8/31/2009

We have a number of great events coming your way in September, so please join us for them all.  A big THANK YOU to our partners Compellent, Cisco, HP, Latistys and Symantec for making these events possible.

 September 4th – GAMER Movie Premier – Regal Continental Theater

We truly appreciate your business and would like to to join us for a fun premier of the movie GAMER.  This takes place on the Friday before Labor Day, so I’m thinking it will be a great way to start the weekend.

 September 16th – Virtualization Customer Council Event – Del Frisco’s

Please join us for an educational lunch seminar designed to help you with your virtualization strategy.  These are the latest conversations in the virtualization space and these technologies will significantly impact our IT environments in the future.

Join Lewan & Associates, HP ProCurve and LeftHand for this Virtualization Customer Council Event

You’ve embarked on the journey. But do you know where you’re headed? This event will be exploring real world examples of how advanced storage and networking are driving inventive and creative ways of improving efficiency beyond server virtualization.  Optimizing resilience, performance and security for IP storage and IP networking will be discussed as a complement to optimizing iSCSI SAN environments.  Unique features from HP LeftHand P4000 SAN/IQ and HP ProCurve will be shared to future proof and prepare for next generation 10 Gig-E iSCSI SANs. We Invite you to join us for the Virtualization event with emphasis on “Customer Councils” sharing best practices between customers. Provision storage resources dynamically and intelligently Reduce the impact on application performance Scale for growth and adapt rapidly to changes in business requirements Manage your entire storage infrastructure through a single console Agenda 11:00 a.m. 11:15 a.m.   Welcome and Introduction HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions 11:45 a.m. 12:00 p.m.   HP ProCurve Networking Lunch is Served 12:15 p.m. 1:00 p.m.   Q & A Open Discussion Adjourn Sign up today and see for yourself how you can break the barriers to performance and manageability in a virtualized environment. >” src=”http://www.event-mgt.com/eblasts/2009/virtualization/invite_workshop_03_09/register_today.gif” width=75 height=20>

When and where     Wed September 16th, 2009 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Del Frisco’s 8100 E Orchard Rd Denver, CO 80111 Register today.

September 17th – Cisco Solutions Update – Cisco Customer Briefing Center – Invite Included

Would you like to learn about and see the latest offerings from Cisco, including:

• Data Center
• VMware partnership
• Security
• Wireless
• Unified Communications

If so, come to this impressive facility in Englewood that features many of the most advanced technologies in the world.

 September 23rd – Controlling Storage and E-discovery Costs – Maggiano’s Are you spending too much upgrading your storage?  Are you lacking useful tools to manage your unstructured data?  Users complaining about email space limits?  If you answered yes to any of these questions, join us to learn about the industries most advanced email and data management solution, Enterprise Vault.  

	Do you feel as if you’re spending more time, energy, and budget on data center and legal processes that aren’t getting any more efficient? You’re not alone. Many organizations—small to large enterprise—are feeling the pressures to do more today but with the same or fewer resources than they had last year. Join us to discuss how archiving enables you to regain control and reduce costs associated with storing, managing, and discovering email and other unstructured information. Symantec Enterprise Vault is the key to your storage optimization strategy: • Control email storage growth and give users virtually unlimited inboxes without adding storage • De Duplicate across archived Email, Instant Messages, SharePoint, File Servers, and more • Archive, block or automatically delete files based on corporate policy to control file server growth • Discover and place legal holds instantly on information relevant to an internal or legal search request

8/17/2009

As our IT environments grow more complex, the end user community requires faster, more reliable access to information and the business cuts budgets, IT must constantly adapt.  Solid State Drive (SSD) technology and managed data center services are two topics that will continue to be valuable to IT organizations, so I have included some of the latest information about these topics.  I have also included a link to a informational webcast from Gartner to help you make an impact.

 

Webcast - Gartner – Be an IT Hero: Proven Approaches to Efficiency - View the webcast

How can IT departments today deal with shrinking budgets and increased demand for apps, storage space, mobility, reliability, etc.?  This is a great high-level webcast from Gartner which shows how to address these issues and keep IT looking good to the business.

 

Good (and quick) Reading – NY Times - Solid State Drives get Warmer Reception from Businesses – Article 

The New York Times recently ran a short article discussing how Solid State Technology is making an impact to business IT environments.  We now have the ability with our partners Fusion IO, Compellent and Equallogic to provide Solid State technology to support your most IO intensive applications.  If you are looking at this technology, we have some great information to share with you about how to harness the power of SSD.  Fusion IO Compellent SSD Equallogic PS6000S

 

Featured Partner – Latisys – Link

Latisys (formerly Data 393) has the ability to support organizations requiring a cost-effective solution for facilities and infrastructure.  With Tier 3 data centers in California, Colorado and Illinois, Latisys can provide enterprise level products and services for data center space, hosting and managed services.  If you have requirements which have been too costly or complex to address in the past (DR, virtualization, archive, security, etc.) let’s schedule a data center tour and talk about how Latisys might fit into your plans.