Newsletter | September 28, 2011

09.28.11 -- Virtualization In SMB: What's The Sweet Spot?

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| Networking, VoIP & Managed Services Edition

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Virtualization: What's The Sweet Spot?
By Gennifer Biggs, security, storage, and managed services editor
If you missed our recent webinar with NetEnrich, which ran live on Sept. 15, you missed a full hour of advice about selling and managing virtualized environments from NetEnrich VP and GM Justin Crotty and Chris Cramer, owner of MSP I.T. Works.
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Marketing Tips From The Trenches
By Gennifer Biggs, security, storage, and managed services editor
A common question from solutions providers is not technology related, but rather about marketing the products they have ID'd for the portfolio. At the Zenith InfoTech Cloud Summit held in Pittsburgh this week, a group of Zenith partners presented tips and tricks for their peers.
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Q&A: Not Sure What Cloud Is Right For You?
By Jamie Brenzel, CEO, KineticD
The dirty little secret of online backup is the time it takes to restore from the cloud. Hybrid solutions allow businesses to keep both local copies of critical information (for fast restores) on a local hard drive with the added security of keeping the data in the cloud. A good cloud provider should be able to seamlessly allow you to backup locally as well as remotely with ease.
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Managing Resources Key To Profitability
By StorageCraft Technology Corporation
Over the last forty years, the world of computing has gone through a series of important shifts to get us to where we are today.
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Picking The Right Cloud Vendor Partner
By Zenith Infotech
Marketing is fundamental to the success of any business, and it is especially important in emerging areas, such as cloud computing, which require a fair amount of customer education. Go over your email lists, website content, and scheduled phone and face-to-face conferences. Is your message clear and are your offerings well defined? Are your customer communications in jargon-free language that non-IT people understand?
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Do You Own Your Customers' Entire Environment?
By Jim Roddy, president
Learn how you can extend your managed services business (and profits!) without heavy investments in people or infrastructure during this free webinar at 2 p.m. ET, on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011.
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Q&A: Is Your IT Foundation Sound?
By Mike Czarnecki, national sales director, ONEAC
For the end user, when equipment is down, so is profitability and customer satisfaction. The power that runs your electrical equipment is full of harmful disturbances that can negatively impact the performance of your system and, consequently, the performance of your business. Transients, surges, or noise on the line are generated by both internal and external factors that often cannot be avoided. To protect your mission-critical applications from downtime, power protection solutions are a necessity.
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Confused By Consultative Sales?
By Zenith Infotech
If you missed our webinar earlier this week, check out our advice on consultative sales.
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News

McAfee Rolls Out New Offering

McAfee recently unveiled McAfee DeepSAFE, a new technology which will help the security industry. It was demonstrated by McAfee at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) during Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini's keynote. Otellini outlined the opportunities and challenges that face the industry given the proliferation of smart devices.
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MegaPath Tackles Video Offering

MegaPath Inc., a provider of managed data, voice, and security services in North America, recently unveiled its new MegaPath Solutions Video Series that provides detailed tips and advice for increasing the effectiveness and ROI of the company's services and network.
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SonicWALL Unveils MSP Program

SonicWALL, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, today announced the new MSP Advantage Program featuring FlexSpend.
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Imation To Acquire IronKey's Security Hardware Business

Imation Corp., a technology company dedicated to helping people and organizations store, protect, and connect their digital world, and IronKey, a provider of data security and online access, recently announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Imation will acquire the assets of IronKey's secure data storage hardware business.
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