Hosted Application Management Company, OneNeck, Signs Three-Year Contract with Hermes Sargent Bates Law Firm to Host Highly Secured Virtual and Physical Environments

Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) April 27, 2011

Hosted application management and managed services company, OneNeck, announced today that it has entered into a three-year contract with Hermes Sargent Bates LLP. Under the terms of the contract, OneNeck will host their Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory and Hummingbird eDocs environments, providing them with application administration, database administration, operating system administration, network management, security management, 24/7 support center services and infrastructure management.

OneNeck will provide the facilities, infrastructure, and services to operate and support Hermes Sargent Bates servers, network and bandwidth, database, storage, and security through its data center solutions team. By providing full IT support and system administration, the Hermes Sargent Bates staff will afford greater productivity, cost effectiveness, and a 99.9% uptime guarantee.

Due to a growing national concern with the importance of record management and retention by HIPAA and Sarbanes Oxley, it is more important than ever for legal firms and business companies to develop and implement appropriate record retention policies. A sound policy ensures records that serve important business or legal interests are maintained and remain relatively easy to access. Through best practices, ITIL based processes, and highly experienced personnel, OneNeck will support these policies by effectively managing Hermes Sargent Bates email, faxing, and document retention applications. Additionally, OneNeck is providing the following upgrades for Hermes Sargent Bates: Exchange email, SQL platform, and moving their document management platform to our high availability virtual private server farm. Furthermore, OneNeck will provide technology expertise during Hermes Sargent Bates on-site user desktop refresh.

We needed a partner who could collaborate with our management team to assist in constructing an IT vision to support our immediate and future needs, provide comprehensive help desk support, manage our infrastructure in logical phases, and demonstrate the ability to provide an excellent end user experience, states Lindy Kinney CPA and Hermes Sargent Bates Executive Director. After an exhaustive search, we selected OneNeck due to their abilities to not only meet our short term objectives but also to assist in constructing a longer term vision including VDI, mobile, and additional technologies.

We are honored to welcome Hermes Sargent Bates into our family of hosting customers, replied Chuck Vermillion, CEO of OneNeck. By using industry leading virtualization solutions, we are able to provide customers with a more robust and flexible virtual infrastructure and securely deliver resources, applications and servers when and where our customers need them.

About Hermes Sargent Bates LLP:

Hermes Sargent Bates is a full-service litigation firm, with a thriving presence in Texas and the Southwest. Hermes Sargent Bates provides legal services to local, national, and international companies in the transportation, hospitality, healthcare, financial, foodservice, manufacturing and insurance industries. In 2010, Hermes Sargent Bates was named among the Best Companies to Work for in Texas for the fifth consecutive year. http://www.hsblaw.com

About OneNeck IT Services:

OneNeck IT Services Corporation is a global leader for hosted application management, managed hosting, cloud services and infrastructure services. OneNeck supports a variety of enterprise applications, including ERP systems such as Oracle, Baan, JD Edwards, and Microsoft Dynamics AX. Our comprehensive portfolio offering includes application, database and network management, data center management, disaster recovery, virtual machine management, managed backup and storage and 24/7 customer support. OneNeck’s global solutions enable customers to improve system performance and leverage their enterprise applications to deliver measurable business benefits. For additional information, visit the OneNeck IT Services home page at http://www.OneNeck.com.

# # #

More Disaster Recovery And Backup Services Press Releases

Hosted Application Management Company, OneNeck, Signs Three-Year Contract with Hermes Sargent Bates Law Firm to Host Highly Secured Virtual and Physical Environments

Rockville MD CPA Firm Launches Innovative Technology Services Company | ECC IT Solutions, LLC

Rockville, MD (PRWEB) August 11, 2011

E. Cohen and Company, CPAs, launches ECC IT Solutions, LLC and leads the tax and accounting services industry in the implementation of business-savvy technologies to enhance workflow, improve internal and client collaboration, drive toward greater efficiency and productivity, increase business data security, enable remote access to networked information, and preserve the information necessary to keep systems operating after a disaster.

The full-service accounting firm, already trusted by thousands of businesses and individuals for its ability to anticipate and provide reliable, cost-effective and results-driven solutions, has expanded its computer technology and consulting capabilities to serve the emerging technology needs of growing businesses in all industries.

The launch of ECC IT Solutions, LLC as a separate technology services entity extends the firms ability to offer resources that help other businesses work smarter, accomplish more, improve efficiency, grow profitably, and succeed in an increasingly competitive environment.

Eric Cohen, CPA and Frank Noone, experts in the Accounting and IT industries have spent their careers helping clients work smarter, more efficiently and more profitably. According to the two technology- and business-savvy professionals, Dramatic changes in technology have led to great advances in productivity, and businesses increasingly depend on technology systems in terms of workflow, data management, communications, and customer service. Greater efficiency and productivity are the keys to Building Profitable Ideas.

Cohen adds, Customers expect businesses to be able to provide real-time information – from quotes and pricing to project timelines and scope – at the click of a button. Modern businesses can now equip their field workers with devices such as laptops, net books and smart phones to help them respond quickly and efficiently to customer inquiries.

ECC IT Solutions specializes in environmentally-friendly technology solutions that reduce costs and save money, improve business data security, enable remote access to networked information, and increase workplace productivity; and focuses on computer systems design, installation and maintenance of network servers, data storage and disaster recovery solutions, automatic data protection and security services.

Noone recommends, Every business should have a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that includes steps to prevent, detect, and correct various threats to the organization and its applications, data, hardware, communications, and other IT infrastructure. Data backup, offsite replication, anti-virus software, local mirrors of systems and data, uninterruptible power supplies, fire prevention, surge protection, and high-availability systems are just a few of the strategies recommended by the IT professionals at ECC IT Solutions, LLC to ensure the continued operation of business IT systems.

From software systems designed to help staff members focus on customers, rather than navigating through computer systems, to advanced database and document management solutions that safeguard sensitive information from malicious cyber attacks, ECC IT Solutions, LLC offers solutions that help firms realize a greater level of success.

ECC IT Solutions is offering a complimentary technology assessment to help businesses see how upgrading their system software and hardware can improve their bottom line.

###

Find More Disaster Recovery And Backup Services Press Releases

Rockville MD CPA Firm Launches Innovative Technology Services Company | ECC IT Solutions, LLC

Independent Research Firm Unveils New Study that Identifies Data Center-to-Data Center WAN Connectivity as a Major Impediment for Big Data Deployments

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) December 13, 2011

Infineta Systems, the first and only provider of WAN optimization systems for Big Traffic workflows, today released the findings of a new research report that examines the intersection of Big Data and the enterprise WAN. Conducted by Infineta in collaboration with Internet Research Group (IRG), an independent analysis and research firm, the report looks in-depth at large organizations leveraging Big Data to make better business decisions, and identifies several emerging trends that are poised to become barriers to the adoption of Big Data technologies. Drawing on real-world customer use cases and extensive customer surveys, the research also validates that the WAN is a critical component of a distributed Big Data strategy and that breakthrough WAN optimization technologies are essential for the enterprise to fully harness the power and promise of Big Data.

Prior to this study, there was very little insight into the ability of existing WAN infrastructure to sustain the runaway growth of Big Data, stated Raj Kanaya, CEO and co-founder of Infineta Systems. Our collaborative research effort with IRG provides solid insights into the intersection of Big Data and the WAN, and how enterprises need to plan for and equip their infrastructure so they see material business benefits of Big Data sooner.

Big Data is the newest driver behind Big Traffic workflows traversing enterprise networks and refers to data sets that are not well suited for traditional storage or analytics systems. An estimated 80-90% of Big Data is comprised of semi- or unstructured data, unlike the structured data found in conventional data sets. In addition, Big Data is characterized by aggregate volumes in the 100s of terabytes to petabytes of distributed data. Indeed, mission-critical data sets are doubling or tripling in size every two years on average, with Gartner forecasting that enterprise data will grow approximately 800% by 2015.

Why Big Data Matters

Big Data heralds enormous change and untapped value for the enterprise, as new technologies emerge to handle Big Data analysis, presentation, management, and distribution. Key drivers behind these technologies include:

Independent Research Firm Unveils New Study that Identifies Data Center-to-Data Center WAN Connectivity as a Major Impediment for Big Data Deployments

Canadian Firm Stage2Data Wins Master Distributor Title for Attix5 the Leading Cloud Based Backup and Recovery Solution in the UK and the EU

Oakville, Ontario, Canada (PRWEB) January 11, 2012

Stage2Data, under the leadership of Jeff Collier and Jacques Swanepoel, is today announcing the launch of Attix5 in North America. Stage2Data is already recognized as expert in the area of data backup and recovery. With the Master Distribution rights for Attix5, Stage2Data is aggressively going to market with what they are terming A Game Changer in the world of cloud based backup and recovery.

Attix5 is a leading, international provider of secure data management, storage and restoration, specializing in virtualization and cloud based solutions.

Stage2Data earned the title of Attix5 Master Distributor for North America because of their proven ability to launch and grow next generation technology. Jeff Collier and Jacques Swanepoel form the executive team at Stage2Data and were key contributors to EVault during its inception and up to its sale to Seagate in 2007 for $ 185M. Their experience and in-depth understanding and insight made Stage2Data the ideal team to introduce Attix5.

Comprehensive data management is now undeniably crucial to the successful running of a business in any industry. Jeff Collier, CEO at Stage2Data, echoes what Michael Law, CEO at Attix5, says, Corporate governance is now a real buzz term within the boardroom of any modern organization. Stage2Data with Attix5 is poised to capitalize on this growing desire for cloud based or virtual data management solutions.

Attix5 has proven itself internationally and is a longstanding partner of Capita SIMS (Schools Information Management Solutions) in the United Kingdom (UK). Attix5 is used nationwide by 65% of UK primary schools. Its partnership with London Grid for Learning (LGfL) means all 33 London school authorities are now protected by a reliable, automated information back-up and restoration system. This equates to a total of 1.2m pupils across 3000+ locations, incorporating thousands of teaching resources, which are now being protected by Attix5.

Set up in South Africa in 1999, Attix5 is now officially head quartered in the UK, a position cemented by the relocation of the companys Technical Director to assist operations. The relocation comes at a time when the importance of good data management is at an all time high.

Stage2Data, with the title of North American Master Distributor for North America has declared 2012 to be the year that Enterprise and SMB move forward into the next generation of backup and recovery.

About Attix5

Attix5 is an international provider of secure data management, storage and restoration, specialising in virtualization and cloud based solutions. Its world-class data protection software uses FIPS-compliant Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption for security and provides absolute peace of mind to listed Enterprises and SMEs across the world. Attix5 services the key global industry sectors, including Financial Services, Education and Retail. Attix5 is the SIMS partner for Capita Childrens Services in the UK and provides secure data back-up for 65% of UK Primary Schools, Founded in 1999, Attix5 is headquartered in the UK with offices in South Africa.

Company Stage2Data

Stage2Data is a privately held company founded by Jeff Collier and Jacques Swanepoel in 2001. The company is dedicated to working with Enterprise and SMB’s to safeguard their data against disaster or loss using cloud based, disk to disk technology. Stage2Data is the Master Distributor for Attix5 in North America and is a recognized leader in backup and recovery. Stage2Data is headquartered in Oakville, Ontario with offices in the USA. For additional information about the company, please visit http://www.stage2data.com.

###

Canadian Firm Stage2Data Wins Master Distributor Title for Attix5 the Leading Cloud Based Backup and Recovery Solution in the UK and the EU

Besol named Cool Vendor in Cloud Services Brokerage by Leading Analyst Firm

Seville, Spain (PRWEB) June 11, 2012

Besol, the leading provider of next generation multi-cloud management platforms for private and public clouds, today announced that the worlds leading IT analyst firm, Gartner Inc., has selected the company as a Cool Vendor in Gartners Cool Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerage Enablers, 2012 report published on 12 April 2012 by Tiffani Bova, Daryl C. Plummer, et al.

According to the Gartner report Key Findings, The cloud services brokerage (CSB) is emerging, and first-mover advantage will be key to gaining awareness and share. CSBs are challenged to continuously build or buy the capabilities required to compete in the three CSB roles: aggregation, integration and customization

We in Besol believe being chosen as Gartner Cool Vendor is as a testament to the dedication, hard work and focus on innovation of our team said Javier Perez-Griffo, Co-Founder and CEO of Besol. The Tapp platform from Besol allows users to manage their cloud infrastructures independently of their cloud provider, but more importantly, enterprises can manage both their public and private clouds from a centralized point. Perez-Griffo continues Cloud services are no longer restrained to large enterprises or IT-savvy organizations. Through our platform, SMBs of all kinds are now able to tapp into the cloud and deploy and manage their infrastructures seamlessly, in a completely new user-friendly experience.

Besols Tapp Platform raises the bar significantly in the management of multi-cloud infrastructures and sets a new standard with these new features Multi-cloud Rapid Deployment, Multi-cloud Management, Multi-cloud Disaster Recovery and Cloud Migration Brokerage.

About Besol

Besol, through its Tapp platform, provides infrastructure management and brokerage across multiple cloud (IaaS) providers. Tapp makes it easy for companies to deploy their infrastructure and manage their servers in a public cloud environment with the ability to seamlessly migrate between public cloud providers. Tapp also provides a multi-cloud disaster recovery functionality that allows the use of third-party backup solutions for customers server data so it can be recovered in the event of a cloud outage. Tapp is currently compatible with the IaaS services of Acens, Amazon EC2, CloudSigma, GoGrid, IBM Smartcloud, Linode and Rackspace, but is quickly growing, making it one of the most truly multi-cloud platforms in the market.

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors

Gartner defines a Cool Vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enabling users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, has, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); and Intriguing, has caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity during the past six months.

Disclaimer: Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Besol named Cool Vendor in Cloud Services Brokerage by Leading Analyst Firm

Data security analysis offered by cloud backup firm

(PRWEB UK) 28 September 2012

The UKs largest managed cloud backup company, Databarracks, has launched its 2012 online Data Health Check survey.

Only last month the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) was urging British companies to conduct their own check ups as the number of notices it served for data security lapses jumped 48% during 2011-2012*.

The Data Health Check, which is running for the third time, is a questionnaire which allows companies to thoroughly assess their data security procedures.

Once a minimum of 500 respondents have completed the survey, it will produce a personalised infographic report for each participant, revealing how their answers compared to other businesses in their sector and across UK industry as a whole.

In previous years, the Data Health Check has provided valuable insight into data backup and security in the UK, charting technology trends and revealing the major concerns businesses have regarding business continuity and data security.

This year, the Data Health Check will also monitor how data security is being affected by the cloud and will uncover what, if anything, companies are doing with regard to data security and BYOD.

The survey, which can be found at survey.databarracks.com, will provide participants with a benchmark for data security standards in their field. It will also give respondents an awareness of technology adoption in their sector, such as the cloud.

We all want to know how our own strategies measure up to those of our competitors and peers, says Peter Groucutt, Managing Director at Databarracks. The Data Health Check gives respondents a chance to see if they are ahead of the curve or lagging behind when it comes to data security, Disaster Recovery and cloud computing.

The survey is a good way for us to get a picture of whats going on in the IT departments of UK businesses as well as find out where IT decision makers want to see improvements. At the same time, we want to make sure there is a real benefit for the companies who go to the trouble of taking the survey by giving each respondent a personalised report of the survey findings, adds Groucutt.

The Data Health Check is running from 28 September 2012.

Ends:

*The ICO issued 68 notices for data security lapses in the 12 months to 3rd June 2012.

Notes to Editors:

Databarracks provides secure Infrastructure-as-a-Service, cloud backup and Disaster Recovery services for companies of all sizes and profiles, from single-site enterprises through to multinational organisations.

http://www.databarracks.com

For more information, please contact:

James Watts james(dot)watts(at)databarracks(dot)com or Leonie Guguen at Databarracks leonie(dot)guguen(at)databarracks(dot)com

Tel: +44 (0)800 033 6633

Data security analysis offered by cloud backup firm

IT Security Firm to Launch "Stay iNformed" Blog for Small Businesses

NYC (PRWEB) October 19, 2012

ETech7, an IT solutions provider, will announce the launch of Stay iNformeda new free-for-all data security information blog for small businesses and individual proprietors. Updated daily, the new portal will serve as a complete resource for the latest in data security, backup solutions, disaster recovery and other IT-related guidance.

The goal of Stay iNformed is to offer small businesses and independent contractors a simple resource for all things security without hi-tech jargon or IT-speak, said Emil Isanov, CEO of ETech 7. Whether you are a physician, a graphic designer, or just someone vigilant about protecting personal data, Stay iNformed will be there to help guide and explain.

Other information available through the Stay iNformed blog will include daily news write-ups, how-to guides, top 10 lists, latest technology news, as well as practical do-it-yourself advice such as how to keep user wireless networks safe at little or no cost.

Taking smart preventative measures to secure your business data doesnt have to cost a fortunate or involve enterprise-level hardware, Mr. Isanov said. Restricting access, updating passwords, even painting walls a certain color to limit wireless signal to the common radius can greatly reduce security risks.

This and other information is already available at the ETech 7 blog, which will serve as the launching pad for the Stay iNformed portal, currently in development.

About the Company:

ETech 7 is a technology services leader offering data backup and recovery, web development, networking solutions, search engine optimization and social media management. Please visit ETech7.com or contact (212) 997-1202 for more information.

IT Security Firm to Launch "Stay iNformed" Blog for Small Businesses

London, UK (PRWEB UK) 30 November 2012 It is the busiest time of year for most online retailers but a surge in visitor numbers can leave IT systems struggling to keep up. Many businesses (and their customers) will be noticing their website is sluggish leaving users frustrated and retailers less likely to make a sale. Cloud services provider, Databarracks, is offering online retailers free consultancy and analysis of systems to see how they could use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to effectively handle seasonal peaks in website traffic. Seasonal-based shopping can account for a large proportion of annual sales, so its essential your infrastructure can deliver when it’s busy, says James Watts, Head of Marketing at Databarracks. Online retailers often suffer from poor performance at Christmas as their IT infrastructure cant cope with the extra demand. You could choose to buy more servers to meet the additional requirement but they are likely to rest dormant for the rest of the year. Cloud computing solves this problem; AWS uses features like Auto-Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to give you seemingly unlimited performance and resources. You always have the power to keep up during the peaks but you arent left with lots of spare capacity when sales and site visitors are lower the rest of the year, says Watts. As the Christmas count down accelerates, retailers may be starting to experience performance issues but it is too late to make any major changes without risking lost sales. Hence, the offer is timed to take place when Christmas is over and the New Year sales have finished. Businesses will be able to reflect on the period and look at ways to improve for next year, says Watts. Our consultants will be on hand to advise retailers on how they could use AWS to keep costs down and performance up in preparation for the next seasonal spike. To take advantage of Databarracks free consultancy offer, simply call 0800 033 66 33 before December 31st to book your assessment session and report. Sessions are timed to take place from 14th January to 28th of February 2013, once the Christmas rush is over and to allow a proper assessment of how websites performed over the busy period. About Databarracks Databarracks provides secure cloud infrastructure, backup and disaster recovery services from UK based, ex-military data centres. Contact: Leonie Guguen, Communications Manager, Databarracks Tel: 0800 033 6633 E: leonie.guguen(at)databarracks(dot)com Firm Offers to Help Online Retailers Keep Their Sparkle during Christmas Rush

London, UK (PRWEB UK) 30 November 2012

It is the busiest time of year for most online retailers but a surge in visitor numbers can leave IT systems struggling to keep up. Many businesses (and their customers) will be noticing their website is sluggish leaving users frustrated and retailers less likely to make a sale.

Cloud services provider, Databarracks, is offering online retailers free consultancy and analysis of systems to see how they could use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to effectively handle seasonal peaks in website traffic.

Seasonal-based shopping can account for a large proportion of annual sales, so its essential your infrastructure can deliver when it’s busy, says James Watts, Head of Marketing at Databarracks. Online retailers often suffer from poor performance at Christmas as their IT infrastructure cant cope with the extra demand. You could choose to buy more servers to meet the additional requirement but they are likely to rest dormant for the rest of the year.

Cloud computing solves this problem; AWS uses features like Auto-Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to give you seemingly unlimited performance and resources. You always have the power to keep up during the peaks but you arent left with lots of spare capacity when sales and site visitors are lower the rest of the year, says Watts.

As the Christmas count down accelerates, retailers may be starting to experience performance issues but it is too late to make any major changes without risking lost sales. Hence, the offer is timed to take place when Christmas is over and the New Year sales have finished.

Businesses will be able to reflect on the period and look at ways to improve for next year, says Watts. Our consultants will be on hand to advise retailers on how they could use AWS to keep costs down and performance up in preparation for the next seasonal spike.

To take advantage of Databarracks free consultancy offer, simply call 0800 033 66 33 before December 31st to book your assessment session and report. Sessions are timed to take place from 14th January to 28th of February 2013, once the Christmas rush is over and to allow a proper assessment of how websites performed over the busy period.

About Databarracks

Databarracks provides secure cloud infrastructure, backup and disaster recovery services from UK based, ex-military data centres.

Contact:

Leonie Guguen, Communications Manager, Databarracks

Tel: 0800 033 6633

E: leonie.guguen(at)databarracks(dot)com

Firm Offers to Help Online Retailers Keep Their Sparkle during Christmas Rush