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Photos courtesy GO Security Solutions
By Curt Harler
On the Fast Track:
GO Security
Sprinting forward with new technologies
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Top: Based in Ashland, Mass., GO Security Solutions
focuses on new technologies, including cloud services.
Above: GO Security Solutions' Managing Partners Mike
Kotwicki (left) and Gary Osterhout.
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f sprinter Usain Bolt—the man who holds the world
100-meter sprint record at 9.58 seconds—thinks he
lives life in the fast lane, he should try keeping pace
with the rapidly changing commercial security field. Gary
Osterhout and Michael Kotwicki, managing partners in
GO Security Solutions, a division of Go Technologies Inc.,
based in Ashland, Mass., know that fast-paced accurately
describes today's security industry.
"Security equipment, like all technology products, changes
and upgrades at a rapid pace," Osterhout said. "Sometimes it
is difficult for the less technically savvy end-users to adjust
to the changing technological landscape."
GO Security specializes in electronic access control, video
surveillance, alarm and mechanical security solutions, but
most of all, in plying their trade via the world's leading technologies. Their job is to keep both their business clients and
their own staff ahead of the technological pack. With that
mantra, it is, indeed, a fast track they are running.
To finish first, Osterhout stays on the lookout for good
network-capable equipment and cloud-based services. He
said he sees continued migration of his business in the
direction of becoming a cloud-based services company.
"There will always be a need for licensed field technical
support," he said. However, in the next five years he said he
expects to see much of the on-site server based equipment
not residing at the client's location.
The cloud, he predicted, will be the home of many security
services. There are other changes in the wind, too. The firm
has recently expanded its mechanical access control offerings
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