Unlimited Mailbox Receives Contract of Award for TIPS/TAPS Government Purchasing Cooperative

New York, NY (Vocus) March 18, 2010

Computer Generated Solutions Inc. (CGS) announces that its Unlimited Mailbox unit has received a contract of award for Email Archiving, Backup, and Disaster Recovery solutions from the Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS/TAPS). The government purchasing cooperative program is available for use by all public and private schools, colleges, universities, cities, counties, and other government entities in fourteen states. These organizations will benefit from agreed upon pricing, terms and conditions, and other purchasing requirements defined in the TIPS/TAPS request-for-quotation and competitive bidding process.

We are pleased to receive the TIPS/TAPS award, noted Michael Wilding, senior vice president of business development for Unlimited Mailbox. This valuable program saves thousands of government organizations precious time and money in the purchase and deployment of the archiving and e-discovery solutions they require to professionally manage electronic messaging and comply with the fast-growing volume of public records requests.

The TIPS/TAPS program currently covers the states of Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. Unlimited Mailbox offers TIPS/TAPS members an all-in-one solution that adds important new email management capabilities to existing email servers, enabling TIPS/TAPS members to remain vendor-neutral as conditions or needs change. CGS offers both on-premise and hosted, cloud computing system options.

About TIPS/TAPS

TIPS/TAPS, the Interlocal Purchasing System, is sponsored by the Region VIII Education Service Center (ESC8) located at 2230 North Edwards, Mt. Pleasant, Texas and is governed by the Region 8 ESC Board of Directors. The Interlocal Purchasing System is available for use by all public and private schools, colleges, universities, cities, counties, and other government entities in the states of Arkansas, Arizona, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. TIPS/TAPS Awarded Vendors have submitted proposals under the Competitively Bid Process and received a Contract of Award through TIPS/TAPS. These Awarded Vendors have agreed to provide the best pricing, terms and conditions available to TIPS/TAPS Members. TIPS/TAPS takes pride in providing a purchasing cooperative where both Awarded Vendors and Members benefit.

About CGS

For twenty-five years, CGS has enabled global enterprises, regional companies and government agencies to drive breakthrough performance through technology. With global delivery capabilities, expertise across leading platforms and deep experience in multiple industries, CGS has become the IT partner of choice for thousands of organizations worldwide. CGS delivers a wide array of proprietary and third-party business applications, technology and business services, outsourcing solutions and learning & communications platforms. Headquartered in New York City, CGS maintains a worldwide presence with 20 offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information please visit http://www.cgsinc.com.

For more information on the Unlimited Mailbox solution, please visit http://www.unlimitedmailbox.com.

Unlimited Mailbox is a trademark of Computer Generated Solutions, Inc.

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Unlimited Mailbox Receives Contract of Award for TIPS/TAPS Government Purchasing Cooperative

Symform Announces World"s First Cooperative Storage Exchange

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) November 3, 2010

Symform, Inc, a pioneer in decentralized cloud-computing solutions for SMBs and IT Service Providers, today announced the worlds first Cooperative Storage Exchange. The Symform Storage Exchange(TM) is available immediately via Symform reseller Partners worldwide.

The Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud works on the principle that each local computer contributes inexpensive local storage in exchange for valuable cloud-based storage. This data protection solution is 10 times cheaper and 10 times faster than traditional online storage solutions. Unfortunately, bandwidth availability constraints prevent some SMBs from fully participating in the Symform solution. That ends today.

Starting immediately, Symform is enabling its reseller Partners to sell their excess local storage to those customers who are unable to contribute. Partners, in effect, become micro data centers that are distributed around the world. The storage trading isnt done directly; instead one side is selling excess storage to the Symform cloud while the other is purchasing it as needed. This revolutionary approach will allow SMBs and their MSPs with bandwidth or other constraints to participate in the Cooperative Storage Cloud while allowing those customers who have excess capacity to monetize their infrastructure.

Symform turned the backup model upside down and created a game-changer for the industry, said Marc Ross CTO for IT Foresight. This creates an important new offering and revenue opportunity for MSPs with sufficient IT infrastructure. A key principle for IT Foresight has always been to find ways to bring enterprise class approaches and architectures to the SMB space via an affordable, secure and scalable solution or service mix. For the backup and recovery space, Symform makes this possible today!

Our reseller Partners and their SMB customers are the cloud so this is a natural and exciting next step in our evolution, said Kevin Brown, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Symform. MSPs can now monetize their IT infrastructure in a global marketplace like never before. They save money for their customers, facilitate a global, distributed storage system, and earn additional profits. Talk about making an MSP smile.

About the Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud(TM):

The Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud(TM) enables small businesses to implement a backup and disaster recovery solution that is more secure, ten times cheaper, and ten times faster than traditional online backup services. The company was founded on the realization that millions of small businesses have computers with an excess of inexpensive storage capacity, power running 24×7, and unlimited Internet bandwidth especially nights and weekends. The Symform team has developed software that aggregates this relatively unreliable and un-trusted capacity over the Internet and transforms it into a secure and reliable global storage system. The heart of Symforms software is a proprietary technology called RAID-96(TM).

http://www.symform.com

Symform, Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud, RAID-96, and You make the net work are trademarks of Symform, Inc. References to other companies and their products acknowledge the trademarks owned by their respective companies and are for reference purposes only.

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Symform Announces World"s First Cooperative Storage Exchange