CAPS Launches Mini-Boot Camp Series with Corus360, eGlobal Insight and Network Synergy

Shelton, CT (PRWEB) January 29, 2010

The CAPS Shelton CT data center and workstation facility located at Sheltons Enterprise Corporate Park will host a new series for 2010 – the CAPS Mini-Boot Camp – with the first event in February. Does Your Recovery or Contingency Strategy Equal Profits or Losses? – Winning Ideas, Drawing Board to Corporate Growth, Driving Client Confidence and Compliance is the theme. There is no cost to attend this event, which runs from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM on Thursday, February 11.

The timeframe was designed to provide a comprehensive agenda with the latest industry insights, while still giving executives ample time to conduct their daily business. Registration is via the eRSVP online system at http://www.ersvp.com/r/event7760/regmain. Car directions, other transportation options and local hotels are available on the CAPS website – http://www.capsbrs.com/directions.php. The Camp CAPS Shelton address is 1 Enterprise Drive – 4th Floor, Shelton, CT 06484. The event will conclude with a $ 50 gift card drawing, additional one-on-one interaction with the presenters, networking and a tour of the facility.

Experts will make available hardened methods to analyze, install and employ processes, systems and services that will help those in attendance to realize growth, productivity and cost-efficiency. Attendees will walk away with exclusive knowledge that they quickly can implement to impact bottom line results.

During the presentations and interactive discussions, key executives from Corus360, eGlobal Insight, Computer Alternative Processing Sites (CAPS), Inc., and Network Synergy will offer free insider expertise about disaster recovery and business continuitys complete product cycle – drawing board to implementation.

Corus360′s presentation by Steve Gruber, Senior Business Continuity Practice Manager, will address the growing field playing a role in strategy and execution – conducting a recovery options study and creating hybrid recovery solutions – and the balance between managed services and do-it-yourself DR solutions. Corus360, an Atlanta technology consulting and solutions company cited as one of Georgia’s Top 10 technology companies by the Technology Association of Georgia, helps organizations solve business problems, reduce costs and enhance efficiency.

A presentation by CAPS executives, Peter Messina, COO, and Robert Ferguson, Director of Operations, will offer insights on how the brick and mortar value proposition for companies has changed and how to benefit from it. CAPS is a leading IT infrastructure solutions provider that supports large enterprise and SMB clients with colocation, workstation facilities and total IT infrastructure real time and DR/BC support services in the northeast and southeast.

Following lunch, eGlobal Insight (eGI) Co-founder, Charles Turcan, will reveal the Top 10 DR/BC plan errors seasoned execs continuously make. He will point out why your strategy probably omits contingencies that cost time, profits or clients. Additionally, he will present the latest on advanced telecom notification systems for compliance, emergency management and staff mobilization. eGI, which was honored as a Computerworld Smithsonian Gold Medal Finalist, pioneered TeleMedicine and Distance Learning voice, video and data networks development.

Network Synergy President, Dana Gargano, will inform attendees why the data backup and recovery space has changed for SMB and enterprise system owners and the reasoning behind his view that this is a key time to seize the opportunity. The must-have data systems found in a well thought-out recovery/continuity plan also will be presented. Network Synergy is a full-service systems integrator that has over 20 years of experience in the disaster recovery area.

About Computer Alternative Processing Sites (CAPS), Inc.

CAPS, an IT infrastructure total solutions provider, has flexible, scalable solutions for the entire enterprise – SMB and large cap clients. They house real-time production or backup, disaster recovery and business continuity operations at its first-class, carrier/vendor-neutral data centers and workstation facilities, offering colocation, managed services, disk-to-disk data backup, failover & notification systems, mobile recovery support, secured 7×24 access, top telecom vendors and SAS70 Type II compliance. CAPS serves the Boston-New York corridor and metro Atlanta plus the surrounding states. The Forrester Wave report cited CAPS as a strong performer in the Fixed-Site Disaster Recovery Service Provider category. Please visit us at http://www.capsbrs.com.

About Corus360

Corus360 is a technology consulting and solutions company that helps organizations solve business problems, reduce costs and enhance efficiency by devising, recommending and deploying business-aligned technology solutions. We specialize in best-of-breed infrastructure solutions, IT management consulting, data center technologies, disaster recovery, managed services and enterprise applications. For more information, call (770) 300-4700 or visit http://www.corus360.com.

About eGlobal Insight, Inc.

eGlobal Insight, Inc. (eGI) is a professional services telecommunications company providing Emergency Voice and Data network systems and service. Established in 1991, eGI has led many pioneering efforts in the development of voice, video and data networks for TeleMedicine and Distance Learning. In 2008 eGlobal Insight, Inc. announced the availability of their FailSafe voice recovery system and the eGI AlwaysConnected Satellite emergency voice and data network services. These systems offer a resilient solution that will respond to any outage, disaster or emergency backing up your voice systems, providing mass notification to an unlimited number of groups and maintaining your data and internet connections. For more information, visit http://www.eglobalinsight.com.

About Network Synergy Corp.

Network Synergy has been a full-service Systems Integrator since 1988, offering a broad spectrum of computing services. Specializing in Managed Disaster Recovery and Network Monitoring and Support to small and mid size companies. For more information call (203) 261-2201 or visit us at http://www.netsynergy.com.

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Algorithm Hosts Spring Business Software Solutions Webinar Series

Dublin, Ohio (PRWEB) April 25, 2012

Algorithm kicked off their spring webinar series on April 19 with a production planning and scheduling webinar featuring John Grima, Director of Sales & Marketing at Lynq Limited. During this webinar, Grima demoed Visual Planner, a production planning and scheduling business software solution for Exact Macola Progression and ES.

The next Algorithm webinar will take place on April 26 at 2pm EDT. Algorithm consultant Andy Smith will discuss how companies can benefit from Business Intelligence (BI) and mobility software. According to Gartner’s annual survey of IT executives, Business Intelligence and mobility are top technology priorities for CIOs in 2012. “Our Business Intelligence and mobility sessions are always very popular at customer meetings so we are excited to share this information in a webinar format,” says Smith.

In the BI and Mobility webinar, Smith will discuss:

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Atomic Labs Renames to Cloudmeter and Closes $5 Million Series A Financing

Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) April 27, 2012

Cloudmeter (previously Atomic Labs), the big data capture and analytics company, today announced that it has closed a $ 5 million Series A round of financing. The round was led by Meakem Becker Venture Capital (MBVC) and will support the companys introduction of its next generation Real User Monitoring as a Service (MaaS) offering. The Cloudmeter MaaS solution, to be introduced later this year, is designed to help customers understand and improve their end-users experiences. It targets cloud-based as well as datacenter and hybrid applications, and focuses on providing the most relevant and effective information with ease of use and cost in mind.

The investment will also allow the company to expand development, sales and marketing to support growing demand for its current Pion Enterprise and Pion Replay products. Pion Enterprise is a real-time big data capture, processing and integration solution that helps companies maximize the value of the massive amounts of information available within their network traffic. Pion Replay is a customer experience management product that enables companies to identify, find and replay individual website visitor sessions.

Concurrent with the investment, the company has also changed its name from Atomic Labs, Inc. to Cloudmeter, Inc., aligning its name with its future direction. The company expects to finalize the rebranding process over the next few months.

I am thrilled to be working again with Glen Meakem and Dave Becker, and am very excited about our soon to be introduced Cloudmeter MaaS solution, said Mike Dickey, Cloudmeter Founder and CEO. Cloudmeters MaaS solution is designed to allow customers of all sizes to improve their end-users experience without breaking their budgets. It is the result of our teams many years of experience helping customers leverage the large amounts of data that go through their networks for the benefit of their end-users and businesses.

I am very excited about working again with Mike and about Cloudmeters upcoming MaaS product as well as the growing demand for its current real-time big data analytics and replay solutions, said Glen Meakem, Managing Director of MBVC. We invested in the previous company Mike founded (BeatBox, acquired by Mercury/HP) and were very impressed with Mikes ability to introduce pioneering and innovative solutions that become market standards. We believe Cloudmeter is uniquely positioned to help customers of all sizes meet the mounting demand to provide positive user experiences while at the same time curbing costs.

About Meakem Becker Venture Capital

Meakem Becker Venture Capital (MBVC) was founded in 2006 by Glen Meakem and David Becker. Glen was Founder, Chairman, and CEO of FreeMarkets, formerly the leading provider of internet deployed software and services for automating the sourcing processes of Global 1000 companies. Dave was FreeMarkets President and COO. After successfully launching, managing the explosive growth, record breaking IPO, and final sale of FreeMarkets to Ariba, Glen and Dave founded Meakem Becker Venture Capital to help other entrepreneurs build leading companies. MBVC has already had a number of successful investments, including Kiva Systems a producer of software and robots that automate retail distribution warehouses which was recently sold to Amazon for over $ 750 million.

About Cloudmeter

Cloudmeter, a pioneer in the area of big data capture and analytics, was one of the first companies to identify the potential and needs around leveraging the massive amounts of data that flows though companies networks. Its first products, Pion Enterprise and Pion Replay, are widely used by customers to better understand and react to end users online behavior and experiences.

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Cloudmeter

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Spanning Cloud Apps Raises $2 Million Series A Round of Venture Funding From Foundry Group

Austin, TX (PRWEB) April 5, 2011

Spanning Cloud Apps, the makers of Spanning Backup for Google Apps, today announced that the company has secured $ 2 million of funding from Foundry Group, a Boulder-based venture capital firm. Launched in September 2010 and spun out of Spanning Sync, Inc., Spanning Cloud Apps will apply the resources to continue to build on the companys growing portfolio of cloud applications for Google Apps as well accelerate development of complementary solutions for other major cloud service providers.

Spanning Backup is the highest-rated Security & Compliance app in the Google Apps Marketplace, is among the highest-rated paid apps overall, and has already backed up more than 1 billion documents, calendar events, and contacts for Google Apps users.

When Google Apps customers learn about Spanning Backup, their first question isnt, How much does it cost? but rather, How soon can we turn it on? said Charlie Wood, Spanning Cloud Apps founder and CEO. We help a lot of Google Apps admins sleep a lot better at night.

The Austin-based company has also added Seth Levine, Managing Director at the Foundry Group, to its board of directors.

We couldn’t be more happy to work with Seth and the rest of the Foundry team, said Wood. With Foundrys support and deep experience in the market we plan to extend our lead in Google Apps backup and use that leadership position to build out a broad portfolio of cloud apps.

Its very exciting to work with fresh and ambitious companies such as Spanning Cloud Apps, said Seth Levine, Managing Director at Foundry Group. The caliber of the team and their proven ability to execute made them a very strong fit at Foundry Group. Were very excited to help this team achieve its very ambitious goals.

Spanning Cloud Apps flasghip product, Spanning Backup, continually backs up Google Apps data to the cloud. While Google’s infrastructure includes extremely sophisticated internal disaster recovery capabilities, Spanning Backup provides backup and restore functionality for Google Apps users and administrators. The product provides simple, always-on protection against accidental and malicious data loss and corruption.

For more information, please visit spanningbackup.com

About Spanning Cloud Apps

Founded in 2010 and spun out of Spanning Sync, Inc., Spanning Cloud Apps is a cloud-based application developer focused on backup solutions for todays most widely adopted cloud-computing suites including Google Apps. Spanning Backup, the companys flagship product, is the top-rated backup solution for Google Apps users and administrators. The company is backed by Foundry Group, and is based in Austin, Texas.

For more information, visit spanning.com.

About Foundry Group

Foundry Group is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage information technology, Internet, and software startups. In addition to providing the necessary venture capital to get a company up and running, Foundry Group is committed to leveraging their experience in starting and growing companies, expertise in the technology industry, and network of relationships to help great entrepreneurs turn great ideas into great companies. Foundry Group is based in Boulder, Colorado, and invests in companies located across the United States.

For more information, visit http://www.foundrygroup.com.

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Consonus Expands Popular Data Protection Series

Cary, NC (PRWEB) May 24, 2011

Consonus today announced new dates and locations for the widely-popular Consonus and Symantec Data Protection series that addresses the pains of continuous data growth, data protection, and complex multi-vendor backup environments. Four additional events are scheduled for May 26th in Charlotte, June 14 in Atlanta, GA, June 15 in Miami, FL, and June 16 in Memphis, TN.

Every company is dealing with data growth issues and seeking ways to effectively protect data throughout the enterprise, said Consonus Vice President, Consulting and Technology Solutions Michael Overton. We educate our customers about different options and the latest technologies offered by industry leaders such as Symantec.

Representatives from both Consonus and Symantec will discuss the latest offerings for deduplication to build rock-solid data protection with rapid, tangible benefits. Attendees will hear case studies about recent NetBackup Appliances implementations highlighting benefits such as: a 50% decrease in backup times, reclaimed uptime, and bandwidth consumption that is slashed by 99 percent.

This announcement follows Consonus recent achievement of Symantec Master Specializations in four solution areas: High Availability, Archiving and eDiscovery, Data Protection, and Storage Management. Consonus has the most Symantec Master Specializations and is the first partner to attain Specialization in High Availability. This advanced knowledge coupled with experienced talent enables Consonus to deliver differentiated services to meet customers data protection needs.

About Consonus

Consonus is a leading national provider of Data Center Services, IT Consulting, IT Infrastructure, and Managed Services. A subsidiary of Midas Medici Group Holdings, Inc.(OTCBB:MMED), Consonus offers a comprehensive suite of technology services and support while providing customers with solutions that address data center efficiency, disaster recovery, data protection, and virtualization. Visit Consonus on the Web at http://www.consonus.com.

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Infineta Systems Attracts $15 Million Series B Funding to Accelerate Traffic Across Hyper-Scale Wide Area Networks

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) June 06, 2011

Infineta Systems, a provider of Hyper-scale WAN optimization systems, announced that it has closed a Series B funding round in the amount of $ 15 million. This latest funding was led by Silicon Valley-based Rembrandt Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors, Alloy Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners. The Series B round brings Infinetas total to-date funding to $ 30 million. The company plans to direct the new capital toward building out its sales, marketing, and engineering teams as it addresses the strong market demand for its products.

This funding reflects the continued and intensified interest by enterprise IT professionals to transform data centers from static islands of compute and storage resources to a seamless and unified resource pool. This new paradigm demands a data center interconnect that must deliver unprecedented levels of throughput, reliability, and cost-efficiency requirements that todays WAN infrastructures cannot support. By delivering significantly greater levels of enterprise data center flexibility and availability, Infineta finds itself squarely at the epicenter of this tectonic shift in IT architectures.

Infineta is the first networking company to develop and market commercial WAN optimization systems that accelerate, inter-data center WANs running at up to 10Gbps wire speeds. Powered by the Velocity Dedupe Engine, the Infineta Data Mobility Switch (announced today: Infineta Systems Ships First-ever 10Gbps, Wire speed WAN Optimization System for High Capacity Data Center Interconnects) delivers unrivaled levels of throughput and scalability, serving as a critical building block for enterprises grappling with workflows native to Hyper-scale WANs, such as replication and backup, Big Data transfers, and cross-site virtualization initiatives.

As a result of the funding, In Sik Rhee, general partner at Rembrandt Venture Partners, joins Infinetas board. As both founder of Kiva (one of the earliest application server providers) and co-founder of Opsware (formerly LoudCloud), In Sik has had a direct role in helping strategic line of business and IT organizations tap into new data center architectures and new services delivery frameworks to amass concrete enterprise value.

Our investment in Infineta and its team represents our conviction that there is an enormous shift occurring in the marketplace today driven by the extension of virtualization, Big Data processing, and the mobility of storage pools, stated In Sik Rhee. We believe the superhighway for cloud-based networks presents a significant opportunity for customers and thats where Infineta is strongly positioned with a highly differentiated product and unique technology.

Both emerging and established companies are adopting new technologies at a brisk pace to keep up with data growth, while seeking ways to expedite data collection, analysis, and distribution to generate more revenue, gain competitive advantage, and shorten time to market, said Raj Kanaya, co-founder and CEO of Infineta Systems. We are pleased to receive this investment and validation from Rembrandt Venture Partners, along with our existing investors, who clearly recognize this rapidly growing market opportunity. We look forward to helping our customers manage their Hyper-scale WAN workflows more efficiently and cost-effectively using our groundbreaking product offering.

About Rembrandt Venture Partners

Rembrandt is an early-stage venture capital firm established in 2004 and based in Menlo Park, CA. Rembrandts partners apply their extensive operating experience to help talented entrepreneurs build great companies in emerging market categories. Rembrandt invests in early stage Information Technology companies in the categories of Software, Communications, Internet Infrastructure, Mobility, and Digital Media. For more information, please visit http://www.rembrandtvc.com.

About Alloy Ventures

Based in Palo Alto, California, the partners of Alloy Ventures have been providing venture capital funding to entrepreneurs since 1977. With over $ 1 billion under management, Alloy’s focus is on the next generation of ground-breaking Life Science, Information Technology and Cleantech companies. Our current portfolio includes companies like Barrx, Mavenir, Molecular Imprints, NuGen, Optimedica, Pacific Biosciences, Teradici, ViVotech, and YouSendIt, which are poised to become the next global leaders. Additional information is available on our website at http://www.alloyventures.com.

About North Bridge Venture Partners

North Bridge Venture Partners is an active, bi-coastal, early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts and San Mateo, California. Established in 1994, North Bridge provides seed-to-growth financing and company-building expertise. North Bridge’s sector focus includes Software, Communications & Infrastructure, Healthcare Technology, Digital Media, and Materials. For more information go to http://www.northbridge.com.

About Infineta Systems

Based in San Jose, California, Infineta Systems is a privately-held provider of Hyper-scale WAN optimization systems. The companys patent-pending Velocity Dedupe Engine delivers unprecedented levels of throughput, scalability and bandwidth capacity to support critical machine-scale workflows across the data center interconnect. Its flagship product, the Infineta Data Mobility Switch, accelerates multi-gigabit BCDR (business continuity/disaster recovery), cross-site virtualization, and Big Data traffic. The company is backed by Rembrandt Venture Partners, Alloy Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners. For more information, visit http://www.infineta.com.

Infineta, Infineta Systems, Data Mobility Switch, and Velocity Dedupe Engine are trademarks or registered trademarks of Infineta Systems, Inc., in the U.S. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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LaCie Announces 5big Office Series Essential Backup Solutions for Small Offices

(PRWEB) January 31, 2012

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Leading Cloud Online Backup Company Launches Free Data Backup Learning Series for Businesses

Boston, MA (PRWEB) September 28, 2012

NextVault, Inc., a leading cloud online backup company, launched their new website which contains a new Email Learning Series about good data backup practices for businesses.

“In our research we were extremely surprised at how many businesses don’t know how to properly protect one of their most important assets, their data,” said Kevin B. Harris, President and CEO of NextVault. “We felt compelled to provide a free educational series to help businesses owners, IT and Network Administrators and all other roles who are responsible for backing up their business data so that they could have the knowledge they needed to ensure they were getting the very best protection.”

A recent study showed that small businesses are the least protected and worst prepared for recovery when data loss occurs. This is extremely alarming considering small businesses make up the mass of the economy. Data loss could be fatal to any business. Many small businesses don’t have the expertise on staff to help create an appropriate data backup strategy. This leaves them unprotected as they often focus on simply growing the business, not protecting it too.

“We strongly encourage business owners everywhere take advantage of our free education learning series to ensure that when their next data loss occurs, they will be able to recover and resume business within minutes,” Harris added. “NextVault is well positioned to provide data backup solutions to any size business with any size budget, but they need to have a good understanding of their data backup needs to ensure they are properly protected.”

NextVault was formed in early 2010 by online data backup pioneers Kevin Harris and Bud Stoddard with the goal of delivering Value Based Data Protection to its customers.

About NextVault

NextVault is a leading provider of data backup, recovery, file and email archiving solutions. As an innovative service provider we offer comprehensive and affordable solutions to small, medium, and large sized businesses. Through our network of partners, resellers and data centers, NextVault promises secure online backup and fast access to data in the event of loss or disaster, tailored to the needs of any business in todays uncertain world.

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New Compliance Training Series from Wombat Security Helps Companies Address PCI Awareness Training Requirements and Reduce Risk

Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) November 13, 2012

Wombat Security Technologies (Wombat), a leading provider of cyber security awareness and training solutions, today announced the release of its newest training series created to help retailers and businesses address key requirements of common privacy laws and data protection mandates, including PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance. To ensure security policy and procedures are met and reduce the risk of data theft, security awareness training is a mandatory requirement of the PCI Data Security Standard for all employees who handle cardholder data. Wombats new compliance training series leverages the companys proven learning techniques to clearly explain data security requirements to employees and emphasize their responsibility towards securing sensitive information, while simplifying compliance monitoring and reporting for PCI managers.

The key is not just awareness; it is behavior change; as such, interactive security awareness training platforms help compliance managers effectively administer mandated employee education, prove the completion of training in the event of an audit, and actually change the way that employees behave. The result is lower risk for the organization said Andrew Walls, Vice President of Security, Risk and Privacy of Gartner. Companies that employ new interactive cyber security assessment and context aware security training software are reporting reductions in susceptibility to employee-targeted attacks, which translates to fewer breaches and lower remediation costs.

At the most recent PCI Council meeting, the organization reported that security breaches were at the worst level since the group was founded. With data breaches capturing top news headlines, it is more important than ever for companies to enhance their data security and compliance protocols. The 12 requirements for PCI DSS compliance include annual training of employees to maintain and enhance a businesss internal security controls.

Today every organization is a target for cyber criminals and employees are one of the primary attack vectors yet many businesses lack the expertise and resources to effectively train their people against these growing cyber threats, said Joe Ferrara, President and CEO of Wombat Security Technologies. As employees learn how to identify and report attacks, they become invaluable to a companys defensive as well as offensive security posture.

Wombats new compliance training series includes: PCI-DSS requirements, as well as, Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Data Protection and Destruction so that compliance managers can:

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XSolutions Article Series Guides Businesses In Disaster Recovery Planning

Pomona, NY (PRWEB) October 29, 2012

XSolutions Consulting Services LLC has written a series of articles promoting Disaster Recovery Planning among small-to-medium size businesses (SMBs). Numerous studies show that as many as 70% of small businesses close their doors shortly after suffering from a major disaster. Those businesses were not prepared and suffered as a result. The key to surviving a disaster is planning; giving careful thought to your companys IT needs and taking steps to ensure that they are met during and after a catastrophe. A disaster plan must have at its core the concept of Business Continuity.

Through its articles, XSolutions hopes to increase awareness among SMBs that IT disaster planning is critical to their long term survival. These articles are free to read and are designed to stimulate action among small business owners. Here is what youll learn:

Issue 14 Every Business Needs An IT Backup / Disaster Recovery Plan: this article discusses the differences between a mere backup plan and a full Disaster Recovery Plan. It goes on to list a series of questions SMBs can use to check their own plans to make sure theyre covered.

Issue 18 The Weakest Link in IT Security: learn how social engineering attacks are used by cyber criminals to gain entry into a firms computer systems and what businesses can do to thwart their advances. Cyber-crime is a serious issue and generates millions of dollars in losses each year.

Issue 19 Your Business Needs A Records Management Program: many companies only think about the data they currently hold in their computer systems, however, what they may not realize is that critical hard copy documents and digitized files not stored in a central, protected location makes a business vulnerable if disaster strikes. Therefore, a Records Management Program is a vital piece of a comprehensive disaster plan.

Issue 20 Establish An Emergency Operations Center: if your main location is destroyed in a catastrophe, how will your business survive? This article discusses what you need to consider when creating an Emergency Operations Center from which youll direct the recovery efforts of your business and communicate with employees and customers during and after a disaster. The key is advanced planning.

Backup / Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity are areas of paramount importance to all businesses, says Joseph Imperato Sr., Managing Partner at XSolutions. Merely backing up data is not enough to ensure a companys survival. That is why we wrote these articles and we plan to post more information on this critical topic.

About XSolutions Consulting Services LLC

XSolutions is a full service IT Company located in Rockland County, New York specializing in providing Managed IT Services, Web Design and Custom Software Development. XSolutions has extensive experience in the installation and maintenance of Microsoft products such as MS Server, MS Small Business Server, and MS Office products. Through their partnership with Microsoft, XSolutions is able to bring clients the latest in high-value software to help them compete in a constantly changing business environment. XSolutions’ range of services include Managed IT Services, Web Design and Hosting, Cloud and Hosted Services, Microsoft SharePoint installations, Backup and Disaster Recovery, Custom Software Development, and general IT Consulting. XSolutions also issues an informative newsletter, The Letter X, providing feature articles addressing current computing issues. For more information visit XSolutions website or call 845-362-9675.

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