FreeBSD Foundation Turns to NYI for East Coast US Mirror

Boulder, CO (PRWEB) August 10, 2010

The FreeBSD Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD Project and community, today announced that NYI (http://www.nyi.net), a New York City-based, mission-critical data services provider, will be mirroring key West coast infrastructure at NYI’s 999 Frontier Road data center in Bridgewater, New Jersey, a recently opened 40,000 square foot facility.

In addition to providing enterprise-grade redundancy and reliability for the Project’s

infrastructure, the East coast mirror will reduce latency during heavy download times, distribute load between the two coasts, and allow for up-to-date backups of all Project data that can be synchronized via high-speed Internet connections.

“Having a well-connected, secondary site with NYI’s amenities to host FreeBSD project infrastructure means that we can move services between sites when doing scheduled maintenance to improve reliability for FreeBSD developers and users,” said Simon L. Nielsen, FreeBSD.org administrative team. He added, “The new site also enables us to expand significantly the available hardware for FreeBSD package building, allowing the FreeBSD ports team to perform QA test builds and quickly produce binary FreeBSD packages for end-users.”

“We are long-time open-source advocates,” said Phillip Koblence, VP Operations, NYI. “The FreeBSD Foundation in particular represents everything that got us into technology in the first place. With this deployment, we take our commitment to a new level in the hope that what we are doing lays the foundation for next-generation data centers built around FreeBSD. As many people in the community know, NYI’s 999 Frontier Road facility features many of the Project’s efforts, as everything from PDUs to the servers run FreeBSD.”

The East coast mirror at 999 Frontier is also notable because it replaces aging and inadequate hardware; provides dual-configuration so that experimental vs. production runs can be separated out, allowing changes to the ports system to be evaluated continuously rather the interrupting production flow; deploys to multiple sites, providing resiliency in the event of a failure; provides build capacity required to support the ports ABI changes required to improve the foundations for binary package support while maintaining ports-stable regression testing.

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to have been able to fund the purchase of the hardware. Brad Davis, Mark Linimon, and Simon Nielsen from the FreeBSD Project worked on the configuration, along with key members of the NYI team.

About The FreeBSD Foundation

The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD Project and community. The Foundation gratefully accepts donations from individuals and businesses, using them to fund and manage projects, sponsor FreeBSD events, Developer Summits and provide travel grants to FreeBSD developers. In addition, the Foundation represents the FreeBSD Project in executing contracts, license agreements, and other legal arrangements that require a recognized legal entity. The FreeBSD Foundation is entirely supported by donations. More information about The FreeBSD Foundation is available on the web at http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org.

About NYI

Established in 1996, NYI is headquartered in the heart of the Wall Street area and owns and maintains its own data centers, including 999 Frontier, a newly opened 40,000 square foot facility in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The company’s core services include colocation, dedicated servers, web and email hosting, and managed services, as well as turnkey disaster recovery and business continuity solutions from its Bridgewater location. With high-bandwidth connectivity partners AboveNet, Verizon Business, Optimum Lightpath, and AT&T, NYI specializes in mission-critical data services for the financial services industry, in addition to customers from a broad range of industries, including media, law, fashion, architecture, life sciences and real estate. NYI is SAS 70 Type II-compliant, in additon to being both PCI and HIPAA compliant. For more information, visit http://www.nyi.net.

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Partnership Against Domestic Violence Turns to ProviDyn for Managed IT Support and Strategy

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 10, 2011

Partnership Against Domestic Violence (PADV), the largest nonprofit domestic violence organization in Georgia, has selected ProviDyn to provide managed IT services for its headquarters and two satellite locations. ProviDyn will proactively manage and support PADVs technology infrastructure, giving the organization the benefit of a dedicated IT department.

Early in 2011, unexpected fees and slow response times began to impact the day-to-day success of PADV, prompting the organization to began an extensive RFP process in search of a provider that would deliver cost effective service, support and backups. After meeting with ProviDyn, PADV realized that it was possible to find a provider that would also act as an extension of the organization and drive strategic planning for its growing technology needs.

ProviDyns high level of expertise and willingness to understand our business immediately stood out among the providers we reviewed, said Cathy Willis Spraetz, president and CEO of PADV. Working with ProviDyn has given us the peace of mind that our technology needs are consistently met and a clear understanding of what is necessary for future planning.

We are happy to support the work that PADV is doing and believe in the positive impact it has on women and children in Georgia, said Hamish Davidson, president and co-founder of ProviDyn. With tight budgets and minimal resources, nonprofits like PADV should be able to rely on an expertly managed network at a price that is both predictable and reasonable.

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.

About Partnership Against Domestic Violence

PADV is the largest and one of the oldest nonprofit domestic violence agencies in Georgia. Serving metro Atlanta, PADV helps to transform the lives of approximately 18,000 women and children every year through emergency intervention, violence prevention and long-term advocacy. PADVs mission is to end the crime of intimate partner violence and empower its survivors. Visit padv.org or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

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Dolly Drive Turns to Stand-Up Comics to Promote Computer Backup in New Short Film on DollyDrive.com

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 19, 2012

Dolly Drive, makers of cloud services for Mac users, takes a look at how stand-up comedians create their material and what they do to protect it from getting lost in Saved Bits, a short film by comedian and filmmaker Lenny Marcus.

Dolly Drive makes sure that whatever you are creating on your Mac at any moment, is backed up and available for you in the cloud, anytime, anywhere, forever. said Leigh Kessler, Head of Marketing at Dolly Drive. We wanted to see whether technology had given some of the most creative people in the world stand-up comics the power to make sure that their ideas were never lost.

In the 5-minute short, Marcus interviews top stand-ups in New York in the clubs and on the street, asking them to share some early favorite jokes that got them big laughs, where they write and archive their material, and what would happen if they ever lost it.

Said Kessler, Unlike stand-ups, whose ideas live on pieces of paper and in their heads, people who create content on a computer hope that that machine is safe, and with them, at all times. But we dont live in a one computer world anymore. We collaborate, we move around, and we wear our computers down. Dolly Drives cloud services makes sure that whatever Mac users are creating on their machines is protected and available, whenever, and wherever, they need it.

“Saved Bits” can be viewed at http://www.dollydrive.com. Please share with shortlink: http://www.dollydrive.com/?p=1993

Dolly Drive is all-in-one online backup and file sharing for consumer, SMB and Enterprise level Mac users. It allows multi-destination Time Machine backup for multiple Macs, both online and local, with file sync & sharing for Mac s, virtual hard drive storage, and a bootable local clone. Because it’s designed for people who love using Macs, it’s all in one place, with one app. Created by cloud services provider Cirrus Thinking, Dolly Drive was named Maclife Magazine’s Best of Show and Best Software at Macworld 2011.

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CallProof Turns the iPhone 5 the Into a Powerful Sales Tracking System with Their Proven Mobile Lead Tracking Software, Now Available as an iPhone App

Nashville, Tennessee (PRWEB) September 28, 2012

CallProof now integrates with the iPhone 5, taking advantage of new features such as faster processor and a larger screen. The sales tracking tool helps those in sales track their activities and managers to see what their sales teams are doing throughout the day.

Phones are not only used for making phone calls to prospects. They are also part of a sales tracking system ideal for capturing info about prospects, for networking, and to find other locations to prospect to on the go. Additionally, phones are being used to do on the fly research for prospects.

Find CallProof in the Apple App Store at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/callproof-crm/id545096552?mt=8

While available on older iPhones as well as Android, CallProof integrates with the maps app on iPhone 5 to give directions and determine proximity to other potential clients.

A salesforce can benefit from using the iPhone 5, with upgrades including:

A faster processor so sales reps can accomplish more in less time.
The app makes it easier for managers to track their teams while theyre out on the road.
A larger screen makes it easier to see schedules and read maps on the go.
-Salespeople are able to sort their customers based on where they are located then clock into an appointment. This allows managers to see what face-to-face visits their sales teams are making in real time.

In addition, CallProofs web portal automates sales activities and monitoring such as phone call recording from any smartphone. The sales tracking system keeps a log of all calling activities from smart phones and those activities are saved into a customers history. This improves the effectiveness of sales calls because it builds a training database of successful prospecting calls. Sales managers can replay calls in training to show examples of ideal calls or to coach salespeople.

CallProof works and looks great on the iPhone 5. It will literally help anyone in sales who visit their customers in person. He adds that sales reps love their phones and managers love the ability to track their sales reps for training and to improve sales performance.

Find out how CallProof mobile lead tracking software looks on the new iPhone. The demo is free and there are no contracts for service.

About CallProof

Call Proof allows owners and sales managers a simple way to see sales activities with very little input from sales staff. Typically salespeople resist CRM systems and simply dont use them. CallProof automates face to face appointment reporting and call reporting into a simple social stream reporting system. So managers can in real time know which salespeople are doing the right activities to be successful.

With the CallProof Android app call logs are automatically reported to the callproof.com cloud platform where sales managers can see calling activity to customers and prospects in real time.

CallProof was designed by serial entrepreneur Robert Hartline who developed it for the sales team of his company Absolute Wireless, which was founded over 14 years ago. The app is being used by companies with as few as one salesperson to enterprise with hundreds of salespeople.

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