The band Nine Inch Nails recently released a ground-breaking geo-Twitter-like iPhone / Google Earth plug-in application. This follows on the heels of many creative uses of KML and Google Earth to communicate with fans. This talk is from the software developer team that supports the band.
Throughout the last couple of years Google Earth has enabled us to present amazing visualizations and perspectives to those interested in Nine Inch Nails, from releasing download numbers of the latest album, plotting tour-dates and geo-cached ticket treasure hunts to the latest realtime integration with geo-located mobile fans. We present our conceptual and technical experiences integrating the Nine Inch Nails online community with Google Earth and the Google Earth plugin.
Englewood, Colo. - May 18, 2009 - MX Logic, Inc. announced today it has been nominated for the 2009 Apex Awards, the prestigious technology awards recognizing outstanding accomplishments and leadership by Colorado's advanced technology companies and professionals. The winners will be announced on June 9, 2009 at the 9th annual Apex Awards.
Since the program's inception in 2000, CSIA's Apex Awards have expressed well-deserved recognition for the numerous technology company success stories and technical advancements produced in Colorado. Presented in six categories for companies and five categories for professionals, the awards recognize success, innovation, vision, leadership, excellent customer support and community contributions.
"As a pioneer of managed security solutions, we've always focused on providing the best, easiest to use security technology for the best value," said Pete Khanna, president and COO of MX Logic. "We are honored to be named a nominee for these prestigious awards that recognize technology excellence."
"Colorado has many success stories, and it's important to recognize the companies and professionals that drive the Colorado technology industry," said Su Hawk, president, CSIA. "Our Apex Awards provide the industry a once-a-year opportunity to celebrate their success, and generate awareness around these notable companies, which include MX Logic."
About MX Logic
MX Logic is a leading provider of managed email and Web security services that delivers enterprise-grade performance without enterprise-level complexity and cost. Our easy-to-use, award-winning services reduce risk and liability, lower overall IT costs, and increase productivity. MX Logic services are available through our industry-leading partner network. For more information, visit www.mxlogic.com.
By Michael Wallace and Larry Webber , Computerworld , 04/20/2009
The data center gets all the press, but there are plenty of other areas where IT professionals and users of IT services can dramatically reduce an organization's effect on the environment. Here are 10 ways to get started:
1. Reduce the amount of data kept in online storage. Online disks spin around the clock, and they need to be cooled. Disks may be full of multiple data copies or ancient files that are rarely opened. Archive historical files to off-line media for storage in the data center.
2. Consolidate IT assets into a single location for shared use. Eliminate private parts and spare equipment caches in favor of a single pool of shared assets. Look here before buying anything else to save money and reduce the amount of electronic equipment that will eventually require disposal.
3. Make use of power-saving features. Ensure that all hardware you install has the power-saver function enabled and that users are locked out of changing it.
4. Buy power-efficient and environment-friendly equipment. Require that all new equipment is compliant with Energy Star and the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS) and has an 80Plus power supply. 80Plus power supplies are at least 80% efficient and thereby save electricity. RoHS certification ensures that electronic components contain minimal levels of toxic substances.
5. Use less paper. You save not only the cost of the paper, but also the cost of toner and disposal. Review reports online, and print only the pages you need. Send electronic documents for discussion to each meeting attendee, and require them to print their own copies if they attend. Where practical, order manuals on CD for online access.
6. Discourage those "document pack rats." Every office has one or more people who feel compelled to keep a paper copy of every memo and e-mail they've sent or received. This fills rows of file cabinets, drawers, suspended files and folders. Make an electronic document management system available and reduce the amount of physical storage available. This reduces paper usage and frees floor space.
7. Link the cost of resource consumption with those who consume it. When IT pays for a pool of material that everyone draws from, no one feels accountable for minimizing its cost. Among other things, green linkages show which departments are consuming laser cartridges and paper, generating equipment for disposal, or consuming the most electricity.
8. Make office recycling convenient. Establish a collection point for batteries, old cell phones, paper and spent laser or ink-jet cartridges. Work out in advance who will pick up the full containers for recycling.
9. Consider "real" needs when upgrading equipment. Not everyone needs the latest and most powerful workstation. Only upgrade systems when justified by the business need or to replace equipment that isn't energy-efficient. Consider using low-cost and energy-efficient thin clients and desktop virtualization instead of full-powered PCs.
10. Encourage others to follow your lead. Peer pressure is powerful. Promote the idea of a greener IT in conversations with co-workers. The best encouragement you can give is to lead by example.
Many consider the data center to be the most obvious place to start a green effort, but the energy and resources consumed by each individual quickly add up. Many small changes repeated by the many users of IT resources can make a huge difference in the organization's overall impact on the environment.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly 800,000 calls were received by a federal hot line this week from people confused about the nationwide move on Friday to drop analog TV signals and broadcast only in digital.
The Federal Communications Commission said that about 317,450 calls went into the help line, 1-888-CALL-FCC, on Friday alone, the day analog signals were cut off. Another 102,000 came in Saturday by 6 p.m. Eastern time.
The total is still below the 600,000 to 3 million callers that the FCC expected in early March would call on transition day.
The move to all-digital was delayed from Feb. 17, and ramped up efforts at spreading the word is credited with roughly halving the number of unprepared households since then. Nielsen Co. put the number of unready homes at 2.8 million, or 2.5 percent of the total television market, as of last Sunday.
FCC Acting Chairman Michael Copps said Saturday that if it were baseball, the digital transition is now closer to home plate.
"We're safe on third right now," he said. He added that thousands of FCC staff would continue to answer phones and help people whose TVs no longer work properly, at least through June.
"We all need a bit of patience and perseverance," he said. "This is a momentous change and it'll take time to get it right."
Dozens of mostly Hispanic TV watchers visited and called the Mercy Center, a community center in the Bronx, N.Y., to get more help. A staff of three has been on hand seven days a week for the last month.
"Up to now, it's been people wanting the equipment," said Judith Criado, the director of education at the center. "Today, everyone who has called has the equipment but they just don't know how to actually see the channels."
About a third of Friday's calls to the FCC were still about federal coupons to pay for digital converter boxes, an indication that at least 100,000 people still didn't have the right equipment to receive digital signals.
Another third of the calls were handled by live agents, and 30 percent of those were about how to operate the converter boxes. The FCC said most of the converter box questions were resolved when callers were told to re-scan the airwaves for digital frequencies.
Over 20 percent of the live calls were about reception issues. Antennas can be fickle, because digital signals travel differently than analog ones.
A weakly received analog channel might be viewable through some static, but channels broadcast in the digital language of ones and zeros are generally all or nothing.
"People just needed to upgrade their antenna or return the lower quality one for stronger antennas," said Debbie Byrd, an FCC staffer who only had three visitors to her Saturday help session at a library in the south-central Los Angeles area.
A majority of the 100 million U.S. households with TV sets were not affected by the drop of analog signals, because they receive them through their cable or satellite company.
As of Saturday, the FCC said 20 TV stations that had been on the air went dark because they had not set up their digital broadcast equipment yet.
The largest volume of calls to the FCC on Friday came from the Chicago area, followed by Dallas-Ft. Worth, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
With 4,000 staffers manning the phones Friday, the average wait time per call was 4.6 minutes.
The FCC said its hot line was on track to receive another 150,000 calls on Saturday.
The National Association of Broadcasters said that 278 stations it surveyed nationwide received 35,500 calls on Friday, and the vast majority were resolved by re-scanning.
Any set hooked up to cable or a satellite dish is unaffected by the end of analog broadcasts, but around 17 million U.S. households rely on antennas. Nielsen Co. said poor and minority households were less likely to be prepared for Friday's analog shutdown, as were households consisting of people younger than 35.
The Commerce Department reported a last-minute rush for the $40 converter box coupons: It received 319,990 requests Thursday, nearly four times the daily average for the past month, and another 428,198 requests on Friday, for about 1.5 million since Monday. In all, the government has mailed coupons for almost 60 million converter boxes. The limit is two coupons per household.
It takes nine business days for a coupon to reach the mailbox.
For some procrastinators, that meant missing some important broadcasts.
Tuyen Luu waited until Friday to apply for a coupon at a nonprofit help center in Houston. By the time it arrives, the NBA finals could be over if the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Orlando Magic on Sunday. "I won't get to see Game 5," Luu said.
Associated Press Writer Arelis Hernandez in Houston and Technology Writer Peter Svensson in New York contributed to this report.
Eden Prairie, Minn. – May 18, 2009 – Xiotech Corporation announced today that Network Products Guide, a leading publication on information technologies and solutions, has selected Xiotech’s Emprise™ 7000 storage system featuring patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) technology as the winner of a 2009 Product Innovation Award in the Storage: Hardware category.
Network Products Guide’s annual Product Innovation Awards recognize and honor vendors from all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.
“Innovation is clearly an important factor to greater success and has the most impact on staying competitive,” said Network Products Guide Editor-in-Chief Rake Narang. “Xiotech’s Emprise 7000 storage solution has brought several significant improvements: self-healing capabilities, efficient performance and scalability and superior reliability.”
"This award from Network Products Guide is further validation that our Emprise storage systems, which are built on ISE technology, have brought significant value to the marketplace since their launch last year," said Xiotech Vice President of Marketing Mike Hoch. "With a self-healing, high-performance architecture and the ability to deliver considerable cost savings through a five-year hardware warranty and 100 percent usable capacity, ISE has emerged as a proven and advantageous alternative to traditional storage solutions."
ISE technology, the basis for Xiotech’s Emprise 7000 storage systems, significantly minimizes disk-related service events through a combination of preventive and self-healing capabilities. It offers 100 percent usable storage capacity with no vendor holdbacks or drops in performance, and achieves the industry’s most efficient performance and scalability. In addition, it enables users to cut their ongoing storage costs in half through its five-year warranty and lower overall management costs.
About Network Products Guide Awards Network Products Guide is a media sponsor of Interop and Technosium Executive Alliance Forums engaging Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs). As industry’s leading technology research and advisory publication, it plays a vital role in keeping decision makers and end-users informed of the choices they can make in all areas of information technology. You will discover a wealth of information and tools in this guide including the best products and services, roadmaps, industry directions, technology advancements and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent technology decisions impacting business and personal goals. The guide follows conscientious research methodologies developed and enhanced by industry experts. To learn more, visit www.networkproductsguide.com.
About Xiotech
Xiotech Corporation, an innovator in data storage solutions, delivers the highest storage value available today based on its Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) technology. With ISE, Xiotech® products deliver 100 percent usable storage capacity with no drop in performance as drives are fully utilized, and provide more performance and flexibility with less hardware because of their efficiency and scalability. Additionally, Xiotech significantly reduces storage operation and management costs with the patented self-healing technology of ISE, the industry's only five-year hardware warranty and the ICON Manager storage management tool, which integrates and automates storage operations across the array, server and virtual machine layers. With these technologies, Xiotech stands alone in its ability to lower an organization's total cost of ownership for storage.
Xiotech is based in Eden Prairie, Minn., and maintains major facilities in Colorado Springs, Colo., and Hyderabad, India. For more information, visit www.xiotech.com, email info@xiotech.com or call toll free 1.866.472.6764.
Citrix Receiver for iPhone is Now Available! We are pleased to announce that Citrix Receiver for iPhone is immediately available for download! This free client enables Citrix XenApp customers to instantly access Windows applications right from the palm of their hand. Now customers can leverage their existing infrastructure to experience true mobility and view, edit, save and send business documents from the convenience of their iPhone or iPod Touch. Key features include
Work from anywhere – Experience real-time access to Windows apps and docs, whether in an airport, at the doctor’s office or in a meeting
High definition experience – Citrix HDX technology delivers rich, multi-media content including websites built in Flash and Silverlight
Simple, intuitive navigation – Interact with Windows apps and docs using intuitive gestures to zoom, pan, click, scroll and type with ease
Safe and secure – Since data is encrypted and stored on the company network, not on the iPhone, data and applications always remain completely secure
Doc Finder – Simply navigate files on the corporate network, organize documents as Favorites and quickly access recently used documents
App Viewer – Display just the information needed to make it easy to view and edit any kind of business document on a small screen
The economy has slowed, but your day to day demands haven’t. Organizations are finding it harder to make the financial commitments needed to enhance or even maintain IT infrastructures. While the temptation is to make quick fixes, the fact is, such fixes sacrifice business performance and ultimately increase long-term costs.
HP Financial Services can help in a way that you may not have considered. We can help you invest in technology while preserving precious capital. For a limited time only, get the technology you need with our 12 months, 0% lease rate.
Offer details:
Option to ownership: 0% lease financing for 12 months w/ $1 buyout1
Qualifying transactions
In the United State, transactions between $1,500 USD and $150,000 USD.
In Canada, transactions between $5,000 CAD and $150,000 CAD.
Qualifying equipment
Not all HP products are eligible for 0% lease rate.
Laptops, Desktops, Workstations and Monitors and Thin Clients2
Printers, Scanners, Large Format & Multifunction – includes commercial printing hardware with the exclusion of HP Indigo, HP Signage (Scitex) and HP Halo technology
Industry Standard Servers and Blades – includes HP ProLiant servers and blades
Business Critical Servers – includes HP Integrity Blades BL860, BL870; HP Integrity 2600, 3600, and 6600 series
Storage-includes HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Arrays, Enterprise Virtual Arrays, All-in-One Storage systems, Commercial Nearline Tape Systems, HP ProLiant Storage Servers, and HP LeftHand Networks hardware products
Networking – includes HP ProCurve Networking
Ink, toner, paper, service, Care Pack Services, shipping and software are not eligible for special promotion
Call today to take advantage of this great offer. Hurry, this promotion ends July 31, 2009.
Contact your local Bayshore Technologies Services Representative now, call 813-889-8324-ext109..
1Financing available through Hewlett-Packard Financial Services Company (HPFSC) to qualified commercial, education, and state, local and Federal government customers in the United States and Canada and is subject to credit approval and execution of standard HPFSC documentation. Offer valid through July 31, 2009 on transactions in the United States between $1,500 USD and $150,000 USD and in Canada between $5,000 CAD and $150,000 CAD. For U.S. Federal customers, a minimum transaction size of $50,000 applies. All applications must be received by July 31, 2009 and equipment shipped before August 30, 2009. Zero percent financing assumes transaction is documented as a lease with a $1 end-of-term purchase option (or local currency equivalent), assuming lessee is not required to pay any nominal end-of-term purchase price at the end of the lease term and disregarding any charges payable by lessee other than rent payments (such as maintenance, taxes, fees and shipping charges).
2 Smart Buy equipment only in the United States.
This offer cannot be combined with any other rebate, discount or promotion without prior approval by HP and HPFSC. Rates are based on customer’s credit rating, financing terms, offering types, equipment type and options. Not all HP products are eligible for 0% lease rate. Not all customers may qualify for these rates. Other restrictions may apply. HPFSC reserves the right to change or cancel this program at any time without notice.
A laptop, also called a notebook, is a small mobile computer. Depending on the size, material used for manufacturing it and other factors, its weight ranges from 1 to 8 kilograms (i.e. 2 to 18 pounds).
The source of power is usually a single main battery, or an external AC/DC adapter is used. Apart from supplying power to the laptop, it also charges the battery. To avoid havoc in case of power failure, a 3 Volt cell is provided to run the clock and other vital system processes.
Though laptops are equally capable and powerful as desktop computers, they are much more expensive than similar capability and configuration desktop computer. Size is the unique property of a laptop. The components used in both, laptops and desktops are the same in terms of the functions they perform, but the components in laptops are miniaturized and made to support efficient power consumption.
LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) is usually the technology used for the display screen. They have a built-in keyboard and a touchpad as input devices. Provision is also made for connection of external mouse, and even keyboard.
Apart from the advantages like compactness and mobility, a set of disadvantages has also been associated with laptops.
A huge amount of discrepancy is observed when it comes to standardization issues of laptops. There exist worldwide standards for form factors of the peripherals and add-in PC cards used in a desktop computer. But no such standards are as yet enforced for form factors of laptop internals. Electric voltage, motherboard layouts, internal adapters used in connecting the hard disk, optical drive, LCD cable, keyboard and floppy drive to the main board, all still face issues with standardization. These hits hard on the poor user who is uneducated in this relevant field. Apart from them, a bit of difficulty may also be faced by the repair technicians. Familiarization of different parts and hardware that perform the same function is important.
As an outcome of the improper, or all most no standardization, the laptops suffer compatibility problems too. Most of the times, it is not possible to use one manufacturer`s components in the laptop produced by another manufacturer. The reasons behind this can be assurance of product stability, prolong product lifetime, and to avoid dubious warranty issues. Some manufacturers provide the laptops with a set of ports to let the user connect the hardware that he wants to use.
Upgradation of a laptop is another issue. Due to both technical and economic reasons, it is limited. Due to the proprietary designs of the laptops by each manufacture, it is difficult to upgrade them and most of the times even repairing is a costly affair. The standard peripherals, like audio, video, USB, 1394, Wi Fi, Bluetooth, are integrated in the motherboard. Upgrading these thus requires either of external ports, card slots or wireless peripherals. As far as the memory units and batteries are concerned, they can generally be upgraded according to the user`s needs.
Performance is another issue. RAM is shared between program memory and graphic adapters in laptops. Because of which performance of the laptop is affected. The major concern of the designer is compactness and energy efficiency against high performance. Generally, for the home requirement, laptops prove out to be good options for fast achievement of required performance. With new technology like dual core processors and perpendicular recording, laptops` performance is already showing a progressive graph when compared to the desktops.
Laptops can also pose health hazards. Temperature generated by laptop can affect sterility in men. Also, laptop keyboard can lead to RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury). Thus it is advised to place the laptop on a table or desk when working.
When you are on the road you need to be able to receive calls on your mobile phone. It is unrealistic of legislators to say that no calls should take place while you are driving. I do agree that you should not use a hand to hold your phone to your ear. I also agree that any use of the cell phone must remove the need to look away from the road to operate it. But with the introduction of better voice recognition applications there is simply no need to use a cell phone in an unsafe way.
Bluetooth headsets are absolute boons to working folks across the world. As phones increasingly support the wireless standard, these headsets allow them to talk hands free and concentrate on other activities, such as driving or merely walking around. It sure is much more enjoyable to walk around when you don't have to hold a phone to your head, and it's much safer to drive when you can keep both eyes on the road. If you want a headset that is good for talking on the phone but not much else, then a Bluetooth mobile headset is the choice to make to save you money.
The voice recognition systems mean that when a call comes in you can answer it with your voice. When you want to make a call you simply use your voice to instruct the mobile phone to make the call.
Voice Recognition Advances
The early voice recognition cell phones were not very good. They were difficult to set up and did not work with all voices. Now that processor technology has improved so much, the audio signals can now be deciphered quickly and accurately. The software has been developed to take account of regional accents and dialects. The most important improvement is that the software “learns” the voice of the owner over time. So the accuracy becomes better and better over time. This voice technology has vastly improved the functionality of Bluetooth cell phones. The voice recognition software is also being applied to desktop computing and other business uses.
As a result of these improvements drivers can make and receive calls safely. They do not need to look or even touch their cell phone
Bluetooth mobile phones detect the driver's voice and place the call automatically, and then the driver can talk without holding the phone to an ear by using a Bluetooth enabled headset or using the Bluetooth cell phone's speaker phone functionality. Keeping hands on the wheel and eyes on the road makes driving that much safer, not just for the driver but for everybody on the road.
The other reason that voice recognition works better is that the Bluetooth headsets are more comfortable and the microphones are more sensitive. The microphones are also good at filtering out unwanted noise and other sounds. The combination of better voice recognition and Bluetooth headsets makes hands free calls in your car as safe as it can be. What needs to happen is for drivers to buy in to this voice recognition technology and stop using their hands and eyes to make calls. It always amazes me that someone will drive a £30,000 car and not spend another £100 on a decent Bluetooth headset to help them drive safely.
About The Author: You can find out more about voice recognition by visiting the top bluetooth site run by Kenneth H Jones. http://www.bluetooth-tips.com
Bayshore technologies becomes authorized mimosa systems reseller
Bayshore Technologies Helps Unify Email Archiving, eDiscovery, Disaster Recovery and Storage Management with Mimosa NearPoint
Tampa, Fla. and Santa Clara, Calif. – March 2007 – Bayshore Technologies, a leading specialist in LAN/WAN infrastructure implementation and integration; and Mimosa Systems™, a leader in Live Content Archiving solutions, today announced that Bayshore Technologies has become an authorized reseller for Mimosa Systems.
As a member of the Mimosa Partner Advantage Program, Bayshore Technologies is now an authorized reseller of Mimosa NearPoint™ for Microsoft® Exchange Server, a next-generation email management platform that combines email information archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, data protection, disaster recovery and storage optimization into a single, powerful solution.
“Solutions for email archiving are quickly becoming ‘must-have’ technologies for companies,” said Mark Segars, Director of Sales, Bayshore Technologies. “We are pleased to join the Mimosa Partner Advantage program so that we can offer our customers the market’s most innovative email archiving solution.”
“Together, Bayshore and Mimosa are delivering the combined expertise and technology Florida companies need to protect their vital Exchange information,” said Gerry Callanan, regional director of channel sales, Mimosa Systems. “Bayshore’s advanced services, paired with Mimosa NearPoint, will give our mutual customers the complete solution they need to ensure comprehensive retention, search and recovery of email data.”
Designed to help drive revenue quickly in a high-demand market, the Mimosa Partner Advantage Program offers three tiers of participation – Referral, Gold and Platinum – for value-added resellers, consulting services partners and systems integrators. Mimosa channel partners, provide services and solutions for helping clients establish polices for retention and disposition of email, support legal discovery requests, help with Exchange migrations, implement disaster recovery strategies, as well as integrate storage with archiving software into a comprehensive solution.
About Mimosa NearPoint
Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around email information archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity and storage optimization. Mimosa NearPoint provides immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, email archiving, and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage, NearPoint also optimizes e-mail storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.
About Bayshore Technologies
Based in Tampa, Fla., Bayshore Technologies specializes in LAN/WAN infrastructure implementation and integration. Supplying technical expertise and implementation services to more than 400 customers in the U.S., the Company’s engineers complete more than 1,500 hours of services for clients on a monthly basis.
About Mimosa
Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation information management solutions for information immediacy, discovery and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint™ for Microsoft® Exchange Server is the industry’s most comprehensive information management software solution for Microsoft Exchange, unifying email archiving, recovery and storage optimization. NearPoint assures email continuity and regulatory compliance, while leveraging cost-effective disk technologies to optimize email storage growth. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner recognized for its competencies in Networking Infrastructure Solutions, ISV Software Solutions, and Information Worker. Mimosa is a privately held company whose investors include August Capital, Clearstone Venture Partners, Dot Edu Ventures, JAFCO Ventures and Mayfield Fund. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California and Pune, India.
TAMPA, Fla. – (Feb. 19, 2007) -- Bayshore Technologies has been awarded top scorecard by Citrix Systems for the Southeast Region of the . The scorecard measures Citrix’s top 300 Solution Advisors from around the country in eight distinct categories.
Citrix’s scorecard assessment is one of the most in depth evaluation programs in the industry and reflects the amount of resources a solution advisor has across the breadth of Citrix’s products. More than 180,000 organizations around the world use the Citrix Access Platform to provide the best access experience to any application for any user.
“It means a lot to receive this recognition from the global leader in on-demand access,” says Peter Anderson, president of Bayshore Technologies. “We have worked hard to have the best Citrix practice in the country and this award is a great reflection of the passion we have for Citrix and their products.”
Along with Citrix Scorecard for the Southeast Region, Bayshore has earned some of the highest level of authorizations in the industry, including Citrix Platinum Solution Provider, Microsoft Gold Infrastructure Partner and HP gold partner with SAN Architect proficiency.
Based inTampa, Bayshore Technologies specializes in LAN/WAN infrastructure implementation and integration. Supplying technical expertise and implementation services to more than 400 customers in the, the Company’s engineers complete more than 1,500 hours of services for clients on a monthly basis.
2007 is all about starting off fresh and stepping out with style.
Along with the New Year our first event will introduce one of our newest Partners, Mimosa. Mimosa is one of the leading providers in e-mail archiving, backup, recovery, compliance and optimization. At the Microsoft Center on March 8th from 8am to 12:30; Mimosa will be the first to launch our Lunch and Learns. They will be exchanging information about Maximizing Your Exchange Environment: Best Practices for Exchange Archiving, Recovery and Storage Management.
Additional details will follow …
Bayshore’s 2007 is full of events, new/old Partners, and spanking new ideas to spice up this year!!!
Is your business prepared for the next hurricane? What happens if business critical systems are unavailable for hours, days?
Join Bayshore Technologies and Neverfail for a web seminar series and learn:
Strategies for DR planning - presented by Jon Toigo, Chairman of the Data Management Institute How to differentiate alternative solutions in the market place and determine what works for you How to ensure seamless recovery of your key systems and data, regardless if one server or the whole site fails How to keep your users continuously connected and keep business up and running The benefits of real-time, cost effective High Availability and Disaster Recovery; measuring failover in seconds rather than minutes Lessons Learned: customer case studies from the 2005 hurricane season...and other disasters The impact of last year's major storms and the prospect of another active hurricane season remind businesses of the importance of having a Business Continuity plan.
Can your business afford to lose access to critical applications? Is your data protected? Protect your business with a low cost, high performance disaster recovery solution!
Description: Citrix, the leading provider of on-demand access solutions, is pleased to announce the most exciting release in our product history - Citrix Access Suite 4.0. In addition, you will hear about HP BladeSystem, the Adaptive Enterprise in a rack and Provisioning complete Enterprise Applications.
Location: Citrix Ft. Lauderdale Office 851 West Cypress Creek Road Ft. Lauderdale FL 33309 954 267-3000
"Too many small and medium-sized business owners think of their IT network needs only when hurricane season approaches or they experience network problems," said Peter Anderson, Bayshore Technologies president and CEO. "Unfortunately, network disasters can occur at any time. The best practice is to anticipate problems and start at the beginning with a thorough independent assessment of the business's IT needs."
Anderson suggests the following 12 technology "resolutions" for 2006.
1. Assess your current network. An independent assessment can highlight network weaknesses and identify vulnerability to downtime. It provides a clear and concise understanding of the current state of the company's network, along with recommendations for improvement and a suggested priority timetable.
2. Document your network. Far too many businesses fail to document their network components, creating problems when key staff leave and when the network encounters operational problems.
3. Evaluate your back up systems. Although many organizations use some form of back up, few have gone through the necessary "restore" process to test its effectiveness. It's also important to evaluate whether remote back up is necessary. Tape back ups may be fine, but keeping the tapes in the offices negates the value as a protection.
4. Evaluate your vulnerability to personnel changes. Problems can arise from routine employee departures as well as employee discontent.
5. Evaluate your vulnerability to external attacks. Heavy reliance on the Internet makes companies infinitely more vulnerable to hackers.
6. Create a disaster recovery plan. Components will include protection of servers, back up systems and business-wide communications systems that include employees, customers and vendors.
7. Create a business continuity plan. Ask yourself a few critical questions: How long can we afford to be down or totally non-operational? What are the critical systems or programs we need to keep the business running?
8. Evaluate your physical office space needs and consider virtual employee arrangements. Particularly for rapidly growing businesses, incorporating a remote network allows you to save money on bricks and mortar and other associated costs as well as attract the most qualified, knowledge-workers from anywhere across the country without geographic barriers.
9. Increase productivity. A remote-accessible network is always "on" for easy access any time day or night, so employees can adjust their work hours to accommodate personal life schedules and time zone differences.
10. Extend life of older computers. Using the proper network access products, individual computers aren't bogged down trying to "run" the actual software, they are simply accessing the screen data (desktop) of the server.
11. Protect and access your network data. Using remote access products like Citrix allows for installation of very powerful servers in one protected location. With these servers, employees can access company data at anytime, over any network, using any device in a completely secure environment.
12. Achieve quality service and ongoing support, often at lower costs. An independent IT advisor with engineers of the highest certification provides regular and emergency support, freeing your business from the need to have an in-house person dedicated to IT support.
"Business owners should view their networks as profit centers, not cost centers," said Anderson. "Understanding their IT environment and planning for future upgrades and growth will allow them to continue to deliver the services their clients require and employees rely on."
Bayshore Technologies - http://www.btfl.com - is a Citrix Platinum Solution Advisor and Microsoft Gold Certified Provider specializing in LAN/WAN infrastructure implementation and integration. The Company supplies technical expertise and implementation services to small-, medium- and large-sized businesses.
It's that time again. Bayshore's Annual Tech Summit and Fishing Event! November 3 & 4, 2005 Each year, Bayshore hosts the Tech Summit to give our customers a chance to learn more about Bayshore and our key partners as well as have fun fishing! This 2 day event will give you the opportunity to hear and spend time with our partners, Citrix, IBM, EMC, HP, E Solutions and more.
The event will take place in beautiful St. Petersburg on the Intercoastal waterway.
As we enter the Hurricane season, learn more about how to protect your business by joining Bayshore Technologies along with Neverfail, Citrix, HP and E Solution for a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning Seminar. What happens if mission critical systems are unavailable for hours, days? Events ranging from loss of telecommunication services, power outages, major floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, to terrorist attacks, result in lost business and revenue for your organization. There has been a heightened awareness of business continuity and preparedness. The damage left behind by Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne last year reminded businesses in Florida of the importance to have a Business Continuity Plan.
“Proactive Preparation and Prevention” is the theme for the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning Seminar that Bayshore Technologies will be hosting on Tuesday, May 24 at the A La Carte Pavilionin Tampa. Along with our partners, Neverfail,HP, Citrix, Covad, and E Solutions, we will be providing information on strategies for preparing your business to withstand any disaster that can potentially disrupt productivity and result in loss of revenue. Preparation is the key to ensuring that your business continues operating regardless of the type of failure or disaster you might experience.
Who should attend?
• Business Owners with 25+ users • Top-level decision makers • IT directors and CIO’s • Security managers • Operations managers • Financial managers and CFO’s • Business planners • Risk managers • People with responsibility for protecting corporate data, employees, and other assets
Bayshore Technologies Selected as Platinum-level Member of Citrix Solutions Network
Dateline: Tampa FL. October 2003,
Bayshore Technologies Inc., a leading provider of LAN/WAN infrastructure solutions to a wide variety of businesses throughout the SE United States, today announced it has been selected as a Platinum-level member of the Citrix Solutions Network™ (CSN) by Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions.
“We are delighted to add this important credential to our portfolio.” said Peter Anderson, President of BayshoreTechnologies, “Our Citrix practice has grown phenomenally over the years. Citrix software provides exceptional return on investment for our customer base and we have a host of successful implementations throughout the US.
The Citrix staff has been incredible supportive for us to achieve the Platinum status, and we have always thought ourselves part of a great team.”
“Solutions designed around Citrix products have been a core competency of the company from its inception”, said Frank Mann, Partner and Director of Technology. “To be named as the only Platinum reseller in Citrix’s home state of Florida is truly a wonderful honor and is a great reflection of the quality of the technical resources we have at Bayshore.”
“Bayshore is a great success story for Citrix; they have really done an outstanding job of growing their Citrix business and we are delighted to have them on board as a Platinum-level CSN member and our first Platinum reseller in Florida,” said Bill Ferara, Director of Channel Sales for Citrix.
About Bayshore Technologies Inc.: Bayshore Technologies Inc. has been helping businesses manage their computer networks for more than 7 years. They deliver a full solution of product and services to a wide variety of customers. Bayshore delivers solutions that aid businesses in accessing their data and applications in a safe and secure environment. Headquartered in Tampa FL, they have recently opened a sales office in Fort Lauderdale FL and intend to continue that trend throughout Florida.
About the Citrix Solutions Network The Citrix Solutions Network (CSN) is a comprehensive business program that includes more than 5,000 value-added resellers and consultants worldwide. CSN members deliver access infrastructure solutions based on the Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite of products, as well as technical consulting, integration and support. CSN offers three levels of participation to match the precise set of services and tools members need to deliver complete solutions to customers. Resellers and consultants can select from the Gold CSN and Silver CSN programs. The Platinum CSN level is an invitation-only program for partners with a strategic commitment to Citrix.
Citrix®, MetaFrame® and Citrix Solutions Network™ are registered trademarks or trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. in the US and other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
As players are coming together with a winning serving spin at the US Open, Citrix XenServer Platinum Edition sprints off to victory with a unified management approach to the underlying virtualization platform.
At its core, XenServer Platinum Edition provides bare-metal server virtualization allowing multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical server without the need for a heavyweight operating system. This bare-metal approach to virtualization differs significantly from earlier generation hosted virtualization solutions which presented a numerous disadvantages not the least of which were severe degradations in performance and scalability as well as the introduction of additional management overhead for the underlying host operating system.
With the provisioning capabilities of Citrix XenServer Platinum Edition, XenApp workloads can be delivered on demand rather than physically installed on individual servers. In other words, servers are stateless until a XenApp workload is streamed to it. This concept can be extended to other types of workloads enabling the delivery of any application workload to any server on demand. Virtual and physical servers can even share the same virtual disk, thus dramatically reducing the amount of network storage required as well as unifying server provisioning across physical and virtual infrastructure.
To learn more go here. A representative from Bayshore Technologies will be in contact with you to arrange a meeting to assess your server virtualization requirements.
