Tuesday, June 28, 2011
TECHNOLOGY EVALUATION FINDS QUECLOUD? DATA INTEGRATION AND DATA MANAGEMENT CLOUD TO BE INNOVATIVE AND WELL-SUITED TO SOLVE COMPLEX DATA INTEGRATION CHALLENGES
Report Praises Queplix for Innovative Approach to Connecting, Moving, and Harmonizing Data Across Enterprises with High Degree of Automation and Simplicity
In contrast, "Batch oriented bulk data movement ... best served by the traditional ETL model" offered by companies such as Informatica.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 28, 2011 – Queplix™ Corp., a leader in data integration and data management, today announced the availability of a report on data integration solutions by IdealNet, a provider of professional business expertise and technical services to some of the world's largest pharmaceutical, medical device, health insurance and financial services companies. The report, An Analysis of Data Integration Technologies, summarizes the findings of an evaluation comparing ETL and open source solutions, and offers recommendations as to which technologies would be most appropriate based on an organization's data integration requirements.
IdealNet has managed numerous data integration software selection projects, including Master Data Management (MDM), on behalf of multiple customers. In order to ensure "current and comprehensive" results for its clients, IdealNet, Inc. expanded the number of possible solutions to be examined during these selection projects, and was "pleasantly surprised at the variety of new and different approaches which have emerged that improve on the ubiquitous ETL model."
The report evaluates product offerings across 59 areas within 11 specific categories, which represent the most common and most difficult segments of data integration challenges faced by companies today:
· Business Application
· Platform Deployment
· Connectivity to Data Sources
· Synchronization
· Transformation
· Data Movement
· Test, Development and Operations Environments
· Data Modeling
· Data Quality and Data Governance
· Architecture
· Standards
Findings and Recommendations: Queplix the Greatest Surprise of All
The report suggests that data integration and movement between two discrete sources can be well served, perhaps with differing costs and implementation models, by all technologies reviewed. Batch oriented bulk data movement is an area which continues to be best served by the traditional ETL model.
However, the report asserts that once an organization needs to integrate disparate data types (relational, object, on-premise, cloud, nosql) or more than two sources, there are compelling incentives for the use of technology other than ETL, and that "this is where the divergence occurs and where the most telling and interesting results reside."
The following summarizes IdealNet's evaluation between established ETL vendor Informatica®, open source platforms offered by Talend™, Pentaho™, and Apatar™, and "new and different solution vendor" Queplix™.
· Large, Established ETL Vendor: According to IdealNet, Informatica® was selected to represent the ETL segment, as it has long been a standard bearer for ETL and, more recently, has expanded its footprint further into the niche MDM area via its acquisition of Siperian®. "As the gorilla of the bunch, this offering suffers from similar issues as compared to any vendor its age, scope, and size. The firm must continue to support a large user base on varying levels of its technology, while attempting to continue to move its products forward simultaneously. While this situation encapsulates recurring revenue streams via long term customer relationships, it can also easily serve to mute the possibility of significant innovation. Based on our examination, we can see that the Informatica® suite of products continues to lead in core ETL specialty areas, but does, in fact lag behind the others within this study in terms of certain key areas of differentiation."
· New and Different Solution Vendor: The report states that, "Queplix undoubtedly provided the greatest surprise of all" and that "the firm has demonstrated a truly refreshing and innovative approach to connecting, moving, and harmonizing data across enterprises. The high degree of automation and the attendant ease-of-use can potentially offer users significant labor and implementation savings over the use of alternate technologies, perhaps on the order of 50 percent or more. If the integration were to involve 3, 4, 5 or more sources, the savings would potentially be much higher. We were impressed with the fact that the technology base of Queplix has so effectively been structured so as to allow the company to rapidly and effectively expand the scope of what can be done with the product. Even some of the most complex and onerous data tasks are handily placed directly under the control of end users via the product’s 'virtual' architecture coupled with a clean and predictable user interface."
"As a partner of industry-leading life sciences and financial services organizations, IdealNet, Inc. is entrusted with having the best knowledge of available technologies to meet its clients' data integration and data management requirements," said Mark Cashman, CEO, Queplix. " IdealNet is certainly well-positioned to make informed, intelligent purchasing recommendations to its clients to ensure their satisfaction and success. We couldn't be more pleased that it found Queplix to be a solution of choice for companies with more complex data integration challenges looking to spend their project dollars more wisely, and avoid long service engagements, manual processes, and the constant wholesale movement of entire data sets."
About the Author
Christopher C. Biddle, CEO of IdealNet, Inc., has delivered expert business and technical services to the life sciences and finance industries for 20 years, and established two corporations to provide key solutions to clients in the areas of revenue management, finance, and sales force automation. He has provided consulting services to C-level executives at companies such as Deutsche Bank, Bankers Trust New York Corporation, Société Générale, Pfizer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, TEVA, Wyeth, and GlaxoSmithKline. In addition, he has held partner and vice president positions with Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC), Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), and iMany, Inc. Biddle has authored numerous papers, articles, and book chapters on business and been invited to speak at select industry conferences including those sponsored by CBI and IIR.
To download the full report, visit:
http://ping.fm/QoSFd
Tweet This: Technology Evaluation Finds Queplix Quecloud Well-Suited to Solve Complex Data Integration Challenges - http://bit.ly/m4SL8e
Follow Queplix on Twitter at: http://ping.fm/jzqRX
Resource library: For more information about data virtualization and application integration, visit the Queplix Resource Library.
Instant Video Link: Data Virtualization Basics
Instant Video Link: Vision For The Future of Data Integration
Instant Video Link: QueCloud, The First Data Integration and Data Management Cloud
Instant Video Link: Introduction to Agile Business Intelligence (Agile BI)
About Queplix Corp.
Queplix™ is a leader in data integration and data management. Our products enable customers to securely integrate, deploy and manage cloud and on-premise applications and data with speed, simplicity and automation. Uniquely, no programming or SQL is required. Our data virtualization and powerful data management automatically harmonize the data between applications. Our customers benefit from greater cost savings, a rapid return on investment and the strategic benefits of true data mobility. Queplix has thousands of users around the world, serving customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson. Please visit http://www.queplix.com for more information.
# # #
Queplix, Quecloud and the Queplix logo are trademarks of Queplix Corp. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.
For parties interested in Queplix, data integration, data management, data virtualization, data integration software, master data management, business intelligence, ETL, informatica
In contrast, "Batch oriented bulk data movement ... best served by the traditional ETL model" offered by companies such as Informatica.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 28, 2011 – Queplix™ Corp., a leader in data integration and data management, today announced the availability of a report on data integration solutions by IdealNet, a provider of professional business expertise and technical services to some of the world's largest pharmaceutical, medical device, health insurance and financial services companies. The report, An Analysis of Data Integration Technologies, summarizes the findings of an evaluation comparing ETL and open source solutions, and offers recommendations as to which technologies would be most appropriate based on an organization's data integration requirements.
IdealNet has managed numerous data integration software selection projects, including Master Data Management (MDM), on behalf of multiple customers. In order to ensure "current and comprehensive" results for its clients, IdealNet, Inc. expanded the number of possible solutions to be examined during these selection projects, and was "pleasantly surprised at the variety of new and different approaches which have emerged that improve on the ubiquitous ETL model."
The report evaluates product offerings across 59 areas within 11 specific categories, which represent the most common and most difficult segments of data integration challenges faced by companies today:
· Business Application
· Platform Deployment
· Connectivity to Data Sources
· Synchronization
· Transformation
· Data Movement
· Test, Development and Operations Environments
· Data Modeling
· Data Quality and Data Governance
· Architecture
· Standards
Findings and Recommendations: Queplix the Greatest Surprise of All
The report suggests that data integration and movement between two discrete sources can be well served, perhaps with differing costs and implementation models, by all technologies reviewed. Batch oriented bulk data movement is an area which continues to be best served by the traditional ETL model.
However, the report asserts that once an organization needs to integrate disparate data types (relational, object, on-premise, cloud, nosql) or more than two sources, there are compelling incentives for the use of technology other than ETL, and that "this is where the divergence occurs and where the most telling and interesting results reside."
The following summarizes IdealNet's evaluation between established ETL vendor Informatica®, open source platforms offered by Talend™, Pentaho™, and Apatar™, and "new and different solution vendor" Queplix™.
· Large, Established ETL Vendor: According to IdealNet, Informatica® was selected to represent the ETL segment, as it has long been a standard bearer for ETL and, more recently, has expanded its footprint further into the niche MDM area via its acquisition of Siperian®. "As the gorilla of the bunch, this offering suffers from similar issues as compared to any vendor its age, scope, and size. The firm must continue to support a large user base on varying levels of its technology, while attempting to continue to move its products forward simultaneously. While this situation encapsulates recurring revenue streams via long term customer relationships, it can also easily serve to mute the possibility of significant innovation. Based on our examination, we can see that the Informatica® suite of products continues to lead in core ETL specialty areas, but does, in fact lag behind the others within this study in terms of certain key areas of differentiation."
· New and Different Solution Vendor: The report states that, "Queplix undoubtedly provided the greatest surprise of all" and that "the firm has demonstrated a truly refreshing and innovative approach to connecting, moving, and harmonizing data across enterprises. The high degree of automation and the attendant ease-of-use can potentially offer users significant labor and implementation savings over the use of alternate technologies, perhaps on the order of 50 percent or more. If the integration were to involve 3, 4, 5 or more sources, the savings would potentially be much higher. We were impressed with the fact that the technology base of Queplix has so effectively been structured so as to allow the company to rapidly and effectively expand the scope of what can be done with the product. Even some of the most complex and onerous data tasks are handily placed directly under the control of end users via the product’s 'virtual' architecture coupled with a clean and predictable user interface."
"As a partner of industry-leading life sciences and financial services organizations, IdealNet, Inc. is entrusted with having the best knowledge of available technologies to meet its clients' data integration and data management requirements," said Mark Cashman, CEO, Queplix. " IdealNet is certainly well-positioned to make informed, intelligent purchasing recommendations to its clients to ensure their satisfaction and success. We couldn't be more pleased that it found Queplix to be a solution of choice for companies with more complex data integration challenges looking to spend their project dollars more wisely, and avoid long service engagements, manual processes, and the constant wholesale movement of entire data sets."
About the Author
Christopher C. Biddle, CEO of IdealNet, Inc., has delivered expert business and technical services to the life sciences and finance industries for 20 years, and established two corporations to provide key solutions to clients in the areas of revenue management, finance, and sales force automation. He has provided consulting services to C-level executives at companies such as Deutsche Bank, Bankers Trust New York Corporation, Société Générale, Pfizer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, TEVA, Wyeth, and GlaxoSmithKline. In addition, he has held partner and vice president positions with Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC), Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), and iMany, Inc. Biddle has authored numerous papers, articles, and book chapters on business and been invited to speak at select industry conferences including those sponsored by CBI and IIR.
To download the full report, visit:
http://ping.fm/QoSFd
Tweet This: Technology Evaluation Finds Queplix Quecloud Well-Suited to Solve Complex Data Integration Challenges - http://bit.ly/m4SL8e
Follow Queplix on Twitter at: http://ping.fm/jzqRX
Resource library: For more information about data virtualization and application integration, visit the Queplix Resource Library.
Instant Video Link: Data Virtualization Basics
Instant Video Link: Vision For The Future of Data Integration
Instant Video Link: QueCloud, The First Data Integration and Data Management Cloud
Instant Video Link: Introduction to Agile Business Intelligence (Agile BI)
About Queplix Corp.
Queplix™ is a leader in data integration and data management. Our products enable customers to securely integrate, deploy and manage cloud and on-premise applications and data with speed, simplicity and automation. Uniquely, no programming or SQL is required. Our data virtualization and powerful data management automatically harmonize the data between applications. Our customers benefit from greater cost savings, a rapid return on investment and the strategic benefits of true data mobility. Queplix has thousands of users around the world, serving customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson. Please visit http://www.queplix.com for more information.
# # #
Queplix, Quecloud and the Queplix logo are trademarks of Queplix Corp. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.
For parties interested in Queplix, data integration, data management, data virtualization, data integration software, master data management, business intelligence, ETL, informatica
Metalogix Announces Microsoft Office 365-ready Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint. Office365 http://bit.ly/mEGI0k
Friday, June 24, 2011
STORAGE SWITZERLAND AND GRIDSTORE TO HOST WEBINAR ON ELIMINATING SMB STORAGE SPRAWL WITH SCALE OUT NAS
Mountain View, CA. – June 24, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions for the SMB market, today announced a webinar that will help organizations address the issues of storage sprawl and how scale out NAS solves their storage dilemma. The webinar, titled “NAS in a Box vs. Scale Out NAS for the SMB,” will take place on June 28 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific. Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst, George Crump and Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore, will lead the webinar.
In this webinar, participants will learn how to:
• Reduce SMB storage costs
• Increase IT staff efficiency
• Improve user productivity
• Provide better data reliability
The first server a small to medium sized business purchases is often one that allows for file sharing and collaboration called network attached storage (NAS). As the business grows and becomes a small to medium sized business (SMB), the first point of storage trouble is often that NAS. It either runs out of capacity; can’t provide enough performance, or both. As a result, the SMB is forced to add NAS after NAS to keep up with these demands, which leads to storage sprawl and management complexity. Crump will explain how storage sprawl places pressure on every aspect of the SMB as the storage line item becomes a larger and larger part of the storage budget.
Murphy will follow by explaining how storage sprawl can be stopped by taking a technology that was created for the large enterprise, scale-out NAS, and applying it to the mid-sized market, which is exactly what Gridstore has done with their Scale-out NAS solution.
Registration for this webinar is open now. You can register today by visiting: “NAS in a Box vs. Scale Out NAS for the SMB".
Tweet this: @Gridstore and @StorageSwiss team up for webinar to stop storage sprawl with scale out NAS
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/mpKP4
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution provides unlimited storage capacity and reliability at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage products. Gridstore’s next-generation NAS solution is designed for small-to-mid-sized businesses and Managed Service Providers who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/92XDQ
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In this webinar, participants will learn how to:
• Reduce SMB storage costs
• Increase IT staff efficiency
• Improve user productivity
• Provide better data reliability
The first server a small to medium sized business purchases is often one that allows for file sharing and collaboration called network attached storage (NAS). As the business grows and becomes a small to medium sized business (SMB), the first point of storage trouble is often that NAS. It either runs out of capacity; can’t provide enough performance, or both. As a result, the SMB is forced to add NAS after NAS to keep up with these demands, which leads to storage sprawl and management complexity. Crump will explain how storage sprawl places pressure on every aspect of the SMB as the storage line item becomes a larger and larger part of the storage budget.
Murphy will follow by explaining how storage sprawl can be stopped by taking a technology that was created for the large enterprise, scale-out NAS, and applying it to the mid-sized market, which is exactly what Gridstore has done with their Scale-out NAS solution.
Registration for this webinar is open now. You can register today by visiting: “NAS in a Box vs. Scale Out NAS for the SMB".
Tweet this: @Gridstore and @StorageSwiss team up for webinar to stop storage sprawl with scale out NAS
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/mpKP4
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution provides unlimited storage capacity and reliability at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage products. Gridstore’s next-generation NAS solution is designed for small-to-mid-sized businesses and Managed Service Providers who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/92XDQ
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Monday, June 20, 2011
METALOGIX PARTNER NSYNERGY TO PRESENT BEST PRACTICES TO MAXIMIZE SHAREPOINT INVESTMENT BY MOVING TO SHAREPOINT 2010 DURING MICROSOFT BUSINESS SEMINAR
Attendees to Learn How Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint Can Aid in Transparently Moving Your Content to SharePoint 2010
WASHINGTON, DC June 20, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, announced today that its partner, nSynergy will be hosting a business seminar at Microsoft on June 21, 2011.
Who: nSynergy, a Microsoft Gold Competency accredited partner, specializing in delivering SharePoint solutions across industries globally.
What: Business seminar titled, “Moving Your Business to SharePoint 2010.” nSynergy will show you how to maximize your SharePoint investment through best practice approaches to information management, governance, and project considerations with a SharePoint 2010 focus. The seminar will also highlight the use of Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint to complement your SharePoint platform and help migrate from older versions of SharePoint to SharePoint 2010.
When: June 21, 2011 from 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EST
Where: Microsoft Exhibition Room, Victoria, Australia. To register, please visit: http://ping.fm/mEVcD
About nSynergy
nSynergy is a leader in application development and implementation of Microsoft Office SharePoint with services including: SharePoint Migration, SharePoint Implementation, SharePoint Development, and SharePoint Licensing. nSynergy is also a Microsoft Gold Competency accredited partner, specializing in delivering SharePoint solutions across industries globally.
Tweet this: @Metalogix partner @nSynergy to share how to move your business to SharePoint 2010
Follow Metalogix at http://ping.fm/GlmRF
About Metalogix
Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively migrate, manage, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premise or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/FXizh
Metalogix, and the Metalogix logo are trademarks of Metalogix Software. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
WASHINGTON, DC June 20, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, announced today that its partner, nSynergy will be hosting a business seminar at Microsoft on June 21, 2011.
Who: nSynergy, a Microsoft Gold Competency accredited partner, specializing in delivering SharePoint solutions across industries globally.
What: Business seminar titled, “Moving Your Business to SharePoint 2010.” nSynergy will show you how to maximize your SharePoint investment through best practice approaches to information management, governance, and project considerations with a SharePoint 2010 focus. The seminar will also highlight the use of Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint to complement your SharePoint platform and help migrate from older versions of SharePoint to SharePoint 2010.
When: June 21, 2011 from 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EST
Where: Microsoft Exhibition Room, Victoria, Australia. To register, please visit: http://ping.fm/mEVcD
About nSynergy
nSynergy is a leader in application development and implementation of Microsoft Office SharePoint with services including: SharePoint Migration, SharePoint Implementation, SharePoint Development, and SharePoint Licensing. nSynergy is also a Microsoft Gold Competency accredited partner, specializing in delivering SharePoint solutions across industries globally.
Tweet this: @Metalogix partner @nSynergy to share how to move your business to SharePoint 2010
Follow Metalogix at http://ping.fm/GlmRF
About Metalogix
Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively migrate, manage, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premise or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/FXizh
Metalogix, and the Metalogix logo are trademarks of Metalogix Software. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Upcoming Book Solves Dieters' Biggest Problem
But I'm Hungry! responds to universal dieters' lament
By Sue Mellen
Have you ever thought you could lose weight and star on The Biggest Loser
if you weren¹t so darned hungry all the time?
Unfortunately, the diets we turn to for help don't do the job. How often
have you heard that weight loss is as simple as taking in fewer calories
than you burn and‹ voila!‹the pounds will come off?
It¹s actually a bit more complicated than that. Doctors used to think that
a calorie was a calorie. It didn¹t matter if your diet plan called for
eating 1,200 calories in Twinkies all day. If you cut out enough calories,
you could lose weight. Now, they¹re discovering that your body reacts
differently to calories that come from different foods.
It¹s Not Your Fault: It¹s that Pesky Hunger
So weight loss isn¹t as easy as it sounds. To lose weight and keep it off
you have to defeat hunger which, as anyone who¹s tried to lose weight
knows, can make you feel like David attacking Goliath. So you need to
bring out the big guns. The upcoming e-book, But I¹m Hungry! The
Satisfaction Solution That Beats the Beast: Hunger, will help you do just
that. It provides an understanding of how hunger works and how to make it
work for, rather than against you through healthy earing, rather than fad
diets. The first comprehensive exploration of the role hunger plays in
healthy eating and lifestyle, the book is co-written by experienced health
writer Marie Suszynski and registered dietitian Crystal Petrello, and it
is scheduled to launch on September 1. Advance purchase is available at:
www.butimhungry.net.
Why Hunger All-too-often Wins
For one thing, some meals and snacks will make your blood sugar rise and
fall like a roller coaster, which triggers your brain to make you feel
hungry, even if you¹ve had enough calories. When blood sugar drops very
low, nobody has enough willpower to stick to a diet. There¹s no waiting
around to cut up the veggies for a salad or filling your plate with other
healthy foods. Devouring the ice cream from the freezer is more like it.
Another thing doctors have learned: some food literally goes straight to
your thighs or your tummy, while others are used more efficiently by your
body and are less likely to make you fat.
Then there are the tricks the mind plays. We¹re all born with the natural
instincts to know when we¹re hungry and need to eat and when we're full
and need to stop eating. But somewhere along the way our bodies¹ signals
get mixed, maybe because we live in a culture that pushes fatty food 24/7.
Five Ways to Beat the Beast
· Change the way you eat carbs (which doesn¹t mean entirely
eliminating them from your diet.)
· Fill up on healthy protein.
· Use hunger as a guide.
· Get your heart pumping.
· Just say not to high-fructose corn syrup.
But I'm Hungry! offers a wealth of tools and resources, including an
easy-to-follow meal plan and healthy recipes, that help dieters achieve
these and other goals. We¹ll show you how cooking light and choosing food
for health can lead to healthy weight loss and a healthy lifestyle,
finally leading to the perfect Satisfaction Solution.
About But I'm Hungry!
But I'm Hungry! is a collaborative effort by a health writer, registered
dietitian and editor who have joined forces to help people beat the one
thing that often stands in the way of living healthy: hunger. It is a
blueprint for understanding and controlling hunger and taking back your
life. The e-book includes analyses of hunger, meal plans and weight-loss
recipes, and tons of strategies for beating the beast. For more
information and advance purchase go to www.butimhungry.net
.
For parties interested in weight loss, lose weight, biggest loser, diets,
diet plan, cooking light, healthy recipes, healthy eating, food for
health, healthy diet, low carb diet, healthy living, healthy foods,
dieting, weight loss program, healthy meals, eating for health, healthy
weight loss, healthy lifestyle, weight loss recipes
Tweet This: Fad diets don't work. The But I'm Hungry plan does.
www.butimhungry.net.
Visit us on Facebook at Butimhungry
Please contact Sue Mellen at sue@butimhungry.net or 352-897-4158 for
inquiries.
By Sue Mellen
Have you ever thought you could lose weight and star on The Biggest Loser
if you weren¹t so darned hungry all the time?
Unfortunately, the diets we turn to for help don't do the job. How often
have you heard that weight loss is as simple as taking in fewer calories
than you burn and‹ voila!‹the pounds will come off?
It¹s actually a bit more complicated than that. Doctors used to think that
a calorie was a calorie. It didn¹t matter if your diet plan called for
eating 1,200 calories in Twinkies all day. If you cut out enough calories,
you could lose weight. Now, they¹re discovering that your body reacts
differently to calories that come from different foods.
It¹s Not Your Fault: It¹s that Pesky Hunger
So weight loss isn¹t as easy as it sounds. To lose weight and keep it off
you have to defeat hunger which, as anyone who¹s tried to lose weight
knows, can make you feel like David attacking Goliath. So you need to
bring out the big guns. The upcoming e-book, But I¹m Hungry! The
Satisfaction Solution That Beats the Beast: Hunger, will help you do just
that. It provides an understanding of how hunger works and how to make it
work for, rather than against you through healthy earing, rather than fad
diets. The first comprehensive exploration of the role hunger plays in
healthy eating and lifestyle, the book is co-written by experienced health
writer Marie Suszynski and registered dietitian Crystal Petrello, and it
is scheduled to launch on September 1. Advance purchase is available at:
www.butimhungry.net
Why Hunger All-too-often Wins
For one thing, some meals and snacks will make your blood sugar rise and
fall like a roller coaster, which triggers your brain to make you feel
hungry, even if you¹ve had enough calories. When blood sugar drops very
low, nobody has enough willpower to stick to a diet. There¹s no waiting
around to cut up the veggies for a salad or filling your plate with other
healthy foods. Devouring the ice cream from the freezer is more like it.
Another thing doctors have learned: some food literally goes straight to
your thighs or your tummy, while others are used more efficiently by your
body and are less likely to make you fat.
Then there are the tricks the mind plays. We¹re all born with the natural
instincts to know when we¹re hungry and need to eat and when we're full
and need to stop eating. But somewhere along the way our bodies¹ signals
get mixed, maybe because we live in a culture that pushes fatty food 24/7.
Five Ways to Beat the Beast
· Change the way you eat carbs (which doesn¹t mean entirely
eliminating them from your diet.)
· Fill up on healthy protein.
· Use hunger as a guide.
· Get your heart pumping.
· Just say not to high-fructose corn syrup.
But I'm Hungry! offers a wealth of tools and resources, including an
easy-to-follow meal plan and healthy recipes, that help dieters achieve
these and other goals. We¹ll show you how cooking light and choosing food
for health can lead to healthy weight loss and a healthy lifestyle,
finally leading to the perfect Satisfaction Solution.
About But I'm Hungry!
But I'm Hungry! is a collaborative effort by a health writer, registered
dietitian and editor who have joined forces to help people beat the one
thing that often stands in the way of living healthy: hunger. It is a
blueprint for understanding and controlling hunger and taking back your
life. The e-book includes analyses of hunger, meal plans and weight-loss
recipes, and tons of strategies for beating the beast. For more
information and advance purchase go to www.butimhungry.net
For parties interested in weight loss, lose weight, biggest loser, diets,
diet plan, cooking light, healthy recipes, healthy eating, food for
health, healthy diet, low carb diet, healthy living, healthy foods,
dieting, weight loss program, healthy meals, eating for health, healthy
weight loss, healthy lifestyle, weight loss recipes
Tweet This: Fad diets don't work. The But I'm Hungry plan does.
www.butimhungry.net
Visit us on Facebook at Butimhungry
Please contact Sue Mellen at sue@butimhungry.net or 352-897-4158 for
inquiries.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
General Dynamics Itronix?s New Fully-Rugged GD8200 Notebook Delivers Fast, Reliable, Power-Efficient Computing for Mobile Professionals
Cooked, frozen, dropped, shaken, soaked and tested in 32 rigorous ways, the rugged GD8200 delivers uncompromising performance in ‘real-world’ conditions that define mobile computing.
SUNRISE, Fla. – General Dynamics Itronix introduces the new, fully-rugged GD8200 notebook computer. The GD8200 delivers powerful computing, razor-sharp images in full sun and highly sensitive global positioning in a compact, fully-rugged case. Equipped with the new high-speed Intel® Core™ i7 processor, the GD8200 easily handles hefty imagery, video and data files enabling increased worker productivity. For mobile users in law enforcement, the military, field service technicians and others who work in cars, trucks, even combat vehicles, the GD8200 is the ideal balance between rugged durability and high-performance computing.
According to Mark Johnston, director of Strategic Computing Solutions for General Dynamics Itronix, “We’ve worked hard to earn the confidence of users working outdoors or in locations where conditions can be harsh and unpredictable. Making the GD8200 more power-efficient, smaller and lighter than most computers in the fully-rugged class means this rugged notebook is real-world ready.”
Addressing mobile workers’ critical need for wireless connectivity, the GD8200 combines Wi-Fi 802.11, Bluetooth and 4G mobile broadband technology to enable seamless roaming for uninterrupted connectivity. The battery-conserving, sunlight-viewable DynaVue® II touch screen display delivers unprecedented clarity and detail when viewing maps and videos. The GD8200 also is designed for ergonomic comfort with standard computing operations and keys positioned for ease-of-use, day or night, with gloves or without.
The GD8200 meets U.S. military MIL-STD 810G, which includes punishing drops, shock, vibration, extreme heat and cold and an Ingress Protection (IP) 65 rating, sealing the unit against dust and water. It is also certified to operate in helicopters, withstand electromagnetic emissions and has passed rigorous crash testing for in-vehicle occupant safety.
The General Dynamics Itronix GD8200 list price starts at $4460.00.
The GD8200 data sheet, with a complete list of features, benefits and specifications is available online at www.gd-itronix.com/GD8200. For additional information or to order the GD8200 call 1-800-441-1309.
General Dynamics Itronix is a leading developer of wireless, rugged computing solutions for mobile workers, offering a full range of field computing systems, including full-sized laptops, ultra-mobile notebook PCs and tablet PCs. The company is part of General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). Additional information is available at www.gd-itronix.com
More information about General Dynamics is available online at www.generaldynamics.com
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Editor’s note: Images of the General Dynamics Itronix GD8200 are available for download at www.gd-itronix.com/gd8200images.
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Contact: Fran Jacques
GDC4S Public Relations
Tel: 480.441.2885
SUNRISE, Fla. – General Dynamics Itronix introduces the new, fully-rugged GD8200 notebook computer. The GD8200 delivers powerful computing, razor-sharp images in full sun and highly sensitive global positioning in a compact, fully-rugged case. Equipped with the new high-speed Intel® Core™ i7 processor, the GD8200 easily handles hefty imagery, video and data files enabling increased worker productivity. For mobile users in law enforcement, the military, field service technicians and others who work in cars, trucks, even combat vehicles, the GD8200 is the ideal balance between rugged durability and high-performance computing.
According to Mark Johnston, director of Strategic Computing Solutions for General Dynamics Itronix, “We’ve worked hard to earn the confidence of users working outdoors or in locations where conditions can be harsh and unpredictable. Making the GD8200 more power-efficient, smaller and lighter than most computers in the fully-rugged class means this rugged notebook is real-world ready.”
Addressing mobile workers’ critical need for wireless connectivity, the GD8200 combines Wi-Fi 802.11, Bluetooth and 4G mobile broadband technology to enable seamless roaming for uninterrupted connectivity. The battery-conserving, sunlight-viewable DynaVue® II touch screen display delivers unprecedented clarity and detail when viewing maps and videos. The GD8200 also is designed for ergonomic comfort with standard computing operations and keys positioned for ease-of-use, day or night, with gloves or without.
The GD8200 meets U.S. military MIL-STD 810G, which includes punishing drops, shock, vibration, extreme heat and cold and an Ingress Protection (IP) 65 rating, sealing the unit against dust and water. It is also certified to operate in helicopters, withstand electromagnetic emissions and has passed rigorous crash testing for in-vehicle occupant safety.
The General Dynamics Itronix GD8200 list price starts at $4460.00.
The GD8200 data sheet, with a complete list of features, benefits and specifications is available online at www.gd-itronix.com/GD8200. For additional information or to order the GD8200 call 1-800-441-1309.
General Dynamics Itronix is a leading developer of wireless, rugged computing solutions for mobile workers, offering a full range of field computing systems, including full-sized laptops, ultra-mobile notebook PCs and tablet PCs. The company is part of General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). Additional information is available at www.gd-itronix.com
More information about General Dynamics is available online at www.generaldynamics.com
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Editor’s note: Images of the General Dynamics Itronix GD8200 are available for download at www.gd-itronix.com/gd8200images
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Contact: Fran Jacques
GDC4S Public Relations
Tel: 480.441.2885
Queplix Introduces Data Quality Manager? For Quecloud
The First Data Integration and Data Management Cloud Delivers Advanced Data Quality Functionality with Core Services through a Single Platform - http://bit.ly/k0uXsf
Queplix™ Corp., a leader in data integration and data management, today introduced the new Data Quality Manager™ for QueCloud™, enabling companies to seamlessly create and maintain data consistency throughout the data migration, integration and management lifecycle - all with a single cloud-based platform. Data Quality Manager is also available on-premise with Queplix Virtual Data Manager™. Both products are available today.
QueCloud, the industry's first data integration and data management cloud, securely integrates cloud applications such as Salesforce®, NetSuite®, LinkedIn®, and FaceBook® with unprecedented speed and simplicity. Data Quality Manager addresses the common data quality challenges that create barriers for any data integration effort. As a central component of the QueCloud dashboard, Data Quality Manager is tightly coupled with the solution's core data integration and data management functionality. This is the first time a cloud-based data integration platform service has offered advanced data quality, integration and management in one environment, performing in a simultaneous continuum that eliminates the need to invest in separate tools.
"Today, companies must purchase separate data quality products that run data cleansing exercises in complete isolation from data integration," said Steve Yaskin, chief technology officer, Queplix. "Not only is this more expensive, it's also far less effective since separate products aren't designed to interact with each other. Queplix provides data integration, data management and data quality functionality in a single integration-as-a-service platform. QueCloud and our on-premise product, Virtual Data Manager both now automatically check for and repair inconsistencies as part of the data integration and management process. This saves a tremendous amount of time, money and effort. No other vendor is doing this today."
Data Quality Manager delivers fast, automated and easy access to comprehensive data quality functionality for null fields, duplicate detection, syntax error notification, date range checks and much more in a manner that works seamlessly as part of the data integration and management process. As a result, companies no longer need multiple tools; data is made consistent from the onset of integration, and consistency is maintained throughout the data management lifecycle.
QueCloud is designed for the business user - no SQL programming is needed. The architecture includes a series of intelligent Application Software Blades™ that identify and extract key metadata and associated security information from target applications and move it to the Queplix persistent metadata catalog. Once integrated, data remains easily accessible to any number of additional applications, enabling a high degree of flexibility and scalability. As a result, organizations can dramatically reduce the lifecycle total cost of ownership for data management, by up to 75 percent or more over the cost of a traditional deployment.
Tweet This: Queplix Introduces Data Quality Manager for QueCloud
Follow Queplix on Twitter at: http://ping.fm/FdWGA
Videos:
· The essentials of data quality for data integration: http://ping.fm/p4Vld
· Data Quality Manager overview: http://ping.fm/YxQHD
Resource library: For more information about data integration and data management, visit the Queplix Resource Library.
About Queplix Corp.
Queplix™ is a leader in data integration and data management. Our products enable customers to securely integrate, deploy and manage cloud and on-premise applications and data with speed, simplicity and automation. Uniquely, no programming or SQL is required. Our data virtualization and powerful data management automatically harmonize the data between applications. Our customers benefit from greater cost savings, a rapid return on investment and the strategic benefits of true data mobility. Queplix has thousands of users around the world, serving customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson. Please visit http://www.queplix.com for more information.
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Queplix, Data Quality Manager, QueCloud, Application Software Blades and the Queplix logo are trademarks of Queplix Corp. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.
For parties interested in Queplix, data virtualization, data integration, data management, data integration software, master data management, business intelligence, boomi, jitterbit, informatica, composite software
Queplix™ Corp., a leader in data integration and data management, today introduced the new Data Quality Manager™ for QueCloud™, enabling companies to seamlessly create and maintain data consistency throughout the data migration, integration and management lifecycle - all with a single cloud-based platform. Data Quality Manager is also available on-premise with Queplix Virtual Data Manager™. Both products are available today.
QueCloud, the industry's first data integration and data management cloud, securely integrates cloud applications such as Salesforce®, NetSuite®, LinkedIn®, and FaceBook® with unprecedented speed and simplicity. Data Quality Manager addresses the common data quality challenges that create barriers for any data integration effort. As a central component of the QueCloud dashboard, Data Quality Manager is tightly coupled with the solution's core data integration and data management functionality. This is the first time a cloud-based data integration platform service has offered advanced data quality, integration and management in one environment, performing in a simultaneous continuum that eliminates the need to invest in separate tools.
"Today, companies must purchase separate data quality products that run data cleansing exercises in complete isolation from data integration," said Steve Yaskin, chief technology officer, Queplix. "Not only is this more expensive, it's also far less effective since separate products aren't designed to interact with each other. Queplix provides data integration, data management and data quality functionality in a single integration-as-a-service platform. QueCloud and our on-premise product, Virtual Data Manager both now automatically check for and repair inconsistencies as part of the data integration and management process. This saves a tremendous amount of time, money and effort. No other vendor is doing this today."
Data Quality Manager delivers fast, automated and easy access to comprehensive data quality functionality for null fields, duplicate detection, syntax error notification, date range checks and much more in a manner that works seamlessly as part of the data integration and management process. As a result, companies no longer need multiple tools; data is made consistent from the onset of integration, and consistency is maintained throughout the data management lifecycle.
QueCloud is designed for the business user - no SQL programming is needed. The architecture includes a series of intelligent Application Software Blades™ that identify and extract key metadata and associated security information from target applications and move it to the Queplix persistent metadata catalog. Once integrated, data remains easily accessible to any number of additional applications, enabling a high degree of flexibility and scalability. As a result, organizations can dramatically reduce the lifecycle total cost of ownership for data management, by up to 75 percent or more over the cost of a traditional deployment.
Tweet This: Queplix Introduces Data Quality Manager for QueCloud
Follow Queplix on Twitter at: http://ping.fm/FdWGA
Videos:
· The essentials of data quality for data integration: http://ping.fm/p4Vld
· Data Quality Manager overview: http://ping.fm/YxQHD
Resource library: For more information about data integration and data management, visit the Queplix Resource Library.
About Queplix Corp.
Queplix™ is a leader in data integration and data management. Our products enable customers to securely integrate, deploy and manage cloud and on-premise applications and data with speed, simplicity and automation. Uniquely, no programming or SQL is required. Our data virtualization and powerful data management automatically harmonize the data between applications. Our customers benefit from greater cost savings, a rapid return on investment and the strategic benefits of true data mobility. Queplix has thousands of users around the world, serving customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson. Please visit http://www.queplix.com for more information.
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Queplix, Data Quality Manager, QueCloud, Application Software Blades and the Queplix logo are trademarks of Queplix Corp. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.
For parties interested in Queplix, data virtualization, data integration, data management, data integration software, master data management, business intelligence, boomi, jitterbit, informatica, composite software
Monday, June 13, 2011
METALOGIX AND CONTENT AND CODE TEAM UP FOR WEBINAR REVEALING TIPS AND TRICKS FOR MIGRATING TO OFFICE 365
Discover Why Automated Migration to Office 365 Will Help Mitigate Risks and Minimize Interruption to Your Business Users
WASHINGTON, DC June 13, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, today announced an online event which will reveal the best practices for migrating to the new Office 365.
“With the hype of the Office 365 release fast approaching, the question of ‘How do we migrate?’ is coming up quite frequently,” said Dr. Steve Marsh, EMEA product marketing manager, Metalogix. “We’d like to show organizations that there are already automated solutions in existence to help them with this migration to Office 365 through Metalogix.”
The webinar, titled “Best Practices for Migrating to Office 365,” will take place on June 15, 2011 at 5:00 a.m. EST/11:00 a.m. BST. It will feature Zane Freame, online services solution consultant, Content and Code, and Dr. Steve Marsh, EMEA product marketing manager, Metalogix.
During the webinar, Zane Freame will discuss a manual migration of data from SharePoint and Public Folders to Office 365 and reasons why a more automated solution will help mitigate risks. Dr. Steve Marsh will then demonstrate how Metalogix delivers an automated solution by moving content with Migration Manager for SharePoint, Migration Manager for SharePoint – Public Folder Edition and Migration Manager for SharePoint – File Share Edition to BPOS or Office 365.
Registration for this webinar is open now. You can register today by visiting:
http://ping.fm/ePdFU
Tweet this: @Metalogix Webinar Reveals Best Practices for Migrating to Office 365
Follow Metalogix at http://ping.fm/WiefL
About Metalogix
Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premise or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/zTlXn
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Metalogix, and the Metalogix logo are trademarks of Metalogix Software. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
WASHINGTON, DC June 13, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, today announced an online event which will reveal the best practices for migrating to the new Office 365.
“With the hype of the Office 365 release fast approaching, the question of ‘How do we migrate?’ is coming up quite frequently,” said Dr. Steve Marsh, EMEA product marketing manager, Metalogix. “We’d like to show organizations that there are already automated solutions in existence to help them with this migration to Office 365 through Metalogix.”
The webinar, titled “Best Practices for Migrating to Office 365,” will take place on June 15, 2011 at 5:00 a.m. EST/11:00 a.m. BST. It will feature Zane Freame, online services solution consultant, Content and Code, and Dr. Steve Marsh, EMEA product marketing manager, Metalogix.
During the webinar, Zane Freame will discuss a manual migration of data from SharePoint and Public Folders to Office 365 and reasons why a more automated solution will help mitigate risks. Dr. Steve Marsh will then demonstrate how Metalogix delivers an automated solution by moving content with Migration Manager for SharePoint, Migration Manager for SharePoint – Public Folder Edition and Migration Manager for SharePoint – File Share Edition to BPOS or Office 365.
Registration for this webinar is open now. You can register today by visiting:
http://ping.fm/ePdFU
Tweet this: @Metalogix Webinar Reveals Best Practices for Migrating to Office 365
Follow Metalogix at http://ping.fm/WiefL
About Metalogix
Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premise or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/zTlXn
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Metalogix, and the Metalogix logo are trademarks of Metalogix Software. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Friday, June 10, 2011
METALOGIX TO SPONSOR SOLD OUT SHAREPOINT SATURDAY CHICAGO THIS WEEKEND
Attendees to Learn More About Comprehensive Metalogix SharePoint Migration Tools
WASHINGTON, DC June 10, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, announced today that it is a silver sponsor of the sold out SharePoint Saturday Chicago event on June 11, 2011.
Who: Metalogix will be exhibiting its SharePoint migration products at SPS Chicago
What: Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Office 365, and SharePoint Server 2010 at SharePoint Saturday Chicago. SharePoint Saturday Chicago is an educational, informative and lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals and MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-oriented topics.
When: June 11, 2011 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm CT
Where: Benedictine University, Lisle, IL. To register, please visit: http://ping.fm/1g4Aa
Tweet this: @Metalogix to sponsor sold out SPSChicago on June 11, 2011
Follow Metalogix at http://ping.fm/Z56Hw
About Metalogix
Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively migrate, manage, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premise or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/N8nzX
Metalogix, and the Metalogix logo are trademarks of Metalogix Software. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
WASHINGTON, DC June 10, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, announced today that it is a silver sponsor of the sold out SharePoint Saturday Chicago event on June 11, 2011.
Who: Metalogix will be exhibiting its SharePoint migration products at SPS Chicago
What: Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Office 365, and SharePoint Server 2010 at SharePoint Saturday Chicago. SharePoint Saturday Chicago is an educational, informative and lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals and MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-oriented topics.
When: June 11, 2011 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm CT
Where: Benedictine University, Lisle, IL. To register, please visit: http://ping.fm/1g4Aa
Tweet this: @Metalogix to sponsor sold out SPSChicago on June 11, 2011
Follow Metalogix at http://ping.fm/Z56Hw
About Metalogix
Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively migrate, manage, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premise or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/N8nzX
Metalogix, and the Metalogix logo are trademarks of Metalogix Software. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Asigra Exceeds 400,000 Customer Site Milestone with Enterprise-Class Cloud Backup and Recovery Platform
Momentum for Leading Cloud Backup Software Provider Accelerates as Organizations Seek Cost-Effective Methods of Protecting Critical Data
TORONTO – June 8, 2011 – Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup™, recovery and restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, today announced that it has surpassed 400,000 customer sites under protection by Asigra Cloud Backup™, increasing its market penetration by 60% percent over the last 12 months. The latest milestone highlights the company's strong gains with managed service providers and end-user adoption of partner services by small and medium businesses (SMBs), midsize, and large enterprises.
According to analysts, the market for cloud backup services is $2 billion and growing rapidly. Cloud backup continues to gain market traction among SMBs and larger enterprises with offices and workers spanning the globe. As an increasing number of companies seek simpler, more efficient, faster, and cost-effective methods of protecting critical data on storage systems, servers, desktops and laptops, they are discovering the advantages of moving to a cloud backup model for turnkey data protection.
“Simplicity is now a meaningful product differentiator in the backup space. Gone are the days of professional services and hundreds of lines of custom scripting being accepted as normal,” said Dave Russell, Vice President, Storage Technologies and Strategies for Gartner. “Cloud backup provides the simplicity businesses are looking for plus the scale and interoperability that is making it an attractive option for a growing number of organizations.”
This growth is not going unnoticed as technology service providers and resellers are turning their attention toward the Cloud. Recognized widely as a 100% channel-focused organization, Asigra’s commitment to its partners around the globe is unwavering, making the company’s partner ecosystem one of the largest backup service provider networks in the world. For more than a quarter of a century, Asigra has been focused on developing an active partner network of MSPs and VARs whose cloud backup services are powered by Asigra’s software platform.
“Asigra Cloud Backup is the cornerstone of our disaster recovery services which delivers unparalleled value to our customers,” said Tom Dugan, Founder and CTO of Recovery Networks. “Throughout our long relationship with Asigra, the company has demonstrated consistent product leadership and non-stop commitment to providing technical, business and educational resources to help its partners succeed.”
Asigra Cloud Backup is a next-generation backup and recovery platform optimized for public, private or hybrid cloud computing and designed to offer efficiencies unavailable with traditional backup architectures. Asigra’s advanced platform allows users to capture less, ingest less, and store less data thereby reducing the amount of backup software cycles and storage hardware required to deploy and maintain high levels of data protection. Asigra overcomes the limitations of traditional backup products that are unable to handle the exponential data growth, variances in information value and complexities within the IT infrastructure with a highly resilient and elastic platform that adapts to the changing nature of today’s IT environments. This provides unmatched backup efficiency and security as well as the ability to respond to today’s dynamic business challenges.
"Asigra's benefits are an order of magnitude greater than we have seen with other backup solutions - it is night and day. The product is very intuitive and the reporting is excellent, with daily updates on the backup status. Most importantly, our data is recoverable when and where we need it. We've needed to recover critical files since the Recovery Networks' solution Powered by Asigra was engaged and each time our data was returned safely & quickly," said Hank Kullman, Network Administrator, Woodcock Washburn, an intellectual property law firm. "In working with Recovery Networks, we are much more comfortable knowing that they manage their own cloud infrastructure with Asigra software and that control and security are assured."
“The market has sent a resounding message of approval with hundreds of thousands of customer sites globally leveraging Asigra Cloud Backup to protect critical business data,” said David Farajun, CEO, Asigra. “Through relentless innovation that has set the bar for business-class cloud backup and remaining laser-focused on our channel, Asigra’s success has been propelled to the benefit of our customers.”
About Asigra
Asigra is the leading Canadian cloud computing vendor focused on backup, recovery and restoration with more than 400,000 customer sites deployed globally. Asigra Cloud Backup™ transforms the way businesses manage and protect their data by delivering seamless end-to-end data protection that efficiently scales and easily adapts to any IT environment. Asigra Cloud Backup is built for new and existing MSPs/VARs who focus on data protection, IT constrained organizations, and industries with compliance mandates that are looking to improve their backup with a secure, reliable and predictable data protection cloud backup model. With more than 25 years of experience as backup/recovery pioneers, Asigra manages one of the largest business-class backup service provider ecosystems in the world who power their cloud backup services using Asigra technology. Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices globally. For more information, visit www.asigra.com.
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Asigra and the Asigra logo are trademarks of Asigra Inc. All other brand and product names are, or may be, trademarks of their respective owners.
Agency Contact:
Joe Austin
Ventana PR
(818) 332-6166
joe.austin@ventanapr.com
TORONTO – June 8, 2011 – Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup™, recovery and restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, today announced that it has surpassed 400,000 customer sites under protection by Asigra Cloud Backup™, increasing its market penetration by 60% percent over the last 12 months. The latest milestone highlights the company's strong gains with managed service providers and end-user adoption of partner services by small and medium businesses (SMBs), midsize, and large enterprises.
According to analysts, the market for cloud backup services is $2 billion and growing rapidly. Cloud backup continues to gain market traction among SMBs and larger enterprises with offices and workers spanning the globe. As an increasing number of companies seek simpler, more efficient, faster, and cost-effective methods of protecting critical data on storage systems, servers, desktops and laptops, they are discovering the advantages of moving to a cloud backup model for turnkey data protection.
“Simplicity is now a meaningful product differentiator in the backup space. Gone are the days of professional services and hundreds of lines of custom scripting being accepted as normal,” said Dave Russell, Vice President, Storage Technologies and Strategies for Gartner. “Cloud backup provides the simplicity businesses are looking for plus the scale and interoperability that is making it an attractive option for a growing number of organizations.”
This growth is not going unnoticed as technology service providers and resellers are turning their attention toward the Cloud. Recognized widely as a 100% channel-focused organization, Asigra’s commitment to its partners around the globe is unwavering, making the company’s partner ecosystem one of the largest backup service provider networks in the world. For more than a quarter of a century, Asigra has been focused on developing an active partner network of MSPs and VARs whose cloud backup services are powered by Asigra’s software platform.
“Asigra Cloud Backup is the cornerstone of our disaster recovery services which delivers unparalleled value to our customers,” said Tom Dugan, Founder and CTO of Recovery Networks. “Throughout our long relationship with Asigra, the company has demonstrated consistent product leadership and non-stop commitment to providing technical, business and educational resources to help its partners succeed.”
Asigra Cloud Backup is a next-generation backup and recovery platform optimized for public, private or hybrid cloud computing and designed to offer efficiencies unavailable with traditional backup architectures. Asigra’s advanced platform allows users to capture less, ingest less, and store less data thereby reducing the amount of backup software cycles and storage hardware required to deploy and maintain high levels of data protection. Asigra overcomes the limitations of traditional backup products that are unable to handle the exponential data growth, variances in information value and complexities within the IT infrastructure with a highly resilient and elastic platform that adapts to the changing nature of today’s IT environments. This provides unmatched backup efficiency and security as well as the ability to respond to today’s dynamic business challenges.
"Asigra's benefits are an order of magnitude greater than we have seen with other backup solutions - it is night and day. The product is very intuitive and the reporting is excellent, with daily updates on the backup status. Most importantly, our data is recoverable when and where we need it. We've needed to recover critical files since the Recovery Networks' solution Powered by Asigra was engaged and each time our data was returned safely & quickly," said Hank Kullman, Network Administrator, Woodcock Washburn, an intellectual property law firm. "In working with Recovery Networks, we are much more comfortable knowing that they manage their own cloud infrastructure with Asigra software and that control and security are assured."
“The market has sent a resounding message of approval with hundreds of thousands of customer sites globally leveraging Asigra Cloud Backup to protect critical business data,” said David Farajun, CEO, Asigra. “Through relentless innovation that has set the bar for business-class cloud backup and remaining laser-focused on our channel, Asigra’s success has been propelled to the benefit of our customers.”
About Asigra
Asigra is the leading Canadian cloud computing vendor focused on backup, recovery and restoration with more than 400,000 customer sites deployed globally. Asigra Cloud Backup™ transforms the way businesses manage and protect their data by delivering seamless end-to-end data protection that efficiently scales and easily adapts to any IT environment. Asigra Cloud Backup is built for new and existing MSPs/VARs who focus on data protection, IT constrained organizations, and industries with compliance mandates that are looking to improve their backup with a secure, reliable and predictable data protection cloud backup model. With more than 25 years of experience as backup/recovery pioneers, Asigra manages one of the largest business-class backup service provider ecosystems in the world who power their cloud backup services using Asigra technology. Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices globally. For more information, visit www.asigra.com.
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Asigra and the Asigra logo are trademarks of Asigra Inc. All other brand and product names are, or may be, trademarks of their respective owners.
Agency Contact:
Joe Austin
Ventana PR
(818) 332-6166
joe.austin@ventanapr.com
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Cloud Integration in 2011: QueCloud Ties Cloud and On-Premise via Data Virtualization - http://bit.ly/jiR64S
Integration Developer News posted the following article recently:
Cloud Integration in 2011: QueCloud Ties Cloud and On-Premise via Data Virtualization
Queplix Corp. is shipping its QueCloud integration platform, which uses data virtualization for sharing data across cloud and on-premise apps. Integration Developer News continues its “Cloud Integration in 2011” series with Queplix CEO Mark Cashman.
By Vance McCarthy
Queplix Corp., a data integration and data management provider, is shipping its QueCloud cloud integration platform. QueCloud is powered by secure data virtualization and metadata technologies, and can integrate multiple on-premise and cloud-based apps.
Queplix is also shipping a tailored integration solution for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud platform, based on the company’s same core technologies.
QueCloud lets companies quickly, easily and securely integrate on-premise data and applications with cloud applications such as Salesforce, NetSuite, LinkedIn, and FaceBook. QueCloud also supports leading on-premise applications including SAP, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle CRM, NetSuite and others.
“We have the ability to integrate between the cloud and on-premise, or within either,” Queplix CEO Mark Cashman told IDN. “With MDM (master data management) and [data] harmonization, we know when and where anything is changed in the underlying data structures.”
Driving QueCloud integration capability is Queplix Virtual Data Manager (VDM) data virtualization technology, along with a set of application “blades” or intelligent connectors.
Together, these technologies identify and extract key metadata and associated security information from data stored in applications.
Queplix’ Virtual Data Manager data virtualization technology improves on ETL and avoids SQL programming to virtually harmonize data from diverse on-premise and cloud-based locations.
Queplix blades differ from SaaS connectors found in some cloud appliances because they are multi-directional and can conduct data identification, extraction and integration tasks, Cashman said.
Once captured, information goes into Queplix’s persistent metadata catalog without moving any of the underlying data from its original location, Cashman told IDN. From the catalog, Queplix renders the data easily accessible and shareable to any number of additional applications via the Queplix Engine, he added.
Another Queplix technology attracting attention from data architects is Virtual Data Viewer, Cashman said. The Queplix VDV provides an object-oriented view of a wide range of data formats, including XML, CSV, spreadsheets and RDMBS. Data architects can also see relationships between data and data models used in each format, and even the relationships between different data, he added.
“Data architects eyes popped when they could understand where all their data was in this way,” Cashman told IDN. “All this is letting them combine fields and sources across different data sets to create a ‘virtual entity’ of a customer, amassed from all the different customer records.”
Other QueCloud features include:
· A simple UI designed to allow business users to employ cloud integration
· Data for customer, product, vendor, HR and financial information can be aligned easily and automatically across multiple sources.
· Tools for data governance, including data dictionary, data quality and data integration
· Can scale to meet demands of largest enterprise
· Maintains consistency between data across multiple applications using automated data synchronization.
Queplix Solution for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud
Queplix’s Virtual Data Manager (VDM) SuiteApp for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud, available now, automates integration between NetSuite and on-premise apps or other SaaS services. Queplix’s SuiteApp quickly integrates NetSuite’s SuiteCloud SaaS applications for accounting, ERP, CRM and e-commerce, as well as cloud-based tools and infrastructure.
Core Queplix technologies also lay at the heart of the Queplix SuiteApp for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud. Notably, NetSuite engineers notice a convergence between Queplix’ approach and the underlying NetSuite’s data virtualization architecture for cloud.
“Queplix is built using some of the same principles as NetSuite -- ease and speed of deployment, a rich user experience, and the flexibility of a cloud-based approach,” said Guido Haarmans, NetSuite’s vice president for developer programs and business development. In specific, NetSuite harmonizes data to maintain user interface consistency, and it lets NetSuite customers use their existing security models, he added.
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Cloud Integration in 2011: QueCloud Ties Cloud and On-Premise via Data Virtualization
Queplix Corp. is shipping its QueCloud integration platform, which uses data virtualization for sharing data across cloud and on-premise apps. Integration Developer News continues its “Cloud Integration in 2011” series with Queplix CEO Mark Cashman.
By Vance McCarthy
Queplix Corp., a data integration and data management provider, is shipping its QueCloud cloud integration platform. QueCloud is powered by secure data virtualization and metadata technologies, and can integrate multiple on-premise and cloud-based apps.
Queplix is also shipping a tailored integration solution for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud platform, based on the company’s same core technologies.
QueCloud lets companies quickly, easily and securely integrate on-premise data and applications with cloud applications such as Salesforce, NetSuite, LinkedIn, and FaceBook. QueCloud also supports leading on-premise applications including SAP, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle CRM, NetSuite and others.
“We have the ability to integrate between the cloud and on-premise, or within either,” Queplix CEO Mark Cashman told IDN. “With MDM (master data management) and [data] harmonization, we know when and where anything is changed in the underlying data structures.”
Driving QueCloud integration capability is Queplix Virtual Data Manager (VDM) data virtualization technology, along with a set of application “blades” or intelligent connectors.
Together, these technologies identify and extract key metadata and associated security information from data stored in applications.
Queplix’ Virtual Data Manager data virtualization technology improves on ETL and avoids SQL programming to virtually harmonize data from diverse on-premise and cloud-based locations.
Queplix blades differ from SaaS connectors found in some cloud appliances because they are multi-directional and can conduct data identification, extraction and integration tasks, Cashman said.
Once captured, information goes into Queplix’s persistent metadata catalog without moving any of the underlying data from its original location, Cashman told IDN. From the catalog, Queplix renders the data easily accessible and shareable to any number of additional applications via the Queplix Engine, he added.
Another Queplix technology attracting attention from data architects is Virtual Data Viewer, Cashman said. The Queplix VDV provides an object-oriented view of a wide range of data formats, including XML, CSV, spreadsheets and RDMBS. Data architects can also see relationships between data and data models used in each format, and even the relationships between different data, he added.
“Data architects eyes popped when they could understand where all their data was in this way,” Cashman told IDN. “All this is letting them combine fields and sources across different data sets to create a ‘virtual entity’ of a customer, amassed from all the different customer records.”
Other QueCloud features include:
· A simple UI designed to allow business users to employ cloud integration
· Data for customer, product, vendor, HR and financial information can be aligned easily and automatically across multiple sources.
· Tools for data governance, including data dictionary, data quality and data integration
· Can scale to meet demands of largest enterprise
· Maintains consistency between data across multiple applications using automated data synchronization.
Queplix Solution for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud
Queplix’s Virtual Data Manager (VDM) SuiteApp for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud, available now, automates integration between NetSuite and on-premise apps or other SaaS services. Queplix’s SuiteApp quickly integrates NetSuite’s SuiteCloud SaaS applications for accounting, ERP, CRM and e-commerce, as well as cloud-based tools and infrastructure.
Core Queplix technologies also lay at the heart of the Queplix SuiteApp for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud. Notably, NetSuite engineers notice a convergence between Queplix’ approach and the underlying NetSuite’s data virtualization architecture for cloud.
“Queplix is built using some of the same principles as NetSuite -- ease and speed of deployment, a rich user experience, and the flexibility of a cloud-based approach,” said Guido Haarmans, NetSuite’s vice president for developer programs and business development. In specific, NetSuite harmonizes data to maintain user interface consistency, and it lets NetSuite customers use their existing security models, he added.
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Queplix Launches Cloud Service to Integrate Cloud Systems
The company launched a service called QueCloud, which is a cloud application that securely integrates—you guessed it—cloud applications, such as Salesforce, NetSuite, and LinkedIn.
Before long, we'll be able to get any type of IT service through a cloud-based connection. In fact, we're virtually at that point now—and modern-era cloud services are still only toddlers at 5 years old or less.
Data integration and management software maker Queplix, a relatively new name in the cloud scene, is a good example of where all this is going.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company has launched a service called QueCloud, which is a cloud application that securely integrates—you guessed it—cloud applications, such as Salesforce, NetSuite, LinkedIn and Facebook, to their systems without needing an IT person to write scripts.
"Our mission is to turn capex [costs] into opex," Queplix CEO Mark Cashman told eWEEK. "We can take the data from cloud-based applications or even on-premise apps, because we have a persistent metadata storage. We don't physically retain a copy of the data itself; we are just capable of moving it from Point A to Point B using something we call Data Harmonization, our own automated data-synchronization process.
"We don't care where your data exists; we're providing you with a wonderful object-oriented user interface which allows you to move your data without having to program SQL and write scripts to do that. And the data resides with the application or the supporting database for that application."
Configures Intelligent Blades
Queplix Virtual Data Manager, the company's flagship product, runs the QueCloud application and data-integration process. The software enables the configuration of a series of intelligent Application Software Blades that identify and extract key data and associated security information from many different target applications, such as Salesforce, Google Apps, Amazon and others.
The blades identify and extract metadata from the data stored within these applications, then bring it into the Queplix Engine to support data integration with other applications, Cashman said.
Once applications are integrated, QueCloud then keeps customer, product and financial data consistent between applications—even legacy applications, such as SAP PeopleSoft—with what Queplix calls Data Harmonization, its own automated data-synchronization process, Cashman said. QueCloud can scale up to the largest enterprise, or more cost effectively for small or medium businesses, he said.
QueCloud, which was introduced May 8 at NetSuite's SuiteWorld in San Francisco, is available now.
Queplix, founded in 2004 as a database tools provider but reset in 2009 to do virtualization services, has customers that include The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson.
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Queplix Launches Cloud Service to Integrate Cloud Systems
The company launched a service called QueCloud, which is a cloud application that securely integrates—you guessed it—cloud applications, such as Salesforce, NetSuite, and LinkedIn.
Before long, we'll be able to get any type of IT service through a cloud-based connection. In fact, we're virtually at that point now—and modern-era cloud services are still only toddlers at 5 years old or less.
Data integration and management software maker Queplix, a relatively new name in the cloud scene, is a good example of where all this is going.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company has launched a service called QueCloud, which is a cloud application that securely integrates—you guessed it—cloud applications, such as Salesforce, NetSuite, LinkedIn and Facebook, to their systems without needing an IT person to write scripts.
"Our mission is to turn capex [costs] into opex," Queplix CEO Mark Cashman told eWEEK. "We can take the data from cloud-based applications or even on-premise apps, because we have a persistent metadata storage. We don't physically retain a copy of the data itself; we are just capable of moving it from Point A to Point B using something we call Data Harmonization, our own automated data-synchronization process.
"We don't care where your data exists; we're providing you with a wonderful object-oriented user interface which allows you to move your data without having to program SQL and write scripts to do that. And the data resides with the application or the supporting database for that application."
Configures Intelligent Blades
Queplix Virtual Data Manager, the company's flagship product, runs the QueCloud application and data-integration process. The software enables the configuration of a series of intelligent Application Software Blades that identify and extract key data and associated security information from many different target applications, such as Salesforce, Google Apps, Amazon and others.
The blades identify and extract metadata from the data stored within these applications, then bring it into the Queplix Engine to support data integration with other applications, Cashman said.
Once applications are integrated, QueCloud then keeps customer, product and financial data consistent between applications—even legacy applications, such as SAP PeopleSoft—with what Queplix calls Data Harmonization, its own automated data-synchronization process, Cashman said. QueCloud can scale up to the largest enterprise, or more cost effectively for small or medium businesses, he said.
QueCloud, which was introduced May 8 at NetSuite's SuiteWorld in San Francisco, is available now.
Queplix, founded in 2004 as a database tools provider but reset in 2009 to do virtualization services, has customers that include The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson.
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JOIN METALOGIX IN AN ONLINE SHAREPOINT MIGRATION JOURNEY FROM SHAREPOINT 2001 TO 2010
Online Event on June 8, 2011 Shares How Bynet Software Systems Migrated One of Their Customers from SharePoint 2001 to 2010 with the Help of Metalogix Software
WASHINGTON, DC June 7, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, today announced that it will be co-presenting a webinar that will explore best practices on how to migrate from older versions of SharePoint to SharePoint 2010 without the hassle of multiple painful upgrades. The webinar, titled “The SharePoint Migration Journey – from SharePoint 2001 to SharePoint 2010,” will take place on June 8, 2011 at 12:00 a.m. EST. Dr. Steve Marsh, EMEA product marketing manager for Metalogix will be presenting.
“Many people are overwhelmed when thinking about all that is involved with a SharePoint migration or upgrade,” said Dr. Steve Marsh, EMEA product marketing manager, Metalogix. “The purpose for this webinar is to take the fear of the unknown out of that migration process and to let customers know what to expect regardless of the version of SharePoint they are currently using.”
The online event will give a firsthand example of how Meron Fridman, CTO, Bynet Software Systems migrated one of his clients from SharePoint 2001 to SharePoint 2010-all with the help of Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint. It will also give some great insights into the migration process to SharePoint 2010 and will touch on the different versions of SharePoint.
There are many new or enhanced features in SharePoint 2010 that can be of value to every company, from a new and improved communities section to better content management, to enhanced search capabilities throughout your SharePoint site. SharePoint 2010 also provides additional data sources and support for analytical services. Come explore the value SharePoint 2010 can have for your organization during this enlightening webinar.
Registration for this webinar is open now. You can register today by visiting: http://ping.fm/4F30l
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About Metalogix
Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premise or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/PV8r5
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WASHINGTON, DC June 7, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, today announced that it will be co-presenting a webinar that will explore best practices on how to migrate from older versions of SharePoint to SharePoint 2010 without the hassle of multiple painful upgrades. The webinar, titled “The SharePoint Migration Journey – from SharePoint 2001 to SharePoint 2010,” will take place on June 8, 2011 at 12:00 a.m. EST. Dr. Steve Marsh, EMEA product marketing manager for Metalogix will be presenting.
“Many people are overwhelmed when thinking about all that is involved with a SharePoint migration or upgrade,” said Dr. Steve Marsh, EMEA product marketing manager, Metalogix. “The purpose for this webinar is to take the fear of the unknown out of that migration process and to let customers know what to expect regardless of the version of SharePoint they are currently using.”
The online event will give a firsthand example of how Meron Fridman, CTO, Bynet Software Systems migrated one of his clients from SharePoint 2001 to SharePoint 2010-all with the help of Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint. It will also give some great insights into the migration process to SharePoint 2010 and will touch on the different versions of SharePoint.
There are many new or enhanced features in SharePoint 2010 that can be of value to every company, from a new and improved communities section to better content management, to enhanced search capabilities throughout your SharePoint site. SharePoint 2010 also provides additional data sources and support for analytical services. Come explore the value SharePoint 2010 can have for your organization during this enlightening webinar.
Registration for this webinar is open now. You can register today by visiting: http://ping.fm/4F30l
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About Metalogix
Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premise or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/PV8r5
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MDM and the Big Bang - http://bit.ly/eOjIlN
Author: Michael Zuckerman, CMO, Queplix
Perhaps the biggest problem to consume organizations over the past few years was to target the implementation of MDM as the Big Bang deliverable. The Big Bang deliverable is any MDM project where the goal of the project is the total integration of all consuming operational systems by one date. I am personally not aware of a single project where this goal was achieved without delay for one reason or another. Not one. I visit many accounts and I always ask the question and I almost always get the same answer. I’m not asking for the formal reference and the customer story that the vendor worked with a star customer or two. I am asking members on various project teams about their perceptions. Given the multi-year nature of the current MDM paradigm, the delay or slip in reaching the Big Bang delivery was typical. This left many project teams holding the reins on an expensive and challenged project at a time, in 2009, when most organizations were focusing even more on economic efficiency and incremental, successful product delivery.
The challenge of the big bang was evident even a few years ago. Vendors and the community at large tried to segment and differentiate the project down to more manageable components. The most successful projects that surfaced were to align the activities by customer and product. Product information management (the catalog) and customer information management emerged. Unfortunately, vendors went down various paths that have now resulted in different systems and even technologies to address these situations. Some have tried to build the product catalog into a bigger application. This additional complexity and differentiation, although scope has been reduced, just seems to give implementing organizations an opportunity to experience the big bang twice. They are both still complex, both global in implementation, and both difficult. The risk is still considerable.
Of course, two different projects run the risk of new challenges. Now you have two different systems, with potentially two varying architectures, two sets of administration, two sets of consultants – pretty much two sets of everything. Think about it. Now you also have the need, potentially, for multiple and potentially disparate integrations to the same systems for two different process integrations. In some ways it makes more sense, and in some ways even less sense. The systems used should probably be the same. There needs to be scalable components. But perhaps the segmentation globally by product and by customer does not really solve the organizational problem best without a common architecture.
The Big Bang remains contrary to all that we have learned from experience. The very nature of software development has moved towards iterative development – that of smaller and even smaller components of rapidly prototyped functionality delivery.
Today most development projects try to build code in “Agile®” slices, with rapid iterative development and prototyping. The smaller the deliverable the better and more predictable the results. Yet MDM implementation teams took most of the most complex processes and integrations possible. The project teams wrapped this up with single-minded and all-encompassing deliverables. Every place in software development, the goal is to eliminate the big bang in software deliverables. The paradigm for MDM often remains in sharp contrast to this.
Conceptually, to the user community, the endpoint is really what they perceive as the only value point. The meaningful deliverable is the endpoint because that is where most of the return on investment sits—not all of it, but most of it. Yes, you can get some data quality benefits before the project is complete. Yes, depending on your architecture you can get the benefits of operational system alignment. But that does not justify the millions spent. Your senior management team and global organization is really only focused on the complete integration and synchronization of data as a successful endpoint. They want the right data propagated the right way in all of their key operational systems. They want all data in repositories where they can learn from it using business intelligence tools. Anything less won’t measure up as success.
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Perhaps the biggest problem to consume organizations over the past few years was to target the implementation of MDM as the Big Bang deliverable. The Big Bang deliverable is any MDM project where the goal of the project is the total integration of all consuming operational systems by one date. I am personally not aware of a single project where this goal was achieved without delay for one reason or another. Not one. I visit many accounts and I always ask the question and I almost always get the same answer. I’m not asking for the formal reference and the customer story that the vendor worked with a star customer or two. I am asking members on various project teams about their perceptions. Given the multi-year nature of the current MDM paradigm, the delay or slip in reaching the Big Bang delivery was typical. This left many project teams holding the reins on an expensive and challenged project at a time, in 2009, when most organizations were focusing even more on economic efficiency and incremental, successful product delivery.
The challenge of the big bang was evident even a few years ago. Vendors and the community at large tried to segment and differentiate the project down to more manageable components. The most successful projects that surfaced were to align the activities by customer and product. Product information management (the catalog) and customer information management emerged. Unfortunately, vendors went down various paths that have now resulted in different systems and even technologies to address these situations. Some have tried to build the product catalog into a bigger application. This additional complexity and differentiation, although scope has been reduced, just seems to give implementing organizations an opportunity to experience the big bang twice. They are both still complex, both global in implementation, and both difficult. The risk is still considerable.
Of course, two different projects run the risk of new challenges. Now you have two different systems, with potentially two varying architectures, two sets of administration, two sets of consultants – pretty much two sets of everything. Think about it. Now you also have the need, potentially, for multiple and potentially disparate integrations to the same systems for two different process integrations. In some ways it makes more sense, and in some ways even less sense. The systems used should probably be the same. There needs to be scalable components. But perhaps the segmentation globally by product and by customer does not really solve the organizational problem best without a common architecture.
The Big Bang remains contrary to all that we have learned from experience. The very nature of software development has moved towards iterative development – that of smaller and even smaller components of rapidly prototyped functionality delivery.
Today most development projects try to build code in “Agile®” slices, with rapid iterative development and prototyping. The smaller the deliverable the better and more predictable the results. Yet MDM implementation teams took most of the most complex processes and integrations possible. The project teams wrapped this up with single-minded and all-encompassing deliverables. Every place in software development, the goal is to eliminate the big bang in software deliverables. The paradigm for MDM often remains in sharp contrast to this.
Conceptually, to the user community, the endpoint is really what they perceive as the only value point. The meaningful deliverable is the endpoint because that is where most of the return on investment sits—not all of it, but most of it. Yes, you can get some data quality benefits before the project is complete. Yes, depending on your architecture you can get the benefits of operational system alignment. But that does not justify the millions spent. Your senior management team and global organization is really only focused on the complete integration and synchronization of data as a successful endpoint. They want the right data propagated the right way in all of their key operational systems. They want all data in repositories where they can learn from it using business intelligence tools. Anything less won’t measure up as success.
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Cloud Backup Service Providers Join Asigra at Fourth Annual Cloud Backup Partner Summit in Toronto
Hundreds of Cloud Backup Service Providers Participate in Toronto Event for Strategies to Outsmart Competitors in Fast Growing Cloud Backup Market
TORONTO – June 6, 2011 – Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup™, recovery and restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, today announced that leading storage industry analysts will join a host of experts from Asigra and its cloud backup service providers as featured speakers and panelists at the Asigra Cloud Backup Partner Summit, June 7-8 in Toronto. The Asigra Partner Summit, this year entitled OutMarket, OutSell, OutSmart, is the only conference of its kind where hundreds of cloud backup service providers, MSPs and VARs from all over the world come together to hear the latest in trends and technologies impacting cloud backup. The conference offers a range of strategies to help service providers take a leadership position in one of cloud computing’s largest areas of opportunity – cloud backup.
The market for cloud backup services is approximately $2 billion and growing rapidly, according to analysts. That trend is visible with businesses of every size and in every vertical as these organizations seek comprehensive backup that is more reliable and cost efficient. In fact, a recent study commissioned by Asigra revealed that businesses who will embrace cloud backup will increase dramatically over the next two years. Across all industries, companies are turning to Asigra Cloud Backup™ for its efficiency, security and ease-of-use.
Companies are transitioning to business-class cloud backup because it:
• Makes data recovery and restoration accessible from anywhere to anywhere
• Offers built-in disaster recovery
• Is highly scalable; there’s no storage limit
• Automates mass deployment, management and comprehensive data backup
• Provides a safe, secure way of backing up data both locally and remotely
Asigra was the first to develop cloud backup technology in 1986 by creating a platform that could deliver backup and recovery services over telephone lines. More than 25 years later, the company’s cloud backup platform remains the most efficient, robust and secure solution of its kind. According to Lauren Whitehouse, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, Asigra remains “at the forefront of providing the most optimized way to protect data in the cloud.”
Presentations in the summit’s three tracks—OutMarket, OutSell, and OutSmart—are aimed at giving partners the edge they need to rise to the top of an increasingly crowded marketplace. As Forrester analyst Rachel Dines pointed out in a recent article on Bloomberg.com, the growing demand for cloud backup has bred “hundreds of new cloud backup providers, and most of them have popped up in the past couple of years.”
Some of the world’s leading experts in cloud backup will present at this year’s summit. They include Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group, who will present on “Cloud Backup Mobile Marketing Opportunities”; Dave Chapa, Senior Analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, who will discuss "Building a Stronger Cloud Backup and Recovery Business;” Richard Fouts, Research Director at Gartner, who will present “Why Marketing Matters: How to Rise Above the Noise”; and Mike Colesante, VP of U.S. Sales, Backup Technology Limited, whose presentation will focus on “Penetration and Retention of Customer Accounts – Sales Tactics and Techniques.”
Throughout the two-day summit, there will also be open discussions, moderated partner panels and educational lectures. In a presentation titled “Cloud Backup Competitive Positioning,” Marc Staimer, President and CDS, Dragonslayer Consulting will provide competitive analysis and insights of various technologies and alternatives and discuss positioning for winning more sales opportunities. Headlining the agenda, technology leaders that include Intel, NetApp, and Symantec, will deliver presentations and support Hands-on-Lab discussions on joint solutions Powered by Asigra for service providers and VARs.
At this year’s conference, Asigra will again host its innovative Hands-On-Lab, featuring the latest hardware technologies from Intel, NetApp, Symantec and next generation Asigra Cloud Backup software to enable seamless data protection. With a focus of reducing management, backup windows and costs, lab attendees will have the opportunity to “touch the technology” and learn how to optimize backup from the core to the edge, efficiently and profitability. Exercises will include performing live backup, recovery and restoration procedures in private, public and hybrid cloud environments.
“We host the Partner Summit each year to provide our valued partners with a venue to come together to leverage shared market knowledge to grow their cloud backup business. The Summit fosters a collaborative environment that is structured to maximize learning as well as enable the sharing of ideas. No other event offers such a compelling and eclectic combination of world-class subject matter experts and cutting-edge content all focused on cloud backup,” commented Tracy Staniland, Senior Director of Corporate Marketing at Asigra.
And, from a service provider’s point of view, “the market is heating up, increasing the number of opportunities as well as service providers seeking to capitalize on the market. We need all the ammunition we can get to win the fight,” said Matt Grosso, Executive VP of Data Storage Corporation.
One of the leading cloud computing vendors in Canada according to IDC, Asigra is a global software provider and the only Canadian software vendor included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Disk-Based Backup/Recovery[1]. The rapidly growing company boasts over 400,000 global customer sites installed with all customer deployments supported by hundreds of Asigra service providers, including Verizon/Terremark, HP Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Services, CDW, Bell Canada and hundreds of others. The annual Asigra Cloud Backup Summit brings together hundreds of these world-class leading service providers to the Toronto area for its 2-day event focused on thought leadership, go-to-market strategies, product training and market education.
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About Asigra
Asigra is the leading Canadian cloud computing vendor focused on backup, recovery and restoration with more than 400,000 customer sites deployed globally. Asigra Cloud Backup™ transforms the way businesses manage and protect their data by delivering seamless end-to-end data protection that efficiently scales and easily adapts to any IT environment. Asigra Cloud Backup is built for new and existing MSPs/VARs who focus on data protection, IT constrained organizations, and industries with compliance mandates that are looking to improve their backup with a secure, reliable and predictable data protection cloud backup model. With more than 25 years of experience as backup/recovery pioneers, Asigra manages one of the largest business-class backup service provider ecosystems in the world who power their cloud backup services using Asigra technology. Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices globally. For more information, visit www.asigra.com.
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[1] Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Disk-Based Backup/Recovery, January, 2011, ID Number: G00209399
TORONTO – June 6, 2011 – Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup™, recovery and restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, today announced that leading storage industry analysts will join a host of experts from Asigra and its cloud backup service providers as featured speakers and panelists at the Asigra Cloud Backup Partner Summit, June 7-8 in Toronto. The Asigra Partner Summit, this year entitled OutMarket, OutSell, OutSmart, is the only conference of its kind where hundreds of cloud backup service providers, MSPs and VARs from all over the world come together to hear the latest in trends and technologies impacting cloud backup. The conference offers a range of strategies to help service providers take a leadership position in one of cloud computing’s largest areas of opportunity – cloud backup.
The market for cloud backup services is approximately $2 billion and growing rapidly, according to analysts. That trend is visible with businesses of every size and in every vertical as these organizations seek comprehensive backup that is more reliable and cost efficient. In fact, a recent study commissioned by Asigra revealed that businesses who will embrace cloud backup will increase dramatically over the next two years. Across all industries, companies are turning to Asigra Cloud Backup™ for its efficiency, security and ease-of-use.
Companies are transitioning to business-class cloud backup because it:
• Makes data recovery and restoration accessible from anywhere to anywhere
• Offers built-in disaster recovery
• Is highly scalable; there’s no storage limit
• Automates mass deployment, management and comprehensive data backup
• Provides a safe, secure way of backing up data both locally and remotely
Asigra was the first to develop cloud backup technology in 1986 by creating a platform that could deliver backup and recovery services over telephone lines. More than 25 years later, the company’s cloud backup platform remains the most efficient, robust and secure solution of its kind. According to Lauren Whitehouse, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, Asigra remains “at the forefront of providing the most optimized way to protect data in the cloud.”
Presentations in the summit’s three tracks—OutMarket, OutSell, and OutSmart—are aimed at giving partners the edge they need to rise to the top of an increasingly crowded marketplace. As Forrester analyst Rachel Dines pointed out in a recent article on Bloomberg.com, the growing demand for cloud backup has bred “hundreds of new cloud backup providers, and most of them have popped up in the past couple of years.”
Some of the world’s leading experts in cloud backup will present at this year’s summit. They include Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group, who will present on “Cloud Backup Mobile Marketing Opportunities”; Dave Chapa, Senior Analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, who will discuss "Building a Stronger Cloud Backup and Recovery Business;” Richard Fouts, Research Director at Gartner, who will present “Why Marketing Matters: How to Rise Above the Noise”; and Mike Colesante, VP of U.S. Sales, Backup Technology Limited, whose presentation will focus on “Penetration and Retention of Customer Accounts – Sales Tactics and Techniques.”
Throughout the two-day summit, there will also be open discussions, moderated partner panels and educational lectures. In a presentation titled “Cloud Backup Competitive Positioning,” Marc Staimer, President and CDS, Dragonslayer Consulting will provide competitive analysis and insights of various technologies and alternatives and discuss positioning for winning more sales opportunities. Headlining the agenda, technology leaders that include Intel, NetApp, and Symantec, will deliver presentations and support Hands-on-Lab discussions on joint solutions Powered by Asigra for service providers and VARs.
At this year’s conference, Asigra will again host its innovative Hands-On-Lab, featuring the latest hardware technologies from Intel, NetApp, Symantec and next generation Asigra Cloud Backup software to enable seamless data protection. With a focus of reducing management, backup windows and costs, lab attendees will have the opportunity to “touch the technology” and learn how to optimize backup from the core to the edge, efficiently and profitability. Exercises will include performing live backup, recovery and restoration procedures in private, public and hybrid cloud environments.
“We host the Partner Summit each year to provide our valued partners with a venue to come together to leverage shared market knowledge to grow their cloud backup business. The Summit fosters a collaborative environment that is structured to maximize learning as well as enable the sharing of ideas. No other event offers such a compelling and eclectic combination of world-class subject matter experts and cutting-edge content all focused on cloud backup,” commented Tracy Staniland, Senior Director of Corporate Marketing at Asigra.
And, from a service provider’s point of view, “the market is heating up, increasing the number of opportunities as well as service providers seeking to capitalize on the market. We need all the ammunition we can get to win the fight,” said Matt Grosso, Executive VP of Data Storage Corporation.
One of the leading cloud computing vendors in Canada according to IDC, Asigra is a global software provider and the only Canadian software vendor included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Disk-Based Backup/Recovery[1]. The rapidly growing company boasts over 400,000 global customer sites installed with all customer deployments supported by hundreds of Asigra service providers, including Verizon/Terremark, HP Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Services, CDW, Bell Canada and hundreds of others. The annual Asigra Cloud Backup Summit brings together hundreds of these world-class leading service providers to the Toronto area for its 2-day event focused on thought leadership, go-to-market strategies, product training and market education.
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About Asigra
Asigra is the leading Canadian cloud computing vendor focused on backup, recovery and restoration with more than 400,000 customer sites deployed globally. Asigra Cloud Backup™ transforms the way businesses manage and protect their data by delivering seamless end-to-end data protection that efficiently scales and easily adapts to any IT environment. Asigra Cloud Backup is built for new and existing MSPs/VARs who focus on data protection, IT constrained organizations, and industries with compliance mandates that are looking to improve their backup with a secure, reliable and predictable data protection cloud backup model. With more than 25 years of experience as backup/recovery pioneers, Asigra manages one of the largest business-class backup service provider ecosystems in the world who power their cloud backup services using Asigra technology. Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices globally. For more information, visit www.asigra.com.
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[1] Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Disk-Based Backup/Recovery, January, 2011, ID Number: G00209399
Mentora Group Chooses Nexsan for Reliable, Flexible Enterprise-Class Cloud Storage Platform
Tier-one Provider of SaaS Application Testing, Tuning, and Cloud Services Gains
High-Density Storage while Reducing Co-Location Rack Space Requirements
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., June 6, 2011 — Nexsan®, a leading independent provider of disk-based storage systems, today announced that Mentora, a provider of testing, tuning, and hosting services for business-critical systems, has chosen high-density Nexsan storage systems to save valuable rack space in its data centers and provide reliable, flexible, high-capacity storage in a private cloud environment. In its deployment, Mentora is using multiple Nexsan storage systems, including a SATABeast® for disk-based backup and SASBeast® for the company's private virtual platform.
Mentora architects, builds and maintains customer environments at top-tier data centers, each with hundreds of servers, in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas and Washington, D.C., and delivers services nationwide to mid-market and large businesses. The company also provides application performance services for computing environments that include Oracle eBusiness Suite and databases, healthcare ERP, and other applications, as well as Websphere MW and Citrix technologies. In addition, Mentora hosts and proactively manages enterprise equipment and applications for eCommerce, healthcare, insurance, finance and publishing in the company's data centers and virtual private cloud.
Mentora backs up hundreds of terabytes of data per month for a large number of customers. Prior to selecting Nexsan, its storage systems employed power-hungry off-the-shelf controllers that took up a great deal of rack space and did not live up to performance expectations. Mentora needed a storage solution that would consolidate its storage environment to reduce energy and space requirements and provide very high disk I/O for performance to meet stringent service level agreements (SLAs).
"We use top-tier facilities to house our storage infrastructure which comes at a premium price. Therefore, it is critical for us to optimize those facilities for maximum utilization and efficiency," said Andrey Dmitriev, Director, Host and Applications, Mentora Group. "With space also at a premium, we wanted a storage solution that offered exceptional density and high availability, allowing us to provide significant value to our business customers."
When architecting its storage environment, Mentora required systems that could handle high-speed backup processes in a relatively small footprint and provide the level of service needed. Today, Mentora's Nexsan solution includes multiple SATABeast high density storage systems that are used primarily for backup. The company also employs the Nexsan SASBeast high-capacity, high-performance, enterprise-class storage system with a density of 25.2TB of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage to build out its private virtual platform.
Its Nexsan storage solutions not only make far better use of rack space but also provide Mentora with other important advantages:
· Reliability — During the time Mentora has been running its Nexsan systems, the disk failure rate has been far lower than that of other systems it has experience with. In addition, the company has never had issues with firmware upgrades, ensuring maximum uptime.
· Flexibility — A customer may have different workloads in its environment, such as a database operations, various file systems and virtual machines, that have different throughput and capacity requirements. Nexsan allows Mentora to handle all of these environments by mixing SATA, SAS and high-performance SSD drive technologies in a single tiered storage system.
· Ease of Use — Mentora found it very easy to deploy and manage its Nexsan systems using Nexsan's browser-based administration tools, which require no special plug-ins.
· Cost Effectiveness — Other vendors offer high availability, or high performance, or high capacity, but they usually offer these capabilities at a much higher price. Nexsan products offer all of these advantages at a very competitive price.
"Our high-capacity Nexsan storage allows us to back up a hundred megabytes a second, and do so very efficiently," said Dmitriev. "Once we started using Nexsan, we realized they let you do things that many other vendors do not. You can mix drives of different speeds in the same chassis to support multi-application workloads in a very dense form-factor. You can also have different levels of access with Fibre Channel and iSCSI, providing a very flexible multi-purpose solution. Nexsan products really provide the best value for the dollar."
"Cloud service providers like Mentora need affordable enterprise-class solutions that can fill a wide variety of needs for many different customers,” said Victoria Grey, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Nexsan. “Our solutions provide the flexibility to meet those needs while maximizing data center resources, including space, power and management resources."
Resources
2010 DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide
About Mentora
Mentora specializes in application performance: testing, tuning and hosting high-availability revenue-driving solutions for business-critical systems. Customers choose Mentora for managed hosting because the company provides application availability and performance that businesses require, with Tier III named-engineers interacting directly with client IT teams. Application specialties include the Oracle eBusiness Suite and databases, healthcare ERP, eCommerce and Enterprise Web applications and Websphere MQ and Citrix technologies. Mentora hosts and proactively manages applications in eCommerce, healthcare, insurance, finance, and publishing at top-tier data centers. The company has
offices in Atlanta, Boston, Washington D.C. and Dallas, delivering services nationwide. Visit the company at www.mentora.com.
About Nexsan
Nexsan® is a leading independent provider of disk-based storage systems purpose-built and priced for the mid-market, offering industry-leading reliability, space and power efficiency. Nexsan storage systems provide scalability, integrity and security for growing volumes of unstructured data and are ideal for virtual storage, data protection, secure online archiving, bulk and cloud storage applications. Overcoming the challenges of traditional storage, Nexsan delivers a different kind of storage experience with easy-to-use, efficient and enterprise-class solutions that reduce the complexity and cost of storage. Nexsan delivers its storage systems through a select global partner ecosystem of solution providers, OEMs and system integrators. Nexsan is based in Thousand Oaks, Calif. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.nexsan.com.
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Nexsan is a registered trademark of Nexsan Corporation. All other product or company names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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High-Density Storage while Reducing Co-Location Rack Space Requirements
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., June 6, 2011 — Nexsan®, a leading independent provider of disk-based storage systems, today announced that Mentora, a provider of testing, tuning, and hosting services for business-critical systems, has chosen high-density Nexsan storage systems to save valuable rack space in its data centers and provide reliable, flexible, high-capacity storage in a private cloud environment. In its deployment, Mentora is using multiple Nexsan storage systems, including a SATABeast® for disk-based backup and SASBeast® for the company's private virtual platform.
Mentora architects, builds and maintains customer environments at top-tier data centers, each with hundreds of servers, in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas and Washington, D.C., and delivers services nationwide to mid-market and large businesses. The company also provides application performance services for computing environments that include Oracle eBusiness Suite and databases, healthcare ERP, and other applications, as well as Websphere MW and Citrix technologies. In addition, Mentora hosts and proactively manages enterprise equipment and applications for eCommerce, healthcare, insurance, finance and publishing in the company's data centers and virtual private cloud.
Mentora backs up hundreds of terabytes of data per month for a large number of customers. Prior to selecting Nexsan, its storage systems employed power-hungry off-the-shelf controllers that took up a great deal of rack space and did not live up to performance expectations. Mentora needed a storage solution that would consolidate its storage environment to reduce energy and space requirements and provide very high disk I/O for performance to meet stringent service level agreements (SLAs).
"We use top-tier facilities to house our storage infrastructure which comes at a premium price. Therefore, it is critical for us to optimize those facilities for maximum utilization and efficiency," said Andrey Dmitriev, Director, Host and Applications, Mentora Group. "With space also at a premium, we wanted a storage solution that offered exceptional density and high availability, allowing us to provide significant value to our business customers."
When architecting its storage environment, Mentora required systems that could handle high-speed backup processes in a relatively small footprint and provide the level of service needed. Today, Mentora's Nexsan solution includes multiple SATABeast high density storage systems that are used primarily for backup. The company also employs the Nexsan SASBeast high-capacity, high-performance, enterprise-class storage system with a density of 25.2TB of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage to build out its private virtual platform.
Its Nexsan storage solutions not only make far better use of rack space but also provide Mentora with other important advantages:
· Reliability — During the time Mentora has been running its Nexsan systems, the disk failure rate has been far lower than that of other systems it has experience with. In addition, the company has never had issues with firmware upgrades, ensuring maximum uptime.
· Flexibility — A customer may have different workloads in its environment, such as a database operations, various file systems and virtual machines, that have different throughput and capacity requirements. Nexsan allows Mentora to handle all of these environments by mixing SATA, SAS and high-performance SSD drive technologies in a single tiered storage system.
· Ease of Use — Mentora found it very easy to deploy and manage its Nexsan systems using Nexsan's browser-based administration tools, which require no special plug-ins.
· Cost Effectiveness — Other vendors offer high availability, or high performance, or high capacity, but they usually offer these capabilities at a much higher price. Nexsan products offer all of these advantages at a very competitive price.
"Our high-capacity Nexsan storage allows us to back up a hundred megabytes a second, and do so very efficiently," said Dmitriev. "Once we started using Nexsan, we realized they let you do things that many other vendors do not. You can mix drives of different speeds in the same chassis to support multi-application workloads in a very dense form-factor. You can also have different levels of access with Fibre Channel and iSCSI, providing a very flexible multi-purpose solution. Nexsan products really provide the best value for the dollar."
"Cloud service providers like Mentora need affordable enterprise-class solutions that can fill a wide variety of needs for many different customers,” said Victoria Grey, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Nexsan. “Our solutions provide the flexibility to meet those needs while maximizing data center resources, including space, power and management resources."
Resources
2010 DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide
About Mentora
Mentora specializes in application performance: testing, tuning and hosting high-availability revenue-driving solutions for business-critical systems. Customers choose Mentora for managed hosting because the company provides application availability and performance that businesses require, with Tier III named-engineers interacting directly with client IT teams. Application specialties include the Oracle eBusiness Suite and databases, healthcare ERP, eCommerce and Enterprise Web applications and Websphere MQ and Citrix technologies. Mentora hosts and proactively manages applications in eCommerce, healthcare, insurance, finance, and publishing at top-tier data centers. The company has
offices in Atlanta, Boston, Washington D.C. and Dallas, delivering services nationwide. Visit the company at www.mentora.com.
About Nexsan
Nexsan® is a leading independent provider of disk-based storage systems purpose-built and priced for the mid-market, offering industry-leading reliability, space and power efficiency. Nexsan storage systems provide scalability, integrity and security for growing volumes of unstructured data and are ideal for virtual storage, data protection, secure online archiving, bulk and cloud storage applications. Overcoming the challenges of traditional storage, Nexsan delivers a different kind of storage experience with easy-to-use, efficient and enterprise-class solutions that reduce the complexity and cost of storage. Nexsan delivers its storage systems through a select global partner ecosystem of solution providers, OEMs and system integrators. Nexsan is based in Thousand Oaks, Calif. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.nexsan.com.
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Nexsan is a registered trademark of Nexsan Corporation. All other product or company names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
SANpulse Previews Automated Storage Migration Solutions for HP 3PAR Storage at HP Discover 2011
SANpulse Illustrates Efficient, Risk-Free Transition to Latest Generation Cloud or Virtualized Storage Infrastructure
Jersey City, N.J. — June 6, 2011 — Paving the path to the next generation data center with technology led solutions, SANpulse Technologies, Inc., today announced public exhibition of its SANlogics™ SAN migration and optimization solution for the first time at HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas from June 6-10 in booth 543. During this event, SANpulse will show how enterprises planning storage technology refreshes to HP 3PAR Storage Systems can reduce migration timelines while ensuring uptime and containing costs.
According to HP, HP Discover 2011 is the technology event where attendees learn what it takes to start their Instant-On Enterprise journey. Held annually, this event brings the power of people, technology and ideas to solve the most difficult enterprise IT challenges. HP Discover is the new enterprise business event for all alumni of the HP Software Universe, HP Technology Forum and HP Technology@Work.
"HP Discover 2011 provides SANpulse with a unique opportunity to engage with a diverse group of enterprises looking to extract the highest value from their IT investments," said Peter Mehta, CEO, SANpulse. "With innovations in process-driven automation, SANpulse helps organizations reach previously unseen levels of efficiency when moving from legacy to next generation storage environments such as HP 3PAR Storage, avoiding the complexity and cost of going it alone."
At HP Discover, SANpulse will highlight support for HP 3PAR Storage, the next generation of Tier 1 storage to improve SAN infrastructure performance, scalability, and availability and enable virtual and cloud computing. HP 3PAR storage systems deliver enterprise IT as a utility service to drive agility and efficiency in enterprise-class, virtual and cloud data centers. As an HP AllianceONE partner, SANpulse supports HP 3PAR customers in building highly virtualized data centers, helping to transform the businesses they fuel.
With organizations today seeking to contain IT spending while outmaneuvering the competition through innovation and agility, technology refreshes that include virtualized infrastructure and private cloud deployment are becoming the standard. Since storage is core to these technology initiatives, migration to these technology platforms must be seamless, leveraging proper planning and an experienced team backed by strong technology and processes. SANpulse, the migration expert, removes the complexity from these operations to ensure operational efficiency, uptime and savings across the entire business.
SANpulse is an HP AllianceONE partner and will be exhibiting at HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas from June 6-10 in booth 543 (Discovery Zone). For more information, contact SANpulse at 888.SANPULSE (888.726.7857) or email info@sanpulse.com.
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About SANpulse Technologies, Inc.
SANpulse, The Migration Expert, transforms the world's largest IT infrastructures and creates efficiencies to help reduce IT-related operational and capital expenses. Through technology led solutions, the company changes the landscape for large scale consolidations and migrations for traditional, virtual and cloud environments by providing infrastructure information insight that empowers proactive decisions. SANpulse solutions include SANlogics, Migration Practice and SANatomy. SANlogics, a modular proprietary software platform, supports enterprise migrations and related business requirements through discovery, analytics and auto-generation of executables. SANpulse is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, with regional offices in London, U.K. and Pune, India. For more information, please visit www.SANpulse.com.
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Jersey City, N.J. — June 6, 2011 — Paving the path to the next generation data center with technology led solutions, SANpulse Technologies, Inc., today announced public exhibition of its SANlogics™ SAN migration and optimization solution for the first time at HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas from June 6-10 in booth 543. During this event, SANpulse will show how enterprises planning storage technology refreshes to HP 3PAR Storage Systems can reduce migration timelines while ensuring uptime and containing costs.
According to HP, HP Discover 2011 is the technology event where attendees learn what it takes to start their Instant-On Enterprise journey. Held annually, this event brings the power of people, technology and ideas to solve the most difficult enterprise IT challenges. HP Discover is the new enterprise business event for all alumni of the HP Software Universe, HP Technology Forum and HP Technology@Work.
"HP Discover 2011 provides SANpulse with a unique opportunity to engage with a diverse group of enterprises looking to extract the highest value from their IT investments," said Peter Mehta, CEO, SANpulse. "With innovations in process-driven automation, SANpulse helps organizations reach previously unseen levels of efficiency when moving from legacy to next generation storage environments such as HP 3PAR Storage, avoiding the complexity and cost of going it alone."
At HP Discover, SANpulse will highlight support for HP 3PAR Storage, the next generation of Tier 1 storage to improve SAN infrastructure performance, scalability, and availability and enable virtual and cloud computing. HP 3PAR storage systems deliver enterprise IT as a utility service to drive agility and efficiency in enterprise-class, virtual and cloud data centers. As an HP AllianceONE partner, SANpulse supports HP 3PAR customers in building highly virtualized data centers, helping to transform the businesses they fuel.
With organizations today seeking to contain IT spending while outmaneuvering the competition through innovation and agility, technology refreshes that include virtualized infrastructure and private cloud deployment are becoming the standard. Since storage is core to these technology initiatives, migration to these technology platforms must be seamless, leveraging proper planning and an experienced team backed by strong technology and processes. SANpulse, the migration expert, removes the complexity from these operations to ensure operational efficiency, uptime and savings across the entire business.
SANpulse is an HP AllianceONE partner and will be exhibiting at HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas from June 6-10 in booth 543 (Discovery Zone). For more information, contact SANpulse at 888.SANPULSE (888.726.7857) or email info@sanpulse.com.
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About SANpulse Technologies, Inc.
SANpulse, The Migration Expert, transforms the world's largest IT infrastructures and creates efficiencies to help reduce IT-related operational and capital expenses. Through technology led solutions, the company changes the landscape for large scale consolidations and migrations for traditional, virtual and cloud environments by providing infrastructure information insight that empowers proactive decisions. SANpulse solutions include SANlogics, Migration Practice and SANatomy. SANlogics, a modular proprietary software platform, supports enterprise migrations and related business requirements through discovery, analytics and auto-generation of executables. SANpulse is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, with regional offices in London, U.K. and Pune, India. For more information, please visit www.SANpulse.com.
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Friday, June 3, 2011
METALOGIX A FEATURED PRESENTER IN INFORMATIONWEEK WEBINAR EXPLORING HOW TO USE SHAREPOINT ONLINE IN A HYBRID CLOUD ENVIRONMENT
Online Event on June 7, 2011 Shares How a Governance Plan with Supporting Tools Can Effectively Manage “SharePoint Sprawl”
WASHINGTON, DC June 3, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, today announced that it will be co-presenting an InformationWeek webinar that will explore best practices on how to use SharePoint online in a hybrid cloud environment. The webinar, titled “Utilizing SharePoint Online in a Hybrid Cloud Environment,” will take place on June 7, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. EST. Stephen Cawood, Microsoft SharePoint MVP and director of product marketing for Metalogix will be presenting.
“SharePoint Online and the pending release of Office 365 gives organizations a flexible choice in how they manage their SharePoint infrastructure on-premise, in a private cloud or a hybrid scenario,” said Stephen Cawood, director of product marketing, Metalogix. “Many organizations are using SharePoint as a document management platform, but SharePoint Online adds additional value as an affordable hosted option.”
The online event will offer best practices for managing a hybrid SharePoint environment and showcase how other companies can use SharePoint Online for document and application management. It will also outline how a governance plan with supporting tools can effectively manage “SharePoint sprawl.”
Many organizations are discovering the value of hybrid SharePoint cloud scenarios by synching their Microsoft SharePoint servers with Microsoft Office 365 or BPOS, seeing powerful flexibility and high availability for their valued enterprise content. But, to make the most of any adoption of Microsoft Online Services planning, migration and on-going cloud management must be performed in a holistic way. Metalogix is the only migration vendor approved by Microsoft for use with Office 365 or BPOS dedicated servers.
Registration for this webinar is open now. You can register today by visiting: http://ping.fm/36QoC
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About Metalogix
Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premise or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/iCV1v
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Metalogix, and the Metalogix logo are trademarks of Metalogix Software. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
WASHINGTON, DC June 3, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, today announced that it will be co-presenting an InformationWeek webinar that will explore best practices on how to use SharePoint online in a hybrid cloud environment. The webinar, titled “Utilizing SharePoint Online in a Hybrid Cloud Environment,” will take place on June 7, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. EST. Stephen Cawood, Microsoft SharePoint MVP and director of product marketing for Metalogix will be presenting.
“SharePoint Online and the pending release of Office 365 gives organizations a flexible choice in how they manage their SharePoint infrastructure on-premise, in a private cloud or a hybrid scenario,” said Stephen Cawood, director of product marketing, Metalogix. “Many organizations are using SharePoint as a document management platform, but SharePoint Online adds additional value as an affordable hosted option.”
The online event will offer best practices for managing a hybrid SharePoint environment and showcase how other companies can use SharePoint Online for document and application management. It will also outline how a governance plan with supporting tools can effectively manage “SharePoint sprawl.”
Many organizations are discovering the value of hybrid SharePoint cloud scenarios by synching their Microsoft SharePoint servers with Microsoft Office 365 or BPOS, seeing powerful flexibility and high availability for their valued enterprise content. But, to make the most of any adoption of Microsoft Online Services planning, migration and on-going cloud management must be performed in a holistic way. Metalogix is the only migration vendor approved by Microsoft for use with Office 365 or BPOS dedicated servers.
Registration for this webinar is open now. You can register today by visiting: http://ping.fm/36QoC
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About Metalogix
Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premise or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/iCV1v
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Metalogix, and the Metalogix logo are trademarks of Metalogix Software. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
METALOGIX WEBINAR REVEALS FIVE KEY CONSIDERATIONS FOR EMAIL MANAGEMENT ON JUNE 2, 2011
Three Exchange 2010 Experts Explore Real World Archiving and Discovery Challenges with Exchange 2010
WASHINGTON, DC June 1, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, today announced an online event which will reveal the common ongoing email storage and records management needs when using Exchange 2010.
“Although Microsoft has introduced archiving and search functionality in Exchange 2010 SP1, there are still many benefits to using third-party email archiving solutions – especially at the enterprise level,” said Hudson Casson, EMEA senior solutions consultant, Metalogix. “Most organizations we talk to have found that additional tools have enhanced their Exchange 2010 experience significantly.”
The webinar, titled “Exchange 2010 in the Real World – Will it be Enough? 5 Key Considerations for Email Management,” will take place on June 2, 2011 at 5:00 a.m. EST/11:00 a.m. BST. It will feature three presenters: Janet Bagot, CIO, Essential; James Fussell, messaging consultant, Essential; and Hudson Casson, EMEA senior solutions consultant, Metalogix.
During the webinar, the presenters will share how two UK-based companies (one public and one private) have optimized their Exchange 2010 environment using Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition. Metalogix Archive Manager - Exchange Edition reduces email storage costs by up to 80% and reduces backup and recovery times by 50%. It has successfully archived billions of emails and has simplified the jobs of over a thousand customers.
Registration for this webinar is open now. You can register today by visiting:
https://metalogix.webex.com/metalogix/onstage/g.php?d=664512493&t=a
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About Essential
Established in 1989, Essential offers deep-domain expertise in electronic messaging and related technologies. During the last 18 years it has delivered some of the first corporate Internet messaging gateways in the UK, the largest ISDN email integrated fax solution in Europe, one of the first Lotus Domino archiving solutions in Europe, the first email migration using an 'Archive First' methodology and over 350 email archiving implementations, including some of the largest and most complex deployments in the world. Essential is also a Microsoft Gold Partner and an Oracle and IBM business partner. For more information, please visit: http://www.essential.co.uk.
About Metalogix
Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premise or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://www.metalogix.com
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Metalogix, and the Metalogix logo are trademarks of Metalogix Software. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations for Metalogix
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WASHINGTON, DC June 1, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, today announced an online event which will reveal the common ongoing email storage and records management needs when using Exchange 2010.
“Although Microsoft has introduced archiving and search functionality in Exchange 2010 SP1, there are still many benefits to using third-party email archiving solutions – especially at the enterprise level,” said Hudson Casson, EMEA senior solutions consultant, Metalogix. “Most organizations we talk to have found that additional tools have enhanced their Exchange 2010 experience significantly.”
The webinar, titled “Exchange 2010 in the Real World – Will it be Enough? 5 Key Considerations for Email Management,” will take place on June 2, 2011 at 5:00 a.m. EST/11:00 a.m. BST. It will feature three presenters: Janet Bagot, CIO, Essential; James Fussell, messaging consultant, Essential; and Hudson Casson, EMEA senior solutions consultant, Metalogix.
During the webinar, the presenters will share how two UK-based companies (one public and one private) have optimized their Exchange 2010 environment using Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition. Metalogix Archive Manager - Exchange Edition reduces email storage costs by up to 80% and reduces backup and recovery times by 50%. It has successfully archived billions of emails and has simplified the jobs of over a thousand customers.
Registration for this webinar is open now. You can register today by visiting:
https://metalogix.webex.com/metalogix/onstage/g.php?d=664512493&t=a
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About Essential
Established in 1989, Essential offers deep-domain expertise in electronic messaging and related technologies. During the last 18 years it has delivered some of the first corporate Internet messaging gateways in the UK, the largest ISDN email integrated fax solution in Europe, one of the first Lotus Domino archiving solutions in Europe, the first email migration using an 'Archive First' methodology and over 350 email archiving implementations, including some of the largest and most complex deployments in the world. Essential is also a Microsoft Gold Partner and an Oracle and IBM business partner. For more information, please visit: http://www.essential.co.uk.
About Metalogix
Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premise or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://www.metalogix.com
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