March 2009

Message from the Mavens

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Special Offers and Announcements

 

Digium's Fast Start Asterisk Training Comes to the Mavenspire's Training Center in Hanover

With no pre-requisites, this course will take students (who do not need to have previous experience with Linux, telephony, or Asterisk) from a freshly installed Linux PC to a fully configured and working Asterisk implementation.

And you're off! ...

Astrocom

Astrocom changes its name to Ecessa

Digium

Digium® is launching a new promotion. The promotion is called the 2009 Telecom Stimulus Package, and provides customers with an opportunity to earn up to a $1000 savings on the purchase of a Switchvox® IP PBX

IBM

DeVry University and IBM have launched a new enterprise computing track within the university's computer information systems (CIS) bachelor's degree program. Available beginning in March 2009,

Polycom Certification

Unified Communications is a core strategy in Mavenspire's Transformational Business Technology portfolio. Mavenspire has renewed its commitment with Polycom, adding HDX Video Conferencing to its existing voice and wireless certifications.

Mavenspire has long been sucessful in utilizating the HDX video conferencing system to help organizations reduce travel costs and increase communications between offices and a mobile workforce all over the world.

Product Updates

Astaro

Gateway 7.4

 

Citrix

SXenDesktop3 and HDX3.

 

Digium

Switchvox 4.0 release moved to ETA of March 30, 2009

 

Novell

ZENworks Configuration Management - AdminStudio Standard Edition

ZENworks Application Virtualization 7

PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0

 

VizionCore

vFoglight, v5.2.4.5

 

Zultys

Zultys ONE Packages

 

New and Better Ways to Protect Your Data

Protecting and preserving your data is of the utmost importance to your company. Hosted online backup gives you the control and flexibility that you need. This kind of service is easy to set up, has automated protection, and web-based monitoring. You also have the options for local backup, and email archiving services. This solution offers unified data backup and email archiving in one neat package.

This solution is innovative and secure, but also affordable for small to medium businesses. Military grade encryption (AES-256), Secure pass phrase recovery, continuous incremental backups, visual policy editor, exchange/SQL Server support, and fully featured remote and local backups with enterprise-proven email archiving make this a top offering for backups.

Mavenspire is now offering this service to our customers.

How can I benefit from Online Backup?!

Virtualization is CFO Love
Written by Michael Tanenhaus

CFOs love virtualization. Why? Because CFOs love to spend less money and show positive results from doing so. Consolidation, storage, hard numbers: This is a well documented topic, but I recently covered it in a presentation I gave.  There were enough questions to warrant going through it again.

Show me the Money!