Award-winning SuccessMaker Digital Program for Grades K-8 Now Available Online

Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) June 27, 2011

Today at the International Society for Technology in Educations (ISTE) annual conference in Philadelphia, the education services and technology company Pearson announced that its digital K-8 program for mathematics and reading, SuccessMaker, will be available online. Ready for the 2011-2012 school year, school districts nationwide will implement SuccessMaker on the internet with Pearson hosting the digital content and student data, and delivering the information online to schools.

SuccessMakers online deployment is a cost-effective, new option for delivering personalized digital instruction given todays growing hardware and school staffing constraints. Online delivery of SuccessMaker also can help teachers and schools extend the learning day beyond classroom walls.

For schools, the Pearson-hosted web deployment option increases flexibility by: enabling the scaling and modification of class implementations more easily, simplifying setup processes; and providing a Pearson-managed backup and disaster recovery system. And, costs can be reduced since no additional software or hardware is required for purchase or installation.

With belt-tightening pervasive across the country, we believe the online delivery option for SuccessMaker can help keep costs down for school districts and still offer students the latest in a proven education technology that focuses on the needs of the individual learner, said Chris Dragon, newly named president of Pearson Digital Learning. Our award-winning SuccessMaker program personalizes instruction, matches the latest in educational standards including the Common Core State Standards – and now improves the overall digital learning experience for our teachers and students by offering more flexibility for anytime, always learning.

Additionally, the latest version of SuccessMaker will boost educators ability to make data-driven decisions and ease system management for teachers and schools.

SuccessMaker advances student learning with a new Spanish language glossary to improve support for English Language Learners, additional spelling and grammar lessons, added reading passages that deliver expanded science and social studies content, and content aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

Leigh Byron, Head of School at Village Charter School in New Jersey, said, I am continually impressed with the power of SuccessMaker. It has greatly improved students academic performance. It has become a part of our culture, and its reporting features have changed the way we analyze data and differentiate instruction.

Designed to accommodate a full array of different learning styles including those students served by special education, or who are gifted, at-risk or English language learners, SuccessMaker is a great match for many common education funds including Title I, EETT, IDEA, 21st Century Learning, Title III, Head Start and school improvement funds.

About SuccessMaker

SuccessMaker identifies and addresses individual learning needs quickly and efficiently through embedded assessments that determine each students unique starting place and continuously analyze each students actual performance. The program utilizes this data to automatically create a personalized path through the curriculum based on a learners strengths and weaknesses, pinpointing specific areas of struggle, difficulty, advancement, or mastery.

Nearly three million kindergarteners through eighth-graders have logged in to SuccessMaker globally to date. For more information about SuccessMaker and the Common Core, go to http://www.successmaker.com or http://www.pearsoned.com/commoncore.

About Pearson

Pearson has as its mission to work side-by-side with states, districts, teachers, students and parents to ensure that every child is prepared for college and career (NYSE: PSO).

Contact:

Stacy Skelly; Stacy(dot)skelly(at)pearson(dot)com; 800-745-8489

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Dolly Drive to Now Offer Dolly Clone, Award-Winning Local Bootable Disaster Recovery for Mac Free at dollydrive.com

New York, NY (PRWEB) July 15, 2011

Dolly Drive, online backup for Time Machine, announced that it will now offer its Dolly Clone software for free by download. Dolly Clone lets users create an exact duplicate of their entire Mac computer on a local external hard drive. In the event their system crashes or theyre faced with some other computer disaster, users can reboot their computer as though the crash never happened. Dolly Clones easy incremental cloning function makes it easy to quickly update your clone as often as youd like.

We believe cloning is so critical in protecting your digital life that we just want to make sure Mac users do it, regardless of profit. said Mark Ross, Director of Client Services for Dolly Drive. While the clone doesnt offer the full benefits of Dolly Drives online storage like single file archiving and recovery or offsite backup, it at least guarantees youre safe from a system crash or disaster. If weve helped Mac users do that, we consider that a win.

Dolly Clone can be downloaded at http://www.dollydrive.com. Drive subscriptions can be purchased their as well in packages from 50GBs to 2 TBs for $ 5 to $ 55 per month which includes online storage, backup through Apples Time Machine, and software to create bootable clones on a local external hard drive.

About Cirrus Thinking

Cirrus Thinking was founded in 2009 by a pair of passionate Apple fans with the goal of delivering the critical advantages of cloud services to Apple users at the consumer, small businesses and enterprise levels. The first product Dolly Drive, an online backup solution for Apples Time Machine launched in 2011 and was named MacLife Magazines Best 2011 Mac Software and Best of Show at MacWorld 2011. Cirrus Thinkings entire range of Mac and PC products and services provide cutting edge solutions for auto-archiving, online backup, hard drive cloning, online storage, file syncing, and more. Cirrus Thinking has offices in New York and Miami, with SaaS and HaaS technology provided via Dolly Grid, Cirrus Thinking data centers located throughout the United States and Europe.

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Dolly Drive to Now Offer Dolly Clone, Award-Winning Local Bootable Disaster Recovery for Mac Free at dollydrive.com

Logicalis Strengthens Award-Winning Cloud Consulting Practice

Farmington Hills, MI (PRWEB) September 11, 2012

Data storage, maintenance and access are critical components in every business today driving public and private cloud adoption. Logicalis, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, today announced enhancements to its cloud consulting and hosted services practice that will continue to help IT pros define individualized cloud paths that are tailored specifically to the needs of their businesses.

The adoption of cloud computing promises to help organizations lower IT operational complexity, reduce IT operational costs, increase speed of IT services deployment and help IT and, therefore, business agility. But this is a complex arena, according to Robert Mahowald, research vice president for SaaS and Cloud Services at IDC. “Data from IDC’s 2012 CloudTrack survey suggests that cloud providers need to work with their customers to design and plan thoroughly, and delineate all their underlying operational processes and systems via workshops, and then continue to provide them with guidance and consultancy as their business requirements change.

And that is exactly what Logicalis is doing. Logicalis offers detailed cloud readiness, cloud design, and data center assessments to help its clients define their individual paths to the cloud that will best augment their unique business strategies. At Logicalis, were introducing an IT cloud consulting practice, expanding our hosted cloud services, and adding private cloud solutions that feature technologies from industry-leading vendors, says Mike Martin, vice president, Cloud Solutions, for Logicalis.

Recent Enhancements to Logicalis Cloud Practice

1. The addition of VMwares VSphere 5, vCloud Director and Site Recovery Manager to Logicalis cloud platform expands clients virtualized data center strategies while simultaneously stretching CIOs computing budgets.

2. The recent addition of CA Technologies Automation Suite for Clouds enables clients to simplify the consumption and management of Logicalis IT and infrastructure cloud services.

3. An enhanced storage strategy that includes NetApp, in addition to IBM, and provides an expanded cloud reference platform supporting Logicalis own hosted cloud services the Logicalis Enterprise Cloud. The inclusion of NetApp provides integrated storage solutions that round out Logicalis FlexPod practice with Cisco.

4. Expanded storage services include EMC Data Domain for backup, archiving, and disaster recovery in Logicalis hosted cloud.

5. Logicalis is launching a new customer self-service IT cloud portal based on Cisco Intelligent Automation software.

6. Logicalis has earned the Cisco Cloud Builder designation within the Cisco Cloud Partner Program, a designation that recognizes Logicalis competencies to sell and implement Cisco end to-end cloud solutions for its customers.

7.Logicalis, an IBM Premier partner, is one of very few partners to have earned certification in both the Cloud Builder and Cloud Infrastructure solution areas of IBMs Cloud Specialty program.

8. To help customers visualize how any proposed cloud solution might impact their business, Logicalis has created two Cloud Centers of Excellence demo centers based on the HP CloudSystem Matrix one in Farmington Hills, Mich., and the other in Irvine, Calif.

We are continually enhancing our cloud consulting business to deliver meaningful data and storage services, says Bob Hankins, vice president, storage and data solutions, for Logicalis. From infrastructure as a service to disaster recovery as a service, we can help our clients assess what they need, and build the hosted, private or hybrid cloud solutions that will answer those needs in the most efficient and effective manner possible.

About Logicalis

Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed services provider with a breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications and collaboration; data center and cloud services; and managed services.

Logicalis employs almost 3,000 people worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who design, specify, deploy and manage complex ICT infrastructures to meet the needs of over 6,000 corporate and public sector customers. To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM, CA Technologies, NetApp, VMware and ServiceNow.

The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues of over $ 1.2 billion, from operations in the UK, US, Germany, South America and Asia Pacific, and is fast establishing itself as one of the leading IT and Communications solution integrators, specializing in the areas of advanced technologies and services.

The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges, with revenues of over $ 5 billion.

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Logicalis Strengthens Award-Winning Cloud Consulting Practice

Singapore Host: Breaking Barriers with Award-winning Services and Customer Support

(PRWEB) December 19, 2012

One of the most important factors that a lot of users may not remember when choosing a web hosting company is that of location. For instance, a Singapore company wanting to target the local market, and even if they are using a website address that ends with .com, should host with a company that is also based within Singapore. Otherwise, the website may not be listed within a search engine’s local results.

Singapore Host, like its namesake, is a company that is based in Singapore and has been providing complete web hosting solutions to both local and overseas clients. One of the best things about Singapore Host is their customer service which in fact is one of the factors that clients use to differentiate between web hosting companies. In fact, this has been what led them to being awarded The Best Web Hosting (Shared Hosting) 2012 by Consumer Statistics.

Here’s what Maggie Tan had to say about Singapore Host’s customer service. “My partners and I run a site on the best coffee bean grinders, and we were looking to transfer to another web hosting company. Our old hosting service was completely useless in terms of helping us out with everyday issues like uploading content and setting up individual email accounts. However, Singapore Host helped us through every step of the way from transferring my content onto their servers and then being there for us even if we needed help with something as simple as creating a new email account. Way to go, Singapore Host!”

Singapore Host is a web hosting company that truly understands the value of providing quality bandwidth. Providing quick and reliable bandwidth is the only way to ensure that a client’s website will load up quickly and be able to handle large amounts of traffic. That is why their data center is equipped with multiple bandwidth providers, as multiple connections ensure that bandwidth supply remains constant 24x7x365. The data center is also a facility that is equipped with the latest security and disaster management protocols. Disaster recovery prevention and management drills occur frequently in order to ensure that the facility remains at a high state of readiness.

On the consumer end, Singapore Host also provides CPanel, which is a user-friendly control panel that is also easy to work with. The main goal of a control panel is to allow a client full control and easy management over his or her website hosting. Singapore Host’s control panel also allows users to create backups quite easily, and perform restorations when they need to. The backup is compressed into one file archive, which can be downloaded and kept safely. The frequency of the backups depends upon the discretion of the user. With Singapore Host, there are two backups being created. The first one is created by the clients themselves, and the other backup is initiated by Singapore Host itself on a regular basis.

Singapore Host provides quality services with excellent customer service. There is no problem that they are not willing to help their clients out with, making them one of the best choices for those looking for reliability and consistency.

Singapore Host: Breaking Barriers with Award-winning Services and Customer Support