Summer, 2010

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Here's a great definition of being a team player: one who unites others toward a mutual destiny, through sharing information and ideas, empowering others, and developing trust.
 
Since joining Micro Strategies, I realize that above all else, our most important goal is for every staff member to embody this behavior of teamwork – with our clients, our business partners, and each other. This is the #1 reason we continue to succeed, grow, and have fun in the process. After spending nearly 30 years in many different management positions at IBM, I am very excited to lead our sales, marketing, and business development efforts!
 
This latest newsletter offers our clients alternatives to higher hardware maintenance costs with the introduction of IBM’s new POWER7 technology. We also provide considerations for upgrading older Windows technology to achieve more with your current staff, give insights into Alfresco’s new CMIS solution with its very powerful integration capabilities, and illustrate a wonderful community involvement with NY’s Voices Of Women.
 
I am proud to be a part of Micro Strategies' winning team and thank you for your business and continued partnership.
 
Sincerely, Ray Scardelli, Vice President, Sales and Marketing
 

We thank our clients for our overall Customer Satisfaction Rating of 96%!

In This Issue

IBM's New POWER7 – An Alternative To Higher SUN Maintenance


Still Stuck On Windows XP? You May Qualify For A Microsoft Assessment


Alfresco Announces The First CMIS Solution That Integrates With IBM And Microsoft


Leave Your Competition In The Dust – Accelerating Data Recovery at Velocity 17

Upcoming Events

All American Jet Car Nationals
August 18, Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ

International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Annual Conference
August 22-26, Las Vegas, NV

"Ask the Experts" Virtualization for the Mid-Market
September 14, Technology Solution Center, Denville, NJ

Content Assessment & e-Discovery Executive Luncheon
September 16, Bernardsville Inn, Bernardsville, NJ

Increase the Speed of Your Backups at Velocity 17
Coming in October, Maywood, NJ

www.microstrat.com/events

In The News:

Ingram Micro's VTN "IT Makeover" – Helping NY's Voices Of Women

IBM's New POWER7 – An Alternative To Higher SUN Maintenance

. . .Big buzz about IBM's new POWER7 resulted in a big turnout at Micro Strategies recent briefing introducing IBM's POWER7 technology.

It is evident that amazing return on investment is possible through the outstanding improvements in performance, energy utilization, and virtualization/consolidation found in POWER7.

For the same price, POWER7 is 3 - 4 times more energy efficient than IBM's POWER6 and delivers up to 4 times more performance and virtualization capability. As reductions to IT budgets continue, potential cost savings are more important now than ever.

Additionally, Oracle's purchase of SUN Microsystems is generating fear in the marketplace that maintenance charges for older SUN equipment will increase dramatically. This makes the evaluation of more cost effective and higher performance systems necessary.

The briefing opened on the topic of the SUN/Oracle merger and what it means for SUN customers. Discussions included POWER7's new features, the differences between POWER7 and POWER6, how POWER7 and XIV work together, and server and storage virtualization, including SVC. Clients were interested in hearing how POWER7 supports consolidation of UNIX, System i and Linux workloads, with the ability to move workloads across the entire server environment, leveraging a dynamic workload-balancing capability.

If simplifying your IT infrastructure is a top priority, POWER7 servers are designed to help businesses tackle the most data intensive challenges while at the same time creating efficiencies in costs and energy.

Contact us to learn how to take advantage of a funded assessment.

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Still Stuck on Windows XP? You May Qualify For A Microsoft Assessment

If you're supporting the IT requirements of a small to medium sized organization, consider our next Ask the Experts session.

You will learn more about Microsoft's next wave of technological innovations, develop a better understanding of desktop virtualization with Citrix XEN Desktop, and learn how Lenovo can best support your desktop needs. The focus of our upcoming session will be Breakthroughs in Windows 7 – a technical discussion led by Ron Mente, along with a team of specialists who average 15+ years experience in desktop deployments. Topics will include best practices for deploying Windows7, solutions for mobile workers, and mistakes to avoid. We'll also show you how to design the best roadmap for your organization.

This upcoming session will be held at Micro Strategies' Technology Solution Center, where you can see these solutions first hand, in a risk free environment. All attendees will qualify for a Microsoft desktop assessment. Space is limited, so register today or contact us for more information.

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Alfresco Announces The First CMIS Solution That Integrates With IBM And Microsoft

On May 27, 2010, Alfresco announced the first commercially supported CMIS solution that integrates with such platforms as IBM/Lotus and Microsoft Outlook.

CMIS stands for Content Management Interoperability Services, a specification for improving interoperability between Enterprise Content Management Systems, started as an industry initiative and is now being administered by standards body, Oasis.

In this recent press release, Jeff Schick, VP of IBM Social Computing Software, weighs in on being able to deliver on the need for clients to integrate the Alfresco ECM platform into the Lotus social collaboration suite. Adam Storch, Vice President of Business Solutions for Micro Strategies, speaks about successful implementations performed for Church Pension Group (CPG) and Molecular NeuroImaging (MNI).

The full press release is located at www.microstrat.com, Press Releases.

Contact us for more information about our in-depth ECM design and implementation services.

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Leave Your Competition In The Dust – Accelerating Data Recovery at Velocity 17

Micro Strategies is sponsoring a unique event! Our goal is to provide you with ways to speed up your backups, manage your disaster recovery, and also experience the thrill of racing at the Velocity 17 Racetrack in Maywood, NJ.

The session is designed for CIOs and IT Managers responsible for small to mid-sized companies. Also welcome are technology executives at larger firms with branches or remote offices. We will review traditional backup solutions, discuss common problems, and hear what the experts on these topics are saying. Micro Strategies will place significant emphasis on ways to speed up your backup windows and view customer measured results, as well as provide hands-on demos. Specific topics include the granular recovery of email objects, selective replication, bare machine recovery, and end to end disaster recovery management.

After the presentations, you can whip around a 2,000 foot racetrack in carts reaching speeds up to 30mph, and network with our key technical staff. Since space is limited, please register today or contact us for more information.

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In The News...

Ingram Micro's VTN "IT Makeover" – Helping NY's Voices Of Women

As part of an "IT makeover" for a New York women's shelter, Ingram Micro's VentureTech Big Apple Chapter has donated more than $30,000 worth of equipment, labor and services. This effort will help fund New York's Voices of Women (VOW) Organizing Project with leadership training, development and support of survivors of domestic violence, as well as the organization's outreach efforts.

The Big Apple Cares was started by a group of solution providers, including Micro Strategies, and plans to help other local organizations throughout the year. Voices of Women was chosen as the first recipient because they are a customer of one of the VTN members, who knew they needed a technology upgrade but couldn't afford one, said Dara Orsini, a Client Solutions Executive at Micro Strategies.

"With the way the economy has been, we felt it was a time to reflect on what you have and what other people might need. We have the time and resources and we thought it would be a great way to give some of our resources and expertise to help others," Orsini said.

The Big Apple Chapter's work is part of a larger initiative by Ingram Micro's VentureTech Network to give back to the community. VentureTech has steadily increased its charitable work over the last couple of years after initially holding a children's bike building contest at a conference in New Orleans. The bikes were donated to children of that city.