GoBeyondIT Announces Availability of the Hosted Hourly Desktop; Providing Freedom from IT Hassle & Ultimate Budget Flexibility

Baltimore (Vocus) February 25, 2010

In the era of do more with less, GoBeyondIT, an innovative provider of IT solutions for small and medium businesses, today announced the availability of the Hosted Hourly Desktop. The offering provides clients with a fully hosted and secure Microsoft Desktop solution at tiered pricing based on usage.

The offering is ideal for the growing business market, where business owners must constantly evaluate how to purchase and manage technology with maximum flexibility and efficiency. What the Hosted Hourly Desktop provides is a way to completely outsource IT so that employees only need an Internet connection to access a secure, Microsoft Office desktop with all the applications and support they need. Whats more, clients can right size their technology spend, purchasing hosted access in quantities that make sense for specific job functions.

The best salespeople are in the field 75 percent of the time, so there is no reason to spend money on technology as if they sit at their desks 100 percent of the time, said GoBeyondIT CEO Rick Crane. After six months of research, we determined that 50 percent of system time is idle. That means theres waste. And where theres waste, theres room to save money.

With the Hosted Hourly Desktop, businesses pay as little as $ 69 per user per month, and can choose from three packages: the 40-hour Desktop, the 80-hour Desktop and the Unlimited Desktop.

Patriot Electric, a 95-employee company based in the Baltimore area, recently turned to the Hosted Hourly Desktop to save money on technology while that its systems were up to date and secure.

The Hosted Hourly Desktop fits my companys work style, said Talbot Watkins, President of Patriot Electric. GoBeyondIT cares about how we do business, how we perform our most important daily tasks and then finding the highest quality match in terms of technology resources.

Select Hosted Hourly Desktop features include:

Microsoft Hosted Windows Desktops
Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft SharePoint for office file sharing
QuickBooks or Peachtree hosting with DataVault
Microsoft Exchange E-mail via web mail
iPhone and BlackBerry Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
Access from anywhere, on any device, anytime

About GoBeyondIT

GoBeyondIT is a division of Evolution, LLC. The innovative providers Managed Technology Services Solutions provide business owners with a true alternative to traditional in-house IT, addressing technology needs like hosted desktops, offsite backup, disaster recovery and total systems management. GoBeyondIT was recently selected as Baltimore SmartCEO Future 50 winner for the fifth consecutive year. For more information on GoBeyondIT, please visit http://www.gobeyondit.com or call 443-832-4165.

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Zmanda Cloud Backup 4.0 Offers Unparalleled Flexibility, Performance and Ease of Use

Sunnyvale, Calif. (PRWEB) September 01, 2011

Zmanda, the industrys leading provider of open source and cloud-based backup and disaster recovery solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Zmanda Cloud Backup (ZCB) 4.0. This fourth generation of cloud backup software from Zmanda offers the highest levels of flexibility, performance and ease of use available on the market today.

ZCB 4.0 provides users the choice to store backups directly on the cloud; on local disks; or in a hybrid backup configuration, which is an intelligent combination of the two. In addition, ZCB 4.0 offers performance improvements of up to three times the speed for uploads and downloads; richer application backup support that allows users to backup selective data stores in Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server; differential backups of Microsoft SharePoint, and configurable multi-threaded data transfer support. ZCB 4.0 also features a new user-friendly GUI that has been fully localized to Japanese and German languages and supports backup and recovery of file or folder names in all languages.

With ZCB 4.0, Zmanda also unveiled the ZCB Global Dashboard, a web-based interface that monitors the backup activity and cloud storage used across multiple ZCB installations. This interface can be used by IT managers, service providers and resellers to monitor large-scale installations of ZCB.

As the cloud backup market matures, Zmanda is working to give customers and resellers greater flexibility and increased options for when, where and how they handle their backup data, said Chander Kant, CEO, Zmanda. ZCB 4.0 is a simple yet versatile solution that will satisfy the needs of everyone; from non-technical users to those who want to leverage more advanced functionality.

ZCB is a unique solution that backs up files, applications, databases, and network storage devices to a storage cloud. ZCB features a user-friendly GUI that allows Windows users to easily automate their backup and recovery process. ZCB runs on demand or based on user configured schedules, and backs up live applications to Amazon S3 cloud. Uploads are fast and can be paused and resumed, thus reducing the burden of backup operations on production applications and WAN bandwidth. The backups are stored in ZIP64 format, giving users the option to access and reuse their files even without ZCB.

ZCB 4.0 is available worldwide for a flexible pay-as-you-go price of $ 0.15/GB/month for data transfer and storage on the cloud, with an additional setup and monthly charge of $ 4.95 per account for the protection of an unlimited number of Windows desktops and servers. Zmanda also offers all ZCB customers a free tier which makes it free to store and transfer up to 25 GB data to the cloud. To purchase ZCB 4.0, please visit http://www.zmanda.com/cloud-backup.html.

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As a solutions provider to small businesses one of our greatest challenges is implementing a comprehensive yet easy-to-use backup solution. Zmanda Cloud Backup makes it easy to backup folder data, Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint data to Amazon S3 cloud storage as well as an external hard disk or SAN. Zmandas support has also been excellent. I now recommend Zmanda Cloud Backup to all my small business customers, said Corey Solomon, General Manager of CompuSol Panama S.A.

ZCB Global Dashboard has enabled us to deliver a much better service to our customers. Now we can monitor backup activity and respond to problem situations faster. In addition, it gives cloud storage usage for each of our customer machines, hence enabling us to accurately and independently bill all our Managed Service Backup clients, said Martin Dunsby, CEO, HybridgeIT.

Links to ZCB 4.0 screen shots: http://www.zmanda.com/zcb-screenshots.html

More information on ZCB: http://www.zmanda.com/cloud-backup.html

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About Zmanda

Zmanda, based in Sunnyvale, California, is the global leader in open source enterprise backup and recovery. The companys products Amanda Enterprise, Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL, and Zmanda Cloud Backup (ZCB) make it simple and affordable to backup and recover data in an increasingly complex and heterogeneous IT environment. Amanda Enterprise is an enterprise-grade, network backup solution based on Amanda, the worlds most popular open source backup and recovery software with more than half a million active installations worldwide. ZRM for MySQL is the first mission-critical backup solution designed specifically for MySQL databases. ZCB is the first Windows backup solution to backup both files and live applications to the Amazon S3 storage cloud. Businesses in more than 60 countries trust Zmanda to protect their corporate data. For more information about Zmanda, please contact zsales(at)zmanda(dot)com or go to http://www.zmanda.com/.

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Atlanta Humane Society Gains Flexibility and Improves Collaboration with ProviDyn"s Private Cloud Services

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 29, 2012

ProviDyn, a provider of IT support, managed and cloud services for small and medium-sized businesses, announced today that its client, the Atlanta Humane Society, has decided to move its existing managed services to ProviDyns private cloud. This builds on ProviDyns existing partnership with the Atlanta Humane Society which included managed services, application and IP telephony support, as well as vendor management for both Atlanta Humane Society locations.

The Atlanta Humane Society, Atlantas oldest private non-profit animal welfare organization, expanded its reach in December 2011 by opening a second location. After consulting with ProviDyn, the Atlanta Humane Society decided centralizing its technology infrastructure and applications would provide increased capabilities and the advantage of unified communication between facilities. As a result, employees and executives are able to seamlessly collaborate across locations, accessing systems and maintaining capabilities from any Atlanta Humane Society facility.

ProviDyn has been an extension of our team and an invaluable partner in helping manage the technology needs for our business, said Chris Slee, Vice President of Finance for Atlanta Humane Society. After opening our second location, ProviDyn made the recommendation that a private cloud would give us more flexibility and enhance collaboration across the organization.

This is a wonderful opportunity to continue supporting the Atlanta Humane Society in its mission to prevent neglect, abuse, cruelty and exploitation of animals, said Hamish Davidson, president and co-founder of ProviDyn. As with many other non-profit organizations, the Atlanta Humane Society is extremely budget conscious. Being receptive to new solutions such as a private cloud, can bring tremendous benefits, including reliability and enhanced security, at a reasonable cost.

About ProviDyn

ProviDyn provides technology expertise, services and support to Atlanta-area small and medium-sized businesses. Backed by certified technology professionals, ProviDyns services include managed services, cloud computing solutions, virtualization, help desk and computer support, IT strategy, network security, backup and disaster recovery and IP telephony. ProviDyn delivers the right mix of technology and expertise allowing its clients to focus on growing their business. To learn more about how ProviDyn is Driving Business Through Technology and helping companies reduce costs, improve efficiency and maximize productivity, visit http://www.providyn.com or follow us on Twitter.

About the Atlanta Humane Society

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Wharfedale Announces Successful SAP Landscape Migration for a Major Pharmaceutical Company to Gain Greater Flexibility and Efficiency in Managing Business Operations

Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) October 02, 2012

Wharfedale Technologies Inc. is a leading SAP infrastructure consulting services and SAP Cloud Computing firm. For over a decade, Wharfedale has been providing SAP infrastructure solutions, which includes the SAP Disaster Recovery, to a wide array of customers and vertical industries for 65 of the Fortune 100 companies. Wharfedales highly focused SAP infrastructure expertise extends into High Availability, Virtualization, Backup & Recovery, Landscape Optimizations and Managed Services. Wharfedales portfolio of innovative solutions delivered optimal systems performance, minimal downtime for the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing customer while maximizing their capital investment.

The customers landscapes consisted of SAP ERP 6.0, BI 7.0 and SCM Livecache components running on IBM AIX. The customer was exploring the viability of migrating and consolidating their new SAP landscape to Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) utilizing VBlock solution based on EMC, CISCO and VMware technologies in a Linux/Oracle 11G RAC Grid environment.

Wharfedale performed Advanced SAP Landscape sizing for the customers VBlock environment based on the SAP application performance requirements. A virtual environment was then built using this design with Linux operating system, and Oracle 11G as database in a VMWare ESX 5.0 hypervisor environment on a VBlock. Wharfedale executed mock migrations from IBM AIX platform to Linux platform using SAP heterogeneous system copy procedures and industry best practices for migration. The actual production cutover was performed over the course of a weekend onto the new virtual platform for the ERP, BI and SCM Livecache components. The customer fully expects their VBlock to deliver robust performance needed for their business critical applications. Wharfedale was also involved in the Unicode conversion for ERP 6.0 and BI 7.0 components.

Apart from creating the SAP infrastructure and optimizing it for the SAP application, migration of server and storage platforms, tuning the SAP database, and improving their backup and recovery methodologies were some of the other services offered by Wharfedale Technologies to its pharmaceutical manufacturing customer. The project brought about an overall cost savings of around 35% and performance improvement by almost 60%.

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