Summit - formerly Deft

08/27/2026

The Product team got together for an offsite last week and this is the one photo that survived. Great food, not so great focus.

Key takeaway: invite Marketing next time. We'll get a photo that's in frame.

08/26/2026

When you recommend a technology partner to a client, you’re putting your reputation behind them.

That makes the right fit pretty important. You need a partner who understands your clients, knows their technology, takes security seriously, and gives you the support to make recommendations with confidence.

Summit’s Nick Flynn shares what accounting firms should look for in a technology partner: https://gosummit.co/4cJ1DNH

08/25/2026

AI is changing accounting fast. It's forcing firms to rethink pricing, client data, and how they govern the tools they're using.

Our very own Shannon Kaiser is sitting down with Ron Baker on Wednesday, September 2nd at 12:00 CT to work through what that actually looks like day to day.

Worth an hour if any of this is on your radar.

Hosted by CPA Academy. Register here: https://www.cpaacademy.org/s/webinardate/a0HPB00000aTz6b2AC/922026?ref=summithq&utm_source=hs_email&... (https://gosummit.co/4qC7biW)

08/20/2026

A day in the .

Most of a migration happens before anything moves. Checking equipment, running tests, and making sure the hardware behaves before customers ever touch it.

Looks like all systems go 👍

08/17/2026

A VMware migration is rarely a hypervisor problem. It's the team that built their careers around it.

Because when they think their skills are about to become obsolete, you risk losing the knowledge that kept the environment running.

Byron Dill, our Director of Solutions Engineering, unpacks this for Data Center Knowledge:

VMware-Broadcom illustrates a critical lesson: avoid over-dependence on a platform by continuously evaluating workload placement, costs, and risks.

08/13/2026

Eric Dominguez took the stage at Telarus Partner Summit yesterday for The Resiliency Stack: Designing Always-On Infrastructure from Core to Cloud. He shared how Summit helped a mid-size organization migrate from VMware to a managed Hyper-V Private Cloud to reduce costs, modernize infrastructure, and improve reliability.

Stop by Booth #616. The team is here today, the sunglasses are going fast, and the VMware migration is still free.

08/11/2026

Moving day! Here is a full server relocation from Chicago to our flagship data center, compressed into about a minute. Sources say the real thing took a bit longer.

08/10/2026

The VMware conversation stopped being a technical one. Byron Dill, our Director of Solutions Engineering, wrote about that shift in Data Center Dynamics.

His argument: a full rip-and-replace is almost never the right move, but nearly every organization he talks to would benefit from asking a different question. Not "is VMware a good platform?" but "how much dependency risk are we willing to carry, and at what cost?"

Worth a read:

And why there are other options out there

08/06/2026

That’s a wrap on TechMentor x Cybersecurity Live!

Great conversations with folks who know their way around a rack. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to talk Hyper-V, compare notes, or just say hello.

Big thanks to TechMentor for having us, and to Microsoft for letting us convene on their gorgeous campus. Hard to beat that backdrop.

See you at the next one!

08/04/2026

Posted this MS Paint graphic last week for fun, now it’s a sticker at TechMentor x Cybersecurity Live! Come get one at our booth at Microsoft HQ.