Newsletter | January 6, 2012

01.06.12 -- Avoid A Storage Market Catastrophe; How Cloud And SaaS Are Changing The Game

Business Solutions Newsletter

| Storage & General Computing Edition

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10 Ways For Your Data Center To Be Business-Wise, Future-Driven
By APC by Schneider Electric
Today, enterprises no longer can afford to view their facility and traditional IT spaces — from small server rooms to large IT rooms — as discrete environments. Since the systems of both environments can affect a data center's performance, availability, energy efficiency, and agility, facilities and IT now need to be regarded as interconnected domains. This bridged approach ultimately has a far-reaching impact on a company's ability to respond to strategic business decisions or future technology changes.
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2012 Outlook Concerning Cloud, MSPs
By Alex Osipov, CTO, OS33
Advice to help you take your MSP practice to the next level by maximizing new tech opportunities.
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How Cloud & SaaS Are Changing The Game
By Peter Sandiford, CEO, Level Platforms
Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing are key elements of an unstoppable trend toward the delivery of IT applications using technology located outside the customer-owned local infrastructure.
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Avoid A Storage Market Catastrophe
By Jay McCall, networking and managed services editor
Todd O'Bert is no stranger to facing terrible economic conditions. He started Productive Corp.; a security, storage, and network infrastructure software reseller business; in 2001, less than a year after the dot-com bubble burst.
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5-Minute Podcast: Cloud Backup


In Part 5 of this series, participants share insights on the best vertical markets and size of customers for a cloud backup solution. MSPs Chris Johnson, CEO of Untangled Solutions, and MJ Shoer, president and virtual CTO at Jenaly Technology Group, share their insights along with Ted Roller, VP of channel development at Intronis.
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News

Seagate Completes Acquisition Of Samsung's Hard Disk Drive Business

Seagate Technology plc, a provider of hard disk drives and storage solutions, recently announced the closing of the transaction to acquire the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a provider of digital consumer electronics and information technology.
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D&H's 2012 Channel Investments Include No-Cost Marketing Services, Regional Workshops, New Events And Ongoing Credit Increases

D&H Distributing, a computer products and consumer electronics distributor, is making significant investments in its channel offerings for 2012.
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HP UPS Network Module Remotely Manages UPSs And Attached Devices

HP introduced the HP UPS Network Module, which enables small, medium, and enterprise-sized businesses to remotely monitor, diagnose, and manage uninterruptible power systems (UPS) and attached devices.
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SonicWALL Offers Scalable Secure Remote Access Solution And Addresses Issues Brought On By Consumerization Of IT

SonicWALL recently introduced SRA EX9000 and Aventail 10.6 software to enable secure remote connectivity for up to 20,000 concurrent users of Windows and Windows Mobile, Apple Mac OS and iOS, Google Android, and Linux.
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Shows and Events

RSA Conference 2012
February 27 - March 2, 2012 | San Francisco

ASCII Success Summit
February 29 - March 1, 2012 | Orlando, FL

ASCII Success Summit
March 21-22, 2012 | Los Angeles

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ONEAC ON Series m Medical-Grade UPS (300 – 600 VA)
ONEAC ON Series m Medical-Grade UPS (300 – 600 VA)

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Eaton 9155 UPS
Eaton 9155 UPS

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