management
features. When rules are applied,
the raw data collected from servers,
manual auditing instructions, the
rationale for best-practices, and
explicit remediation guidance are
delivered alongside every rule.
Container Security with
Halo Container Secure:
Container Secure automates
security and compliance coverage
for Docker, Kubernetes, and
continuous-delivery pipeline
infrastructure. Built on top of the
Halo platform, it provides container
security as a standalone service, or
in concert with Halo Server Secure
(CWPP) and Cloud Secure (CSPM).
Expanding the Halo platform,
Container Secure provides security
and compliance automation for
containerized applications running
in public, private, or hybrid cloud
hosting environments. Halo
Container Secure is more than
just container security. It secures
the runtime and development
environments. Halo automates key
security and compliance functions
through customizable policies
and technical rules that support
common Docker and Kubernetes
standards, such as CIS benchmarks.
These regulations and policies are
used to determine if container-
related assets are compliant with
best-practice security controls.
Carson Sweet, Co-founder & CEO
The pre-eminent leader
Carson Sweet is the Co-founder and serves as the
Chief Executive Officer of CloudPassage. Mr. Carson led
the team that created Halo, the patented security platform that
changes the way enterprises achieve infrastructure protection
and compliance. His information security career spans three
decades and includes a broad range of entrepreneurial,
management, and hands-on technology experience. He and his
teams have created groundbreaking security solutions across
various industries and public sectors, focusing on financial
services, the federal government, and high-tech.

6. 10 Best
IT Services Companies
Services SR 2020
Determined to take full advantage of the public
cloud without taking short cuts, Clumio built
a platform that focuses on bringing authentic
SaaS to solve the challenges of data protection.
C
loud data security is vital,
as you will want to be sure
that your data is safe while
stored in the cloud. A number of
high-profile hacking cases mean
that this issue is topical for many
business owners, but the reality is
that your data is much safer in the
cloud, and security is an extremely
high priority for all cloud storage
services. With cloud storage your
data is backed up to the cloud
rather than stored on-site or nearby.
Some businesses are still backing
up to tapes, or storing their data
backups on-site or at a nearby
off-site location. If there is a local
disaster, then this could result in
both backups being lost. Cloud
security prevents this issue, as the
data is stored in remote locations,
protecting your business from the
threat of data loss. As organizations
generate volumes of business data
across clouds, they must efficiently
protect it as it scales. Clumio’s cloud
data platform architecture was
designed with this in mind, bringing
the cloud values of scalability,
integrated support, economics, and
faster access to innovation.
Cloud Scale with Direct
S3 Access
Clumio was architected to capitalize
on the benefits of the cloud for data
protection. For example, Clumio
leverages cloud scale by having
direct access to S3. Other data
protection solutions process data
flows into the platform with EC2
resulting in bottlenecks. Clumio
avoids the bottleneck problem
by transporting data directly into
highly scalable and durable object
storage.
Microservices Accelerate
Performance
Building a cloud-native backup
application requires architecting
a platform on containers and
serverless Lambda functions.
Clumio simplifies this by breaking
an application into microservices,
Meet the leader behind the success of Clumio
Poojan Kumar is the CEO and Co-founder at Clumio.
Poojan brings 18 years of experience in cloud computing and
storage and is known for seeing an opportunity for change,
innovating and capitalizing on it. Poojan founded and built
PernixData that was acquired by Nutanix in 2016, he then
served as Vice President of Engineering and Products. Earlier
in his career, he was Head of Data Products at VMware and
founder at Oracle Exadata.
Poojan Kumar, CEO & Co-founder

7. orchestrating them into a workflow.
By doing this, Clumio leverages
significant AWS compute resources,
activating these functions in
parallel and completing processing
more rapidly.
Control Plane and Data
Plane Separation Drive
Scale: The control plane and the
data plane are separated to deliver
scale, performance, and multi-
cloud functionality. This separation
eliminates data processing from
interfering with data movement
to or from the cloud. As data is
dispersed across clouds, backups
will be stored within the same
cloud where production data
resides. The result is faster data
movement, elimination of egress
costs, and reduced management
complexity.
Optimized for Secure
Backup and Rapid Recovery
• Efficient cloud backups
for distributed cloud
environments
• Only changed blocks are read
for optimized backups and
restores
• Meet or exceed RTO’s with
Clumio’s innovative rapid
recovery
Clumio facilitates efficient
backups for cloud distributed
environments in several ways. The
platform leverages cloud scale
by transporting data directly into
highly scalable and durable object
storage. Data processing such as
file indexing and data verification
are done completely in the cloud,
leveraging the resources of the
cloud. The platform employs
incremental forever backups, so
only changed blocks are read from
data sources. Organizations can
eliminate time and resources for
sizing, deploying, metering charges,
or maintaining infrastructure.
Rapid recovery enables fast
operational restores from cloud
storage. By intelligently reverting
just the changed blocks, full object
recovery is optimized to either
meet or minimize RTOs. Clumio’s
powerful search capabilities enable
granular, file-level restores so IT
admins can search for a specific
object. The architecture leverages
scale-out serverless compute
power in the cloud, to rehydrate
backup images quickly, for
faster operational recovery of all
workloads.
Backup Visibility without
Daily Management
• Policy insight and enforcement
across multiple clouds from a
single user interface
• Proactive alerts only when
attention is required
• RESTful APIs enable
integration into an
organization’s workflow
automation
IT teams can manage distributed
cloud environments with hundreds
to thousands of accounts, from a
single user interface. Global policies
can be used to configure different
sources and applied to volumes
of accounts. To maintain visibility,
Clumio provides scheduled reports
with consolidated views of backups
and policy enforcement. IT teams
also receive proactive alerts when
something needs immediate
attention.
Clumio’s RESTful APIs automate
administrative tasks so that
operations teams can focus on
other business-critical initiatives.
This also means that as new
workloads are deployed, they
are automatically included in
policy criteria. Account-level
operations are automated, reducing
administrative time and manual
processes.
We were
founded
by serial
innovators
who recognize
that the full
potential of
the cloud is
still waiting to
be tapped.
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8. 10 Best
IT Services Companies
Services SR 2020
With its niche focus and deep understanding of Insurance IT
system, iNube helps insurance companies to embrace digital
transformation in multiple ways to mitigate challenges
D
igital services offer
convenience, choice and
comparison. The financial
services industry, including
insurance, is also making efforts
to tap this space. Life insurance,
traditionally sold by agents, is
available for online purchase, often
at lower prices. Many services,
and sale processes are now
technology-based. For instance,
paying premiums, making a claim,
and tablet-based sales processes
in which the agent keys in relevant
information in the tablet and the
system recommends suitable plans.
iNube’s customer- centric digital
insurance solutions address the
major concerns of every member
of the insurance ecosystem,
across every facet of the insurance
value chain, enriching customer
engagement across various
channels with quick and easy touch
points, along with technological
streamlining of core processes and
preventing fraud. iNube is a leading
provider of innovative Digital
Insurance Solutions and a trusted &
preferred technology partner for the
global insurance industry.
Equipped with unparalleled
insurance domain expertise, iNube
has conceived, developed and
implemented cutting-edge insurance
software solutions for insurance
companies, reinsurers, third party
administrators (TPAs), insurance
brokers, and claims surveyors. In
addition, these insurance technology
solutions are exclusively designed
to address the requirements of the
Property & Casualty (P&C), Life
Insurance & Annuities and Accident
& Health Insurance segments.
Established in 2010, iNube operates
in India, U.A.E. and Sri Lanka. With
a customer footprint across ASEAN,
India, Sri Lanka, Middle East &
Africa, we strive for excellence by
building collaborative relationships
with our entire spectrum of global
clientele with -‘We are One’ team
based approach. iNube offers
unmatched business value to clients
through deep-industry know-how’s,
process excellence and technology
innovations. iNube provides apt,
need-of-the-hour technologies for
desired business outcomes that are
critical to your business success.
iNube’s wide range of cloud-based
digital insurance solutions across
the insurance value chain, are
designed to optimize productivity
and reduce enterprise IT costs
for clients. Predominantly hosted
on MS Azure Cloud and offered
on a SaaS model, iNube’s scalable
IT solutions provide an array
of business benefits to help you
maximize customer satisfaction.
With a niche focus and deep
understanding of Insurance IT
system, iNube’s portfolio of digital
insurance solutions helps you to
embrace digital transformation
to mitigate challenges, across the
insurance value chain. iNube has
proactively conceived, developed
and implemented these cutting-edge
technology solutions for property
& casualty insurance, life insurance
and health insurance segments.
Small Ticket Insurance
Core Platform
Protect your customers against all
odds with an End-to-End solution
to automate the management of
small ticket insurance products.
Explore distribution through
unconventional channels/partners
and leverage faster go-to-market
using MICA, a state-of-the-art
technology platform. Small ticket
insurance products are sold as an
attachment product to a different
partner specific core offering. MICA
is an end-to-end solution that
automates the management of small
ticket insurance products right
from configuration – to distribution
– to claims management – to
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9. accounting and reinsurance. The
end-to-end solution automates
the management of small ticket
benefit-based insurance products.
It enables insurance companies to
develop new distribution channels
with swift on-boarding of partners
to fulfill the needs of customers
who are looking for adequate and
affordable financial protection
during the ongoing pandemic.
The cloud-based solution, with
plug and play technologies
and exclusive API integrations
helps insurance companies to
uninterruptedly focus on their core
business operations and provide
consistent health insurance
protection for their customers.
Distribution
Management
‘Distribution Management’ solution,
powered by SellWell, a mobile
point of sale software for insurance
intermediaries, helps to introduce
efficiencies in the sales process.
SellWell comes up intuitive tools
for salesforce to manage their daily
activities efficiently, at the same
time, providing sales managers a
holistic view of the performance
of their teams. Extend the reach
of your insurance intermediaries
and reduce the time taken from the
first interaction to policy issuance
with Mobile Point of Sale (POS)
Software.
“Explore innovative
state-of-the-art
insurance software
solutions, targeted to
meet requirements
of all insurance
stakeholders”
Meet the leader behind the success of iNube
Software Solutions
Vinodkumar Iyer is the CEO of iNube Software Solutions.
Vinod has been an entrepreneur and advisor for enterprises
in designing technology roadmap aligning to business and
organizational strategy. He is part of several engagements in
the area of Cloud, Digital Business and Mobility, which are key
futuristic areas of high growth potentials in the marketplace
across the globe. Vinod comes with more than 20 years of industry
experience including more than 10 years in the Insurance
industry as business leader. He brings deep technology expertise
around Insurance domain and in the Banking and Financial
Services industry. In his prior role at HP, he was worldwide
strategy consultant to global HP customers. Prior to HP, he played
leadership roles at various technology companies like Oracle,
AT&T Bell Labs. As a thought leader he has contributed to several
white papers and points of view on technology adoptions by
enterprises and has been fostering innovations. He is a qualified engineer academically and possesses certification on
strategy by Harvard Business School. Vinod is married and lives in Bengaluru with his wife and daughter.
Vinodkumar Iyer, CEO
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