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Embracing the dynamic nature of workloads, and managing and creating an environment of expected <em>change</em> is what today’s virtualized data center is all about. We <em>expect</em> it to change – we <em>want</em> it to change - we <em>need</em> it to change. Things will change, but we’ll still be in control – with the right tools – but not the old ones!\n\n<strong>When you’re at the point when most of your workloads are virtualized – those old monitoring systems need to go - </strong>as a married man, I know when it’s time to take out the trash – it’s at the precise moment the trash can is completely overflowing. We don’t throw away everything we no longer need though – often we will recycle, up-cycle, reuse, or donate our unwanted items – but when something is completely useless and I am morally obligated to keep it from being used by anyone any longer – it’s going in the trash.\n\nThat’s similar to how I feel about old monitoring systems that were meant for old, static environments.  When you’re at the point when most of your workloads are virtualized – those old monitoring systems and agent-based backups need to go. And if you need help through this phase, reach out to us, we’re happy to help!<em></em>\n\n<strong><em>Do not accept defeat -</em></strong> whatever you do, don’t surrender to the fact that you’ll never be able to monitor your virtualized infrastructure because the old monitoring tools have become instantly obsolete. IT Professionals are anything but defeatists – if there is a way, we’ll find it, code it, release it and conquer the world just to keep us from clicking a mouse that one extra time.\n\nThat attitude was certainly shared by VMware, which is why they released vCenter Operations Manager and the vCenter Operations Manager Suite. They knew that managing something so fluid couldn’t be accomplished with the same tools as static environments. The challenge of managing IT doesn’t decrease just because something is virtualized – it’s only when a workload is virtualized that we can see a management tool’s full potential, and value.\n\nTo understand how vCOPS acts as your greatest intelligence collector, read my recent post, “<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/hey-it-leaders-would-you-rather-be-proactive-or-reactive\">Hey IT Leaders – Would You Rather Be Proactive or Reactive?</a>”\n\nAnd so, with all due respect to Paul (and we have a TON of respect), virtualization doesn’t break monitoring systems – virtualization breaks <strong>OLD</strong> monitoring systems. Stop cleaning your dishes in the car wash, and get the right tool for the job!\n\nWouldn’t you agree?','Why virtualization breaks OLD monitoring systems','','inherit','open','open','','7414-revision','','','2012-09-18 17:05:03','2012-09-18 21:05:03','',7414,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7414-revision',0,'revision','',0),(7416,40,'2012-09-18 17:08:21','2012-09-18 21:08:21','<strong></strong>At eGroup, we’re huge fans of InfoWorld’s Paul Venezia and his Deep End blog - always provocative, never dull. But his latest post, <a href=\"http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/why-virtualization-breaks-monitoring-systems-202272\">Why Virtualization breaks monitoring systems</a>, had me miffed. You’ve got to use the right tool for the job, Paul!\r\n\r\nYou wouldn’t want to take your next road trip in a golf cart, and we don’t wash our dishes in a car wash – so why is IT still using the same monitoring systems of old to monitor their virtualized infrastructure?\r\n\r\nSure, these tools may get the job done eventually, but the means to get there is tiring and messy! Just like with old monitoring systems telling you when something changes (ouch - <em>every time</em> something changes?).\r\n\r\nSo what’s my advice to IT?\r\n\r\n<strong>Manage the <em>change</em>, and you’ll manage your infrastructure</strong> – improvements in technology constantly <em>change</em> the way we do business, and ultimately support the business – only with <em>change</em> we can do it faster, cheaper, and better. Embracing the dynamic nature of workloads, and managing and creating an environment of expected <em>change</em> is what today’s virtualized data center is all about. We <em>expect</em> it to change – we <em>want</em> it to change - we <em>need</em> it to change. Things will change, but we’ll still be in control – with the right tools – but not the old ones!\r\n\r\n<strong>When you’re at the point when most of your workloads are virtualized – those old monitoring systems need to go - </strong>as a married man, I know when it’s time to take out the trash – it’s at the precise moment the trash can is completely overflowing. We don’t throw away everything we no longer need though – often we will recycle, up-cycle, reuse, or donate our unwanted items – but when something is completely useless and I am morally obligated to keep it from being used by anyone any longer – it’s going in the trash.\r\n\r\nThat’s similar to how I feel about old monitoring systems that were meant for old, static environments.  When you’re at the point when most of your workloads are virtualized – those old monitoring systems and agent-based backups need to go. And if you need help through this phase, reach out to us, we’re happy to help!<em></em>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Do not accept defeat -</em></strong> whatever you do, don’t surrender to the fact that you’ll never be able to monitor your virtualized infrastructure because the old monitoring tools have become instantly obsolete. IT Professionals are anything but defeatists – if there is a way, we’ll find it, code it, release it and conquer the world just to keep us from clicking a mouse that one extra time.\r\n\r\nThat attitude was certainly shared by VMware, which is why they released vCenter Operations Manager and the vCenter Operations Manager Suite. They knew that managing something so fluid couldn’t be accomplished with the same tools as static environments. The challenge of managing IT doesn’t decrease just because something is virtualized – it’s only when a workload is virtualized that we can see a management tool’s full potential, and value.\r\n\r\nTo understand how vCOPS acts as your greatest intelligence collector, read my recent post, “<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/hey-it-leaders-would-you-rather-be-proactive-or-reactive\">Hey IT Leaders – Would You Rather Be Proactive or Reactive?</a>”\r\n\r\nAnd so, with all due respect to Paul (and we have a TON of respect), virtualization doesn’t break monitoring systems – virtualization breaks <strong>OLD</strong> monitoring systems. Stop cleaning your dishes in the car wash, and get the right tool for the job!\r\n\r\nWouldn’t you agree?','Why virtualization breaks OLD monitoring systems','','inherit','open','open','','7414-revision-2','','','2012-09-18 17:08:21','2012-09-18 21:08:21','',7414,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7414-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(7417,40,'2012-09-18 17:10:03','2012-09-18 21:10:03','<strong></strong>At eGroup, we’re huge fans of InfoWorld’s Paul Venezia and his Deep End blog - always provocative, never dull. But his latest post, <a href=\"http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/why-virtualization-breaks-monitoring-systems-202272\">Why Virtualization breaks monitoring systems</a>, had me miffed. You’ve got to use the right tool for the job, Paul!\n\nYou wouldn’t want to take your next road trip in a golf cart, and we don’t wash our dishes in a car wash – so why is IT still using the same monitoring systems of old to monitor their virtualized infrastructure?\n\nSure, these tools may get the job done eventually, but the means to get there is tiring and messy! Just like with old monitoring systems telling you when something changes (ouch - <em>every time</em> something changes?).\n\nSo what’s my advice to IT?\n\n<strong>Manage the <em>change</em>, and you’ll manage your infrastructure</strong> – improvements in technology constantly <em>change</em> the way we do business, and ultimately support the business – only with <em>change</em> we can do it faster, cheaper, and better. Embracing the dynamic nature of workloads, and managing and creating an environment of expected <em>change</em> is what today’s virtualized data center is all about. We <em>expect</em> it to change – we <em>want</em> it to change - we <em>need</em> it to change. Things will change, but we’ll still be in control – with the right tools – but not the old ones!\n\n<strong>When you’re at the point when most of your workloads are virtualized – those old monitoring systems need to go - </strong>as a married man, I know when it’s time to take out the trash – it’s at the precise moment the trash can is completely overflowing. We don’t throw away everything we no longer need though – often we will recycle, up-cycle, reuse, or donate our unwanted items – but when something is completely useless and I am morally obligated to keep it from being used by anyone any longer – it’s going in the trash.\n\nThat’s similar to how I feel about old monitoring systems that were meant for old, static environments.  When you’re at the point when most of your workloads are virtualized – those old monitoring systems and agent-based backups need to go. And if you need help through this phase, reach out to us, we’re happy to help!<em></em>\n\n<strong><em>Do not accept defeat -</em></strong> whatever you do, don’t surrender to the fact that you’ll never be able to monitor your virtualized infrastructure because the old monitoring tools have become instantly obsolete. IT Professionals are anything but defeatists – if there is a way, we’ll find it, code it, release it and conquer the world just to keep us from clicking a mouse that one extra time.\n\nThat attitude was certainly shared by VMware, which is why they released vCenter Operations Manager and the vCenter Operations Manager Suite. They knew that managing something so fluid couldn’t be accomplished with the same tools as static environments. The challenge of managing IT doesn’t decrease just because something is virtualized – it’s only when a workload is virtualized that we can see a management tool’s full potential, and value.\n\nTo understand how vCOPS acts as your greatest intelligence collector, read my recent post, “<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/hey-it-leaders-would-you-rather-be-proactive-or-reactive\">Hey IT Leaders – Would You Rather Be Proactive or Reactive?</a>”\n\nAnd so, with all due respect to Paul (and we have a TON of respect), virtualization doesn’t break monitoring systems – virtualization breaks <strong>OLD</strong> monitoring systems. 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Or, perhaps, you haven\'t even deployed applications on demand and are simply looking for some third-party advice.\r\n\r\nWell then, this eGroup Roundtable, \"XenApp 6.5 and Beyond\", hosted by Jason Webster and eGroup\'s \"XenMaster\" Steve Rattacasa, is definitely for you.\r\n\r\nPlease <a href=\"https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/864298705\">join</a> Jason and Steve for an interactive discussion on application virtualization and a review of XenApp 6.5.<!--more-->\r\n\r\n\"XenApp and Beyond\" will take place on Wednesday, September 26th at 9:30 am ET.\r\n\r\nThe agenda is as follows:\r\n\r\n•What\'s New?\r\n\r\n•Why XA vs. XD vs. \"VDI\"\r\n\r\n•Common issues\r\n\r\n•Profile handling\r\n\r\n•XA from the Cloud - Multi Site Design\r\n\r\nThe eGroup Roundtable Series is a twice monthly discussion covering the latest products, innovations, and use cases with eGroup thought leaders, partners and technology users. Participants delve into and dissect specific technology issues impacting today\'s IT and business leaders.\r\n\r\nThe format of the eGroup Roundtable Series is an open discussion and Q&amp;A hosted by eGroup\'s Application Services Manager, Jason Webster. Attendees to the Roundtable Series are encouraged to interact with the thought leaders by asking questions and providing their specific experience and anecdotes as they relate to the topic at hand.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/864298705\">REGISTER!</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','9.26 eGROUP ROUNDTABLE: XenApp 6.5 and Beyond!','','publish','open','open','','9-26-egroup-roundtable-xenapp-6-5-and-beyond','','','2012-09-20 09:52:46','2012-09-20 13:52:46','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=7419',0,'post','',0),(7420,2,'2012-09-20 09:51:17','2012-09-20 13:51:17','<strong>eGroup Roundtable: XenApp 6.5 and Beyond</strong>\n\nXenApp 6.5 has been available for just over a year - so what\'s the verdict? Are you happy with your application virtualization rollout? Are your users happy? Is your boss happy? Or, perhaps, you haven\'t even deployed applications on demand and are simply looking for some third-party advice.\n\nWell then, this eGroup Roundtable, \"XenApp 6.5 and Beyond\", hosted by Jason Webster and eGroup\'s \"XenMaster\" Steve Rattacasa, is definitely for you.\n\nPlease <a href=\"https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/864298705\">join</a> Jason and Steve for an interactive discussion on application virtualization and a review of XenApp 6.5.<!--more-->\n\n\"XenApp and Beyond\" will take place on Wednesday, September 26th at 9:30 am ET.\n\nThe agenda is as follows:\n\n•What\'s New?\n\n•Why XA vs. XD vs. \"VDI\"\n\n•Common issues\n\n•Profile handling\n\n•XA from the Cloud - Multi Site Design\n\nThe eGroup Roundtable Series is a twice monthly discussion covering the latest products, innovations, and use cases with eGroup thought leaders, partners and technology users. Participants delve into and dissect specific technology issues impacting today\'s IT and business leaders.\n\nThe format of the eGroup Roundtable Series is an open discussion and Q&amp;A hosted by eGroup\'s Application Services Manager, Jason Webster. Attendees to the Roundtable Series are encouraged to interact with the thought leaders by asking questions and providing their specific experience and anecdotes as they relate to the topic at hand.\n\n<a href=\"https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/864298705\">REGISTER!</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','9.26 eGROUP ROUNDTABLE: XenApp 6.5 and Beyond!','','inherit','open','open','','7419-revision','','','2012-09-20 09:51:17','2012-09-20 13:51:17','',7419,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7419-revision',0,'revision','',0),(7421,2,'2012-09-20 09:52:21','2012-09-20 13:52:21','<strong>eGroup Roundtable: XenApp 6.5 and Beyond</strong>\r\n\r\nXenApp 6.5 has been available for just over a year - so what\'s the verdict? Are you happy with your application virtualization rollout? Are your users happy? Is your boss happy? Or, perhaps, you haven\'t even deployed applications on demand and are simply looking for some third-party advice.\r\n\r\nWell then, this eGroup Roundtable, \"XenApp 6.5 and Beyond\", hosted by Jason Webster and eGroup\'s \"XenMaster\" Steve Rattacasa, is definitely for you.\r\n\r\nPlease <a href=\"https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/864298705\">join</a> Jason and Steve for an interactive discussion on application virtualization and a review of XenApp 6.5.<!--more-->\r\n\r\n\"XenApp and Beyond\" will take place on Wednesday, September 26th at 9:30 am ET.\r\n\r\nThe agenda is as follows:\r\n\r\n•What\'s New?\r\n\r\n•Why XA vs. XD vs. \"VDI\"\r\n\r\n•Common issues\r\n\r\n•Profile handling\r\n\r\n•XA from the Cloud - Multi Site Design\r\n\r\nThe eGroup Roundtable Series is a twice monthly discussion covering the latest products, innovations, and use cases with eGroup thought leaders, partners and technology users. Participants delve into and dissect specific technology issues impacting today\'s IT and business leaders.\r\n\r\nThe format of the eGroup Roundtable Series is an open discussion and Q&amp;A hosted by eGroup\'s Application Services Manager, Jason Webster. Attendees to the Roundtable Series are encouraged to interact with the thought leaders by asking questions and providing their specific experience and anecdotes as they relate to the topic at hand.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/864298705\">REGISTER!</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','9.26 eGROUP ROUNDTABLE: XenApp 6.5 and Beyond!','','inherit','open','open','','7419-revision-2','','','2012-09-20 09:52:21','2012-09-20 13:52:21','',7419,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7419-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(7422,40,'2012-11-12 09:05:28','2012-11-12 14:05:28','<strong>eGroup Roundtable: XenApp 6.5 and Beyond</strong>\n\nXenApp 6.5 has been available for just over a year - so what\'s the verdict? Are you happy with your application virtualization rollout? Are your users happy? Is your boss happy? Or, perhaps, you haven\'t even deployed applications on demand and are simply looking for some third-party advice.\n\nWell then, this eGroup Roundtable, \"XenApp 6.5 and Beyond\", hosted by Jason Webster and eGroup\'s \"XenMaster\" Steve Rattacasa, is definitely for you.\n\nPlease <a href=\"https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/864298705\">join</a> Jason and Steve for an interactive discussion on application virtualization and a review of XenApp 6.5.<!--more-->\n\n\"XenApp and Beyond\" will take place on Wednesday, September 26th at 9:30 am ET.\n\nThe agenda is as follows:\n\n•What\'s New?\n\n•Why XA vs. XD vs. \"VDI\"\n\n•Common issues\n\n•Profile handling\n\n•XA from the Cloud - Multi Site Design\n\nThe eGroup Roundtable Series is a twice monthly discussion covering the latest products, innovations, and use cases with eGroup thought leaders, partners and technology users. Participants delve into and dissect specific technology issues impacting today\'s IT and business leaders.\n\nThe format of the eGroup Roundtable Series is an open discussion and Q&amp;A hosted by eGroup\'s Application Services Manager, Jason Webster. Attendees to the Roundtable Series are encouraged to interact with the thought leaders by asking questions and providing their specific experience and anecdotes as they relate to the topic at hand.\n\n<a href=\"https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/864298705\">REGISTER!</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','9.26 eGROUP ROUNDTABLE: XenApp 6.5 and Beyond!','','inherit','open','open','','7419-autosave','','','2012-11-12 09:05:28','2012-11-12 14:05:28','',7419,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7419-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(7423,40,'2012-09-20 16:23:11','2012-09-20 20:23:11','<p align=\"center\"><strong>ROK Global Applications Group, LLC selects eGroup to Deliver Reliable and Secure Data Visualizations to Esri Users</strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><em>eGroup’s eCloud infrastructure to allow users to easily view, understand and interpret geographically referenced data right from the desktop</em><em></em></p>\r\n<strong>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – September 20, 2012</strong> – <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a>, the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services, today announced that ROK Technologies will deliver the Esri ArcGIS product line via <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eGroup’s eCloud</a>.\r\n\r\nAs a result of the partnership, commercial enterprises and governmental organizations will be better prepared to make data driven decisions, at a fraction of the cost. As these groups strive to improve efficiencies, deliver superior customer service and a better informed constituency, commercial enterprises and governmental organizations are increasingly turning to geographic information system (GIS). Historically, these entities have been challenged with rolling out GIS given the high cost and complex technical specifications, despite the significant business benefits.\r\n\r\nROK\'s managed ArcGIS Server cloud hosting, powered by <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eGroup’s eCloud</a>, offers a solution that is cost effective while allowing enterprises and public organizations to integrate their enterprise software with ROK GIS solutions, products and services. Additional benefits include:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Hosted Computing Infrastructure</li>\r\n	<li>State-of-the-art 24×7 Data Center</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated Virtual Servers: Scale resources as-needed</li>\r\n	<li>Consolidated Storage: Readily Available</li>\r\n	<li>Highest Levels of Business Continuity</li>\r\n	<li>Scalable Network and Internet Bandwidth</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated, best in class ArcGIS Server Specialists</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nUtilizing ROK ‘s ArcGIS Server cloud hosting service offers users several benefits when compared to other cloud based server configurations. For example, ROK maintains the ArcGIS Server license while managing both the hardware and bandwidth provisioning. In addition, ROK maintains the personnel to provide all the expertise and advice to keep users’ map services running at optimal speed.\r\n\r\n“At eGroup, we understand not only the importance of data driven decisions but the business criticality of ensuring that the data is available at all times, anywhere and on any device,” said Steve Rattacasa, Cloud Services Manager, eGroup. “ROK selected eGroup’s eCloud because they, too, understand how important GIS is for running any business or government organization and being down is not an option for ROK, nor its customer base.”\r\n\r\n“Reliability and performance in an on-demand solution are key criteria for ROK’s cloud initiative. In-depth knowledge of the technical components required to deliver cloud-based applications and a thorough understanding of ROK’s leading edge offerings make eGroup the natural partner of choice for ROK,” Mike Murphy, president at ROK Technologies.\r\n\r\neGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security. eGroup’s expertise and core competence is focused in three distinct areas: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">Cloud Services (public and private)</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">Application Services</a>, and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">End-User Computing</a>. <strong></strong>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>###</strong></p>\r\n<strong>About eGroup</strong>\r\n\r\nHeadquartered in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a> provides innovative <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">end-user computing</a> services to businesses across the Southeast. One of the region’s fastest growing companies and winner of the 2012 CRN “Tech Elite 250”, eGroup’s solutions drive customer revenue while reducing cost to maintain IT infrastructures. Visit <a href=\"http://www.eGroup-us.com\">www.eGroup-us.com</a> or call 1.877.eGROUP.1 (1.877.347.6871) for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>About ROK </strong>\r\n\r\nROK Technologies and its affiliate ROK Global Applications Group, based in Charleston, South Carolina, serve clients in many industries and governments globally. As an Esri Silver business partner and ArcGIS Server Application Service Provider licensee, ROK is able to leverage the ArcGIS platform and their cutting edge core competencies to provide Cloud based ArcGIS application development, hosting, and cache management solutions. Visit <a href=\"http://www.roktech.net\">www.roktech.net</a> or call <a href=\"tel:%28888%29898-3404\" target=\"_blank\">1.888.898.3404</a> for more information.<strong></strong>','eGroup Announces eCloud Customer: ROK Technologies','','publish','open','open','','egroup-announces-ecloud-customer-rok-technologies','','','2012-09-20 16:23:11','2012-09-20 20:23:11','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=7423',0,'post','',0),(7424,40,'2012-09-20 16:19:48','2012-09-20 20:19:48','<p align=\"center\"><strong>ROK Global Applications Group, LLC selects eGroup to Deliver Reliable and Secure Data Visualizations to Esri Users</strong></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>eGroup’s eCloud infrastructure to allow users to easily view, understand and interpret geographically referenced data right from the desktop</em><em></em></p>\n<strong>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – September 20, 2012</strong> – <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a>, the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services, today announced that ROK Technologies will deliver the Esri ArcGIS product line via <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eGroup’s eCloud</a>.\n\nAs a result of the partnership, commercial enterprises and governmental organizations will be better prepared to make data driven decisions, at a fraction of the cost. As these groups strive to improve efficiencies, deliver superior customer service and a better informed constituency, commercial enterprises and governmental organizations are increasingly turning to geographic information system (GIS). Historically, these entities have been challenged with rolling out GIS given the high cost and complex technical specifications, despite the significant business benefits.\n\nROK\'s managed ArcGIS Server cloud hosting, powered by <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eGroup’s eCloud</a>, offers a solution that is cost effective while allowing enterprises and public organizations to integrate their enterprise software with ROK GIS solutions, products and services. Additional benefits include:\n<ul>\n	<li>Hosted Computing Infrastructure</li>\n	<li>State-of-the-art 24×7 Data Center</li>\n	<li>Dedicated Virtual Servers: Scale resources as-needed</li>\n	<li>Consolidated Storage: Readily Available</li>\n	<li>Highest Levels of Business Continuity</li>\n	<li>Scalable Network and Internet Bandwidth</li>\n	<li>Dedicated, best in class ArcGIS Server Specialists</li>\n</ul>\nUtilizing ROK ‘s ArcGIS Server cloud hosting service offers users several benefits when compared to other cloud based server configurations. For example, ROK maintains the ArcGIS Server license while managing both the hardware and bandwidth provisioning. In addition, ROK maintains the personnel to provide all the expertise and advice to keep users’ map services running at optimal speed.\n\n“At eGroup, we understand not only the importance of data driven decisions but the business criticality of ensuring that the data is available at all times, anywhere and on any device,” said Steve Rattacasa, Cloud Services Manager, eGroup. “ROK selected eGroup’s eCloud because they, too, understand how important GIS is for running any business or government organization and being down is not an option for ROK, nor its customer base.”\n\n“Reliability and performance in an on-demand solution are key criteria for ROK’s cloud initiative. In-depth knowledge of the technical components required to deliver cloud-based applications and a thorough understanding of ROK’s leading edge offerings make eGroup the natural partner of choice for ROK,” Mike Murphy, president at ROK Technologies.\n\neGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security. eGroup’s expertise and core competence is focused in three distinct areas: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">Cloud Services (public and private)</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">Application Services</a>, and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">End-User Computing</a>. <strong></strong>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>###</strong></p>\n<strong>About eGroup</strong>\n\nHeadquartered in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a> provides innovative <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">end-user computing</a> services to businesses across the Southeast. One of the region’s fastest growing companies and winner of the 2012 CRN “Tech Elite 250”, eGroup’s solutions drive customer revenue while reducing cost to maintain IT infrastructures. Visit <a href=\"http://www.eGroup-us.com\">www.eGroup-us.com</a> or call 1.877.eGROUP.1 (1.877.347.6871) for more information.\n\n<strong>About ROK </strong>\n\nROK Technologies and its affiliate ROK Global Applications Group, based in Charleston, South Carolina, serve clients in many industries and governments globally. As an Esri Silver business partner and ArcGIS Server Application Service Provider licensee, ROK is able to leverage the ArcGIS platform and their cutting edge core competencies to provide Cloud based ArcGIS application development, hosting, and cache management solutions. Visit <a href=\"http://www.roktech.net\">www.roktech.net</a> or call <a href=\"tel:%28888%29898-3404\" target=\"_blank\">1.888.898.3404</a> for more information.<strong></strong>','','','inherit','open','open','','7423-revision','','','2012-09-20 16:19:48','2012-09-20 20:19:48','',7423,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7423-revision',0,'revision','',0),(7425,40,'2012-09-20 16:21:31','2012-09-20 20:21:31','<p align=\"center\"><strong>ROK Global Applications Group, LLC selects eGroup to Deliver Reliable and Secure Data Visualizations to Esri Users</strong></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>eGroup’s eCloud infrastructure to allow users to easily view, understand and interpret geographically referenced data right from the desktop</em><em></em></p>\n<strong>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – September 20, 2012</strong> – <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a>, the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services, today announced that ROK Technologies will deliver the Esri ArcGIS product line via <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eGroup’s eCloud</a>.\n\nAs a result of the partnership, commercial enterprises and governmental organizations will be better prepared to make data driven decisions, at a fraction of the cost. As these groups strive to improve efficiencies, deliver superior customer service and a better informed constituency, commercial enterprises and governmental organizations are increasingly turning to geographic information system (GIS). Historically, these entities have been challenged with rolling out GIS given the high cost and complex technical specifications, despite the significant business benefits.\n\nROK\'s managed ArcGIS Server cloud hosting, powered by <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eGroup’s eCloud</a>, offers a solution that is cost effective while allowing enterprises and public organizations to integrate their enterprise software with ROK GIS solutions, products and services. Additional benefits include:\n<ul>\n	<li>Hosted Computing Infrastructure</li>\n	<li>State-of-the-art 24×7 Data Center</li>\n	<li>Dedicated Virtual Servers: Scale resources as-needed</li>\n	<li>Consolidated Storage: Readily Available</li>\n	<li>Highest Levels of Business Continuity</li>\n	<li>Scalable Network and Internet Bandwidth</li>\n	<li>Dedicated, best in class ArcGIS Server Specialists</li>\n</ul>\nUtilizing ROK ‘s ArcGIS Server cloud hosting service offers users several benefits when compared to other cloud based server configurations. For example, ROK maintains the ArcGIS Server license while managing both the hardware and bandwidth provisioning. In addition, ROK maintains the personnel to provide all the expertise and advice to keep users’ map services running at optimal speed.\n\n“At eGroup, we understand not only the importance of data driven decisions but the business criticality of ensuring that the data is available at all times, anywhere and on any device,” said Steve Rattacasa, Cloud Services Manager, eGroup. “ROK selected eGroup’s eCloud because they, too, understand how important GIS is for running any business or government organization and being down is not an option for ROK, nor its customer base.”\n\n“Reliability and performance in an on-demand solution are key criteria for ROK’s cloud initiative. In-depth knowledge of the technical components required to deliver cloud-based applications and a thorough understanding of ROK’s leading edge offerings make eGroup the natural partner of choice for ROK,” Mike Murphy, president at ROK Technologies.\n\neGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security. eGroup’s expertise and core competence is focused in three distinct areas: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">Cloud Services (public and private)</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">Application Services</a>, and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">End-User Computing</a>. <strong></strong>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>###</strong></p>\n<strong>About eGroup</strong>\n\nHeadquartered in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a> provides innovative <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">end-user computing</a> services to businesses across the Southeast. One of the region’s fastest growing companies and winner of the 2012 CRN “Tech Elite 250”, eGroup’s solutions drive customer revenue while reducing cost to maintain IT infrastructures. Visit <a href=\"http://www.eGroup-us.com\">www.eGroup-us.com</a> or call 1.877.eGROUP.1 (1.877.347.6871) for more information.\n\n<strong>About ROK </strong>\n\nROK Technologies and its affiliate ROK Global Applications Group, based in Charleston, South Carolina, serve clients in many industries and governments globally. As an Esri Silver business partner and ArcGIS Server Application Service Provider licensee, ROK is able to leverage the ArcGIS platform and their cutting edge core competencies to provide Cloud based ArcGIS application development, hosting, and cache management solutions. Visit <a href=\"http://www.roktech.net\">www.roktech.net</a> or call <a href=\"tel:%28888%29898-3404\" target=\"_blank\">1.888.898.3404</a> for more information.<strong></strong>','eGroup Announces eCloud Customer: ROK Technologies','','inherit','open','open','','7423-revision-2','','','2012-09-20 16:21:31','2012-09-20 20:21:31','',7423,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7423-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(7426,40,'2012-09-20 16:22:33','2012-09-20 20:22:33','<p align=\"center\"><strong>ROK Global Applications Group, LLC selects eGroup to Deliver Reliable and Secure Data Visualizations to Esri Users</strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><em>eGroup’s eCloud infrastructure to allow users to easily view, understand and interpret geographically referenced data right from the desktop</em><em></em></p>\r\n<strong>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – September 20, 2012</strong> – <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a>, the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services, today announced that ROK Technologies will deliver the Esri ArcGIS product line via <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eGroup’s eCloud</a>.\r\n\r\nAs a result of the partnership, commercial enterprises and governmental organizations will be better prepared to make data driven decisions, at a fraction of the cost. As these groups strive to improve efficiencies, deliver superior customer service and a better informed constituency, commercial enterprises and governmental organizations are increasingly turning to geographic information system (GIS). Historically, these entities have been challenged with rolling out GIS given the high cost and complex technical specifications, despite the significant business benefits.\r\n\r\nROK\'s managed ArcGIS Server cloud hosting, powered by <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eGroup’s eCloud</a>, offers a solution that is cost effective while allowing enterprises and public organizations to integrate their enterprise software with ROK GIS solutions, products and services. Additional benefits include:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Hosted Computing Infrastructure</li>\r\n	<li>State-of-the-art 24×7 Data Center</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated Virtual Servers: Scale resources as-needed</li>\r\n	<li>Consolidated Storage: Readily Available</li>\r\n	<li>Highest Levels of Business Continuity</li>\r\n	<li>Scalable Network and Internet Bandwidth</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated, best in class ArcGIS Server Specialists</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nUtilizing ROK ‘s ArcGIS Server cloud hosting service offers users several benefits when compared to other cloud based server configurations. For example, ROK maintains the ArcGIS Server license while managing both the hardware and bandwidth provisioning. In addition, ROK maintains the personnel to provide all the expertise and advice to keep users’ map services running at optimal speed.\r\n\r\n“At eGroup, we understand not only the importance of data driven decisions but the business criticality of ensuring that the data is available at all times, anywhere and on any device,” said Steve Rattacasa, Cloud Services Manager, eGroup. “ROK selected eGroup’s eCloud because they, too, understand how important GIS is for running any business or government organization and being down is not an option for ROK, nor its customer base.”\r\n\r\n“Reliability and performance in an on-demand solution are key criteria for ROK’s cloud initiative. In-depth knowledge of the technical components required to deliver cloud-based applications and a thorough understanding of ROK’s leading edge offerings make eGroup the natural partner of choice for ROK,” Mike Murphy, president at ROK Technologies.\r\n\r\neGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security. eGroup’s expertise and core competence is focused in three distinct areas: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">Cloud Services (public and private)</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">Application Services</a>, and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">End-User Computing</a>. <strong></strong>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>###</strong></p>\r\n<strong>About eGroup</strong>\r\n\r\nHeadquartered in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a> provides innovative <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">end-user computing</a> services to businesses across the Southeast. One of the region’s fastest growing companies and winner of the 2012 CRN “Tech Elite 250”, eGroup’s solutions drive customer revenue while reducing cost to maintain IT infrastructures. Visit <a href=\"http://www.eGroup-us.com\">www.eGroup-us.com</a> or call 1.877.eGROUP.1 (1.877.347.6871) for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>About ROK </strong>\r\n\r\nROK Technologies and its affiliate ROK Global Applications Group, based in Charleston, South Carolina, serve clients in many industries and governments globally. As an Esri Silver business partner and ArcGIS Server Application Service Provider licensee, ROK is able to leverage the ArcGIS platform and their cutting edge core competencies to provide Cloud based ArcGIS application development, hosting, and cache management solutions. Visit <a href=\"http://www.roktech.net\">www.roktech.net</a> or call <a href=\"tel:%28888%29898-3404\" target=\"_blank\">1.888.898.3404</a> for more information.<strong></strong>','eGroup Announces eCloud Customer: ROK Technologies','','inherit','open','open','','7423-revision-3','','','2012-09-20 16:22:33','2012-09-20 20:22:33','',7423,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7423-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(7427,40,'2012-09-20 16:22:40','2012-09-20 20:22:40','<p align=\"center\"><strong>ROK Global Applications Group, LLC selects eGroup to Deliver Reliable and Secure Data Visualizations to Esri Users</strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><em>eGroup’s eCloud infrastructure to allow users to easily view, understand and interpret geographically referenced data right from the desktop</em><em></em></p>\r\n<strong>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – September 20, 2012</strong> – <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a>, the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services, today announced that ROK Technologies will deliver the Esri ArcGIS product line via <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eGroup’s eCloud</a>.\r\n\r\nAs a result of the partnership, commercial enterprises and governmental organizations will be better prepared to make data driven decisions, at a fraction of the cost. As these groups strive to improve efficiencies, deliver superior customer service and a better informed constituency, commercial enterprises and governmental organizations are increasingly turning to geographic information system (GIS). Historically, these entities have been challenged with rolling out GIS given the high cost and complex technical specifications, despite the significant business benefits.\r\n\r\nROK\'s managed ArcGIS Server cloud hosting, powered by <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eGroup’s eCloud</a>, offers a solution that is cost effective while allowing enterprises and public organizations to integrate their enterprise software with ROK GIS solutions, products and services. Additional benefits include:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Hosted Computing Infrastructure</li>\r\n	<li>State-of-the-art 24×7 Data Center</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated Virtual Servers: Scale resources as-needed</li>\r\n	<li>Consolidated Storage: Readily Available</li>\r\n	<li>Highest Levels of Business Continuity</li>\r\n	<li>Scalable Network and Internet Bandwidth</li>\r\n	<li>Dedicated, best in class ArcGIS Server Specialists</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nUtilizing ROK ‘s ArcGIS Server cloud hosting service offers users several benefits when compared to other cloud based server configurations. For example, ROK maintains the ArcGIS Server license while managing both the hardware and bandwidth provisioning. In addition, ROK maintains the personnel to provide all the expertise and advice to keep users’ map services running at optimal speed.\r\n\r\n“At eGroup, we understand not only the importance of data driven decisions but the business criticality of ensuring that the data is available at all times, anywhere and on any device,” said Steve Rattacasa, Cloud Services Manager, eGroup. “ROK selected eGroup’s eCloud because they, too, understand how important GIS is for running any business or government organization and being down is not an option for ROK, nor its customer base.”\r\n\r\n“Reliability and performance in an on-demand solution are key criteria for ROK’s cloud initiative. In-depth knowledge of the technical components required to deliver cloud-based applications and a thorough understanding of ROK’s leading edge offerings make eGroup the natural partner of choice for ROK,” Mike Murphy, president at ROK Technologies.\r\n\r\neGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security. eGroup’s expertise and core competence is focused in three distinct areas: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">Cloud Services (public and private)</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">Application Services</a>, and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">End-User Computing</a>. <strong></strong>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>###</strong></p>\r\n<strong>About eGroup</strong>\r\n\r\nHeadquartered in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a> provides innovative <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">end-user computing</a> services to businesses across the Southeast. One of the region’s fastest growing companies and winner of the 2012 CRN “Tech Elite 250”, eGroup’s solutions drive customer revenue while reducing cost to maintain IT infrastructures. Visit <a href=\"http://www.eGroup-us.com\">www.eGroup-us.com</a> or call 1.877.eGROUP.1 (1.877.347.6871) for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>About ROK </strong>\r\n\r\nROK Technologies and its affiliate ROK Global Applications Group, based in Charleston, South Carolina, serve clients in many industries and governments globally. As an Esri Silver business partner and ArcGIS Server Application Service Provider licensee, ROK is able to leverage the ArcGIS platform and their cutting edge core competencies to provide Cloud based ArcGIS application development, hosting, and cache management solutions. Visit <a href=\"http://www.roktech.net\">www.roktech.net</a> or call <a href=\"tel:%28888%29898-3404\" target=\"_blank\">1.888.898.3404</a> for more information.<strong></strong>','eGroup Announces eCloud Customer: ROK Technologies','','inherit','open','open','','7423-revision-4','','','2012-09-20 16:22:40','2012-09-20 20:22:40','',7423,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7423-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(7430,23,'2012-09-24 16:57:12','2012-09-24 20:57:12','','Auto Draft','','inherit','open','open','','7429-revision','','','2012-09-24 16:57:12','2012-09-24 20:57:12','',7429,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7429-revision',0,'revision','',0),(7496,40,'2012-10-02 14:45:30','2012-10-02 18:45:30','<p align=\"center\"><strong>eGroup Achieves Seven New Competencies and Specializations in Q3</strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Latest Microsoft Corp., EMC and Cisco expertise benefits growing customer base<em></em></em></p>\r\n<strong>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – October 2, 2012</strong> – <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a>, the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services, today announced that several members of its team of engineers and consultants have achieved seven new competencies and specializations in Q3 2012. The latest proficiencies are based on EMC, Cisco and Microsoft technologies.\r\n\r\n“The eGroup team works hard to be both broad and deep – it’s a hallmark of our success - and the well-rounded expertise we have on staff is rarely matched in the industry,” said Mike Carter, Principal, eGroup. “But, when you\'re designed to support extremely capable corporate IT teams with a ‘faster, better, cheaper’ approach, having the ability to go wide and deep with respect to technology knowledge is essential. We feel our success in achieving these competencies reflects the investments we\'ve made towards understanding and delivering the \'big picture\' for our clients.”\r\n\r\n<strong>Microsoft</strong>\r\n\r\nTo earn the numerous Microsoft silver competencies, eGroup professionals successfully demonstrated expertise through rigorous exams, culminating in Microsoft certifications. Microsoft also interviewed eGroup customer references for successful implementation and customer satisfaction.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Silver Content Management</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Microsoft Content Management competency demonstrates partner expertise offering collaborative solutions that help customers maximize efficiencies and help ensure compliance across a wide variety of documents. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 technologies, partners can help their customers take advantage of opportunities, such as business value consulting, change management, architectural design, digital asset management, and Web design and development, all of which can help develop a more profitable business.</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Silver Digital Marketing</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Microsoft Digital Marketing competency demonstrates partner expertise in developing rich Internet solutions. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites and Microsoft Silverlight, partners help their customers secure a unified platform for intranet, extranet and Internet sites. This enables customers to create engaging user experiences, cut costs, enable rapid development, and offer interactive search and personalization.</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Silver Hosting</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Hosting competency is exclusively for partners that specialize in hosting solutions and maintain their own datacenters or act as a reseller or agency of services hosted by Microsoft, providing agreed-upon service levels and customized hosted offerings and consulting for common customer scenarios. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support, partners help customers offset the cost of maintaining critical business applications with scalable hosting solutions.</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Silver OEM</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the OEM competency demonstrates expertise in design and delivery of quality hardware solutions. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems for the Microsoft platform, partners help customers optimize their assets and technology investments.</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Silver Search</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Search competency demonstrates partner proficiency in deployment of solutions that can index various types of data and efficiently conduct complex searches. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010, partners are equipped with the tools needed for improving the search experience across desktops, mobile devices and the Internet.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>EMC</strong>\r\n\r\neGroup professionals completed the EMC Global Services Implement training paths of <strong>Data Domain Specialist</strong> and <strong>NetWorker Specialist</strong>. This is an important step as an EMC partner as only individuals who have successfully completed EMC Global Services training and mentoring may deliver installation and implementation services to enterprises.\r\n\r\nThe certifications enhance eGroup’s already authorized capabilities to implement and configure solutions based on Data Domain, EMC NetWorker, EMC Atmos and EMC Disk Library.\r\n\r\n<strong>Cisco</strong>\r\n\r\nIn Q3, eGroup renewed its existing <strong>Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization</strong>.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization – </strong>This specialization recognizes eGroup as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, design and deploy comprehensive Cisco® Data Center solutions. The specialization provides role-based training in three essential areas: Unified Fabric for optimizing data and storage needs; Unified Computing for streamlining data center resources and uniting network, computational, storage and virtualization platforms; and Unified Network Services for advancing the way application delivery and security services are provided in the data center network or computing environment.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\neGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security. eGroup’s expertise and core competence is focused in three distinct areas: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">Cloud Services (public and private)</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">Application Services</a>, and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">End-User Computing</a>.\r\n\r\nClick <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/eGroup-Q3-Comp-and-Spec-Release_FINAL_100212.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> to download a PDF of this release.','eGroup Q3 Competencies and Specializations Achieved','','publish','open','open','','egroup-q3-competencies-and-specializations-achieved','','','2012-10-02 14:51:19','2012-10-02 18:51:19','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=7496',0,'post','',0),(7432,23,'2012-09-24 23:49:56','2012-09-25 03:49:56','When you get into creating workflows for your SharePoint Server 2010 farm, you may run into some delays or errors.  The one most commonly seen is...\r\n\r\nDue to heavy load, the latest workflow operation has been queued. It will attempt to resume at a later time\r\n\r\nThis is because SharePoint has a default limit of 15 workflows that can run at the same time.  If you didn\'t know, there are quite a few workflows that run in the background all the time.\r\n\r\nThere are 2 main settings that you should be concerned with.  The first is the WorkflowPostponeThreshold which controls how many workflows can execute at a time.  The default is 15 and you can run this command in the SharePoint 2010 Management console to see what your setting is...\r\n\r\nGet-SPFarmConfig | Select WorkflowPostponeThreshold\r\n\r\nTo change this setting, modify the number in the following statement to fit your needs and run in the same console...\r\n\r\nSet-SPFarmConfig -WorkflowPostponeThreshold 75\r\n\r\nThe other setting is the WorkflowBatchSize which controls how many workflows can be in the \'queue\' at a time.    The queue is basically a \'bucket\' of workflows that are waiting for the timer service to execute them.  To see what your setting is, run the following command in the SharePoint 2010 Management console...\r\n\r\nGet-SPFarmConfig | Select WorkflowBatchSize\r\n\r\nTo change this setting, modify the number in the following statement to fit your needs and run in the same console...\r\n\r\nSet-SPFarmConfig -WorkflowBatchSize 200\r\n\r\nThis works for 3rd party workflows, like Nintex too!  Be sure to monitor your servers and their performance to make sure you aren\'t overwhelming your environment.','SharePoint 2010: Workflow Error - Due to Heavy Load','','inherit','open','open','','7429-revision-2','','','2012-09-24 23:49:56','2012-09-25 03:49:56','',7429,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7429-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(7433,23,'2012-09-24 23:50:56','2012-09-25 03:50:56','When you get into creating workflows for your SharePoint Server 2010 farm, you may run into some delays or errors. The one most commonly seen is...\r\n\r\nDue to heavy load, the latest workflow operation has been queued. It will attempt to resume at a later time\r\n\r\nThis is because SharePoint has a default limit of 15 workflows that can run at the same time. If you didn\'t know, there are quite a few workflows that run in the background all the time.\r\n\r\nThere are 2 main settings that you should be concerned with. The first is the WorkflowPostponeThreshold which controls how many workflows can execute at a time. The default is 15 and you can run this command in the SharePoint 2010 Management console to see what your setting is...\r\n\r\nGet-SPFarmConfig | Select WorkflowPostponeThreshold\r\n\r\nTo change this setting, modify the number in the following statement to fit your needs and run in the same console...\r\n\r\nSet-SPFarmConfig -WorkflowPostponeThreshold 75\r\n\r\nThe other setting is the WorkflowBatchSize which controls how many workflows can be in the \'queue\' at a time. The queue is basically a \'bucket\' of workflows that are waiting for the timer service to execute them. To see what your setting is, run the following command in the SharePoint 2010 Management console...\r\n\r\nGet-SPFarmConfig | Select WorkflowBatchSize\r\n\r\nTo change this setting, modify the number in the following statement to fit your needs and run in the same console...\r\n\r\nSet-SPFarmConfig -WorkflowBatchSize 200\r\n\r\nThis works for 3rd party workflows, like Nintex too! Be sure to monitor your servers and their performance to make sure you aren\'t overwhelming your environment.','SharePoint: Workflow Error - Due to Heavy Load','','inherit','open','open','','7429-revision-3','','','2012-09-24 23:50:56','2012-09-25 03:50:56','',7429,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7429-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(7434,23,'2012-09-24 23:51:41','2012-09-25 03:51:41','When you get into creating workflows for your SharePoint Server 2010 farm, you may run into some delays or errors. The one most commonly seen is...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Due to heavy load, the latest workflow operation has been queued. It will attempt to resume at a later time</strong></span>\r\n\r\nThis is because SharePoint has a default limit of 15 workflows that can run at the same time. If you didn\'t know, there are quite a few workflows that run in the background all the time.  There are 2 main settings that you should be concerned with. The first is the WorkflowPostponeThreshold which controls how many workflows can execute at a time. The default is 15 and you can run this command in the SharePoint 2010 Management console to see what your setting is...\r\n\r\n<em>Get-SPFarmConfig | Select WorkflowPostponeThreshold</em>\r\n\r\nTo change this setting, modify the number in the following statement to fit your needs and run in the same console...\r\n\r\n<em>Set-SPFarmConfig -WorkflowPostponeThreshold 75</em>\r\n\r\nThe other setting is the WorkflowBatchSize which controls how many workflows can be in the \'queue\' at a time. The queue is basically a \'bucket\' of workflows that are waiting for the timer service to execute them. To see what your setting is, run the following command in the SharePoint 2010 Management console...\r\n\r\n<em>Get-SPFarmConfig | Select WorkflowBatchSize</em>\r\n\r\nTo change this setting, modify the number in the following statement to fit your needs and run in the same console...\r\n\r\n<em>Set-SPFarmConfig -WorkflowBatchSize 200</em>\r\n\r\nThis works for 3rd party workflows, like Nintex too! Be sure to monitor your servers and their performance to make sure you aren\'t overwhelming your environment.','SharePoint: Workflow Error - Due to Heavy Load','','inherit','open','open','','7429-revision-4','','','2012-09-24 23:51:41','2012-09-25 03:51:41','',7429,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7429-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(7435,23,'2012-09-24 23:52:04','2012-09-25 03:52:04','When you get into creating workflows for your SharePoint Server 2010 farm, you may run into some delays or errors. The one most commonly seen is...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Due to heavy load, the latest workflow operation has been queued. It will attempt to resume at a later time</strong></span>\r\n\r\nThis is because SharePoint has a default limit of 15 workflows that can run at the same time. If you didn\'t know, there are quite a few workflows that run in the background all the time.  There are 2 main settings that you should be concerned with. The first is the WorkflowPostponeThreshold which controls how many workflows can execute at a time. The default is 15 and you can run this command in the SharePoint 2010 Management console to see what your setting is...\r\n\r\n<em>Get-SPFarmConfig | Select WorkflowPostponeThreshold</em>\r\n\r\nTo change this setting, modify the number in the following statement to fit your needs and run in the same console...\r\n\r\n<em>Set-SPFarmConfig -WorkflowPostponeThreshold 75</em>\r\n\r\nThe other setting is the WorkflowBatchSize which controls how many workflows can be in the \'queue\' at a time. The queue is basically a \'bucket\' of workflows that are waiting for the timer service to execute them. To see what your setting is, run the following command in the SharePoint 2010 Management console...\r\n\r\n<em>Get-SPFarmConfig | Select WorkflowBatchSize</em>\r\n\r\nTo change this setting, modify the number in the following statement to fit your needs and run in the same console...\r\n\r\n<em>Set-SPFarmConfig -WorkflowBatchSize 200</em>\r\n\r\nThis works for 3rd party workflows, like Nintex too! Be sure to monitor your servers and their performance to make sure you aren\'t overwhelming your environment.','SharePoint: Workflow Error - Due to Heavy Load','','inherit','open','open','','7429-revision-5','','','2012-09-24 23:52:04','2012-09-25 03:52:04','',7429,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7429-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(7436,40,'2012-09-25 00:01:15','2012-09-25 04:01:15','When you get into creating workflows for your SharePoint Server 2010 farm, you may run into some delays or errors. The one most commonly seen is...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Due to heavy load, the latest workflow operation has been queued. It will attempt to resume at a later time</strong></span>\r\n\r\nThis is because SharePoint has a default limit of 15 workflows that can run at the same time. If you didn\'t know, there are quite a few workflows that run in the background all the time.  There are 2 main settings that you should be concerned with. The first is the WorkflowPostponeThreshold which controls how many workflows can execute at a time. The default is 15 and you can run this command in the SharePoint 2010 Management console to see what your setting is...\r\n\r\n<em>Get-SPFarmConfig | Select WorkflowPostponeThreshold</em>\r\n\r\nTo change this setting, modify the number in the following statement to fit your needs and run in the same console...\r\n\r\n<em>Set-SPFarmConfig -WorkflowPostponeThreshold 75</em>\r\n\r\nThe other setting is the WorkflowBatchSize which controls how many workflows can be in the \'queue\' at a time. The queue is basically a \'bucket\' of workflows that are waiting for the timer service to execute them. To see what your setting is, run the following command in the SharePoint 2010 Management console...\r\n\r\n<em>Get-SPFarmConfig | Select WorkflowBatchSize</em>\r\n\r\nTo change this setting, modify the number in the following statement to fit your needs and run in the same console...\r\n\r\n<em>Set-SPFarmConfig -WorkflowBatchSize 200</em>\r\n\r\nThis works for 3rd party workflows, like Nintex too! Be sure to monitor your servers and their performance to make sure you aren\'t overwhelming your environment.','SharePoint: Workflow Error - Due to Heavy Load','','inherit','open','open','','7429-revision-6','','','2012-09-25 00:01:15','2012-09-25 04:01:15','',7429,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7429-revision-6',0,'revision','',0),(7437,40,'2012-09-25 09:20:44','2012-09-25 13:20:44','When you get into creating workflows for your SharePoint Server 2010 farm, you may run into some delays or errors. The one most commonly seen is...\n\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Due to heavy load, the latest workflow operation has been queued. It will attempt to resume at a later time</strong></span>\n\nThis is because SharePoint has a default limit of 15 workflows that can run at the same time. If you didn\'t know, there are quite a few workflows that run in the background all the time.  There are 2 main settings that you should be concerned with. The first is the WorkflowPostponeThreshold which controls how many workflows can execute at a time. The default is 15 and you can run this command in the SharePoint 2010 Management console to see what your setting is...\n\n<em>Get-SPFarmConfig | Select WorkflowPostponeThreshold</em>\n\nTo change this setting, modify the number in the following statement to fit your needs and run in the same console...\n\n<em>Set-SPFarmConfig -WorkflowPostponeThreshold 75</em>\n\nThe other setting is the WorkflowBatchSize which controls how many workflows can be in the \'queue\' at a time. The queue is basically a \'bucket\' of workflows that are waiting for the timer service to execute them. To see what your setting is, run the following command in the SharePoint 2010 Management console...\n\n<em>Get-SPFarmConfig | Select WorkflowBatchSize</em>\n\nTo change this setting, modify the number in the following statement to fit your needs and run in the same console...\n\n<em>Set-SPFarmConfig -WorkflowBatchSize 200</em>\n\nThis works for 3rd party workflows, like Nintex too! Be sure to monitor your servers and their performance to make sure you aren\'t overwhelming your environment.','SharePoint: Workflow Error - Due to Heavy Load','','inherit','open','open','','7429-autosave','','','2012-09-25 09:20:44','2012-09-25 13:20:44','',7429,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7429-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(7438,23,'2012-09-28 11:12:45','2012-09-28 15:12:45','','SharePoint 2013 - Image Renditions','','inherit','open','open','','sp2013_imagerenditions','','','2012-09-28 11:12:45','2012-09-28 15:12:45','',7275,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sp2013_imagerenditions.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7439,23,'2012-09-28 11:15:25','2012-09-28 15:15:25','','SharePoint 2013 - Cropping Image Renditions','','inherit','open','open','','sp2013_imagerenditions2','','','2012-09-28 11:15:25','2012-09-28 15:15:25','',7275,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sp2013_imagerenditions2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7440,23,'2012-09-28 11:17:49','2012-09-28 15:17:49','The use of mobile devices has sky rocketed in recent years.  Users are browsing the web with tablets and phones of all sizes.  This is great for the consumer, but has presented many challenges for IT departments around the world.  How do you ensure that you site looks good on every device out there?  How can you ensure that your site not only looks good, but is fast and efficient as well?  One of the biggest challenges for web developers and designers is to ensure that images have the right level of quality, but aren\'t so big that they take more than a few seconds to download.  Because, well, let\'s face it; when was the last time you waited more than 30 seconds for a page to load?\n\nIn SharePoint 2013, there\'s a new feature that will make viewing images on mobile devices MUCH better.  It basically auto-sizes and renders images for different devices and stores them using BLOB cache.  You can even crop the images so they display differently on each device type.\n\nThe interface for managing these images is very slick and easy to understand.  Here\'s an example of the interface...\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sp2013_imagerenditions.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7438\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sp2013_imagerenditions-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" /></a>\n\nYou can even crop the image, so it is not only smaller on each different device, but it\'s also cropped differently!\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sp2013_imagerenditions2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7439\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sp2013_imagerenditions2-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" /></a>\n\nNot only is this used for images, but you can also use it for video thumbnail previews.  For more information, check out this post by SharePoint MVP Waldek Mastykarz: <a href=\"http://blog.mastykarz.nl/image-renditions-sharepoint-2013/\">http://blog.mastykarz.nl/image-renditions-sharepoint-2013</a>\n\nWhat enhancements in SharePoint 2013 for mobile devices are you most excited about?','SharePoint 2013: Image Renditions','','inherit','open','open','','7275-revision-v1','','','2012-09-28 11:17:49','2012-09-28 15:17:49','',7275,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7275-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(7441,40,'2012-09-28 15:10:37','2012-09-28 19:10:37','We recently sat down with Allen Rittscher, President of <a title=\"Virtual C-I-O\" href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, to chat about cloud computing\'s opportunity for the enterprise, advantages over alternative computing methods and how C-level executives view \"the promise of the cloud.\"\r\n\r\nThe following is the result of our conversation with Allen.\r\n\r\nA future post will discuss the trend of end-user computing and how easier access to corporate information, anytime, anywhere and on any device is creating a more productive and efficient workforce.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup: </strong>A company executive’s objective is to “do more with less”; how can this be achieved when collaboration and productivity requires the latest technology and applications? For example, incorporating cloud computing, which some believe is hype.</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR:</strong> This is an area in which the CEO, CFO and IT management must be in agreement and have a level of trust in each other’s role. Given the CEO’s vision for the organization, IT management will design an effective technology environment to support all staff members in achieving that vision. When this IT design has been created in proper alignment with the business vision / mission, it will be very cost-effective in addition to being a performance and cost-reduction catalyst. “Doing more with less” is the natural by-product of a strategic business-aligned IT environment design.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong></strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cloud computing has grown past the hype phase and is now a maturing option for businesses of all sizes to significantly reduce operating costs.  It can also reduce capital requirements for key IT commodities such as email, document management, customer relationship management systems and collaboration technologies.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> When it comes to enterprise / business goals, what challenges do C-level executives face today?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>Today’s C-level executives face the challenge of accomplishing much-needed goals of the enterprise within the confines of annual budgets and resource allocations. Most CEOs, though, are becoming aware of modern approaches to delivering IT services via cloud computing and through the use of global resources. They are increasingly pushing their agendas through means that do not require the same level of investment as in years past.\r\n\r\nThese modern approaches free up dollars for core technology investments by reducing annual operating costs of non-core technologies. At Virtual C-I-O, for example, we\'re helping both small and large enterprises to leverage these approaches to deliver technology based services that are helping control - and in most cases reduce - the operating costs to further generate competitive benefits.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What indicators should be recognized by a CEO to prompt a company’s complete IT assessment? How can the CEO and CFO generate a clear picture of total IT expenses?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR:</strong> Understanding all IT costs, including the “hidden costs” of acquiring and maintaining IT assets, can help reduce unnecessary expenses and move funds to other key areas. The old adage “until you measure, you can’t control” applies here. Inaccurate IT spending analysis leads to waste, improper budgeting and low cost efficiency. Always include direct and indirect costs in IT analysis. As part of a comprehensive IT assessment, technology actual costs as well as planned costs need C-level visibility.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How should we define “cloud computing”? Do you believe that company top management has other definitions?</span>\r\n\r\n“Cloud computing” has many different definitions in today’s market. For the small to medium sized business owner, they should view the “cloud” as an avenue by which they acquire key IT systems for email, document management, customer relationship management, accounting, etc. On a per-employee basis, where a monthly fee is paid to acquire the technology, cloud computing can keep the technology current. For key functions like backups, accessibility and mobile enablement are built-in benefits.\r\n\r\nIn larger enterprises, “cloud computing” takes on many different meanings and is generally viewed as a means to deliver systems to employees and clients over the internet, buy processing and data storage on an “as needed” basis and a means for acquiring non-core technology like email and document management.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What are the primary concerns, objections or misunderstandings that C-level executives have about the cloud?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>The primary concerns among C-level executives are cost, reliability and security. These concerns generally stem from a misunderstanding of what the cloud actually is. Most misunderstandings are around what is known as the “public” cloud and that is generally associated to services such as Gmail. An executive’s worry usually comes from news reports regarding security breaches or system wide outages.\r\n\r\nWhat most C-level executives fail to think about is that those same instances can and do happen in their own company. In many cases, the measured SLA is actually less on internal systems than a service provided by companies like Google or Microsoft. Today, cloud providers are delivering services in a capacity which typically offers greater service levels than internal resources and generally do so at a lower operating cost.  A recent article in the <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, “<a href=\"http://hbr.org/2011/11/what-every-ceo-needs-to-know-about-the-cloud/ar/1\" target=\"_blank\">What Every CEO Should Know about the Cloud</a>”, addresses these topics as well.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How can we effectively educate top management on the cost, security and efficiency advantages of “the cloud”?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>Educating top management is happening in many different forms today. Company IT executives have gained a better understanding of cloud services as they struggle with the relentless imperative “do more with less.” Many reputable technology research sources like Gartner and Forrester have expanded their coverage of topics regarding the cloud and not to mention articles from the <em>Harvard Business Review, Forbes</em> and other management publications.\r\n\r\nTo gain a better understanding on cost, organizations will need to learn more about their own IT spend and ultimately get their IT costs down to an employee. In having information about cost of IT by employee, a company can effectively analyze the cost on a per user basis which most cloud providers charge by user. Security, on the other hand, is something that needs to be researched and compared against internal capabilities. Cloud providers such as Microsoft and Google are housing their cloud based infrastructure in Tier-3 data centers, similar to that of the banking industry. So, in many cases, an effective cloud strategy can not only create greater cost savings, but greater efficiencies and greater security as well.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****</p>\r\nAllen Rittscher serves as President of <a href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, a Jacksonville, FL-based IT strategy consulting company, since its founding in 2012.  Previously he served as Chief Information Officer for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a Fortune 500 HR services company, and President of ProcureStaff Technologies, a software development company.  Prior to that, Mr. Rittscher held information technology management positions with MPS Group and Barnett Bank.  He earned his BS degree from the University of North Florida and MBA degree from Jacksonville University. For more information on Virtual C-I-O, visit www.virtual-c-i-o.com.','Demystifying Cloud Computing: Q&A with Allen Rittscher of Virtual C-I-O','','publish','open','open','','qa-allen-rittscher-cio','','','2012-09-28 16:04:30','2012-09-28 20:04:30','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=7441',0,'post','',0),(7442,40,'2012-09-28 13:18:00','2012-09-28 17:18:00','We recently sat down with Allen Rittscher, President of <a title=\"Virtual C-I-O\" href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, to chat about cloud computing\'s opportunity for the enterprise, advantages over alternative computing methods and whether or not c-level executives believe in the cloud\'s promise to reduce operating costs while spurring on new innovations.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup: </strong>A company executive’s objective is to “do more with less”; how can this be achieved when collaboration and productivity requires the latest technology and applications?  For example, incorporating cloud computing, which some believe is hype.</span>\n\n<strong>AR:</strong> This is an area in which the CEO, CFO and IT management must be in agreement and have a level of trust in each other’s role. Given the CEO’s vision for the organization, IT management will design an effective technology environment to support all staff members in achieving that vision. When this IT design has been created in proper alignment with the business vision / mission, it will be very cost-effective in addition to being a performance and cost-reduction catalyst. “Doing more with less” is the natural by-product of a strategic business-aligned IT environment design.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong></strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cloud computing has grown past the hype phase and is now a maturing option for businesses of all sizes to significantly reduce operating costs.  It can also reduce capital requirements for key IT commodities such as email, document management, customer relationship management systems and collaboration technologies.</span></span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> When it comes to enterprise / business goals, what challenges do C-level executives face today?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>Today’s C-level executives face the challenge of accomplishing much-needed goals of the enterprise within the confines of annual budgets and resource allocations.  Most CEOs, though, are becoming aware of modern approaches to delivering IT services via cloud computing and through the use of global resources.  They are increasingly pushing their agendas through means that do not require the same level of investment as in years past.\n\nThese modern approaches free up dollars for core technology investments by reducing annual operating costs of non-core technologies.  Virtual C-I-O is helping both small and large enterprises to leverage these approaches to deliver technology based services that are helping control -- and in most cases reduce -- the operating costs to further generate competitive benefits.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What indicators should be recognized by a CEO to prompt a company’s complete IT assessment?  How can the CEO and CFO generate a clear picture of total IT expenses?</span>\n\n<strong>AR:</strong> Understanding all IT costs, including the “hidden costs” of acquiring and maintaining IT assets, can help reduce unnecessary expenses and move funds to other key areas.  The old adage “until you measure, you can’t control” applies here.  Inaccurate IT spending analysis leads to waste, improper budgeting and low cost efficiency.  Always include direct and indirect costs in IT analysis.  As part of a comprehensive IT assessment, technology actual costs as well as planned costs need C-level visibility.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How should we define “cloud computing”?  Do you believe that company top management has other definitions?</span>\n\n“Cloud computing” has many different definitions in today’s market.  For the small to medium sized business owner they should view the “cloud” as an avenue by which they acquire key IT systems for email, document management, customer relationship management, accounting, etc.  On a per-employee basis, where a monthly fee is paid to acquire the technology, cloud computing can keep the technology current.  For key functions like backups, accessibility and mobile enablement are built-in benefits.\n\nIn larger enterprises, “cloud computing” takes on many different meanings and is generally viewed as a means to deliver systems to employees and clients over the internet, buy processing and data storage on an “as needed” basis and a means for acquiring non-core technology like email and document management.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What are the primary concerns, objections or misunderstandings that C-level executives have about the cloud?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>The primary concerns among C-level executives are cost, reliability and security.  These concerns generally stem from a misunderstanding of what the cloud actually is.  Most misunderstandings are around what is known as the “public” cloud and that is generally associated to services such as g-mail.  An executive’s worry usually comes from news reports regarding security breaches or system wide outages.\n\nWhat most C-level executives fail to think about is that those same instances can and do happen in their own company.  In many cases the measured SLA is actually less on internal systems than a service provided by companies like Google or Microsoft.  Today cloud providers are delivering services in a capacity typically offers greater service levels than internal resources and generally do so at a lower operating cost.  A recent article in the <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, “What Every CEO Should Know about the Cloud”, addresses these topics as well.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How can we effectively educate top management on the cost, security and efficiency advantages of “the cloud”?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>Educating top management is happening in many different forms today.  Company IT executives have gained a better understanding of cloud services as they struggle with the relentless imperative “do more with less”.  Many reputable technology research sources like Gartner and Forrester have expanded their coverage of topics regarding the cloud and not to mention articles from the <em>Harvard Business Review</em> and other management publications.\n\nTo gain a better understanding on cost organizations will need to learn more about their own IT spend and ultimately get their IT costs down to an employee.  With having information about cost of IT by employee a company can effectively analyze the cost on a per user basis which most cloud providers charge by user.  Security on the other hand is something that needs to be researched and compared against internal capabilities.  Cloud provider such as Microsoft and Google are housing their cloud based infrastructure in Tier-3 data centers, similar to that of the banking industry.  So in many cases an effective cloud strategy can not only create greater cost savings, but greater efficiencies and greater security as well.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAllen Rittscher serves as President of Virtual C-I-O, a Jacksonville, FL-based IT strategy consulting company, since its founding in 2012.  Previously he served as Chief Information Officer for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a Fortune 500 HR services company, and President of ProcureStaff Technologies, a software development company.  Prior to that, Mr. Rittscher held information technology management positions with MPS Group and Barnett Bank.  He earned his BS degree from the University of North Florida and MBA degree from Jacksonville University. For more information on Virtual C-I-O, visit www.virtual-c-i-o.com.','','','inherit','open','open','','7441-revision','','','2012-09-28 13:18:00','2012-09-28 17:18:00','',7441,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7441-revision',0,'revision','',0),(7443,40,'2012-09-28 13:34:16','2012-09-28 17:34:16','We recently sat down with Allen Rittscher, President of <a title=\"Virtual C-I-O\" href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, to chat about cloud computing\'s opportunity for the enterprise, advantages over alternative computing methods and how c-level executives view \"the promise\n\nThis is Part I.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup: </strong>A company executive’s objective is to “do more with less”; how can this be achieved when collaboration and productivity requires the latest technology and applications? For example, incorporating cloud computing, which some believe is hype.</span>\n\n<strong>AR:</strong> This is an area in which the CEO, CFO and IT management must be in agreement and have a level of trust in each other’s role. Given the CEO’s vision for the organization, IT management will design an effective technology environment to support all staff members in achieving that vision. When this IT design has been created in proper alignment with the business vision / mission, it will be very cost-effective in addition to being a performance and cost-reduction catalyst. “Doing more with less” is the natural by-product of a strategic business-aligned IT environment design.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong></strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cloud computing has grown past the hype phase and is now a maturing option for businesses of all sizes to significantly reduce operating costs.  It can also reduce capital requirements for key IT commodities such as email, document management, customer relationship management systems and collaboration technologies.</span></span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> When it comes to enterprise / business goals, what challenges do C-level executives face today?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>Today’s C-level executives face the challenge of accomplishing much-needed goals of the enterprise within the confines of annual budgets and resource allocations. Most CEOs, though, are becoming aware of modern approaches to delivering IT services via cloud computing and through the use of global resources. They are increasingly pushing their agendas through means that do not require the same level of investment as in years past.\n\nThese modern approaches free up dollars for core technology investments by reducing annual operating costs of non-core technologies. At Virtual C-I-O, for example, we\'re helping both small and large enterprises to leverage these approaches to deliver technology based services that are helping control - and in most cases reduce - the operating costs to further generate competitive benefits.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What indicators should be recognized by a CEO to prompt a company’s complete IT assessment? How can the CEO and CFO generate a clear picture of total IT expenses?</span>\n\n<strong>AR:</strong> Understanding all IT costs, including the “hidden costs” of acquiring and maintaining IT assets, can help reduce unnecessary expenses and move funds to other key areas. The old adage “until you measure, you can’t control” applies here. Inaccurate IT spending analysis leads to waste, improper budgeting and low cost efficiency. Always include direct and indirect costs in IT analysis. As part of a comprehensive IT assessment, technology actual costs as well as planned costs need C-level visibility.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How should we define “cloud computing”? Do you believe that company top management has other definitions?</span>\n\n“Cloud computing” has many different definitions in today’s market. For the small to medium sized business owner, they should view the “cloud” as an avenue by which they acquire key IT systems for email, document management, customer relationship management, accounting, etc. On a per-employee basis, where a monthly fee is paid to acquire the technology, cloud computing can keep the technology current. For key functions like backups, accessibility and mobile enablement are built-in benefits.\n\nIn larger enterprises, “cloud computing” takes on many different meanings and is generally viewed as a means to deliver systems to employees and clients over the internet, buy processing and data storage on an “as needed” basis and a means for acquiring non-core technology like email and document management.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What are the primary concerns, objections or misunderstandings that C-level executives have about the cloud?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>The primary concerns among C-level executives are cost, reliability and security. These concerns generally stem from a misunderstanding of what the cloud actually is. Most misunderstandings are around what is known as the “public” cloud and that is generally associated to services such as Gmail. An executive’s worry usually comes from news reports regarding security breaches or system wide outages.\n\nWhat most C-level executives fail to think about is that those same instances can and do happen in their own company. In many cases, the measured SLA is actually less on internal systems than a service provided by companies like Google or Microsoft. Today, cloud providers are delivering services in a capacity which typically offers greater service levels than internal resources and generally do so at a lower operating cost.  A recent article in the <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, “<a href=\"http://hbr.org/2011/11/what-every-ceo-needs-to-know-about-the-cloud/ar/1\" target=\"_blank\">What Every CEO Should Know about the Cloud</a>”, addresses these topics as well.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How can we effectively educate top management on the cost, security and efficiency advantages of “the cloud”?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>Educating top management is happening in many different forms today. Company IT executives have gained a better understanding of cloud services as they struggle with the relentless imperative “do more with less.” Many reputable technology research sources like Gartner and Forrester have expanded their coverage of topics regarding the cloud and not to mention articles from the <em>Harvard Business Review, Forbes</em> and other management publications.\n\nTo gain a better understanding on cost, organizations will need to learn more about their own IT spend and ultimately get their IT costs down to an employee. In having information about cost of IT by employee, a company can effectively analyze the cost on a per user basis which most cloud providers charge by user. Security, on the other hand, is something that needs to be researched and compared against internal capabilities. Cloud providers such as Microsoft and Google are housing their cloud based infrastructure in Tier-3 data centers, similar to that of the banking industry. So, in many cases, an effective cloud strategy can not only create greater cost savings, but greater efficiencies and greater security as well.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****</p>\nAllen Rittscher serves as President of <a href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, a Jacksonville, FL-based IT strategy consulting company, since its founding in 2012.  Previously he served as Chief Information Officer for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a Fortune 500 HR services company, and President of ProcureStaff Technologies, a software development company.  Prior to that, Mr. Rittscher held information technology management positions with MPS Group and Barnett Bank.  He earned his BS degree from the University of North Florida and MBA degree from Jacksonville University. For more information on Virtual C-I-O, visit www.virtual-c-i-o.com.','Demystifiyng Cloud Computing: Q&A with Allen Rittscher of Virtual C-I-O','','inherit','open','open','','7441-revision-2','','','2012-09-28 13:34:16','2012-09-28 17:34:16','',7441,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7441-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(7444,40,'2012-09-28 13:35:00','2012-09-28 17:35:00','We recently sat down with Allen Rittscher, President of <a title=\"Virtual C-I-O\" href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, to chat about cloud computing\'s opportunity for the enterprise, advantages over alternative computing methods and how c-level executives view \"the promise of the cloud.\"\r\n\r\nThe following is the result of the conversation. A future post will highlight XX.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup: </strong>A company executive’s objective is to “do more with less”; how can this be achieved when collaboration and productivity requires the latest technology and applications? For example, incorporating cloud computing, which some believe is hype.</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR:</strong> This is an area in which the CEO, CFO and IT management must be in agreement and have a level of trust in each other’s role. Given the CEO’s vision for the organization, IT management will design an effective technology environment to support all staff members in achieving that vision. When this IT design has been created in proper alignment with the business vision / mission, it will be very cost-effective in addition to being a performance and cost-reduction catalyst. “Doing more with less” is the natural by-product of a strategic business-aligned IT environment design.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong></strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cloud computing has grown past the hype phase and is now a maturing option for businesses of all sizes to significantly reduce operating costs.  It can also reduce capital requirements for key IT commodities such as email, document management, customer relationship management systems and collaboration technologies.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> When it comes to enterprise / business goals, what challenges do C-level executives face today?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>Today’s C-level executives face the challenge of accomplishing much-needed goals of the enterprise within the confines of annual budgets and resource allocations. Most CEOs, though, are becoming aware of modern approaches to delivering IT services via cloud computing and through the use of global resources. They are increasingly pushing their agendas through means that do not require the same level of investment as in years past.\r\n\r\nThese modern approaches free up dollars for core technology investments by reducing annual operating costs of non-core technologies. At Virtual C-I-O, for example, we\'re helping both small and large enterprises to leverage these approaches to deliver technology based services that are helping control - and in most cases reduce - the operating costs to further generate competitive benefits.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What indicators should be recognized by a CEO to prompt a company’s complete IT assessment? How can the CEO and CFO generate a clear picture of total IT expenses?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR:</strong> Understanding all IT costs, including the “hidden costs” of acquiring and maintaining IT assets, can help reduce unnecessary expenses and move funds to other key areas. The old adage “until you measure, you can’t control” applies here. Inaccurate IT spending analysis leads to waste, improper budgeting and low cost efficiency. Always include direct and indirect costs in IT analysis. As part of a comprehensive IT assessment, technology actual costs as well as planned costs need C-level visibility.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How should we define “cloud computing”? Do you believe that company top management has other definitions?</span>\r\n\r\n“Cloud computing” has many different definitions in today’s market. For the small to medium sized business owner, they should view the “cloud” as an avenue by which they acquire key IT systems for email, document management, customer relationship management, accounting, etc. On a per-employee basis, where a monthly fee is paid to acquire the technology, cloud computing can keep the technology current. For key functions like backups, accessibility and mobile enablement are built-in benefits.\r\n\r\nIn larger enterprises, “cloud computing” takes on many different meanings and is generally viewed as a means to deliver systems to employees and clients over the internet, buy processing and data storage on an “as needed” basis and a means for acquiring non-core technology like email and document management.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What are the primary concerns, objections or misunderstandings that C-level executives have about the cloud?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>The primary concerns among C-level executives are cost, reliability and security. These concerns generally stem from a misunderstanding of what the cloud actually is. Most misunderstandings are around what is known as the “public” cloud and that is generally associated to services such as Gmail. An executive’s worry usually comes from news reports regarding security breaches or system wide outages.\r\n\r\nWhat most C-level executives fail to think about is that those same instances can and do happen in their own company. In many cases, the measured SLA is actually less on internal systems than a service provided by companies like Google or Microsoft. Today, cloud providers are delivering services in a capacity which typically offers greater service levels than internal resources and generally do so at a lower operating cost.  A recent article in the <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, “<a href=\"http://hbr.org/2011/11/what-every-ceo-needs-to-know-about-the-cloud/ar/1\" target=\"_blank\">What Every CEO Should Know about the Cloud</a>”, addresses these topics as well.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How can we effectively educate top management on the cost, security and efficiency advantages of “the cloud”?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>Educating top management is happening in many different forms today. Company IT executives have gained a better understanding of cloud services as they struggle with the relentless imperative “do more with less.” Many reputable technology research sources like Gartner and Forrester have expanded their coverage of topics regarding the cloud and not to mention articles from the <em>Harvard Business Review, Forbes</em> and other management publications.\r\n\r\nTo gain a better understanding on cost, organizations will need to learn more about their own IT spend and ultimately get their IT costs down to an employee. In having information about cost of IT by employee, a company can effectively analyze the cost on a per user basis which most cloud providers charge by user. Security, on the other hand, is something that needs to be researched and compared against internal capabilities. Cloud providers such as Microsoft and Google are housing their cloud based infrastructure in Tier-3 data centers, similar to that of the banking industry. So, in many cases, an effective cloud strategy can not only create greater cost savings, but greater efficiencies and greater security as well.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****</p>\r\nAllen Rittscher serves as President of <a href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, a Jacksonville, FL-based IT strategy consulting company, since its founding in 2012.  Previously he served as Chief Information Officer for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a Fortune 500 HR services company, and President of ProcureStaff Technologies, a software development company.  Prior to that, Mr. Rittscher held information technology management positions with MPS Group and Barnett Bank.  He earned his BS degree from the University of North Florida and MBA degree from Jacksonville University. For more information on Virtual C-I-O, visit www.virtual-c-i-o.com.','Demystifiyng Cloud Computing: Q&A with Allen Rittscher of Virtual C-I-O','','inherit','open','open','','7441-revision-3','','','2012-09-28 13:35:00','2012-09-28 17:35:00','',7441,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7441-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(7445,40,'2012-09-28 14:58:07','2012-09-28 18:58:07','We recently sat down with Allen Rittscher, President of <a title=\"Virtual C-I-O\" href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, to chat about cloud computing\'s opportunity for the enterprise, advantages over alternative computing methods and how C-level executives view \"the promise of the cloud.\"\n\nThe following is the result of our conversation with Allen.\n\nA future post will discuss the trend of end-user computing and how easier access to corporate information, anytime, anywhere and on any device is creating a more productive and efficient workforce.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup: </strong>A company executive’s objective is to “do more with less”; how can this be achieved when collaboration and productivity requires the latest technology and applications? For example, incorporating cloud computing, which some believe is hype.</span>\n\n<strong>AR:</strong> This is an area in which the CEO, CFO and IT management must be in agreement and have a level of trust in each other’s role. Given the CEO’s vision for the organization, IT management will design an effective technology environment to support all staff members in achieving that vision. When this IT design has been created in proper alignment with the business vision / mission, it will be very cost-effective in addition to being a performance and cost-reduction catalyst. “Doing more with less” is the natural by-product of a strategic business-aligned IT environment design.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong></strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cloud computing has grown past the hype phase and is now a maturing option for businesses of all sizes to significantly reduce operating costs.  It can also reduce capital requirements for key IT commodities such as email, document management, customer relationship management systems and collaboration technologies.</span></span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> When it comes to enterprise / business goals, what challenges do C-level executives face today?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>Today’s C-level executives face the challenge of accomplishing much-needed goals of the enterprise within the confines of annual budgets and resource allocations. Most CEOs, though, are becoming aware of modern approaches to delivering IT services via cloud computing and through the use of global resources. They are increasingly pushing their agendas through means that do not require the same level of investment as in years past.\n\nThese modern approaches free up dollars for core technology investments by reducing annual operating costs of non-core technologies. At Virtual C-I-O, for example, we\'re helping both small and large enterprises to leverage these approaches to deliver technology based services that are helping control - and in most cases reduce - the operating costs to further generate competitive benefits.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What indicators should be recognized by a CEO to prompt a company’s complete IT assessment? How can the CEO and CFO generate a clear picture of total IT expenses?</span>\n\n<strong>AR:</strong> Understanding all IT costs, including the “hidden costs” of acquiring and maintaining IT assets, can help reduce unnecessary expenses and move funds to other key areas. The old adage “until you measure, you can’t control” applies here. Inaccurate IT spending analysis leads to waste, improper budgeting and low cost efficiency. Always include direct and indirect costs in IT analysis. As part of a comprehensive IT assessment, technology actual costs as well as planned costs need C-level visibility.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How should we define “cloud computing”? Do you believe that company top management has other definitions?</span>\n\n“Cloud computing” has many different definitions in today’s market. For the small to medium sized business owner, they should view the “cloud” as an avenue by which they acquire key IT systems for email, document management, customer relationship management, accounting, etc. On a per-employee basis, where a monthly fee is paid to acquire the technology, cloud computing can keep the technology current. For key functions like backups, accessibility and mobile enablement are built-in benefits.\n\nIn larger enterprises, “cloud computing” takes on many different meanings and is generally viewed as a means to deliver systems to employees and clients over the internet, buy processing and data storage on an “as needed” basis and a means for acquiring non-core technology like email and document management.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What are the primary concerns, objections or misunderstandings that C-level executives have about the cloud?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>The primary concerns among C-level executives are cost, reliability and security. These concerns generally stem from a misunderstanding of what the cloud actually is. Most misunderstandings are around what is known as the “public” cloud and that is generally associated to services such as Gmail. An executive’s worry usually comes from news reports regarding security breaches or system wide outages.\n\nWhat most C-level executives fail to think about is that those same instances can and do happen in their own company. In many cases, the measured SLA is actually less on internal systems than a service provided by companies like Google or Microsoft. Today, cloud providers are delivering services in a capacity which typically offers greater service levels than internal resources and generally do so at a lower operating cost.  A recent article in the <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, “<a href=\"http://hbr.org/2011/11/what-every-ceo-needs-to-know-about-the-cloud/ar/1\" target=\"_blank\">What Every CEO Should Know about the Cloud</a>”, addresses these topics as well.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How can we effectively educate top management on the cost, security and efficiency advantages of “the cloud”?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>Educating top management is happening in many different forms today. Company IT executives have gained a better understanding of cloud services as they struggle with the relentless imperative “do more with less.” Many reputable technology research sources like Gartner and Forrester have expanded their coverage of topics regarding the cloud and not to mention articles from the <em>Harvard Business Review, Forbes</em> and other management publications.\n\nTo gain a better understanding on cost, organizations will need to learn more about their own IT spend and ultimately get their IT costs down to an employee. In having information about cost of IT by employee, a company can effectively analyze the cost on a per user basis which most cloud providers charge by user. Security, on the other hand, is something that needs to be researched and compared against internal capabilities. Cloud providers such as Microsoft and Google are housing their cloud based infrastructure in Tier-3 data centers, similar to that of the banking industry. So, in many cases, an effective cloud strategy can not only create greater cost savings, but greater efficiencies and greater security as well.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****</p>\nAllen Rittscher serves as President of <a href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, a Jacksonville, FL-based IT strategy consulting company, since its founding in 2012.  Previously he served as Chief Information Officer for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a Fortune 500 HR services company, and President of ProcureStaff Technologies, a software development company.  Prior to that, Mr. Rittscher held information technology management positions with MPS Group and Barnett Bank.  He earned his BS degree from the University of North Florida and MBA degree from Jacksonville University. For more information on Virtual C-I-O, visit www.virtual-c-i-o.com.','Demystifiyng Cloud Computing: Q&A with Allen Rittscher of Virtual C-I-O','','inherit','open','open','','7441-revision-4','','','2012-09-28 14:58:07','2012-09-28 18:58:07','',7441,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7441-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(7446,40,'2012-09-28 15:01:17','2012-09-28 19:01:17','We recently sat down with Allen Rittscher, President of <a title=\"Virtual C-I-O\" href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, to chat about cloud computing\'s opportunity for the enterprise, advantages over alternative computing methods and how C-level executives view \"the promise of the cloud.\"\n\nThe following is the result of our conversation with Allen.\n\nA future post will discuss the trend of end-user computing and how easier access to corporate information, anytime, anywhere and on any device is creating a more productive and efficient workforce.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup: </strong>A company executive’s objective is to “do more with less”; how can this be achieved when collaboration and productivity requires the latest technology and applications? For example, incorporating cloud computing, which some believe is hype.</span>\n\n<strong>AR:</strong> This is an area in which the CEO, CFO and IT management must be in agreement and have a level of trust in each other’s role. Given the CEO’s vision for the organization, IT management will design an effective technology environment to support all staff members in achieving that vision. When this IT design has been created in proper alignment with the business vision / mission, it will be very cost-effective in addition to being a performance and cost-reduction catalyst. “Doing more with less” is the natural by-product of a strategic business-aligned IT environment design.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong></strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cloud computing has grown past the hype phase and is now a maturing option for businesses of all sizes to significantly reduce operating costs.  It can also reduce capital requirements for key IT commodities such as email, document management, customer relationship management systems and collaboration technologies.</span></span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> When it comes to enterprise / business goals, what challenges do C-level executives face today?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>Today’s C-level executives face the challenge of accomplishing much-needed goals of the enterprise within the confines of annual budgets and resource allocations. Most CEOs, though, are becoming aware of modern approaches to delivering IT services via cloud computing and through the use of global resources. They are increasingly pushing their agendas through means that do not require the same level of investment as in years past.\n\nThese modern approaches free up dollars for core technology investments by reducing annual operating costs of non-core technologies. At Virtual C-I-O, for example, we\'re helping both small and large enterprises to leverage these approaches to deliver technology based services that are helping control - and in most cases reduce - the operating costs to further generate competitive benefits.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What indicators should be recognized by a CEO to prompt a company’s complete IT assessment? How can the CEO and CFO generate a clear picture of total IT expenses?</span>\n\n<strong>AR:</strong> Understanding all IT costs, including the “hidden costs” of acquiring and maintaining IT assets, can help reduce unnecessary expenses and move funds to other key areas. The old adage “until you measure, you can’t control” applies here. Inaccurate IT spending analysis leads to waste, improper budgeting and low cost efficiency. Always include direct and indirect costs in IT analysis. As part of a comprehensive IT assessment, technology actual costs as well as planned costs need C-level visibility.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How should we define “cloud computing”? Do you believe that company top management has other definitions?</span>\n\n“Cloud computing” has many different definitions in today’s market. For the small to medium sized business owner, they should view the “cloud” as an avenue by which they acquire key IT systems for email, document management, customer relationship management, accounting, etc. On a per-employee basis, where a monthly fee is paid to acquire the technology, cloud computing can keep the technology current. For key functions like backups, accessibility and mobile enablement are built-in benefits.\n\nIn larger enterprises, “cloud computing” takes on many different meanings and is generally viewed as a means to deliver systems to employees and clients over the internet, buy processing and data storage on an “as needed” basis and a means for acquiring non-core technology like email and document management.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What are the primary concerns, objections or misunderstandings that C-level executives have about the cloud?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>The primary concerns among C-level executives are cost, reliability and security. These concerns generally stem from a misunderstanding of what the cloud actually is. Most misunderstandings are around what is known as the “public” cloud and that is generally associated to services such as Gmail. An executive’s worry usually comes from news reports regarding security breaches or system wide outages.\n\nWhat most C-level executives fail to think about is that those same instances can and do happen in their own company. In many cases, the measured SLA is actually less on internal systems than a service provided by companies like Google or Microsoft. Today, cloud providers are delivering services in a capacity which typically offers greater service levels than internal resources and generally do so at a lower operating cost.  A recent article in the <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, “<a href=\"http://hbr.org/2011/11/what-every-ceo-needs-to-know-about-the-cloud/ar/1\" target=\"_blank\">What Every CEO Should Know about the Cloud</a>”, addresses these topics as well.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How can we effectively educate top management on the cost, security and efficiency advantages of “the cloud”?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>Educating top management is happening in many different forms today. Company IT executives have gained a better understanding of cloud services as they struggle with the relentless imperative “do more with less.” Many reputable technology research sources like Gartner and Forrester have expanded their coverage of topics regarding the cloud and not to mention articles from the <em>Harvard Business Review, Forbes</em> and other management publications.\n\nTo gain a better understanding on cost, organizations will need to learn more about their own IT spend and ultimately get their IT costs down to an employee. In having information about cost of IT by employee, a company can effectively analyze the cost on a per user basis which most cloud providers charge by user. Security, on the other hand, is something that needs to be researched and compared against internal capabilities. Cloud providers such as Microsoft and Google are housing their cloud based infrastructure in Tier-3 data centers, similar to that of the banking industry. So, in many cases, an effective cloud strategy can not only create greater cost savings, but greater efficiencies and greater security as well.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****</p>\nAllen Rittscher serves as President of <a href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, a Jacksonville, FL-based IT strategy consulting company, since its founding in 2012.  Previously he served as Chief Information Officer for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a Fortune 500 HR services company, and President of ProcureStaff Technologies, a software development company.  Prior to that, Mr. Rittscher held information technology management positions with MPS Group and Barnett Bank.  He earned his BS degree from the University of North Florida and MBA degree from Jacksonville University. For more information on Virtual C-I-O, visit www.virtual-c-i-o.com.','Demystifiyng Cloud Computing: Q&A with Allen Rittscher of Virtual C-I-O','','inherit','open','open','','7441-revision-5','','','2012-09-28 15:01:17','2012-09-28 19:01:17','',7441,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7441-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(7447,40,'2012-09-28 15:02:41','2012-09-28 19:02:41','We recently sat down with Allen Rittscher, President of <a title=\"Virtual C-I-O\" href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, to chat about cloud computing\'s opportunity for the enterprise, advantages over alternative computing methods and how C-level executives view \"the promise of the cloud.\"\n\nThe following is the result of our conversation with Allen.\n\nA future post will discuss the trend of end-user computing and how easier access to corporate information, anytime, anywhere and on any device is creating a more productive and efficient workforce.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup: </strong>A company executive’s objective is to “do more with less”; how can this be achieved when collaboration and productivity requires the latest technology and applications? For example, incorporating cloud computing, which some believe is hype.</span>\n\n<strong>AR:</strong> This is an area in which the CEO, CFO and IT management must be in agreement and have a level of trust in each other’s role. Given the CEO’s vision for the organization, IT management will design an effective technology environment to support all staff members in achieving that vision. When this IT design has been created in proper alignment with the business vision / mission, it will be very cost-effective in addition to being a performance and cost-reduction catalyst. “Doing more with less” is the natural by-product of a strategic business-aligned IT environment design.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong></strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cloud computing has grown past the hype phase and is now a maturing option for businesses of all sizes to significantly reduce operating costs.  It can also reduce capital requirements for key IT commodities such as email, document management, customer relationship management systems and collaboration technologies.</span></span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> When it comes to enterprise / business goals, what challenges do C-level executives face today?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>Today’s C-level executives face the challenge of accomplishing much-needed goals of the enterprise within the confines of annual budgets and resource allocations. Most CEOs, though, are becoming aware of modern approaches to delivering IT services via cloud computing and through the use of global resources. They are increasingly pushing their agendas through means that do not require the same level of investment as in years past.\n\nThese modern approaches free up dollars for core technology investments by reducing annual operating costs of non-core technologies. At Virtual C-I-O, for example, we\'re helping both small and large enterprises to leverage these approaches to deliver technology based services that are helping control - and in most cases reduce - the operating costs to further generate competitive benefits.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What indicators should be recognized by a CEO to prompt a company’s complete IT assessment? How can the CEO and CFO generate a clear picture of total IT expenses?</span>\n\n<strong>AR:</strong> Understanding all IT costs, including the “hidden costs” of acquiring and maintaining IT assets, can help reduce unnecessary expenses and move funds to other key areas. The old adage “until you measure, you can’t control” applies here. Inaccurate IT spending analysis leads to waste, improper budgeting and low cost efficiency. Always include direct and indirect costs in IT analysis. As part of a comprehensive IT assessment, technology actual costs as well as planned costs need C-level visibility.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How should we define “cloud computing”? Do you believe that company top management has other definitions?</span>\n\n“Cloud computing” has many different definitions in today’s market. For the small to medium sized business owner, they should view the “cloud” as an avenue by which they acquire key IT systems for email, document management, customer relationship management, accounting, etc. On a per-employee basis, where a monthly fee is paid to acquire the technology, cloud computing can keep the technology current. For key functions like backups, accessibility and mobile enablement are built-in benefits.\n\nIn larger enterprises, “cloud computing” takes on many different meanings and is generally viewed as a means to deliver systems to employees and clients over the internet, buy processing and data storage on an “as needed” basis and a means for acquiring non-core technology like email and document management.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What are the primary concerns, objections or misunderstandings that C-level executives have about the cloud?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>The primary concerns among C-level executives are cost, reliability and security. These concerns generally stem from a misunderstanding of what the cloud actually is. Most misunderstandings are around what is known as the “public” cloud and that is generally associated to services such as Gmail. An executive’s worry usually comes from news reports regarding security breaches or system wide outages.\n\nWhat most C-level executives fail to think about is that those same instances can and do happen in their own company. In many cases, the measured SLA is actually less on internal systems than a service provided by companies like Google or Microsoft. Today, cloud providers are delivering services in a capacity which typically offers greater service levels than internal resources and generally do so at a lower operating cost.  A recent article in the <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, “<a href=\"http://hbr.org/2011/11/what-every-ceo-needs-to-know-about-the-cloud/ar/1\" target=\"_blank\">What Every CEO Should Know about the Cloud</a>”, addresses these topics as well.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How can we effectively educate top management on the cost, security and efficiency advantages of “the cloud”?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>Educating top management is happening in many different forms today. Company IT executives have gained a better understanding of cloud services as they struggle with the relentless imperative “do more with less.” Many reputable technology research sources like Gartner and Forrester have expanded their coverage of topics regarding the cloud and not to mention articles from the <em>Harvard Business Review, Forbes</em> and other management publications.\n\nTo gain a better understanding on cost, organizations will need to learn more about their own IT spend and ultimately get their IT costs down to an employee. In having information about cost of IT by employee, a company can effectively analyze the cost on a per user basis which most cloud providers charge by user. Security, on the other hand, is something that needs to be researched and compared against internal capabilities. Cloud providers such as Microsoft and Google are housing their cloud based infrastructure in Tier-3 data centers, similar to that of the banking industry. So, in many cases, an effective cloud strategy can not only create greater cost savings, but greater efficiencies and greater security as well.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****</p>\nAllen Rittscher serves as President of <a href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, a Jacksonville, FL-based IT strategy consulting company, since its founding in 2012.  Previously he served as Chief Information Officer for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a Fortune 500 HR services company, and President of ProcureStaff Technologies, a software development company.  Prior to that, Mr. Rittscher held information technology management positions with MPS Group and Barnett Bank.  He earned his BS degree from the University of North Florida and MBA degree from Jacksonville University. For more information on Virtual C-I-O, visit www.virtual-c-i-o.com.','Demystifiyng Cloud Computing: Q&A with Allen Rittscher of Virtual C-I-O','','inherit','open','open','','7441-revision-6','','','2012-09-28 15:02:41','2012-09-28 19:02:41','',7441,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7441-revision-6',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (7449,40,'2012-09-28 15:03:20','2012-09-28 19:03:20','We recently sat down with Allen Rittscher, President of <a title=\"Virtual C-I-O\" href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, to chat about cloud computing\'s opportunity for the enterprise, advantages over alternative computing methods and how C-level executives view \"the promise of the cloud.\"\r\n\r\nThe following is the result of our conversation with Allen.\r\n\r\nA future post will discuss the trend of end-user computing and how easier access to corporate information, anytime, anywhere and on any device is creating a more productive and efficient workforce.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup: </strong>A company executive’s objective is to “do more with less”; how can this be achieved when collaboration and productivity requires the latest technology and applications? For example, incorporating cloud computing, which some believe is hype.</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR:</strong> This is an area in which the CEO, CFO and IT management must be in agreement and have a level of trust in each other’s role. Given the CEO’s vision for the organization, IT management will design an effective technology environment to support all staff members in achieving that vision. When this IT design has been created in proper alignment with the business vision / mission, it will be very cost-effective in addition to being a performance and cost-reduction catalyst. “Doing more with less” is the natural by-product of a strategic business-aligned IT environment design.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong></strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cloud computing has grown past the hype phase and is now a maturing option for businesses of all sizes to significantly reduce operating costs.  It can also reduce capital requirements for key IT commodities such as email, document management, customer relationship management systems and collaboration technologies.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> When it comes to enterprise / business goals, what challenges do C-level executives face today?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>Today’s C-level executives face the challenge of accomplishing much-needed goals of the enterprise within the confines of annual budgets and resource allocations. Most CEOs, though, are becoming aware of modern approaches to delivering IT services via cloud computing and through the use of global resources. They are increasingly pushing their agendas through means that do not require the same level of investment as in years past.\r\n\r\nThese modern approaches free up dollars for core technology investments by reducing annual operating costs of non-core technologies. At Virtual C-I-O, for example, we\'re helping both small and large enterprises to leverage these approaches to deliver technology based services that are helping control - and in most cases reduce - the operating costs to further generate competitive benefits.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What indicators should be recognized by a CEO to prompt a company’s complete IT assessment? How can the CEO and CFO generate a clear picture of total IT expenses?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR:</strong> Understanding all IT costs, including the “hidden costs” of acquiring and maintaining IT assets, can help reduce unnecessary expenses and move funds to other key areas. The old adage “until you measure, you can’t control” applies here. Inaccurate IT spending analysis leads to waste, improper budgeting and low cost efficiency. Always include direct and indirect costs in IT analysis. As part of a comprehensive IT assessment, technology actual costs as well as planned costs need C-level visibility.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How should we define “cloud computing”? Do you believe that company top management has other definitions?</span>\r\n\r\n“Cloud computing” has many different definitions in today’s market. For the small to medium sized business owner, they should view the “cloud” as an avenue by which they acquire key IT systems for email, document management, customer relationship management, accounting, etc. On a per-employee basis, where a monthly fee is paid to acquire the technology, cloud computing can keep the technology current. For key functions like backups, accessibility and mobile enablement are built-in benefits.\r\n\r\nIn larger enterprises, “cloud computing” takes on many different meanings and is generally viewed as a means to deliver systems to employees and clients over the internet, buy processing and data storage on an “as needed” basis and a means for acquiring non-core technology like email and document management.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What are the primary concerns, objections or misunderstandings that C-level executives have about the cloud?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>The primary concerns among C-level executives are cost, reliability and security. These concerns generally stem from a misunderstanding of what the cloud actually is. Most misunderstandings are around what is known as the “public” cloud and that is generally associated to services such as Gmail. An executive’s worry usually comes from news reports regarding security breaches or system wide outages.\r\n\r\nWhat most C-level executives fail to think about is that those same instances can and do happen in their own company. In many cases, the measured SLA is actually less on internal systems than a service provided by companies like Google or Microsoft. Today, cloud providers are delivering services in a capacity which typically offers greater service levels than internal resources and generally do so at a lower operating cost.  A recent article in the <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, “<a href=\"http://hbr.org/2011/11/what-every-ceo-needs-to-know-about-the-cloud/ar/1\" target=\"_blank\">What Every CEO Should Know about the Cloud</a>”, addresses these topics as well.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How can we effectively educate top management on the cost, security and efficiency advantages of “the cloud”?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>Educating top management is happening in many different forms today. Company IT executives have gained a better understanding of cloud services as they struggle with the relentless imperative “do more with less.” Many reputable technology research sources like Gartner and Forrester have expanded their coverage of topics regarding the cloud and not to mention articles from the <em>Harvard Business Review, Forbes</em> and other management publications.\r\n\r\nTo gain a better understanding on cost, organizations will need to learn more about their own IT spend and ultimately get their IT costs down to an employee. In having information about cost of IT by employee, a company can effectively analyze the cost on a per user basis which most cloud providers charge by user. Security, on the other hand, is something that needs to be researched and compared against internal capabilities. Cloud providers such as Microsoft and Google are housing their cloud based infrastructure in Tier-3 data centers, similar to that of the banking industry. So, in many cases, an effective cloud strategy can not only create greater cost savings, but greater efficiencies and greater security as well.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****</p>\r\nAllen Rittscher serves as President of <a href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, a Jacksonville, FL-based IT strategy consulting company, since its founding in 2012.  Previously he served as Chief Information Officer for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a Fortune 500 HR services company, and President of ProcureStaff Technologies, a software development company.  Prior to that, Mr. Rittscher held information technology management positions with MPS Group and Barnett Bank.  He earned his BS degree from the University of North Florida and MBA degree from Jacksonville University. For more information on Virtual C-I-O, visit www.virtual-c-i-o.com.','Demystifiyng Cloud Computing: Q&A with Allen Rittscher of Virtual C-I-O','','inherit','open','open','','7441-revision-7','','','2012-09-28 15:03:20','2012-09-28 19:03:20','',7441,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7441-revision-7',0,'revision','',0),(7450,40,'2012-09-28 15:13:03','2012-09-28 19:13:03','We recently sat down with Allen Rittscher, President of <a title=\"Virtual C-I-O\" href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, to chat about cloud computing\'s opportunity for the enterprise, advantages over alternative computing methods and how C-level executives view \"the promise of the cloud.\"\n\nThe following is the result of our conversation with Allen.\n\nA future post will discuss the trend of end-user computing and how easier access to corporate information, anytime, anywhere and on any device is creating a more productive and efficient workforce.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup: </strong>A company executive’s objective is to “do more with less”; how can this be achieved when collaboration and productivity requires the latest technology and applications? For example, incorporating cloud computing, which some believe is hype.</span>\n\n<strong>AR:</strong> This is an area in which the CEO, CFO and IT management must be in agreement and have a level of trust in each other’s role. Given the CEO’s vision for the organization, IT management will design an effective technology environment to support all staff members in achieving that vision. When this IT design has been created in proper alignment with the business vision / mission, it will be very cost-effective in addition to being a performance and cost-reduction catalyst. “Doing more with less” is the natural by-product of a strategic business-aligned IT environment design.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong></strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cloud computing has grown past the hype phase and is now a maturing option for businesses of all sizes to significantly reduce operating costs.  It can also reduce capital requirements for key IT commodities such as email, document management, customer relationship management systems and collaboration technologies.</span></span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> When it comes to enterprise / business goals, what challenges do C-level executives face today?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>Today’s C-level executives face the challenge of accomplishing much-needed goals of the enterprise within the confines of annual budgets and resource allocations. Most CEOs, though, are becoming aware of modern approaches to delivering IT services via cloud computing and through the use of global resources. They are increasingly pushing their agendas through means that do not require the same level of investment as in years past.\n\nThese modern approaches free up dollars for core technology investments by reducing annual operating costs of non-core technologies. At Virtual C-I-O, for example, we\'re helping both small and large enterprises to leverage these approaches to deliver technology based services that are helping control - and in most cases reduce - the operating costs to further generate competitive benefits.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What indicators should be recognized by a CEO to prompt a company’s complete IT assessment? How can the CEO and CFO generate a clear picture of total IT expenses?</span>\n\n<strong>AR:</strong> Understanding all IT costs, including the “hidden costs” of acquiring and maintaining IT assets, can help reduce unnecessary expenses and move funds to other key areas. The old adage “until you measure, you can’t control” applies here. Inaccurate IT spending analysis leads to waste, improper budgeting and low cost efficiency. Always include direct and indirect costs in IT analysis. As part of a comprehensive IT assessment, technology actual costs as well as planned costs need C-level visibility.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How should we define “cloud computing”? Do you believe that company top management has other definitions?</span>\n\n“Cloud computing” has many different definitions in today’s market. For the small to medium sized business owner, they should view the “cloud” as an avenue by which they acquire key IT systems for email, document management, customer relationship management, accounting, etc. On a per-employee basis, where a monthly fee is paid to acquire the technology, cloud computing can keep the technology current. For key functions like backups, accessibility and mobile enablement are built-in benefits.\n\nIn larger enterprises, “cloud computing” takes on many different meanings and is generally viewed as a means to deliver systems to employees and clients over the internet, buy processing and data storage on an “as needed” basis and a means for acquiring non-core technology like email and document management.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What are the primary concerns, objections or misunderstandings that C-level executives have about the cloud?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>The primary concerns among C-level executives are cost, reliability and security. These concerns generally stem from a misunderstanding of what the cloud actually is. Most misunderstandings are around what is known as the “public” cloud and that is generally associated to services such as Gmail. An executive’s worry usually comes from news reports regarding security breaches or system wide outages.\n\nWhat most C-level executives fail to think about is that those same instances can and do happen in their own company. In many cases, the measured SLA is actually less on internal systems than a service provided by companies like Google or Microsoft. Today, cloud providers are delivering services in a capacity which typically offers greater service levels than internal resources and generally do so at a lower operating cost.  A recent article in the <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, “<a href=\"http://hbr.org/2011/11/what-every-ceo-needs-to-know-about-the-cloud/ar/1\" target=\"_blank\">What Every CEO Should Know about the Cloud</a>”, addresses these topics as well.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How can we effectively educate top management on the cost, security and efficiency advantages of “the cloud”?</span>\n\n<strong>AR: </strong>Educating top management is happening in many different forms today. Company IT executives have gained a better understanding of cloud services as they struggle with the relentless imperative “do more with less.” Many reputable technology research sources like Gartner and Forrester have expanded their coverage of topics regarding the cloud and not to mention articles from the <em>Harvard Business Review, Forbes</em> and other management publications.\n\nTo gain a better understanding on cost, organizations will need to learn more about their own IT spend and ultimately get their IT costs down to an employee. In having information about cost of IT by employee, a company can effectively analyze the cost on a per user basis which most cloud providers charge by user. Security, on the other hand, is something that needs to be researched and compared against internal capabilities. Cloud providers such as Microsoft and Google are housing their cloud based infrastructure in Tier-3 data centers, similar to that of the banking industry. So, in many cases, an effective cloud strategy can not only create greater cost savings, but greater efficiencies and greater security as well.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****</p>\nAllen Rittscher serves as President of <a href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, a Jacksonville, FL-based IT strategy consulting company, since its founding in 2012.  Previously he served as Chief Information Officer for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a Fortune 500 HR services company, and President of ProcureStaff Technologies, a software development company.  Prior to that, Mr. Rittscher held information technology management positions with MPS Group and Barnett Bank.  He earned his BS degree from the University of North Florida and MBA degree from Jacksonville University. For more information on Virtual C-I-O, visit www.virtual-c-i-o.com.','Demystifiyng Cloud Computing: Q&A with Allen Rittscher of Virtual C-I-O','','inherit','open','open','','7441-autosave','','','2012-09-28 15:13:03','2012-09-28 19:13:03','',7441,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7441-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(7451,40,'2012-09-28 15:09:04','2012-09-28 19:09:04','We recently sat down with Allen Rittscher, President of <a title=\"Virtual C-I-O\" href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, to chat about cloud computing\'s opportunity for the enterprise, advantages over alternative computing methods and how C-level executives view \"the promise of the cloud.\"\r\n\r\nThe following is the result of our conversation with Allen.\r\n\r\nA future post will discuss the trend of end-user computing and how easier access to corporate information, anytime, anywhere and on any device is creating a more productive and efficient workforce.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup: </strong>A company executive’s objective is to “do more with less”; how can this be achieved when collaboration and productivity requires the latest technology and applications? For example, incorporating cloud computing, which some believe is hype.</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR:</strong> This is an area in which the CEO, CFO and IT management must be in agreement and have a level of trust in each other’s role. Given the CEO’s vision for the organization, IT management will design an effective technology environment to support all staff members in achieving that vision. When this IT design has been created in proper alignment with the business vision / mission, it will be very cost-effective in addition to being a performance and cost-reduction catalyst. “Doing more with less” is the natural by-product of a strategic business-aligned IT environment design.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong></strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cloud computing has grown past the hype phase and is now a maturing option for businesses of all sizes to significantly reduce operating costs.  It can also reduce capital requirements for key IT commodities such as email, document management, customer relationship management systems and collaboration technologies.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> When it comes to enterprise / business goals, what challenges do C-level executives face today?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>Today’s C-level executives face the challenge of accomplishing much-needed goals of the enterprise within the confines of annual budgets and resource allocations. Most CEOs, though, are becoming aware of modern approaches to delivering IT services via cloud computing and through the use of global resources. They are increasingly pushing their agendas through means that do not require the same level of investment as in years past.\r\n\r\nThese modern approaches free up dollars for core technology investments by reducing annual operating costs of non-core technologies. At Virtual C-I-O, for example, we\'re helping both small and large enterprises to leverage these approaches to deliver technology based services that are helping control - and in most cases reduce - the operating costs to further generate competitive benefits.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What indicators should be recognized by a CEO to prompt a company’s complete IT assessment? How can the CEO and CFO generate a clear picture of total IT expenses?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR:</strong> Understanding all IT costs, including the “hidden costs” of acquiring and maintaining IT assets, can help reduce unnecessary expenses and move funds to other key areas. The old adage “until you measure, you can’t control” applies here. Inaccurate IT spending analysis leads to waste, improper budgeting and low cost efficiency. Always include direct and indirect costs in IT analysis. As part of a comprehensive IT assessment, technology actual costs as well as planned costs need C-level visibility.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How should we define “cloud computing”? Do you believe that company top management has other definitions?</span>\r\n\r\n“Cloud computing” has many different definitions in today’s market. For the small to medium sized business owner, they should view the “cloud” as an avenue by which they acquire key IT systems for email, document management, customer relationship management, accounting, etc. On a per-employee basis, where a monthly fee is paid to acquire the technology, cloud computing can keep the technology current. For key functions like backups, accessibility and mobile enablement are built-in benefits.\r\n\r\nIn larger enterprises, “cloud computing” takes on many different meanings and is generally viewed as a means to deliver systems to employees and clients over the internet, buy processing and data storage on an “as needed” basis and a means for acquiring non-core technology like email and document management.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What are the primary concerns, objections or misunderstandings that C-level executives have about the cloud?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>The primary concerns among C-level executives are cost, reliability and security. These concerns generally stem from a misunderstanding of what the cloud actually is. Most misunderstandings are around what is known as the “public” cloud and that is generally associated to services such as Gmail. An executive’s worry usually comes from news reports regarding security breaches or system wide outages.\r\n\r\nWhat most C-level executives fail to think about is that those same instances can and do happen in their own company. In many cases, the measured SLA is actually less on internal systems than a service provided by companies like Google or Microsoft. Today, cloud providers are delivering services in a capacity which typically offers greater service levels than internal resources and generally do so at a lower operating cost.  A recent article in the <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, “<a href=\"http://hbr.org/2011/11/what-every-ceo-needs-to-know-about-the-cloud/ar/1\" target=\"_blank\">What Every CEO Should Know about the Cloud</a>”, addresses these topics as well.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How can we effectively educate top management on the cost, security and efficiency advantages of “the cloud”?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>Educating top management is happening in many different forms today. Company IT executives have gained a better understanding of cloud services as they struggle with the relentless imperative “do more with less.” Many reputable technology research sources like Gartner and Forrester have expanded their coverage of topics regarding the cloud and not to mention articles from the <em>Harvard Business Review, Forbes</em> and other management publications.\r\n\r\nTo gain a better understanding on cost, organizations will need to learn more about their own IT spend and ultimately get their IT costs down to an employee. In having information about cost of IT by employee, a company can effectively analyze the cost on a per user basis which most cloud providers charge by user. Security, on the other hand, is something that needs to be researched and compared against internal capabilities. Cloud providers such as Microsoft and Google are housing their cloud based infrastructure in Tier-3 data centers, similar to that of the banking industry. So, in many cases, an effective cloud strategy can not only create greater cost savings, but greater efficiencies and greater security as well.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****</p>\r\nAllen Rittscher serves as President of <a href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, a Jacksonville, FL-based IT strategy consulting company, since its founding in 2012.  Previously he served as Chief Information Officer for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a Fortune 500 HR services company, and President of ProcureStaff Technologies, a software development company.  Prior to that, Mr. Rittscher held information technology management positions with MPS Group and Barnett Bank.  He earned his BS degree from the University of North Florida and MBA degree from Jacksonville University. For more information on Virtual C-I-O, visit www.virtual-c-i-o.com.','Demystifiyng Cloud Computing: Q&A with Allen Rittscher of Virtual C-I-O','','inherit','open','open','','7441-revision-8','','','2012-09-28 15:09:04','2012-09-28 19:09:04','',7441,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7441-revision-8',0,'revision','',0),(7453,40,'2012-09-28 15:13:14','2012-09-28 19:13:14','We recently sat down with Allen Rittscher, President of <a title=\"Virtual C-I-O\" href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, to chat about cloud computing\'s opportunity for the enterprise, advantages over alternative computing methods and how C-level executives view \"the promise of the cloud.\"\r\n\r\nThe following is the result of our conversation with Allen.\r\n\r\nA future post will discuss the trend of end-user computing and how easier access to corporate information, anytime, anywhere and on any device is creating a more productive and efficient workforce.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup: </strong>A company executive’s objective is to “do more with less”; how can this be achieved when collaboration and productivity requires the latest technology and applications? For example, incorporating cloud computing, which some believe is hype.</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR:</strong> This is an area in which the CEO, CFO and IT management must be in agreement and have a level of trust in each other’s role. Given the CEO’s vision for the organization, IT management will design an effective technology environment to support all staff members in achieving that vision. When this IT design has been created in proper alignment with the business vision / mission, it will be very cost-effective in addition to being a performance and cost-reduction catalyst. “Doing more with less” is the natural by-product of a strategic business-aligned IT environment design.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong></strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cloud computing has grown past the hype phase and is now a maturing option for businesses of all sizes to significantly reduce operating costs.  It can also reduce capital requirements for key IT commodities such as email, document management, customer relationship management systems and collaboration technologies.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> When it comes to enterprise / business goals, what challenges do C-level executives face today?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>Today’s C-level executives face the challenge of accomplishing much-needed goals of the enterprise within the confines of annual budgets and resource allocations. Most CEOs, though, are becoming aware of modern approaches to delivering IT services via cloud computing and through the use of global resources. They are increasingly pushing their agendas through means that do not require the same level of investment as in years past.\r\n\r\nThese modern approaches free up dollars for core technology investments by reducing annual operating costs of non-core technologies. At Virtual C-I-O, for example, we\'re helping both small and large enterprises to leverage these approaches to deliver technology based services that are helping control - and in most cases reduce - the operating costs to further generate competitive benefits.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What indicators should be recognized by a CEO to prompt a company’s complete IT assessment? How can the CEO and CFO generate a clear picture of total IT expenses?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR:</strong> Understanding all IT costs, including the “hidden costs” of acquiring and maintaining IT assets, can help reduce unnecessary expenses and move funds to other key areas. The old adage “until you measure, you can’t control” applies here. Inaccurate IT spending analysis leads to waste, improper budgeting and low cost efficiency. Always include direct and indirect costs in IT analysis. As part of a comprehensive IT assessment, technology actual costs as well as planned costs need C-level visibility.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How should we define “cloud computing”? Do you believe that company top management has other definitions?</span>\r\n\r\n“Cloud computing” has many different definitions in today’s market. For the small to medium sized business owner, they should view the “cloud” as an avenue by which they acquire key IT systems for email, document management, customer relationship management, accounting, etc. On a per-employee basis, where a monthly fee is paid to acquire the technology, cloud computing can keep the technology current. For key functions like backups, accessibility and mobile enablement are built-in benefits.\r\n\r\nIn larger enterprises, “cloud computing” takes on many different meanings and is generally viewed as a means to deliver systems to employees and clients over the internet, buy processing and data storage on an “as needed” basis and a means for acquiring non-core technology like email and document management.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What are the primary concerns, objections or misunderstandings that C-level executives have about the cloud?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>The primary concerns among C-level executives are cost, reliability and security. These concerns generally stem from a misunderstanding of what the cloud actually is. Most misunderstandings are around what is known as the “public” cloud and that is generally associated to services such as Gmail. An executive’s worry usually comes from news reports regarding security breaches or system wide outages.\r\n\r\nWhat most C-level executives fail to think about is that those same instances can and do happen in their own company. In many cases, the measured SLA is actually less on internal systems than a service provided by companies like Google or Microsoft. Today, cloud providers are delivering services in a capacity which typically offers greater service levels than internal resources and generally do so at a lower operating cost.  A recent article in the <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, “<a href=\"http://hbr.org/2011/11/what-every-ceo-needs-to-know-about-the-cloud/ar/1\" target=\"_blank\">What Every CEO Should Know about the Cloud</a>”, addresses these topics as well.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How can we effectively educate top management on the cost, security and efficiency advantages of “the cloud”?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>Educating top management is happening in many different forms today. Company IT executives have gained a better understanding of cloud services as they struggle with the relentless imperative “do more with less.” Many reputable technology research sources like Gartner and Forrester have expanded their coverage of topics regarding the cloud and not to mention articles from the <em>Harvard Business Review, Forbes</em> and other management publications.\r\n\r\nTo gain a better understanding on cost, organizations will need to learn more about their own IT spend and ultimately get their IT costs down to an employee. In having information about cost of IT by employee, a company can effectively analyze the cost on a per user basis which most cloud providers charge by user. Security, on the other hand, is something that needs to be researched and compared against internal capabilities. Cloud providers such as Microsoft and Google are housing their cloud based infrastructure in Tier-3 data centers, similar to that of the banking industry. So, in many cases, an effective cloud strategy can not only create greater cost savings, but greater efficiencies and greater security as well.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****</p>\r\nAllen Rittscher serves as President of <a href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, a Jacksonville, FL-based IT strategy consulting company, since its founding in 2012.  Previously he served as Chief Information Officer for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a Fortune 500 HR services company, and President of ProcureStaff Technologies, a software development company.  Prior to that, Mr. Rittscher held information technology management positions with MPS Group and Barnett Bank.  He earned his BS degree from the University of North Florida and MBA degree from Jacksonville University. For more information on Virtual C-I-O, visit www.virtual-c-i-o.com.','Demystifiyng Cloud Computing: Q&A with Allen Rittscher of Virtual C-I-O','','inherit','open','open','','7441-revision-9','','','2012-09-28 15:13:14','2012-09-28 19:13:14','',7441,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7441-revision-9',0,'revision','',0),(7526,23,'2012-10-07 10:37:56','2012-10-07 14:37:56','','Auto Draft','','inherit','open','open','','7525-revision','','','2012-10-07 10:37:56','2012-10-07 14:37:56','',7525,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7525-revision',0,'revision','',0),(7525,23,'2012-10-29 08:58:24','0000-00-00 00:00:00','Microsoft\'s SQL Server is one of the most secure database engines on the market.  The ability to encrypt data, manage permissions, and comply with HIPAA and PCI compliance requirements make it the best choice when Compliance is considered.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nEasily manage permissions around data access with User-Defined Server Roles.\r\n\r\nIncrease manageability and decrease complexity of database schema through Default Schema for Groups.\r\n\r\nControl database access to deployed applications while improving manageability through Contained Database Authentication.\r\n\r\nHelp ensure compliance and increase manageability related to auditing with audit resilience, filtering and user-defined audit.\r\n\r\nBuilt upon advanced security features (Transparent Data Encryption, Extensible Key Management, Kerberos authentication, and Policy-Based Management)','SQL 2012: Compliance','','draft','open','open','','sql-2012-compliance','','','2012-10-29 08:58:24','2012-10-29 12:58:24','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=7525',0,'post','',0),(7456,40,'2012-09-28 15:57:55','2012-09-28 19:57:55','We recently sat down with Allen Rittscher, President of <a title=\"Virtual C-I-O\" href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, to chat about cloud computing\'s opportunity for the enterprise, advantages over alternative computing methods and how C-level executives view \"the promise of the cloud.\"\r\n\r\nThe following is the result of our conversation with Allen.\r\n\r\nA future post will discuss the trend of end-user computing and how easier access to corporate information, anytime, anywhere and on any device is creating a more productive and efficient workforce.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup: </strong>A company executive’s objective is to “do more with less”; how can this be achieved when collaboration and productivity requires the latest technology and applications? For example, incorporating cloud computing, which some believe is hype.</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR:</strong> This is an area in which the CEO, CFO and IT management must be in agreement and have a level of trust in each other’s role. Given the CEO’s vision for the organization, IT management will design an effective technology environment to support all staff members in achieving that vision. When this IT design has been created in proper alignment with the business vision / mission, it will be very cost-effective in addition to being a performance and cost-reduction catalyst. “Doing more with less” is the natural by-product of a strategic business-aligned IT environment design.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong></strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cloud computing has grown past the hype phase and is now a maturing option for businesses of all sizes to significantly reduce operating costs.  It can also reduce capital requirements for key IT commodities such as email, document management, customer relationship management systems and collaboration technologies.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> When it comes to enterprise / business goals, what challenges do C-level executives face today?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>Today’s C-level executives face the challenge of accomplishing much-needed goals of the enterprise within the confines of annual budgets and resource allocations. Most CEOs, though, are becoming aware of modern approaches to delivering IT services via cloud computing and through the use of global resources. They are increasingly pushing their agendas through means that do not require the same level of investment as in years past.\r\n\r\nThese modern approaches free up dollars for core technology investments by reducing annual operating costs of non-core technologies. At Virtual C-I-O, for example, we\'re helping both small and large enterprises to leverage these approaches to deliver technology based services that are helping control - and in most cases reduce - the operating costs to further generate competitive benefits.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What indicators should be recognized by a CEO to prompt a company’s complete IT assessment? How can the CEO and CFO generate a clear picture of total IT expenses?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR:</strong> Understanding all IT costs, including the “hidden costs” of acquiring and maintaining IT assets, can help reduce unnecessary expenses and move funds to other key areas. The old adage “until you measure, you can’t control” applies here. Inaccurate IT spending analysis leads to waste, improper budgeting and low cost efficiency. Always include direct and indirect costs in IT analysis. As part of a comprehensive IT assessment, technology actual costs as well as planned costs need C-level visibility.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How should we define “cloud computing”? Do you believe that company top management has other definitions?</span>\r\n\r\n“Cloud computing” has many different definitions in today’s market. For the small to medium sized business owner, they should view the “cloud” as an avenue by which they acquire key IT systems for email, document management, customer relationship management, accounting, etc. On a per-employee basis, where a monthly fee is paid to acquire the technology, cloud computing can keep the technology current. For key functions like backups, accessibility and mobile enablement are built-in benefits.\r\n\r\nIn larger enterprises, “cloud computing” takes on many different meanings and is generally viewed as a means to deliver systems to employees and clients over the internet, buy processing and data storage on an “as needed” basis and a means for acquiring non-core technology like email and document management.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What are the primary concerns, objections or misunderstandings that C-level executives have about the cloud?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>The primary concerns among C-level executives are cost, reliability and security. These concerns generally stem from a misunderstanding of what the cloud actually is. Most misunderstandings are around what is known as the “public” cloud and that is generally associated to services such as Gmail. An executive’s worry usually comes from news reports regarding security breaches or system wide outages.\r\n\r\nWhat most C-level executives fail to think about is that those same instances can and do happen in their own company. In many cases, the measured SLA is actually less on internal systems than a service provided by companies like Google or Microsoft. Today, cloud providers are delivering services in a capacity which typically offers greater service levels than internal resources and generally do so at a lower operating cost.  A recent article in the <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, “<a href=\"http://hbr.org/2011/11/what-every-ceo-needs-to-know-about-the-cloud/ar/1\" target=\"_blank\">What Every CEO Should Know about the Cloud</a>”, addresses these topics as well.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How can we effectively educate top management on the cost, security and efficiency advantages of “the cloud”?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>Educating top management is happening in many different forms today. Company IT executives have gained a better understanding of cloud services as they struggle with the relentless imperative “do more with less.” Many reputable technology research sources like Gartner and Forrester have expanded their coverage of topics regarding the cloud and not to mention articles from the <em>Harvard Business Review, Forbes</em> and other management publications.\r\n\r\nTo gain a better understanding on cost, organizations will need to learn more about their own IT spend and ultimately get their IT costs down to an employee. In having information about cost of IT by employee, a company can effectively analyze the cost on a per user basis which most cloud providers charge by user. Security, on the other hand, is something that needs to be researched and compared against internal capabilities. Cloud providers such as Microsoft and Google are housing their cloud based infrastructure in Tier-3 data centers, similar to that of the banking industry. So, in many cases, an effective cloud strategy can not only create greater cost savings, but greater efficiencies and greater security as well.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****</p>\r\nAllen Rittscher serves as President of <a href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, a Jacksonville, FL-based IT strategy consulting company, since its founding in 2012.  Previously he served as Chief Information Officer for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a Fortune 500 HR services company, and President of ProcureStaff Technologies, a software development company.  Prior to that, Mr. Rittscher held information technology management positions with MPS Group and Barnett Bank.  He earned his BS degree from the University of North Florida and MBA degree from Jacksonville University. For more information on Virtual C-I-O, visit www.virtual-c-i-o.com.','Demystifying Cloud Computing: Q&A with Allen Rittscher of Virtual C-I-O','','inherit','open','open','','7441-revision-10','','','2012-09-28 15:57:55','2012-09-28 19:57:55','',7441,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7441-revision-10',0,'revision','',0),(7457,40,'2012-09-28 16:04:01','2012-09-28 20:04:01','We recently sat down with Allen Rittscher, President of <a title=\"Virtual C-I-O\" href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, to chat about cloud computing\'s opportunity for the enterprise, advantages over alternative computing methods and how C-level executives view \"the promise of the cloud.\"\r\n\r\nThe following is the result of our conversation with Allen.\r\n\r\nA future post will discuss the trend of end-user computing and how easier access to corporate information, anytime, anywhere and on any device is creating a more productive and efficient workforce.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup: </strong>A company executive’s objective is to “do more with less”; how can this be achieved when collaboration and productivity requires the latest technology and applications? For example, incorporating cloud computing, which some believe is hype.</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR:</strong> This is an area in which the CEO, CFO and IT management must be in agreement and have a level of trust in each other’s role. Given the CEO’s vision for the organization, IT management will design an effective technology environment to support all staff members in achieving that vision. When this IT design has been created in proper alignment with the business vision / mission, it will be very cost-effective in addition to being a performance and cost-reduction catalyst. “Doing more with less” is the natural by-product of a strategic business-aligned IT environment design.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong></strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cloud computing has grown past the hype phase and is now a maturing option for businesses of all sizes to significantly reduce operating costs.  It can also reduce capital requirements for key IT commodities such as email, document management, customer relationship management systems and collaboration technologies.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> When it comes to enterprise / business goals, what challenges do C-level executives face today?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>Today’s C-level executives face the challenge of accomplishing much-needed goals of the enterprise within the confines of annual budgets and resource allocations. Most CEOs, though, are becoming aware of modern approaches to delivering IT services via cloud computing and through the use of global resources. They are increasingly pushing their agendas through means that do not require the same level of investment as in years past.\r\n\r\nThese modern approaches free up dollars for core technology investments by reducing annual operating costs of non-core technologies. At Virtual C-I-O, for example, we\'re helping both small and large enterprises to leverage these approaches to deliver technology based services that are helping control - and in most cases reduce - the operating costs to further generate competitive benefits.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What indicators should be recognized by a CEO to prompt a company’s complete IT assessment? How can the CEO and CFO generate a clear picture of total IT expenses?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR:</strong> Understanding all IT costs, including the “hidden costs” of acquiring and maintaining IT assets, can help reduce unnecessary expenses and move funds to other key areas. The old adage “until you measure, you can’t control” applies here. Inaccurate IT spending analysis leads to waste, improper budgeting and low cost efficiency. Always include direct and indirect costs in IT analysis. As part of a comprehensive IT assessment, technology actual costs as well as planned costs need C-level visibility.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How should we define “cloud computing”? Do you believe that company top management has other definitions?</span>\r\n\r\n“Cloud computing” has many different definitions in today’s market. For the small to medium sized business owner, they should view the “cloud” as an avenue by which they acquire key IT systems for email, document management, customer relationship management, accounting, etc. On a per-employee basis, where a monthly fee is paid to acquire the technology, cloud computing can keep the technology current. For key functions like backups, accessibility and mobile enablement are built-in benefits.\r\n\r\nIn larger enterprises, “cloud computing” takes on many different meanings and is generally viewed as a means to deliver systems to employees and clients over the internet, buy processing and data storage on an “as needed” basis and a means for acquiring non-core technology like email and document management.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> What are the primary concerns, objections or misunderstandings that C-level executives have about the cloud?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>The primary concerns among C-level executives are cost, reliability and security. These concerns generally stem from a misunderstanding of what the cloud actually is. Most misunderstandings are around what is known as the “public” cloud and that is generally associated to services such as Gmail. An executive’s worry usually comes from news reports regarding security breaches or system wide outages.\r\n\r\nWhat most C-level executives fail to think about is that those same instances can and do happen in their own company. In many cases, the measured SLA is actually less on internal systems than a service provided by companies like Google or Microsoft. Today, cloud providers are delivering services in a capacity which typically offers greater service levels than internal resources and generally do so at a lower operating cost.  A recent article in the <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, “<a href=\"http://hbr.org/2011/11/what-every-ceo-needs-to-know-about-the-cloud/ar/1\" target=\"_blank\">What Every CEO Should Know about the Cloud</a>”, addresses these topics as well.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>eGroup:</strong> How can we effectively educate top management on the cost, security and efficiency advantages of “the cloud”?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>AR: </strong>Educating top management is happening in many different forms today. Company IT executives have gained a better understanding of cloud services as they struggle with the relentless imperative “do more with less.” Many reputable technology research sources like Gartner and Forrester have expanded their coverage of topics regarding the cloud and not to mention articles from the <em>Harvard Business Review, Forbes</em> and other management publications.\r\n\r\nTo gain a better understanding on cost, organizations will need to learn more about their own IT spend and ultimately get their IT costs down to an employee. In having information about cost of IT by employee, a company can effectively analyze the cost on a per user basis which most cloud providers charge by user. Security, on the other hand, is something that needs to be researched and compared against internal capabilities. Cloud providers such as Microsoft and Google are housing their cloud based infrastructure in Tier-3 data centers, similar to that of the banking industry. So, in many cases, an effective cloud strategy can not only create greater cost savings, but greater efficiencies and greater security as well.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****</p>\r\nAllen Rittscher serves as President of <a href=\"http://www.virtual-c-i-o.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual C-I-O</a>, a Jacksonville, FL-based IT strategy consulting company, since its founding in 2012.  Previously he served as Chief Information Officer for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a Fortune 500 HR services company, and President of ProcureStaff Technologies, a software development company.  Prior to that, Mr. Rittscher held information technology management positions with MPS Group and Barnett Bank.  He earned his BS degree from the University of North Florida and MBA degree from Jacksonville University. For more information on Virtual C-I-O, visit www.virtual-c-i-o.com.','Demystifying Cloud Computing: Q&A with Allen Rittscher of Virtual C-I-O','','inherit','open','open','','7441-revision-11','','','2012-09-28 16:04:01','2012-09-28 20:04:01','',7441,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7441-revision-11',0,'revision','',0),(7458,23,'2012-09-28 11:20:14','2012-09-28 15:20:14','The use of mobile devices has sky rocketed in recent years.  Users are browsing the web with tablets and phones of all sizes.  This is great for the consumer, but has presented many challenges for IT departments around the world.  How do you ensure that you site looks good on every device out there?  How can you ensure that your site not only looks good, but is fast and efficient as well?  One of the biggest challenges for web developers and designers is to ensure that images have the right level of quality, but aren\'t so big that they take more than a few seconds to download.  Because, well, let\'s face it; when was the last time you waited more than 30 seconds for a page to load?\r\n\r\nIn SharePoint 2013, there\'s a new feature that will make viewing images on mobile devices MUCH better.  It basically auto-sizes and renders images for different devices and stores them using BLOB cache.  You can even crop the images so they display differently on each device type.\r\n\r\nThe interface for managing these images is very slick and easy to understand.  Here\'s an example of the interface...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sp2013_imagerenditions.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7438\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sp2013_imagerenditions-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou can even crop the image, so it is not only smaller on each different device, but it\'s also cropped differently!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sp2013_imagerenditions2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7439\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sp2013_imagerenditions2-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNot only is this used for images, but you can also use it for video thumbnail previews.  For more information, check out this post by SharePoint MVP Waldek Mastykarz: <a href=\"http://blog.mastykarz.nl/image-renditions-sharepoint-2013/\">http://blog.mastykarz.nl/image-renditions-sharepoint-2013</a>\r\n\r\nWhat enhancements in SharePoint 2013 for mobile devices are you most excited about?','SharePoint 2013: Image Renditions','','inherit','open','open','','7275-revision-v1','','','2012-09-28 11:20:14','2012-09-28 15:20:14','',7275,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7275-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(7529,40,'2012-10-08 16:34:24','2012-10-08 20:34:24','<p align=\"center\"><em>Dedicated team helps customers gain improved insight into structured and unstructured data stores<em></em></em></p>\r\n<strong>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – October 8, 2012</strong> – <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a>, the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services, today announced the launch of its Data Services Practice to help customers understand how to better leverage existing data while planning for future data requirements.\r\n\r\neGroup’s Data Services Practice builds upon the company’s engineering and informatics skills to deliver professional services needed for data analytic and business intelligence projects.\r\n\r\nIan Jones, an industry veteran whose background is deeply rooted in the design, deployment and management of complex data systems, will lead the Data Services Practice. During his three-year tenure at eGroup, Jones has been heavily involved in the firm’s Application Services Group. He has also led eGroup’s internal custom Java development focused on VMware’s vFabric platform, a lightweight, scalable, integrated middleware suite for data-intensive custom applications.\r\n\r\n“’Big data’ has been touted as a key industry trend, but few organizations understand what it might do for them,” said Jones. “At eGroup, we recognize that the size of the dataset is only one factor, so we’ve purposely left the word ‘big’ out of our Data Services Practice. Data analytics is just about data — how to ingest, analyze and process data to make more-informed business decisions. Our goal is to help customers use their data to gain new business insight, whether with big data analytics or more traditional business intelligence tools.”\r\n\r\neGroup is currently working with several healthcare enterprises on their data analytics projects, using products such as EMC Greenplum and the open-source Apache Hadoop platform. These tools not only handle large transactional databases but unstructured data such as text files and even images.\r\n\r\nGiven its strong background and expertise with Cisco’s Unified Computing System, eGroup is well positioned to use this flexible scale-out computing platform for its big data solutions, a rapidly emerging practice eGroup is bringing to the industry.\r\n\r\n“Our engineers can help customers break down ‘silos’ of data trapped in various applications and unstructured data files,” Jones said. “We can then help them select the right data analytics or business intelligence platform based upon the size of the dataset and the processing speed needed to obtain business insight in real time.”\r\n\r\nMuch of eGroup’s Data Services Practice is focused on consulting — helping customers of all sizes across a wide range of industries understand how to integrate data analytics into their day-to-day operations.\r\n\r\n“We’re here to help guide customers through the cultural shift needed for deep organizational integration of data analytics practices,” said Jones. “Once that occurs, ‘big data’ becomes less mysterious. 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My background has mostly included working on and support various Windows operating systems. For this reason, I approached this experiment without really knowing what to expect. After a few days of \"playing around\" with the technology, I have to say that I am impressed.\r\n\r\nThe one main selling point for this product, as far as VMware customers are concerned, is price. Existing vSphere SnS customers are eligible to download and use the product free of charge. Customers can also subscribe to patches and updates at no cost. However, phone support is not included, but can be purchased for an additional fee.\r\n\r\nComing from a Windows background, one of the things I have to come to appreciate in using this product is well thought out and constructed GUI. I am able to find applications and documents quickly and effortlessly. In addition, the yaST Control Panel, similar to the Control Panel on a Windows OS, is very easy to use. Even as a novice SUSE user, I would make my way through the management interface with little issue.\r\n\r\nWhile I don\'t see current VMware administrators switching out their environments in mass from Windows Server to SUSE, this operating would add great value and reliability as a file and web server. Visit the <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/sles-for-vmware/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">SLES for VMware webpage</a> if you would like more information on this product.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware','','publish','open','open','','suse-linux-enterprise-server-for-vmware','','','2012-10-01 09:17:32','2012-10-01 13:17:32','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=7460',0,'post','',0),(7461,25,'2012-09-30 20:03:06','2012-10-01 00:03:06','Apparently, for some time now VMware customers have had the option of downloading and using a version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) made specifically for VMware environments.  However, I recently discovered this product while browsing through VMware\'s solutions page.  \"An Enterprise OS made to run in a vSphere environment, and available for existing customers\", I thought, \"this is worth trying\".  So, I did.\n\nAt this point I have to confess that I have had very little experience using Linux in the past.  My background has mostly included working on and support various Windows operating systems.  For this reason, I approached this experiment without really knowing what to expect.  After a few days of \"playing around\" with the technology, I have to say that I am impressed.\n\nThe one main selling point for this product, as far as VMware customers are concerned, is price.  Existing vSphere SnS customers are eligible to download and use the product free of charge.  Customers can also subscribe to patches and updates at no cost  However, phone support is not included, but can be purchased for an additional fee.\n\nComing from a Windows background, one of the things I have to come to appreciate in using this product is well thought out and constructed GUI.  I am able to find applications and documents quickly and effortlessly.  In addition the yaST Control Panel, similar to the Control Panel on a Windows OS, is very easy to use.  Even as a novice SUSE user, I would make my way through the management interface with little issue.\n\nWhile I don\'t see current VMware administrators switching out their environments in mass from Windows Server to SUSE, this operating would add great value and reliability as a file and web server.  Visit the SLES for VMware webpage if you would like more information on this product. <a title=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/sles-for-vmware/overview.html\" href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/sles-for-vmware/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.vmware.com/products/sles-for-vmware/overview.html</a>\n\n&nbsp;','SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware','','inherit','open','open','','7460-revision','','','2012-09-30 20:03:06','2012-10-01 00:03:06','',7460,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7460-revision',0,'revision','',0),(7462,25,'2012-09-30 20:24:58','2012-10-01 00:24:58','While browsing through VMware\'s vast collection of available products on their website, I stumbled upon a new webpage dedicated for the purchase and download of VMware Virtual Appliances.  For those not familiar with this technology, virtual appliances allow VMware users to quickly and easily deploy software and servers by importing a pre-built solution directly into their existing vSphere environment.  VMware has started using virtual appliances at an increasing rate, and other software vendors have picked up this trend.\r\n\r\nNow, all of these appliances can be found on a central page by visiting <a title=\"https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances\" href=\"https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances\">https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances</a>.  Personally, I am a big fan of using virtual appliances.  I think they greatly simplify the deployment of new solution in a virtual environment, and assure that the software has been properly installed and configured.','VMware\'s New Virtual Appliance Marketplace','','private','open','open','','vmwares-new-virtual-appliance-marketplace','','','2012-10-01 09:31:03','2012-10-01 13:31:03','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=7462',0,'post','',0),(7463,25,'2012-09-30 20:23:48','2012-10-01 00:23:48','While browsing through VMware\'s vast collection of available products on their website, I stumbled upon a new webpage dedicated for the purchase and download of VMware Virtual Appliances.  For those not familiar with this technology, virtual appliances allow VMware users to quickly and easily deploy software and servers by importing a pre-built solution directly into their existing vSphere environment.  VMware has started using virtual appliances at an increasing rate, and other software vendors have picked up this trend.\n\nNow, all of these appliances can be found on a central page by visiting <a title=\"https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances\" href=\"https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances\">https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances</a>.  Personally, I am a big fan of deploying virtual appliances.  I think they greatly simplify the deployment of new solution in a virtual environment, and assure that the software has been properly installed and configured.','VMware\'s New Virtual Appliance Marketplace','','inherit','open','open','','7462-revision','','','2012-09-30 20:23:48','2012-10-01 00:23:48','',7462,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7462-revision',0,'revision','',0),(7464,25,'2012-09-30 20:39:59','2012-10-01 00:39:59','Over the weekend, I spent some quality time playing around with VMware. In a previous post, I discussed running <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/suse-linux-enterprise-server-for-vmware\" target=\"_blank\">VMware environments using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)</a>.\r\n\r\nWhile learning more about Linux, two other VMware related important points came to me which I wanted to share:\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1. VMware Studio has been around for some time. In fact, version 1 was released on September 5, 2008. However, there are still a lot of VMware users and software providers that are unfamiliar with this technology. This solution allows developers to create VMware virtual appliances, and vApps (multiple virtual appliances combined as a unit) using this free authoring tool. A cool feature of this utility, is the ability to convert existing Linux and Windows virtual machines in to the OVF format. For more information on this tool, <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">VMware Studio page</a>.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2. While browsing through VMware\'s vast collection of available products on their website, I stumbled upon a new webpage dedicated for the purchase and download of VMware Virtual Appliances. For those not familiar with this technology, virtual appliances allow VMware users to quickly and easily deploy software and servers by importing a pre-built solution directly into their existing vSphere environment. VMware has started using virtual appliances at an increasing rate, and other software vendors have picked up this trend.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Now, all of these appliances can be found <a href=\" https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances\" target=\"_blank\">VMware Virtual Appliances</a> page. Personally, I am a big fan of using virtual appliances. I think they greatly simplify the deployment of new solution in a virtual environment, and assure that the software has been properly installed and configured.</p>','Two Quick VMware Tips: VMware Studio & Virtual Appliances','','publish','open','open','','vmware-studio','','','2012-10-01 09:36:42','2012-10-01 13:36:42','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=7464',0,'post','',0),(7465,25,'2012-09-30 20:39:28','2012-10-01 00:39:28','VMware Studio has been around for some time.  In fact, version 1 was released on September 5, 2008.  However, there are still a lot of VMware users and software providers that are unfamiliar with this technology.  This solution allows developers to create VMware virtual appliances, and vApps (multiple virtual appliances combined as a unit) using this free authoring tool.  A cool feature of this utility, is the ability to convert existing Linux and Windows virtual machines in to the OVF format.  For more information on this tool, check out the website: http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html','VMware Studio','','inherit','open','open','','7464-revision','','','2012-09-30 20:39:28','2012-10-01 00:39:28','',7464,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7464-revision',0,'revision','',0),(7466,40,'2012-10-01 09:37:56','2012-10-01 13:37:56','Over the weekend, I spent some quality time playing around with VMware. In a previous post, I discussed running <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/suse-linux-enterprise-server-for-vmware\" target=\"_blank\">VMware environments using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)</a>.\n\nWhile learning more about Linux, two other VMware related important points came to me which I wanted to share:\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1. VMware Studio has been around for some time. In fact, version 1 was released on September 5, 2008. However, there are still a lot of VMware users and software providers that are unfamiliar with this technology. This solution allows developers to create VMware virtual appliances, and vApps (multiple virtual appliances combined as a unit) using this free authoring tool. A cool feature of this utility, is the ability to convert existing Linux and Windows virtual machines in to the OVF format. For more information on this tool, <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">VMware Studio page</a>.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2. While browsing through VMware\'s vast collection of available products on their website, I stumbled upon a new webpage dedicated for the purchase and download of VMware Virtual Appliances. For those not familiar with this technology, virtual appliances allow VMware users to quickly and easily deploy software and servers by importing a pre-built solution directly into their existing vSphere environment. VMware has started using virtual appliances at an increasing rate, and other software vendors have picked up this trend.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Now, all of these appliances can be found <a href=\" https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances\" target=\"_blank\">VMware Virtual Appliances</a> page. Personally, I am a big fan of using virtual appliances. I think they greatly simplify the deployment of new solution in a virtual environment, and assure that the software has been properly installed and configured.</p>','Two Quick VMware Tips: VMware Studio & Virtual Appliances','','inherit','open','open','','7464-autosave','','','2012-10-01 09:37:56','2012-10-01 13:37:56','',7464,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7464-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(7467,40,'2012-09-30 20:39:59','2012-10-01 00:39:59','VMware Studio has been around for some time.  In fact, version 1 was released on September 5, 2008.  However, there are still a lot of VMware users and software providers that are unfamiliar with this technology.  This solution allows developers to create VMware virtual appliances, and vApps (multiple virtual appliances combined as a unit) using this free authoring tool.  A cool feature of this utility, is the ability to convert existing Linux and Windows virtual machines in to the OVF format.  For more information on this tool, check out the website: <a title=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html\" href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html\">http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html</a>','VMware Studio','','inherit','open','open','','7464-revision-2','','','2012-09-30 20:39:59','2012-10-01 00:39:59','',7464,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7464-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(7468,40,'2012-10-01 09:08:45','2012-10-01 13:08:45','VMware Studio has been around for some time. In fact, version 1 was released on September 5, 2008. However, there are still a lot of VMware users and software providers that are unfamiliar with this technology. This solution allows developers to create VMware virtual appliances, and vApps (multiple virtual appliances combined as a unit) using this free authoring tool. A cool feature of this utility, is the ability to convert existing Linux and Windows virtual machines in to the OVF format. For more information on this tool, check out the website: <a title=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html\" href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html\">http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html</a>','VMware Studio','','inherit','open','open','','7464-revision-3','','','2012-10-01 09:08:45','2012-10-01 13:08:45','',7464,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7464-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(7469,40,'2012-10-01 09:17:27','2012-10-01 13:17:27','Apparently, for some time now VMware customers have had the option of downloading and using a version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) made specifically for VMware environments. However, I recently discovered this product while browsing through VMware\'s solutions page.  \"An Enterprise OS made to run in a vSphere environment, and available for existing customers\", I thought, \"this is worth trying.\" So, I did.\n\nAt this point, I have to confess that I have had very little experience using Linux in the past. My background has mostly included working on and support various Windows operating systems. For this reason, I approached this experiment without really knowing what to expect. After a few days of \"playing around\" with the technology, I have to say that I am impressed.\n\nThe one main selling point for this product, as far as VMware customers are concerned, is price. Existing vSphere SnS customers are eligible to download and use the product free of charge. Customers can also subscribe to patches and updates at no cost. However, phone support is not included, but can be purchased for an additional fee.\n\nComing from a Windows background, one of the things I have to come to appreciate in using this product is well thought out and constructed GUI. I am able to find applications and documents quickly and effortlessly. In addition, the yaST Control Panel, similar to the Control Panel on a Windows OS, is very easy to use. Even as a novice SUSE user, I would make my way through the management interface with little issue.\n\nWhile I don\'t see current VMware administrators switching out their environments in mass from Windows Server to SUSE, this operating would add great value and reliability as a file and web server. Visit the <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/sles-for-vmware/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">SLES for VMware webpage</a> if you would like more information on this product.\n\n&nbsp;','SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware','','inherit','open','open','','7460-autosave','','','2012-10-01 09:17:27','2012-10-01 13:17:27','',7460,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7460-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(7470,40,'2012-09-30 20:04:00','2012-10-01 00:04:00','Apparently, for some time now VMware customers have had the option of downloading and using a version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) made specifically for VMware environments.  However, I recently discovered this product while browsing through VMware\'s solutions page.  \"An Enterprise OS made to run in a vSphere environment, and available for existing customers\", I thought, \"this is worth trying\".  So, I did.\r\n\r\nAt this point I have to confess that I have had very little experience using Linux in the past.  My background has mostly included working on and support various Windows operating systems.  For this reason, I approached this experiment without really knowing what to expect.  After a few days of \"playing around\" with the technology, I have to say that I am impressed.\r\n\r\nThe one main selling point for this product, as far as VMware customers are concerned, is price.  Existing vSphere SnS customers are eligible to download and use the product free of charge.  Customers can also subscribe to patches and updates at no cost  However, phone support is not included, but can be purchased for an additional fee.\r\n\r\nComing from a Windows background, one of the things I have to come to appreciate in using this product is well thought out and constructed GUI.  I am able to find applications and documents quickly and effortlessly.  In addition the yaST Control Panel, similar to the Control Panel on a Windows OS, is very easy to use.  Even as a novice SUSE user, I would make my way through the management interface with little issue.\r\n\r\nWhile I don\'t see current VMware administrators switching out their environments in mass from Windows Server to SUSE, this operating would add great value and reliability as a file and web server.  Visit the SLES for VMware webpage if you would like more information on this product. <a title=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/sles-for-vmware/overview.html\" href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/sles-for-vmware/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.vmware.com/products/sles-for-vmware/overview.html</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware','','inherit','open','open','','7460-revision-2','','','2012-09-30 20:04:00','2012-10-01 00:04:00','',7460,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7460-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(7471,40,'2012-10-01 09:11:19','2012-10-01 13:11:19','VMware Studio has been around for some time. In fact, version 1 was released on September 5, 2008. However, there are still a lot of VMware users and software providers that are unfamiliar with this technology. This solution allows developers to create VMware virtual appliances, and vApps (multiple virtual appliances combined as a unit) using this free authoring tool. A cool feature of this utility, is the ability to convert existing Linux and Windows virtual machines in to the OVF format. For more information on this tool, check out the website: <a title=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html\" href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html\">http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html</a>','Get Familiar with VMware Studio','','inherit','open','open','','7464-revision-4','','','2012-10-01 09:11:19','2012-10-01 13:11:19','',7464,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7464-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(7474,40,'2012-10-01 09:30:31','2012-10-01 13:30:31','Over the weekend, I spent some quality time playing around with VMware. In a previous post, I discussed running <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/suse-linux-enterprise-server-for-vmware\" target=\"_blank\">VMware environments using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)</a>.\r\n\r\nWhile learning more about Linux, two other VMware related important points came to me which I wanted to share:\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1. VMware Studio has been around for some time. In fact, version 1 was released on September 5, 2008. However, there are still a lot of VMware users and software providers that are unfamiliar with this technology. This solution allows developers to create VMware virtual appliances, and vApps (multiple virtual appliances combined as a unit) using this free authoring tool. A cool feature of this utility, is the ability to convert existing Linux and Windows virtual machines in to the OVF format. For more information on this tool, check out the website: <a title=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html\" href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html\">http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2. While browsing through VMware\'s vast collection of available products on their website, I stumbled upon a new webpage dedicated for the purchase and download of VMware Virtual Appliances.  For those not familiar with this technology, virtual appliances allow VMware users to quickly and easily deploy software and servers by importing a pre-built solution directly into their existing vSphere environment.  VMware has started using virtual appliances at an increasing rate, and other software vendors have picked up this trend.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Now, all of these appliances can be found on a central page by visiting <a title=\"https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances\" href=\"https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances\">https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances</a>. Personally, I am a big fan of using virtual appliances. I think they greatly simplify the deployment of new solution in a virtual environment, and assure that the software has been properly installed and configured.</p>','Two Quick VMware Tips: VMware Studio & Virtual Appliances','','inherit','open','open','','7464-revision-6','','','2012-10-01 09:30:31','2012-10-01 13:30:31','',7464,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7464-revision-6',0,'revision','',0),(7472,40,'2012-10-01 09:23:48','2012-10-01 13:23:48','Over the weekend, I spent some time playing around with VMware\r\n\r\nVMware Studio has been around for some time. In fact, version 1 was released on September 5, 2008. However, there are still a lot of VMware users and software providers that are unfamiliar with this technology. This solution allows developers to create VMware virtual appliances, and vApps (multiple virtual appliances combined as a unit) using this free authoring tool. A cool feature of this utility, is the ability to convert existing Linux and Windows virtual machines in to the OVF format. For more information on this tool, check out the website: <a title=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html\" href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html\">http://www.vmware.com/products/studio/overview.html</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhile browsing through VMware\'s vast collection of available products on their website, I stumbled upon a new webpage dedicated for the purchase and download of VMware Virtual Appliances.  For those not familiar with this technology, virtual appliances allow VMware users to quickly and easily deploy software and servers by importing a pre-built solution directly into their existing vSphere environment.  VMware has started using virtual appliances at an increasing rate, and other software vendors have picked up this trend.\r\n\r\nNow, all of these appliances can be found on a central page by visiting <a title=\"https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances\" href=\"https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances\">https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances</a>. Personally, I am a big fan of using virtual appliances. I think they greatly simplify the deployment of new solution in a virtual environment, and assure that the software has been properly installed and configured.','Two Quick VMware Tips: VMware Studio & Virtual Appliances','','inherit','open','open','','7464-revision-5','','','2012-10-01 09:23:48','2012-10-01 13:23:48','',7464,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7464-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(7473,40,'2012-09-30 20:24:58','2012-10-01 00:24:58','While browsing through VMware\'s vast collection of available products on their website, I stumbled upon a new webpage dedicated for the purchase and download of VMware Virtual Appliances.  For those not familiar with this technology, virtual appliances allow VMware users to quickly and easily deploy software and servers by importing a pre-built solution directly into their existing vSphere environment.  VMware has started using virtual appliances at an increasing rate, and other software vendors have picked up this trend.\r\n\r\nNow, all of these appliances can be found on a central page by visiting <a title=\"https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances\" href=\"https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances\">https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/virtual-appliances</a>.  Personally, I am a big fan of using virtual appliances.  I think they greatly simplify the deployment of new solution in a virtual environment, and assure that the software has been properly installed and configured.','VMware\'s New Virtual Appliance Marketplace','','inherit','open','open','','7462-revision-2','','','2012-09-30 20:24:58','2012-10-01 00:24:58','',7462,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7462-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(7555,40,'2012-10-09 10:46:43','2012-10-09 14:46:43','<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></span></a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Welcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong>\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-18','','','2012-10-09 10:46:43','2012-10-09 14:46:43','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-18',0,'revision','',0),(7664,40,'2012-11-04 20:29:24','2012-11-05 01:29:24','As a SharePoint consultant who has worked with dozens of customers, the one constant I face, over and over, is that users are inherently resistant to change. It\'s just a fact. And, who can blame them if they\'re not properly educated and supported over the course of that process change - whatever that may be.\n\nSo, with respect to SharePoint, driving user adoption is one of the most important, but also one of the most difficult tasks that a SharePoint architect/administrator has. You could even say that it is the single most important task when designing/deploying SharePoint. Simply because it drives everything else. If the deployment doesn\'t function correctly, then user adoption will suffer. If it is difficult to navigate or understand, then user adoption will suffer.\n\nCouple all of these factors together and it will be difficult to meet your SharePoint project success metrics. Here are some key areas that I like to focus on when planning for user adoption:\n<h1><strong>1. Familiar</strong></h1>\nIn order to properly design a SharePoint deployment, you must think like an end user. And not just any end user...YOUR end users. Every corporate IT environment is unique.\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">How do your users access shared documents?\nHow do they access their personal documents?\nHow do they access reports?\nHow do they share ideas?</p>\nThese are all key questions that need to be asked. A survey of a portion of your users probably wouldn\'t hurt either.  The closer you can make accessing documents and information to the way your users are familiar with will help tremendously with user adoption! <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"> For example, if your users are used to the traditional network share filled with folders, then a single document library may work best.  If the folder structure is broken out by department already, then setting up separate document libraries for each department may be best.</span>\n<h1>2. Functional</h1>\nOne of the biggest reasons for choosing SharePoint that I hear is for \'document sharing\'. But, why use SharePoint? Why not just use a network share or maybe even a cloud based sharing solution? These are common questions and they are completely understandable. However, it shows a lack of understanding of the key enterprise features that SharePoint offers. Here are some key features that users should be well trained on prior to deployment so they fully understand how to use the tool.\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Versioning\nPermissions\nNavigation\nWorkflows\nEnterprise Search\nContent Types and Document Templates</p>\nThese are just some examples of features that most users find indispensable. So make sure you engage and educate them prior to going live with the deployment.\n<h1>3. Automation</h1>\nAutomation is key when implementing SharePoint as well because it makes refusing to use SharePoint very difficult to justify. Automating processes such as HR On-boarding, Capital Purchasing Approval, Information Requests, IT Help Desk Ticketing, and so much more have huge ROI potential! A simple, high-level review of \'painful\' processes that departments have to deal with could reveal perfect use-cases for automation.\n\nHave you deployed SharePoint in your business?  If so, what is your user adoption rate?  What could make it better?  If you haven\'t deployed it, but would like to, did this post help give you a good idea on how to drive adoption? Let us know how we can help!  Contact eGroup\'s Application Services Team at ApplicationServices@eGroup-us.com for more information.','Overcoming SharePoint\'s Achilles Heel: User Adoption','','inherit','open','open','','4774-revision-v1','','','2012-11-04 20:29:24','2012-11-05 01:29:24','',4774,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/4774-revision-12',0,'revision','',0),(7665,2,'2012-07-27 16:08:17','2012-07-27 20:08:17','<strong>March/April 2012 (<a href=\"http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1103755119754-229/eGroup+PDF+newsletter+0212.pdf\">PDF Version</a>)</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong><a href=\"http://www.itnewsletter.net/newsletters/index.cfm?cid=120&amp;sid=2383\">Powerful Resource</a></strong> eGroup supports Horry Electric’s IT team through sound advice and cutting-edge technical expertise.</li>\r\n	<li><strong><a href=\"http://www.itnewsletter.net/newsletters/index.cfm?cid=120&amp;sid=2381\">High Five!</a></strong> VMware vSphere 5 and View 5 help organizations develop a robust, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure and support a sophisticated desktop-as-a-service experience across the extended enterprise.</li>\r\n	<li><strong><a href=\"http://www.itnewsletter.net/newsletters/index.cfm?cid=120&amp;sid=2382\">Data Center Building Blocks</a></strong> Virtual Computing Environment coalition delivers business-ready IT infrastructure packages that accelerate pervasive virtualization and private cloud infrastructures.</li>\r\n	<li><strong><a href=\"http://www.itnewsletter.net/newsletters/index.cfm?cid=120&amp;sid=2384\">Analyzing ‘Big Data’</a></strong> Next-generation business analytics tools can deliver insight, competitive advantage.</li>\r\n</ul>','Newsletter Archive','','inherit','open','open','','6141-revision-13','','','2012-07-27 16:08:17','2012-07-27 20:08:17','',6141,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6141-revision-13',0,'revision','',0),(7480,40,'2012-12-21 12:01:35','2012-12-21 17:01:35','<a href=\"itpc://feeds.feedburner.com/egroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2012-08-31-09.36-eGroup-Roundtable_-LIVE-from-VMworld-2012.wmv\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7346\" title=\"Live from VMworld\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Capture-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nFor those of you who missed last week’s eGroup Roundtable series, Live from VMworld, we have you covered.\n\nHere it is Live from VMWorld\n\nFor your convenience, we time stamped (minute and second) some of the more interesting discussions and insights from our thought leaders, Jason Webster, Ian Jones and John Flisher.\n\nWe hope you enjoy our ongoing eGroup Roundtable Series. We welcome any suggestions and/or feedback. Stay tuned for an update on our September 19 Roundtable, “Citrix XenApp 6.5 and beyond” with eGroup’s Cloud Services Manager, Steve Rattacasa.\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>4:50 –</strong> Ian discusses VMware’s most notable shifts in its messaging and positioning as it relates to application services, adoption of Hadoop, increased messaging around big data, and integration of application development into the rest of the VMware offering.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>8:15 –</strong> Ian explains big data and the challenges facing enterprises in understanding their data sets.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>12:20 –</strong> Ian highlights Project Serengeti and covers the history of Hadoop, the various flavors and how companies are using it.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>15:50 –</strong> Big Data in 10 words or less!</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>18:05 –</strong> Ian shares his thoughts on VMworld 2012 and the week’s most exciting news and advancements around storage technologies.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>24:15 –</strong> John recaps the keynote and thunderous applause when it was announced vRAM entitlement would be removed, in fact, John thought he was at Woodstock there was such a wave of excitement.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>28:30 –</strong> John touches on vSphere 5.1 including vSphere enhanced vMotion and vSphere Replication.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>32:30 –</strong> Ian discusses VMware’s move into web based interfaces, tight integration with other plugins.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>34:10 –</strong> John updates on the VMware vSphere Storage Appliance and continues on the discussion around VMware’s unified client.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>38:00 –</strong> everything you wanted to know about vSphere Data Protection technology geared towards SMBs.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>41:00 –</strong> John elaborates on VMware’s end user computing strategies, the Wanova Mirage product and what was demoed at VMworld.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>50:00 –</strong> John and Ian drop some final thoughts and closing statements on VMworld 2012.</p>','eGroup Roundtable Series: Live from VMworld Recap & Recording','','inherit','open','open','','7336-autosave','','','2012-12-21 12:01:35','2012-12-21 17:01:35','',7336,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7336-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(7686,40,'2012-11-06 14:40:39','2012-11-06 19:40:39','<strong>Are you implementing SharePoint <em>ON </em>your business rather than <em>IN </em>your business?</strong>\n\nIf you said, \"yes,\" it\'s time to speak with eGroup\'s Application Services Team.\n\nIn today\'s fast paced enterprise, IT and business leaders think that simply turning SharePoint <em>ON </em>will ultimately lead to massive user adoption and overall business intelligence success. Nothing could be further from the truth.\n\nAt eGroup, we believe each and every SharePoint project is unique to the specific requirements of the business. We work with you to implement SharePoint <em>IN </em>your business.  SharePoint is about collaboration and therefore SharePoint should become an integral part of your team’s workflow not a peripheral added task or added step.\n\n<strong>How do we do it?</strong>\n\nWe understand that every business has a unique culture, unique processes, unique strategies and unique leaders.  We believe the use of technology should capitalize on that uniqueness, not to stifle it.  SharePoint provides the flexibility to do just that, with no code, evolving with your business.\n\nAnyone can install SharePoint in a few days, but will that be enough to make it part valuable tool in your business.  Will it thrive? We take a little extra time to discover what makes your business unique and then we capitalize on it.\n\nWe understand how important it is to realize the benefits of efficient collaboration.  That is why we have a team of both technical and business professionals on our team to create the optimal solution for your unique business. We help identify the pain points and then work together to refine the entire process.  We know that a new system on top of an old process does not take advantage of the technology that is readily available today.\n\nA successful SharePoint installation has:\n<ul>\n	<li>current team information, not last year’s static employees list</li>\n	<li>current and relevant content in the knowledgebase</li>\n	<li>current performance information available on a dashboard</li>\n	<li>fully replaced the need for shared folders</li>\n	<li>document version control solved</li>\n	<li>electronic document management and approval work flows</li>\n	<li>abilities for teams to create their own ad hoc project sites</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>What are you waiting for – contact eGroup today</strong>\n\neGroup develops and designs sites for our customers to accomplish all of these outcomes. We provide ongoing support to help you evolve your site and make it thrive <em>IN</em> your business, not <em>ON </em>your business.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SDPS.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7684\" title=\"SDPS\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SDPS-135x300.png\" alt=\"SharePoint\" width=\"135\" height=\"300\" /></a>','SharePoint Planning Services','','inherit','open','open','','7660-revision-8','','','2012-11-06 14:40:39','2012-11-06 19:40:39','',7660,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7660-revision-8',0,'revision','',0),(7684,40,'2012-11-06 14:39:01','2012-11-06 19:39:01','','SDPS','','inherit','open','open','','sdps','','','2012-11-06 14:39:01','2012-11-06 19:39:01','',7660,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SDPS.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(7685,40,'2012-11-06 14:31:51','2012-11-06 19:31:51','<strong>Are you implementing SharePoint <em>ON </em>your business rather than <em>IN </em>your business?</strong>\n\nIf you said, \"yes,\" it\'s time to speak with eGroup\'s Application Services Team.\n\nIn today\'s fast paced enterprise, IT and business leaders think that simply turning SharePoint <em>ON </em>will ultimately lead to massive user adoption and overall business intelligence success. Nothing could be further from the truth.\n\nAt eGroup, we believe each and every SharePoint project is unique to the specific requirements of the business. We work with you to implement SharePoint <em>IN </em>your business.  SharePoint is about collaboration and therefore SharePoint should become an integral part of your team’s workflow not a peripheral added task or added step.\n\n<strong>How do we do it?</strong>\n\nWe understand that every business has a unique culture, unique processes, unique strategies and unique leaders.  We believe the use of technology should capitalize on that uniqueness, not to stifle it.  SharePoint provides the flexibility to do just that, with no code, evolving with your business.\n\nAnyone can install SharePoint in a few days, but will that be enough to make it part valuable tool in your business.  Will it thrive? We take a little extra time to discover what makes your business unique and then we capitalize on it.\n\nWe understand how important it is to realize the benefits of efficient collaboration.  That is why we have a team of both technical and business professionals on our team to create the optimal solution for your unique business. We help identify the pain points and then work together to refine the entire process.  We know that a new system on top of an old process does not take advantage of the technology that is readily available today.\n\nA successful SharePoint installation has:\n<ul>\n	<li>current team information, not last year’s static employees list</li>\n	<li>current and relevant content in the knowledgebase</li>\n	<li>current performance information available on a dashboard</li>\n	<li>fully replaced the need for shared folders</li>\n	<li>document version control solved</li>\n	<li>electronic document management and approval work flows</li>\n	<li>abilities for teams to create their own ad hoc project sites</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>What are you waiting for – contact eGroup today</strong>\n\neGroup develops and designs sites for our customers to accomplish all of these outcomes. We provide ongoing support to help you evolve your site and make it thrive <em>IN</em> your business, not <em>ON </em>your business.','SharePoint Planning Services','','inherit','open','open','','7660-revision-7','','','2012-11-06 14:31:51','2012-11-06 19:31:51','',7660,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7660-revision-7',0,'revision','',0),(7683,40,'2012-11-06 14:30:17','2012-11-06 19:30:17','<strong><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SC-Farm-Bureau-Slide.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7656\" title=\"SC Farm Bureau Slide\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SC-Farm-Bureau-Slide-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>Are you implementing SharePoint <em>ON </em>your business rather than <em>IN </em>your business?</strong>\n\nIf you said, \"yes,\" it\'s time to speak with eGroup\'s Application Services Team.\n\nIn today\'s fast paced enterprise, IT and business leaders think that simply turning SharePoint <em>ON </em>will ultimately lead to massive user adoption and overall business intelligence success. Nothing could be further from the truth.\n\nAt eGroup, we believe each and every SharePoint project is unique to the specific requirements of the business. We work with you to implement SharePoint <em>IN </em>your business.  SharePoint is about collaboration and therefore SharePoint should become an integral part of your team’s workflow not a peripheral added task or added step.\n\n<strong>How do we do it?</strong>\n\nWe understand that every business has a unique culture, unique processes, unique strategies and unique leaders.  We believe the use of technology should capitalize on that uniqueness, not to stifle it.  SharePoint provides the flexibility to do just that, with no code, evolving with your business.\n\nAnyone can install SharePoint in a few days, but will that be enough to make it part valuable tool in your business.  Will it thrive? We take a little extra time to discover what makes your business unique and then we capitalize on it.\n\nWe understand how important it is to realize the benefits of efficient collaboration.  That is why we have a team of both technical and business professionals on our team to create the optimal solution for your unique business. We help identify the pain points and then work together to refine the entire process.  We know that a new system on top of an old process does not take advantage of the technology that is readily available today.\n\nA successful SharePoint installation has:\n<ul>\n	<li>current team information, not last year’s static employees list</li>\n	<li>current and relevant content in the knowledgebase</li>\n	<li>current performance information available on a dashboard</li>\n	<li>fully replaced the need for shared folders</li>\n	<li>document version control solved</li>\n	<li>electronic document management and approval work flows</li>\n	<li>abilities for teams to create their own ad hoc project sites</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>What are you waiting for – contact eGroup today</strong>\n\neGroup develops and designs sites for our customers to accomplish all of these outcomes. We provide ongoing support to help you evolve your site and make it thrive <em>IN</em> your business, not <em>ON </em>your business.','SharePoint Planning Services','','inherit','open','open','','7660-revision-6','','','2012-11-06 14:30:17','2012-11-06 19:30:17','',7660,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7660-revision-6',0,'revision','',0),(7682,40,'2012-11-06 14:26:12','2012-11-06 19:26:12','<strong>Are you implementing SharePoint <em>ON </em>your business rather than <em>IN </em>your business?</strong>\n\nIf you said, \"yes,\" it\'s time to speak with eGroup\'s Application Services Team.\n\nIn today\'s fast paced enterprise, IT and business leaders think that simply turning SharePoint <em>ON </em>will ultimately lead to massive user adoption and overall business intelligence success. Nothing could be further from the truth.\n\nAt eGroup, we believe each and every SharePoint project is unique to the specific requirements of the business. We work with you to implement SharePoint <em>IN </em>your business.  SharePoint is about collaboration and therefore SharePoint should become an integral part of your team’s workflow not a peripheral added task or added step.\n\n<strong>How do we do it?</strong>\n\nWe understand that every business has a unique culture, unique processes, unique strategies and unique leaders.  We believe the use of technology should capitalize on that uniqueness, not to stifle it.  SharePoint provides the flexibility to do just that, with no code, evolving with your business.\n\nAnyone can install SharePoint in a few days, but will that be enough to make it part valuable tool in your business.  Will it thrive? We take a little extra time to discover what makes your business unique and then we capitalize on it.\n\nWe understand how important it is to realize the benefits of efficient collaboration.  That is why we have a team of both technical and business professionals on our team to create the optimal solution for your unique business. We help identify the pain points and then work together to refine the entire process.  We know that a new system on top of an old process does not take advantage of the technology that is readily available today.\n\nA successful SharePoint installation has:\n<ul>\n	<li>current team information, not last year’s static employees list</li>\n	<li>current and relevant content in the knowledgebase</li>\n	<li>current performance information available on a dashboard</li>\n	<li>fully replaced the need for shared folders</li>\n	<li>document version control solved</li>\n	<li>electronic document management and approval work flows</li>\n	<li>abilities for teams to create their own ad hoc project sites</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>What are you waiting for – contact eGroup today</strong>\n\neGroup develops and designs sites for our customers to accomplish all of these outcomes. We provide ongoing support to help you evolve your site and make it thrive <em>IN</em> your business, not <em>ON </em>your business.','SharePoint Planning Services','','inherit','open','open','','7660-revision-5','','','2012-11-06 14:26:12','2012-11-06 19:26:12','',7660,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7660-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(7681,40,'2012-11-06 14:24:55','2012-11-06 19:24:55','<strong>Are you implementing SharePoint <em>ON </em>your business rather than <em>IN </em>your business?</strong>\n\nIf you said, \"yes,\" it\'s time to speak with eGroup\'s Application Services Team.\n\nIn today\'s fast paced enterprise, IT and business leaders think that simply turning SharePoint <em>ON </em>will ultimately lead to massive user adoption and overall business intelligence success. Nothing could be further from the truth.\n\nAt eGroup, we believe each and every SharePoint project is unique to the specific requirements of the business. We work with you to implement SharePoint <em>IN </em>your business.  SharePoint is about collaboration and therefore SharePoint should become an integral part of your team’s workflow not a peripheral added task or added step.\n\n<strong>How do we do it?</strong>\n\nWe understand that every business has a unique culture, unique processes, unique strategies and unique leaders.  We believe the use of technology should capitalize on that uniqueness, not to stifle it.  SharePoint provides the flexibility to do just that, with no code, evolving with your business.\n\nAnyone can install SharePoint in a few days, but will that be enough to make it part valuable tool in your business.  Will it thrive? We take a little extra time to discover what makes your business unique and then we capitalize on it.\n\nWe understand how important it is to realize the benefits of efficient collaboration.  That is why we have a team of both technical and business professionals on our team to create the optimal solution for your unique business. We help identify the pain points and then work together to refine the entire process.  We know that a new system on top of an old process does not take advantage of the technology that is readily available today.\n\nA successful SharePoint installation has:\n<ul>\n	<li>current team information, not last year’s static employees list</li>\n	<li>current and relevant content in the knowledgebase</li>\n	<li>current performance information available on a dashboard</li>\n	<li>fully replaced the need for shared folders</li>\n	<li>document version control solved</li>\n	<li>electronic document management and approval work flows</li>\n	<li>abilities for teams to create their own ad hoc project sites</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>What are you waiting for – contact eGroup today</strong>\n\neGroup develops and designs sites for our customers to accomplish all of these outcomes. 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Nothing could be further from the truth.\n\nAt eGroup, we believe each and every SharePoint project is unique to the specific requirements of the business. We work with you to implement SharePoint <em>IN </em>your business.  SharePoint is about collaboration and therefore SharePoint should become an integral part of your team’s workflow not a peripheral added task or added step.\n\n<strong>How do we do it?</strong>\n\nWe understand that every business has a unique culture, unique processes, unique strategies and unique leaders.  We believe the use of technology should capitalize on that uniqueness, not to stifle it.  SharePoint provides the flexibility to do just that, with no code, evolving with your business.\n\nAnyone can install SharePoint in a few days, but will that be enough to make it part valuable tool in your business.  Will it thrive? We take a little extra time to discover what makes your business unique and then we capitalize on it.\n\nWe understand how important it is to realize the benefits of efficient collaboration.  That is why we have a team of both technical and business professionals on our team to create the optimal solution for your unique business. We help identify the pain points and then work together to refine the entire process.  We know that a new system on top of an old process does not take advantage of the technology that is readily available today.\n\nA successful SharePoint installation has:\n<ul>\n	<li>current team information, not last year’s static employees list</li>\n	<li>current and relevant content in the knowledgebase</li>\n	<li>current performance information available on a dashboard</li>\n	<li>fully replaced the need for shared folders</li>\n	<li>document version control solved</li>\n	<li>electronic document management and approval work flows</li>\n	<li>abilities for teams to create their own ad hoc project sites</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>What are you waiting for – contact eGroup today</strong>\n\neGroup develops and designs sites for our customers to accomplish all of these outcomes. 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So what\'s one of Tim\'s key pieces of advice for job seekers and entry-level IT professionals?Be proactive and willing to \'wear many hats\' to prove your value.\r\n\r\nGive it a read to learn more.\r\n<div class=\"rpuEmbedCode\"><script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://1.rp-api.com/rjs/repost-article.js?3\" data-cfasync=\"false\"></script>\r\n<div class=\"rpuArticle rpuRepost-094fb9aeab9ef88c9f11b410c74ec01b-top\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><a class=\"rpuThumb\" href=\"http://s.tt/1qG4K\" rel=\"norewrite\"><img style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http://img.1.rp-api.com/thumb/3100476\" alt=\"\" /></a>\r\n<a class=\"rpuTitle\" href=\"http://s.tt/1qG4K\" rel=\"norewrite\"><strong>Target Small Firms for Entry-Level Networking Jobs</strong></a> (via <a class=\"rpuHost\" href=\"http://s.tt/1qG4K\" rel=\"norewrite\">Dice News in Tech</a>)\r\n<p class=\"rpuSnip\">People who want to break into networking face the classic conundrum for job seekers: How do you get a job without experience? 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PLEASANT, S.C. – October 2, 2012</strong> – <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a>, the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services, today announced that several members of its team of engineers and consultants have achieved seven new competencies and specializations in Q3 2012. The latest proficiencies are based on EMC, Cisco and Microsoft technologies.\n\n“The eGroup team works hard to be both broad and deep – it’s a hallmark of our success - and the well-rounded expertise we have on staff is rarely matched in the industry,” said Mike Carter, Principal, eGroup. “But, when you\'re designed to support extremely capable corporate IT teams with a ‘faster, better, cheaper’ approach, having the ability to go wide and deep with respect to technology knowledge is essential. We feel our success in achieving these competencies reflects the investments we\'ve made towards understanding and delivering the \'big picture\' for our clients.”\n\n<strong>Microsoft</strong>\n\nTo earn the numerous Microsoft silver competencies, eGroup professionals successfully demonstrated expertise through rigorous exams, culminating in Microsoft certifications. 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Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites and Microsoft Silverlight, partners help their customers secure a unified platform for intranet, extranet and Internet sites. This enables customers to create engaging user experiences, cut costs, enable rapid development, and offer interactive search and personalization.</li>\n	<li><strong>Silver Hosting</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Hosting competency is exclusively for partners that specialize in hosting solutions and maintain their own datacenters or act as a reseller or agency of services hosted by Microsoft, providing agreed-upon service levels and customized hosted offerings and consulting for common customer scenarios. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support, partners help customers offset the cost of maintaining critical business applications with scalable hosting solutions.</li>\n	<li><strong>Silver OEM</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the OEM competency demonstrates expertise in design and delivery of quality hardware solutions. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems for the Microsoft platform, partners help customers optimize their assets and technology investments.</li>\n	<li><strong>Silver Search</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Search competency demonstrates partner proficiency in deployment of solutions that can index various types of data and efficiently conduct complex searches. 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The specialization provides role-based training in three essential areas: Unified Fabric for optimizing data and storage needs; Unified Computing for streamlining data center resources and uniting network, computational, storage and virtualization platforms; and Unified Network Services for advancing the way application delivery and security services are provided in the data center network or computing environment.</li>\n</ul>\neGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security. eGroup’s expertise and core competence is focused in three distinct areas: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">Cloud Services (public and private)</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">Application Services</a>, and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">End-User Computing</a>.\n\n&nbsp;','eGroup Q3 Competencies and Specializations Achieved','','inherit','open','open','','7496-revision','','','2012-10-02 14:41:10','2012-10-02 18:41:10','',7496,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7496-revision',0,'revision','',0),(7499,40,'2012-10-02 14:43:53','2012-10-02 18:43:53','<p align=\"center\"><strong>eGroup Achieves Seven New Competencies and Specializations in Q3</strong></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Latest Microsoft Corp., EMC and Cisco expertise benefits growing customer base<em></em></em></p>\n<strong>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – October 2, 2012</strong> – <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a>, the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services, today announced that several members of its team of engineers and consultants have achieved seven new competencies and specializations in Q3 2012. The latest proficiencies are based on EMC, Cisco and Microsoft technologies.\n\n“The eGroup team works hard to be both broad and deep – it’s a hallmark of our success - and the well-rounded expertise we have on staff is rarely matched in the industry,” said Mike Carter, Principal, eGroup. “But, when you\'re designed to support extremely capable corporate IT teams with a ‘faster, better, cheaper’ approach, having the ability to go wide and deep with respect to technology knowledge is essential. We feel our success in achieving these competencies reflects the investments we\'ve made towards understanding and delivering the \'big picture\' for our clients.”\n\n<strong>Microsoft</strong>\n\nTo earn the numerous Microsoft silver competencies, eGroup professionals successfully demonstrated expertise through rigorous exams, culminating in Microsoft certifications. Microsoft also interviewed eGroup customer references for successful implementation and customer satisfaction.\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Silver Content Management</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Microsoft Content Management competency demonstrates partner expertise offering collaborative solutions that help customers maximize efficiencies and help ensure compliance across a wide variety of documents. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 technologies, partners can help their customers take advantage of opportunities, such as business value consulting, change management, architectural design, digital asset management, and Web design and development, all of which can help develop a more profitable business.</li>\n	<li><strong>Silver Digital Marketing</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Microsoft Digital Marketing competency demonstrates partner expertise in developing rich Internet solutions. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites and Microsoft Silverlight, partners help their customers secure a unified platform for intranet, extranet and Internet sites. This enables customers to create engaging user experiences, cut costs, enable rapid development, and offer interactive search and personalization.</li>\n	<li><strong>Silver Hosting</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Hosting competency is exclusively for partners that specialize in hosting solutions and maintain their own datacenters or act as a reseller or agency of services hosted by Microsoft, providing agreed-upon service levels and customized hosted offerings and consulting for common customer scenarios. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support, partners help customers offset the cost of maintaining critical business applications with scalable hosting solutions.</li>\n	<li><strong>Silver OEM</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the OEM competency demonstrates expertise in design and delivery of quality hardware solutions. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems for the Microsoft platform, partners help customers optimize their assets and technology investments.</li>\n	<li><strong>Silver Search</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Search competency demonstrates partner proficiency in deployment of solutions that can index various types of data and efficiently conduct complex searches. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010, partners are equipped with the tools needed for improving the search experience across desktops, mobile devices and the Internet.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>EMC</strong>\n\neGroup professionals completed the EMC Global Services Implement training paths of <strong>Data Domain Specialist</strong> and <strong>NetWorker Specialist</strong>. This is an important step as an EMC partner as only individuals who have successfully completed EMC Global Services training and mentoring may deliver installation and implementation services to enterprises.\n\nThe certifications enhance eGroup’s already authorized capabilities to implement and configure solutions based on Data Domain, EMC NetWorker, EMC Atmos and EMC Disk Library.\n\n<strong>Cisco</strong>\n\nIn Q3, eGroup renewed its existing <strong>Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization</strong>.\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization – </strong>This specialization recognizes eGroup as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, design and deploy comprehensive Cisco® Data Center solutions. The specialization provides role-based training in three essential areas: Unified Fabric for optimizing data and storage needs; Unified Computing for streamlining data center resources and uniting network, computational, storage and virtualization platforms; and Unified Network Services for advancing the way application delivery and security services are provided in the data center network or computing environment.</li>\n</ul>\neGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security. eGroup’s expertise and core competence is focused in three distinct areas: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">Cloud Services (public and private)</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">Application Services</a>, and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">End-User Computing</a>.\n\nClick <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/eGroup-Q3-Comp-and-Spec-Release_FINAL_100212.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here </a>to download a PDF of this release.','eGroup Q3 Competencies and Specializations Achieved','','inherit','open','open','','7496-revision-2','','','2012-10-02 14:43:53','2012-10-02 18:43:53','',7496,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7496-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(7500,40,'2012-10-02 14:45:19','2012-10-02 18:45:19','<p align=\"center\"><strong>eGroup Achieves Seven New Competencies and Specializations in Q3</strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Latest Microsoft Corp., EMC and Cisco expertise benefits growing customer base<em></em></em></p>\r\n<strong>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – October 2, 2012</strong> – <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a>, the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services, today announced that several members of its team of engineers and consultants have achieved seven new competencies and specializations in Q3 2012. The latest proficiencies are based on EMC, Cisco and Microsoft technologies.\r\n\r\n“The eGroup team works hard to be both broad and deep – it’s a hallmark of our success - and the well-rounded expertise we have on staff is rarely matched in the industry,” said Mike Carter, Principal, eGroup. “But, when you\'re designed to support extremely capable corporate IT teams with a ‘faster, better, cheaper’ approach, having the ability to go wide and deep with respect to technology knowledge is essential. We feel our success in achieving these competencies reflects the investments we\'ve made towards understanding and delivering the \'big picture\' for our clients.”\r\n\r\n<strong>Microsoft</strong>\r\n\r\nTo earn the numerous Microsoft silver competencies, eGroup professionals successfully demonstrated expertise through rigorous exams, culminating in Microsoft certifications. Microsoft also interviewed eGroup customer references for successful implementation and customer satisfaction.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Silver Content Management</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Microsoft Content Management competency demonstrates partner expertise offering collaborative solutions that help customers maximize efficiencies and help ensure compliance across a wide variety of documents. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 technologies, partners can help their customers take advantage of opportunities, such as business value consulting, change management, architectural design, digital asset management, and Web design and development, all of which can help develop a more profitable business.</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Silver Digital Marketing</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Microsoft Digital Marketing competency demonstrates partner expertise in developing rich Internet solutions. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites and Microsoft Silverlight, partners help their customers secure a unified platform for intranet, extranet and Internet sites. This enables customers to create engaging user experiences, cut costs, enable rapid development, and offer interactive search and personalization.</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Silver Hosting</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Hosting competency is exclusively for partners that specialize in hosting solutions and maintain their own datacenters or act as a reseller or agency of services hosted by Microsoft, providing agreed-upon service levels and customized hosted offerings and consulting for common customer scenarios. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support, partners help customers offset the cost of maintaining critical business applications with scalable hosting solutions.</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Silver OEM</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the OEM competency demonstrates expertise in design and delivery of quality hardware solutions. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems for the Microsoft platform, partners help customers optimize their assets and technology investments.</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Silver Search</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Search competency demonstrates partner proficiency in deployment of solutions that can index various types of data and efficiently conduct complex searches. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010, partners are equipped with the tools needed for improving the search experience across desktops, mobile devices and the Internet.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>EMC</strong>\r\n\r\neGroup professionals completed the EMC Global Services Implement training paths of <strong>Data Domain Specialist</strong> and <strong>NetWorker Specialist</strong>. This is an important step as an EMC partner as only individuals who have successfully completed EMC Global Services training and mentoring may deliver installation and implementation services to enterprises.\r\n\r\nThe certifications enhance eGroup’s already authorized capabilities to implement and configure solutions based on Data Domain, EMC NetWorker, EMC Atmos and EMC Disk Library.\r\n\r\n<strong>Cisco</strong>\r\n\r\nIn Q3, eGroup renewed its existing <strong>Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization</strong>.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization – </strong>This specialization recognizes eGroup as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, design and deploy comprehensive Cisco® Data Center solutions. The specialization provides role-based training in three essential areas: Unified Fabric for optimizing data and storage needs; Unified Computing for streamlining data center resources and uniting network, computational, storage and virtualization platforms; and Unified Network Services for advancing the way application delivery and security services are provided in the data center network or computing environment.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\neGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security. eGroup’s expertise and core competence is focused in three distinct areas: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">Cloud Services (public and private)</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">Application Services</a>, and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">End-User Computing</a>.\r\n\r\nClick <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/eGroup-Q3-Comp-and-Spec-Release_FINAL_100212.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here </a>to download a PDF of this release.','eGroup Q3 Competencies and Specializations Achieved','','inherit','open','open','','7496-revision-3','','','2012-10-02 14:45:19','2012-10-02 18:45:19','',7496,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7496-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(7501,40,'2012-10-02 14:45:30','2012-10-02 18:45:30','<p align=\"center\"><strong>eGroup Achieves Seven New Competencies and Specializations in Q3</strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Latest Microsoft Corp., EMC and Cisco expertise benefits growing customer base<em></em></em></p>\r\n<strong>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – October 2, 2012</strong> – <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a>, the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services, today announced that several members of its team of engineers and consultants have achieved seven new competencies and specializations in Q3 2012. The latest proficiencies are based on EMC, Cisco and Microsoft technologies.\r\n\r\n“The eGroup team works hard to be both broad and deep – it’s a hallmark of our success - and the well-rounded expertise we have on staff is rarely matched in the industry,” said Mike Carter, Principal, eGroup. “But, when you\'re designed to support extremely capable corporate IT teams with a ‘faster, better, cheaper’ approach, having the ability to go wide and deep with respect to technology knowledge is essential. We feel our success in achieving these competencies reflects the investments we\'ve made towards understanding and delivering the \'big picture\' for our clients.”\r\n\r\n<strong>Microsoft</strong>\r\n\r\nTo earn the numerous Microsoft silver competencies, eGroup professionals successfully demonstrated expertise through rigorous exams, culminating in Microsoft certifications. Microsoft also interviewed eGroup customer references for successful implementation and customer satisfaction.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Silver Content Management</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Microsoft Content Management competency demonstrates partner expertise offering collaborative solutions that help customers maximize efficiencies and help ensure compliance across a wide variety of documents. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 technologies, partners can help their customers take advantage of opportunities, such as business value consulting, change management, architectural design, digital asset management, and Web design and development, all of which can help develop a more profitable business.</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Silver Digital Marketing</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Microsoft Digital Marketing competency demonstrates partner expertise in developing rich Internet solutions. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites and Microsoft Silverlight, partners help their customers secure a unified platform for intranet, extranet and Internet sites. This enables customers to create engaging user experiences, cut costs, enable rapid development, and offer interactive search and personalization.</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Silver Hosting</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Hosting competency is exclusively for partners that specialize in hosting solutions and maintain their own datacenters or act as a reseller or agency of services hosted by Microsoft, providing agreed-upon service levels and customized hosted offerings and consulting for common customer scenarios. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support, partners help customers offset the cost of maintaining critical business applications with scalable hosting solutions.</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Silver OEM</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the OEM competency demonstrates expertise in design and delivery of quality hardware solutions. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems for the Microsoft platform, partners help customers optimize their assets and technology investments.</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Silver Search</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Search competency demonstrates partner proficiency in deployment of solutions that can index various types of data and efficiently conduct complex searches. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010, partners are equipped with the tools needed for improving the search experience across desktops, mobile devices and the Internet.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>EMC</strong>\r\n\r\neGroup professionals completed the EMC Global Services Implement training paths of <strong>Data Domain Specialist</strong> and <strong>NetWorker Specialist</strong>. This is an important step as an EMC partner as only individuals who have successfully completed EMC Global Services training and mentoring may deliver installation and implementation services to enterprises.\r\n\r\nThe certifications enhance eGroup’s already authorized capabilities to implement and configure solutions based on Data Domain, EMC NetWorker, EMC Atmos and EMC Disk Library.\r\n\r\n<strong>Cisco</strong>\r\n\r\nIn Q3, eGroup renewed its existing <strong>Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization</strong>.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization – </strong>This specialization recognizes eGroup as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, design and deploy comprehensive Cisco® Data Center solutions. The specialization provides role-based training in three essential areas: Unified Fabric for optimizing data and storage needs; Unified Computing for streamlining data center resources and uniting network, computational, storage and virtualization platforms; and Unified Network Services for advancing the way application delivery and security services are provided in the data center network or computing environment.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\neGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security. eGroup’s expertise and core competence is focused in three distinct areas: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">Cloud Services (public and private)</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">Application Services</a>, and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">End-User Computing</a>.\r\n\r\nClick <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/eGroup-Q3-Comp-and-Spec-Release_FINAL_100212.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here </a>to download a PDF of this release.','eGroup Q3 Competencies and Specializations Achieved','','inherit','open','open','','7496-revision-4','','','2012-10-02 14:45:30','2012-10-02 18:45:30','',7496,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7496-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(7502,40,'2012-10-02 14:52:42','2012-10-02 18:52:42','<p align=\"center\"><strong>eGroup Achieves Seven New Competencies and Specializations in Q3</strong></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Latest Microsoft Corp., EMC and Cisco expertise benefits growing customer base<em></em></em></p>\n<strong>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – October 2, 2012</strong> – <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a>, the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services, today announced that several members of its team of engineers and consultants have achieved seven new competencies and specializations in Q3 2012. The latest proficiencies are based on EMC, Cisco and Microsoft technologies.\n\n“The eGroup team works hard to be both broad and deep – it’s a hallmark of our success - and the well-rounded expertise we have on staff is rarely matched in the industry,” said Mike Carter, Principal, eGroup. “But, when you\'re designed to support extremely capable corporate IT teams with a ‘faster, better, cheaper’ approach, having the ability to go wide and deep with respect to technology knowledge is essential. We feel our success in achieving these competencies reflects the investments we\'ve made towards understanding and delivering the \'big picture\' for our clients.”\n\n<strong>Microsoft</strong>\n\nTo earn the numerous Microsoft silver competencies, eGroup professionals successfully demonstrated expertise through rigorous exams, culminating in Microsoft certifications. Microsoft also interviewed eGroup customer references for successful implementation and customer satisfaction.\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Silver Content Management</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Microsoft Content Management competency demonstrates partner expertise offering collaborative solutions that help customers maximize efficiencies and help ensure compliance across a wide variety of documents. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 technologies, partners can help their customers take advantage of opportunities, such as business value consulting, change management, architectural design, digital asset management, and Web design and development, all of which can help develop a more profitable business.</li>\n	<li><strong>Silver Digital Marketing</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Microsoft Digital Marketing competency demonstrates partner expertise in developing rich Internet solutions. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites and Microsoft Silverlight, partners help their customers secure a unified platform for intranet, extranet and Internet sites. This enables customers to create engaging user experiences, cut costs, enable rapid development, and offer interactive search and personalization.</li>\n	<li><strong>Silver Hosting</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Hosting competency is exclusively for partners that specialize in hosting solutions and maintain their own datacenters or act as a reseller or agency of services hosted by Microsoft, providing agreed-upon service levels and customized hosted offerings and consulting for common customer scenarios. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support, partners help customers offset the cost of maintaining critical business applications with scalable hosting solutions.</li>\n	<li><strong>Silver OEM</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the OEM competency demonstrates expertise in design and delivery of quality hardware solutions. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software, and support on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems for the Microsoft platform, partners help customers optimize their assets and technology investments.</li>\n	<li><strong>Silver Search</strong><strong> –</strong> Attaining the Search competency demonstrates partner proficiency in deployment of solutions that can index various types of data and efficiently conduct complex searches. Equipped with exclusive training, the latest software and support on Microsoft SharePoint 2010, partners are equipped with the tools needed for improving the search experience across desktops, mobile devices and the Internet.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>EMC</strong>\n\neGroup professionals completed the EMC Global Services Implement training paths of <strong>Data Domain Specialist</strong> and <strong>NetWorker Specialist</strong>. This is an important step as an EMC partner as only individuals who have successfully completed EMC Global Services training and mentoring may deliver installation and implementation services to enterprises.\n\nThe certifications enhance eGroup’s already authorized capabilities to implement and configure solutions based on Data Domain, EMC NetWorker, EMC Atmos and EMC Disk Library.\n\n<strong>Cisco</strong>\n\nIn Q3, eGroup renewed its existing <strong>Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization</strong>.\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization – </strong>This specialization recognizes eGroup as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, design and deploy comprehensive Cisco® Data Center solutions. The specialization provides role-based training in three essential areas: Unified Fabric for optimizing data and storage needs; Unified Computing for streamlining data center resources and uniting network, computational, storage and virtualization platforms; and Unified Network Services for advancing the way application delivery and security services are provided in the data center network or computing environment.</li>\n</ul>\neGroup’s solutions drive customers’ cost containment, revenue growth, and service objectives by addressing challenges associated with mobility, access to critical applications and data, and security. eGroup’s expertise and core competence is focused in three distinct areas: <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">Cloud Services (public and private)</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">Application Services</a>, and <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\">End-User Computing</a>.\n\nClick <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/eGroup-Q3-Comp-and-Spec-Release_FINAL_100212.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> to download a PDF of this release.','eGroup Q3 Competencies and Specializations Achieved','','inherit','open','open','','7496-autosave','','','2012-10-02 14:52:42','2012-10-02 18:52:42','',7496,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7496-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(7508,40,'2012-10-04 16:09:53','2012-10-04 20:09:53','It\'s hard to believe that the <a href=\"http://www.carolinatechnologyconference.com/\">Carolina Tech Conference 2012</a> is nearly here. That said, we\'re extremely excited!\r\n\r\neGroup will be out in full force, sharing knowledge related to applications, cloud and end user computing. Come swing by the booth, hear our presentation and hit up our labs throughout the day.\r\n\r\neGroup\'s SharePoint guru, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/brad-shannon\">Brad Shannon</a>, will be delivering \"SharePoint 2010 - Making Intelligent Business Decisions.\" If you want to learn about PerformancePoint, PowerPivot, Workflows, Dashboards, and the Dashboard Designer, grab a seat and hear Brad in action. The session takes place at 4:15pm-4:45pm.\r\n\r\nOur Senior Technical Consultant, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\">John Flisher</a>, and Application Services Manager, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jason-webster\">Jason Webster</a>, will be leading the labs throughout the day. Those sessions are usually capped at 12 attendees so don\'t forget to sign up at the eGroup booth. Some of the labs you will include, but not limited to:\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Hands on with  vSphere 5.1 (including new web interface)</li>\r\n	<li>XenApp best practices</li>\r\n	<li>ThinApp Factory</li>\r\n	<li>Cisco Nexus 1000v configuration</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nFor more on the conference and what to expect, here\'s John Davis on the <a href=\"http://www.scetv.org/index.php/sc_business_review/show/technology_conference_coming_to_columbia/\">South Carolina Business Review</a> radio program.\r\n\r\nLook forward to seeing you on Tuesday!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Carolina Tech Conference 10/9/12: come see eGroup!','','publish','open','open','','carolina-tech-conference-10912-come-see-egroup','','','2012-10-04 16:09:53','2012-10-04 20:09:53','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=7508',0,'post','',0),(7509,40,'2012-10-04 14:51:03','2012-10-04 18:51:03','It\'s hard to believe that the <a href=\"http://www.carolinatechnologyconference.com/\">Carolina Tech Conference 2012</a> is nearly here. eGroup will be out in full force, sharing knowledge related to applications, cloud and end user computing.\n\nOur SharePoint guru, Brad Shannon, eGroup\'s Application Services Developer, will be delivering \"SharePoint 2010 - Making Intelligent Business Decisions.\" If you want to learn about PerformancePoint, PowerPivot, Workflows, Dashboards, and the Dashboard Designer, you can not miss\n\nhttp://www.scetv.org/index.php/sc_business_review/show/technology_conference_coming_to_columbia/\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTitle: SharePoint 2010 – Making Intelligent Business Decisions\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOverview: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides functionality that will revolutionize your decision making process.  It does this by providing robust reporting functionality, as well as a powerful workflow platform, to allow your business to make intelligent business decision.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAttendees will learn about PerformancePoint, PowerPivot, Workflows, Dashboards, and the Dashboard Designer.','','','inherit','open','open','','7508-revision','','','2012-10-04 14:51:03','2012-10-04 18:51:03','',7508,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7508-revision',0,'revision','',0),(7510,40,'2012-10-04 16:04:45','2012-10-04 20:04:45','It\'s hard to believe that the <a href=\"http://www.carolinatechnologyconference.com/\">Carolina Tech Conference 2012</a> is nearly here. eGroup will be out in full force, sharing knowledge related to applications, cloud and end user computing. Come swing by the booth, hear our presentation and hit up our labs throughout the day.\n\neGroup\'s SharePoint guru, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/brad-shannon\">Brad Shannon</a>, will be delivering \"SharePoint 2010 - Making Intelligent Business Decisions.\" If you want to learn about PerformancePoint, PowerPivot, Workflows, Dashboards, and the Dashboard Designer, grab a seat and hear Brad in action. The session takes place at 4:15pm-4:45pm.\n\nOur Senior Technical Consultant, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\">John Flisher</a>, and Application Services Manager, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jason-webster\">Jason Webster</a>, will be leading the labs throughout the day. Those sessions are usually capped at 12 attendees so don\'t forget to sign up at the eGroup booth. 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Therefore, we thought it would be helpful to add to the exiting opinion and analysis with our view. Especially given the fact that this release is much more than simple bug fixes and updates.\n\nSo, over the next several weeks, I\'ll be writing a “What’s New in vSphere 5.1 &amp; Why You Want It”? series, right here, on the eGroup blog. Be sure to come back often - in the meantime, if you have any questions on vSphere 5.1, share in the comments.\n\nHere are some vSphere 5.1 features to look forward to:\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>vMotion:</strong> I know, I know, \"But vMotion launched in 2003!\" And you\'re right, it did. But this is the second coming of vMotion - and it\'s as cool as the first one was. vMotion has lost its shared storage requirement. You no longer have to present the same storage over NFS, iSCSI, FC, or FCoE to all the hosts in a cluster in order to enable vMotion. 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This means Office, SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, and much more.\r\n\r\nHere are some specifics from the <a href=\"http://blogs.office.com/b/office-news/archive/2012/10/11/office-reaches-rtm.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">official announcement</a>.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>We will begin rolling out new capabilities to Office 365 Enterprise customers in our next service update, starting in November through general availability.</li>\r\n	<li>Volume Licensing customers with Software Assurance will be able to download the Office 2013 applications as well as other Office products including SharePoint 2013, Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013 through the Volume Licensing Service Center by mid-November. These products will be available on the Volume Licensing price list on December 1.</li>\r\n	<li>IT professionals and developers will be able to download the final version via their TechNet or MSDN subscriptions by mid-November.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAre you ready for the upgrade? 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Prior to Microsoft, he had established capacities in system programming, application development, consulting services and IT management. His recent technical focuses have been in virtualization and cloud computing with strong interests in private cloud with service-based deployment, hybrid cloud, and emerging enterprise computing architectures.\r\n\r\nWe hope you you find this insight valuable. If you have any questions or comments, leave them below for Yung to answer!\r\n\r\nAnd don\'t forget to check out his blog: <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/yungchou/\" target=\"_blank\">Yung Chou on Hybrid Cloud</a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>eGroup: </strong>What is your definition of cloud computing? And why do you believe everyone has their own, distinct definition of cloud computing?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>YC:</strong> I define cloud computing with <a href=\"http://aka.ms/532\">the 5-3-2 Principle</a>. Which specifies that to be qualified with the term, cloud, an object must:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Exhibit the five essential characteristics, namely a self-serving model, providing ubiquitous access, employing resource pooling, offering elasticity, and including a consumption-based analytic model</li>\r\n	<li>Be delivered in one of the three ways: Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, or Infrastructure as a Service</li>\r\n	<li>Be deployed to either public cloud or private cloud where I consider hybrid cloud is an extension of either of the two<strong></strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong></strong>Indeed, cloud computing means different things to different people. And the reason is that cloud computing encompasses the entire spectrum of IT lifecycle from hardware acquisition, infrastructure, networking, software development, production operations and maintenance, to decommission and disposing of resources. And, regardless what role and responsibilities an IT professional assumes, it is in the umbrella scope of cloud computing. In fact, I always say if you are an IT professional you do know something about cloud computing for sure. This issue, in my view, is not on understanding cloud computing from a particular point of view, the issue is the inability to connect the dots and articulate the overall vision of cloud computing relevant to a project’s priorities or an individual’s role and responsibilities due to a lack of clarity of what cloud computing is about.\r\n\r\nCloud computing, in layman\'s terms, is a concept, an objective, a state, or a capability such that a business can be available on demand. In the context of IT, the concept, the objective, the state, or the capability is realized with digital computing. The key here is this idea of \"on demand\" which is an ambitious and lofty goal for IT. On-demand in cloud computing means anytime, anywhere, any device access, which is the spirit of consumerization of IT which embraces the device of a user\'s choice for productivity. On-demand sets the focus on an intended user and whenever, wherever, and with whatever device the user needs to access an authorized resource, either an application, a run-time environment, or infrastructure, the resource will be there, not only accessible but also ready for consumption. On-demand also implies the ability to timely increase capacities as a target market moves upward and perhaps more importantly to decrease capacity when demands subside. On-demand is a result of combining standardization of deployment, automation of operations and processes, and optimization of resource utilization while all requires meticulous capacity planning with a comprehensive system management solution.\r\n\r\nThis always accessibility and readiness of a resource for an authorized user is the essence of cloud computing. This concept is largely embedded in the term, <a href=\"http://aka.ms/it\">service</a>. In other words, cloud computing is to enable a business available of demand, i.e. business as a service. Frequently in a cloud computing discussion we have heard people reference software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, IT as a service, and even everything as a service. They are essentially saying an application available on demand, a run-time environment available on demand, provisioning infrastructure on demand, IT functions available on demand, and a target delivery on demand, respectively.\r\n\r\nSo my terse description of cloud computing is simply a capability to deliver business as a service or make business available on demand.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>eGroup: Can you explain the 5-3-2 Principle and what it means to IT and business executives</strong>?</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>YC: </strong><a href=\"http://aka.ms/532\">The 5-3-2 Principle</a> outlines the requirements, the deliveries, and the deployments of cloud computing. For IT decision makers, a clear understanding with set priorities of these requirements relevant to the core business is imperative. The question is really not <em>if</em> but <em>how much</em> and to what extent a business needs cloud computing in various shapes and forms. All business should and will benefit from being available on demand which is the state for cloud computing to achieve. The strategies and decisions are, in principle, based on where your business is now and where it needs to be, what capabilities are in place today and what else to be acquired, what the cash flow looks like and when it can break even, etc. The cost model will be most appropriately developed by IT professionals who know not just how to run IT but to estimate the cost of the operations and processes in a traditional on-premise deployment and a target cloud computing environment.\r\n\r\nThe 5-3-2 Principle is a modified version of <a href=\"http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf\">NIST SP 800-145</a> which officially defines cloud computing and is a good model to start. However, in my view, SP 800-145 misses addressing an important concept, <a href=\"http://aka.ms/it\">service</a>, which is critical for clarifying what cloud computing is about. SP 800-145 also applies inconsistent criteria in defining some of its cloud computing deployment models as I have described in my post, <a href=\"http://aka.ms/nist\">An Inconvenience Truth of NIST Cloud Computing Definition, SP 800-145</a>.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>eGroup: Is there a difference between virtualization and cloud computing? If so, what is that difference?</strong></span><strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>YC: </strong>Virtualization is not cloud computing and <a href=\"http://aka.ms/v-p1\">cloud computing goes far beyond virtualization</a>. Fundamentally, virtualization is not required to abide by the 5-3-2 Principle while cloud computing is. In many occasion, I ask IT professionals what virtualization means to them. And the frequent answers I have been getting are various forms of describing running multiple OS instances with the same hardware which is basically server consolidation. Few mentioned anything about a self-serving model, universal accessibility, or embedded analytics while either is an essential characteristic of cloud computing. When planning a virtualization solution, the main focus for many has been on configuring and delivering virtual machines, and not about the accessibility and readiness of a service which is the application running in and delivered by a set of deployed virtual machines. Further, <a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/yungchou/archive/2012/04/03/a-private-cloud-is-about-shortening-go-to-market-by-delivering-itaas.aspx\">cloud computing is to ultimately shorten go-to-market</a> which is why there is such a strong emphasis on the accessibility and the readiness of a target resource. While virtualization is much on the technical integrity of infrastructure which operates under the hood of cloud computing.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>eGroup: Gartner recently said in its Hype Cycle report that cloud computing has become muddled in the market as vendors are \"cloud washing” and such miscommunication could ultimately detract end users from the efficiencies cloud computing can bring. Would you agree or disagree with Gartner and why?</strong></span><strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>YC: </strong>I agree and again, in my view, this is largely due to a lack of clarity in understanding what cloud computing is. If not knowing what it is, I can’t imagine how one can effectively articulate why and how it is. Cloud computing is not a product or a particular technology. It is a set of capabilies with which a business can be available on demand, whatever the business is from deploying a server, to developing an application or delivering flowers. Lately it is getting even more confusing when people start using the term, cloud, interchangeably with remote access, equating virtualization to private cloud, and employing private cloud, hybrid cloud, and enterprise infrastructure as synonyms, while these terms, each represents a specific set of requirements and objectives, targets various business scenarios, and addresses different business challenges. They are simply not the same.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>eGroup: Switching gears to SharePoint, can you briefly discuss how business professionals can use SharePoint for their business intelligence needs/projects?</strong></span><strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>YC: </strong>SharePoint, to the information worker, is just like Active Directory is to system administrators. In Windows infrastructure, Active Directory is the one version of truth and the ultimate authority of all objects managed in the associated domain. Eventually anything happens in a domain, starts and ends with Active Directory since in a distributed system as most what we have today in enterprise IT, authentication, authorization, and accounting are the core services IT provides.\r\n\r\nSimilarly, SharePoint is the repository and the one version of truth of information based on documents and data stored, derived, and delivered in a corporation. When architecting Windows infrastructure, IT professionals start with a Windows domain. When architecting a BI solution, an information architect should start with a SharePoint infrastructure when there is an opportunity. BI has much to do with data warehousing and mining. At the same time, BI is also about data gathering, portability, presentation, accessibility, taxonomy, workflow, extensibility, rights management, HR/CRM/ERP integration, etc. so what to get, how to get it, validated by what, who owns it, who can process it and to be consumed by whom, what is significant and in what way, and on and on, are all in a way contributed to the realization of BI. All the above mentioned are what ultimately SharePoint is designed to deliver.\r\n\r\nSo rather than trying to fit SharePoint into a business process, developing a business process with SharePoint is the fundamental concept we must appreciate. This becomes very obvious when trying to build Windows infrastructure without first planning Active Directory. It just does not work that way. SharePoint needs to be considered with the same level of respect when it comes to information management. Consolidate existing business processes and data and convert them into SharePoint, subsequently run your business and develop BI capabilities with SharePoint to maximize business values and accelerate ROI.','On Cloud Computing & Virtualization: Q and A with Microsoft\'s Yung Chou','','publish','open','open','','egroup-qa-with-microsofts-yung-chou','','','2012-10-23 13:57:24','2012-10-23 17:57:24','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=7593',0,'post','',0),(7530,40,'2012-10-08 16:31:34','2012-10-08 20:31:34','<p align=\"center\"><strong>eGroup Launches Data Services Practice</strong></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Dedicated team helps customers gain improved insight into structured and unstructured data stores<em></em></em></p>\n<strong>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – October 8, 2012</strong> – <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a>, the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services, today announced the launch of its Data Services Practice to help customers understand how to better leverage existing data while planning for future data requirements.\n\neGroup’s Data Services Practice builds upon the company’s engineering and informatics skills to deliver professional services needed for data analytic and business intelligence projects.\n\nIan Jones, an industry veteran whose background is deeply rooted in the design, deployment and management of complex data systems, will lead the Data Services Practice. During his three-year tenure at eGroup, Jones has been heavily involved in the firm’s Application Services Group. He has also led eGroup’s internal custom Java development focused on VMware’s vFabric platform, a lightweight, scalable, integrated middleware suite for data-intensive custom applications.\n\n“’Big data’ has been touted as a key industry trend, but few organizations understand what it might do for them,” said Jones. “At eGroup, we recognize that the size of the dataset is only one factor, so we’ve purposely left the word ‘big’ out of our Data Services Practice. Data analytics is just about data — how to ingest, analyze and process data to make more-informed business decisions. Our goal is to help customers use their data to gain new business insight, whether with big data analytics or more traditional business intelligence tools.”\n\neGroup is currently working with several healthcare enterprises on their data analytics projects, using products such as EMC Greenplum and the open-source Apache Hadoop platform. These tools not only handle large transactional databases but unstructured data such as text files and even images.\n\nGiven its strong background and expertise with Cisco’s Unified Computing System, eGroup is well positioned to use this flexible scale-out computing platform for its big data solutions, a rapidly emerging practice eGroup is bringing to the industry.\n\n“Our engineers can help customers break down ‘silos’ of data trapped in various applications and unstructured data files,” Jones said. “We can then help them select the right data analytics or business intelligence platform based upon the size of the dataset and the processing speed needed to obtain business insight in real time.”\n\nMuch of eGroup’s Data Services Practice is focused on consulting — helping customers of all sizes across a wide range of industries understand how to integrate data analytics into their day-to-day operations.\n\n“We’re here to help guide customers through the cultural shift needed for deep organizational integration of data analytics practices,” said Jones. “Once that occurs, ‘big data’ becomes less mysterious. 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During his three-year tenure at eGroup, Jones has been heavily involved in the firm’s Application Services Group. He has also led eGroup’s internal custom Java development focused on VMware’s vFabric platform, a lightweight, scalable, integrated middleware suite for data-intensive custom applications.\r\n\r\n“’Big data’ has been touted as a key industry trend, but few organizations understand what it might do for them,” said Jones. “At eGroup, we recognize that the size of the dataset is only one factor, so we’ve purposely left the word ‘big’ out of our Data Services Practice. Data analytics is just about data — how to ingest, analyze and process data to make more-informed business decisions. Our goal is to help customers use their data to gain new business insight, whether with big data analytics or more traditional business intelligence tools.”\r\n\r\neGroup is currently working with several healthcare enterprises on their data analytics projects, using products such as EMC Greenplum and the open-source Apache Hadoop platform. These tools not only handle large transactional databases but unstructured data such as text files and even images.\r\n\r\nGiven its strong background and expertise with Cisco’s Unified Computing System, eGroup is well positioned to use this flexible scale-out computing platform for its big data solutions, a rapidly emerging practice eGroup is bringing to the industry.\r\n\r\n“Our engineers can help customers break down ‘silos’ of data trapped in various applications and unstructured data files,” Jones said. “We can then help them select the right data analytics or business intelligence platform based upon the size of the dataset and the processing speed needed to obtain business insight in real time.”\r\n\r\nMuch of eGroup’s Data Services Practice is focused on consulting — helping customers of all sizes across a wide range of industries understand how to integrate data analytics into their day-to-day operations.\r\n\r\n“We’re here to help guide customers through the cultural shift needed for deep organizational integration of data analytics practices,” said Jones. “Once that occurs, ‘big data’ becomes less mysterious. 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PLEASANT, S.C. – October 8, 2012</strong> – <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a>, the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services, today announced the launch of its Data Services Practice to help customers understand how to better leverage existing data while planning for future data requirements.\n\neGroup’s Data Services Practice builds upon the company’s engineering and informatics skills to deliver professional services needed for data analytic and business intelligence projects.\n\nIan Jones, an industry veteran whose background is deeply rooted in the design, deployment and management of complex data systems, will lead the Data Services Practice. During his three-year tenure at eGroup, Jones has been heavily involved in the firm’s Application Services Group. He has also led eGroup’s internal custom Java development focused on VMware’s vFabric platform, a lightweight, scalable, integrated middleware suite for data-intensive custom applications.\n\n“’Big data’ has been touted as a key industry trend, but few organizations understand what it might do for them,” said Jones. “At eGroup, we recognize that the size of the dataset is only one factor, so we’ve purposely left the word ‘big’ out of our Data Services Practice. Data analytics is just about data — how to ingest, analyze and process data to make more-informed business decisions. Our goal is to help customers use their data to gain new business insight, whether with big data analytics or more traditional business intelligence tools.”\n\neGroup is currently working with several healthcare enterprises on their data analytics projects, using products such as EMC Greenplum and the open-source Apache Hadoop platform. These tools not only handle large transactional databases but unstructured data such as text files and even images.\n\nGiven its strong background and expertise with Cisco’s Unified Computing System, eGroup is well positioned to use this flexible scale-out computing platform for its big data solutions, a rapidly emerging practice eGroup is bringing to the industry.\n\n“Our engineers can help customers break down ‘silos’ of data trapped in various applications and unstructured data files,” Jones said. “We can then help them select the right data analytics or business intelligence platform based upon the size of the dataset and the processing speed needed to obtain business insight in real time.”\n\nMuch of eGroup’s Data Services Practice is focused on consulting — helping customers of all sizes across a wide range of industries understand how to integrate data analytics into their day-to-day operations.\n\n“We’re here to help guide customers through the cultural shift needed for deep organizational integration of data analytics practices,” said Jones. “Once that occurs, ‘big data’ becomes less mysterious. Organizations begin to see the opportunities that can be gained through data analytics and business intelligence tools.”','eGroup Launches Data Services Practice','','inherit','open','open','','7529-autosave','','','2012-10-08 16:39:44','2012-10-08 20:39:44','',7529,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7529-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(7534,40,'2012-10-09 08:16:23','2012-10-09 12:16:23','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/booth.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7571\" title=\"booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/booth-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"eGroup\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWelcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall. We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).\r\n\r\nAlso, don\'t forget to check out the eGroup <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/about/careers\" target=\"_blank\">Career page</a> for the latest openings.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lastly, we just publicly launched the <a href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/egroup-launches-data-services-practice-2012-10-08\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup Data Services Practice</span></a> yesterday, swing by the booth to learn more.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup\'s Application Services Manager, Jason Webster, kicking off his SharePoint 2013 lab. Go check it out!</span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/share.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7569\" title=\"SharePoint 2013\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/share-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"SharePoint 2013\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc). Jim talks fast. He admitted it! He also doesn\'t get caught too often breaking into systems...\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\"Information is the new currency\"</li>\r\n	<li>Advising companies to monitor what employees are saying about the company on their social networks</li>\r\n	<li>Walking us through the lengths thieves take to methodically research and detail their targeted person</li>\r\n	<li>Thieves are always a step ahead of their target, but that doesn\'t mean you can not take precautions. For example, purchase domain names that are similar to your domain except for one letter. They often change \"O\" (letter) with \"0\" (number) so you would never notice</li>\r\n	<li>If you\'re a business owner and receive a call from your pest control company, be suspicious! Jim loves using them to access facilities, the are left alone, seen as low brow and not a threat and are expected to be snooping around under desks. Makes perfect sense</li>\r\n	<li>Even better, acting as a fire inspector. Who doesn\'t love a man in uniform? They demand respect, according to Jim, so they get complete and unfettered access to the entire facility</li>\r\n	<li>Jim went into a company to audit their IT \'closet,\' a rack server had a sticky note with the username and password on it. Wow</li>\r\n	<li>So what can business owners do to stay secure: ID must be verified when accessing secured areas, ensure people are always escorted at all times, open communication channel between offices, branches or departments</li>\r\n	<li>Does your company have a strict policies for your cleaning crew? Get on it. And test your cleaning crew from time to time by sending real employees after hours to see if they can gain access</li>\r\n	<li>eCard scams are still extremely successful and easy to execute</li>\r\n	<li>As Jim moves into hacking mobile technology part of the presentation, we learn that some guy in the audience - ONE - has a Nokia</li>\r\n	<li>Hackers don\'t need to execute malicious acts, they simply need to create legitimate means (i.e. a mobile app) for the user to execute</li>\r\n	<li>Summary: a) You can\'t avoid every scam b) Be suspicious c) When in doubt, stop and think about it</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n*****\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Carolina Technology Conference','','publish','open','open','','live-blog-carolina-technology-conference','','','2012-10-10 11:08:33','2012-10-10 15:08:33','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=7534',0,'post','',0),(7533,40,'2012-10-08 16:34:24','2012-10-08 20:34:24','<p align=\"center\"><strong>eGroup Launches Data Services Practice</strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Dedicated team helps customers gain improved insight into structured and unstructured data stores<em></em></em></p>\r\n<strong>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – October 8, 2012</strong> – <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup</a>, the Southeast’s leading provider of <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">cloud</a>, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/application-services\">application</a> and<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/end-user-computing\"> end-user computing</a> services, today announced the launch of its Data Services Practice to help customers understand how to better leverage existing data while planning for future data requirements.\r\n\r\neGroup’s Data Services Practice builds upon the company’s engineering and informatics skills to deliver professional services needed for data analytic and business intelligence projects.\r\n\r\nIan Jones, an industry veteran whose background is deeply rooted in the design, deployment and management of complex data systems, will lead the Data Services Practice. During his three-year tenure at eGroup, Jones has been heavily involved in the firm’s Application Services Group. He has also led eGroup’s internal custom Java development focused on VMware’s vFabric platform, a lightweight, scalable, integrated middleware suite for data-intensive custom applications.\r\n\r\n“’Big data’ has been touted as a key industry trend, but few organizations understand what it might do for them,” said Jones. “At eGroup, we recognize that the size of the dataset is only one factor, so we’ve purposely left the word ‘big’ out of our Data Services Practice. Data analytics is just about data — how to ingest, analyze and process data to make more-informed business decisions. Our goal is to help customers use their data to gain new business insight, whether with big data analytics or more traditional business intelligence tools.”\r\n\r\neGroup is currently working with several healthcare enterprises on their data analytics projects, using products such as EMC Greenplum and the open-source Apache Hadoop platform. These tools not only handle large transactional databases but unstructured data such as text files and even images.\r\n\r\nGiven its strong background and expertise with Cisco’s Unified Computing System, eGroup is well positioned to use this flexible scale-out computing platform for its big data solutions, a rapidly emerging practice eGroup is bringing to the industry.\r\n\r\n“Our engineers can help customers break down ‘silos’ of data trapped in various applications and unstructured data files,” Jones said. “We can then help them select the right data analytics or business intelligence platform based upon the size of the dataset and the processing speed needed to obtain business insight in real time.”\r\n\r\nMuch of eGroup’s Data Services Practice is focused on consulting — helping customers of all sizes across a wide range of industries understand how to integrate data analytics into their day-to-day operations.\r\n\r\n“We’re here to help guide customers through the cultural shift needed for deep organizational integration of data analytics practices,” said Jones. “Once that occurs, ‘big data’ becomes less mysterious. 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Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.\n\nWe\'ll be live bloggi\n\n&nbsp;','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision','','','2012-10-09 08:15:26','2012-10-09 12:15:26','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision',0,'revision','',0),(7537,40,'2012-10-09 08:16:09','2012-10-09 12:16:09','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWelcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.\r\n\r\nWe\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-2','','','2012-10-09 08:16:09','2012-10-09 12:16:09','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(7538,40,'2012-10-10 11:09:40','2012-10-10 15:09:40','&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/booth.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7571\" title=\"booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/booth-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"eGroup\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\n\nWelcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall. We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).\n\nAlso, don\'t forget to check out the eGroup <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/about/careers\" target=\"_blank\">Career page</a> for the latest openings.\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lastly, we just publicly launched the <a href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/egroup-launches-data-services-practice-2012-10-08\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup Data Services Practice</span></a> yesterday, swing by the booth to learn more.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup\'s Application Services Manager, Jason Webster, kicking off his SharePoint 2013 lab. Go check it out!</span>\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/share.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7569\" title=\"SharePoint 2013\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/share-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"SharePoint 2013\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\n\n*****\n\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc). Jim talks fast. He admitted it! He also doesn\'t get caught too often breaking into systems...\n<ul>\n	<li>\"Information is the new currency\"</li>\n	<li>Advising companies to monitor what employees are saying about the company on their social networks</li>\n	<li>Walking us through the lengths thieves take to methodically research and detail their targeted person</li>\n	<li>Thieves are always a step ahead of their target, but that doesn\'t mean you can not take precautions. For example, purchase domain names that are similar to your domain except for one letter. They often change \"O\" (letter) with \"0\" (number) so you would never notice</li>\n	<li>If you\'re a business owner and receive a call from your pest control company, be suspicious! Jim loves using them to access facilities, the are left alone, seen as low brow and not a threat and are expected to be snooping around under desks. Makes perfect sense</li>\n	<li>Even better, acting as a fire inspector. Who doesn\'t love a man in uniform? They demand respect, according to Jim, so they get complete and unfettered access to the entire facility</li>\n	<li>Jim went into a company to audit their IT \'closet,\' a rack server had a sticky note with the username and password on it. Wow</li>\n	<li>So what can business owners do to stay secure: ID must be verified when accessing secured areas, ensure people are always escorted at all times, open communication channel between offices, branches or departments</li>\n	<li>Does your company have a strict policies for your cleaning crew? Get on it. And test your cleaning crew from time to time by sending real employees after hours to see if they can gain access</li>\n	<li>eCard scams are still extremely successful and easy to execute</li>\n	<li>As Jim moves into hacking mobile technology part of the presentation, we learn that some guy in the audience - ONE - has a Nokia</li>\n	<li>Hackers don\'t need to execute malicious acts, they simply need to create legitimate means (i.e. a mobile app) for the user to execute</li>\n	<li>Summary: a) You can\'t avoid every scam b) Be suspicious c) When in doubt, stop and think about it</li>\n</ul>\n*****\n\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\n<ul>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\n</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\n</span></li>\n</ul>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-autosave','','','2012-10-10 11:09:40','2012-10-10 15:09:40','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(7539,40,'2012-10-09 08:16:23','2012-10-09 12:16:23','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWelcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. 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Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA).</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We have a full Lab schedule, come on over to sign up:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-10','','','2012-10-09 08:50:56','2012-10-09 12:50:56','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-10',0,'revision','',0),(7547,40,'2012-10-09 08:54:42','2012-10-09 12:54:42','<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></span></a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Welcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. 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Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\nCoffee break!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-14','','','2012-10-09 09:13:31','2012-10-09 13:13:31','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-14',0,'revision','',0),(7551,40,'2012-10-09 10:35:54','2012-10-09 14:35:54','','photo (7)','','inherit','open','open','','photo-7','','','2012-10-09 10:35:54','2012-10-09 14:35:54','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7552,40,'2012-10-09 10:08:04','2012-10-09 14:08:04','<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></span></a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Welcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. 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Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\nCoffee break!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. 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Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong>\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\nCoffee break!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. 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Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-19','','','2012-10-09 12:10:59','2012-10-09 16:10:59','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-19',0,'revision','',0),(7557,40,'2012-10-09 12:14:19','2012-10-09 16:14:19','<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></span></a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Welcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc).\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. 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Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc).\r\n\r\nJim talks fast. He admitted it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. 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Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc). Jim talks fast. He admitted it! He also doesn\'t get caught too often breaking into systems...\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\"Information is the new currency\"</li>\r\n	<li>Advising companies to monitor what employees are saying about the company on their social networks</li>\r\n	<li>Walking us through the lengths thieves take to methodically research and detail their targeted person</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-22','','','2012-10-09 12:32:19','2012-10-09 16:32:19','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-22',0,'revision','',0),(7560,40,'2012-10-09 12:40:02','2012-10-09 16:40:02','<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></span></a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Welcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc). Jim talks fast. He admitted it! He also doesn\'t get caught too often breaking into systems...\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\"Information is the new currency\"</li>\r\n	<li>Advising companies to monitor what employees are saying about the company on their social networks</li>\r\n	<li>Walking us through the lengths thieves take to methodically research and detail their targeted person</li>\r\n	<li>Thieves are always a step ahead of their target, but that doesn\'t mean you can not take precautions. For example, purchase domain names that are similar to your domain except for one letter. They often change \"O\" (letter) with \"0\" (number) so you would never notice</li>\r\n	<li></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-23','','','2012-10-09 12:40:02','2012-10-09 16:40:02','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-23',0,'revision','',0),(7609,40,'2012-10-17 12:15:52','2012-10-17 16:15:52','[salesforce form=\"1\"]','Contact','','inherit','open','open','','17-autosave','','','2012-10-17 12:15:52','2012-10-17 16:15:52','',17,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/17-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(7562,40,'2012-10-09 12:47:22','2012-10-09 16:47:22','<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></span></a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Welcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc). Jim talks fast. He admitted it! He also doesn\'t get caught too often breaking into systems...\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\"Information is the new currency\"</li>\r\n	<li>Advising companies to monitor what employees are saying about the company on their social networks</li>\r\n	<li>Walking us through the lengths thieves take to methodically research and detail their targeted person</li>\r\n	<li>Thieves are always a step ahead of their target, but that doesn\'t mean you can not take precautions. For example, purchase domain names that are similar to your domain except for one letter. They often change \"O\" (letter) with \"0\" (number) so you would never notice</li>\r\n	<li>If you\'re a business owner and receive a call from your pest control company, be suspicious! Jim loves using them to access facilities, the are left alone, seen as low brow and not a threat and are expected to be snooping around under desks. Makes perfect sense</li>\r\n	<li>Even better, acting as a fire inspector. Who doesn\'t love a man in uniform? They demand respect, according to Jim, so they get complete and unfettered access to the entire facility</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-24','','','2012-10-09 12:47:22','2012-10-09 16:47:22','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-24',0,'revision','',0),(7563,40,'2012-10-09 12:57:19','2012-10-09 16:57:19','<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></span></a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Welcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\nAlso, don\'t forget to check out the eGroup <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/about/careers\" target=\"_blank\">Career page</a> for the latest openings!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc). Jim talks fast. He admitted it! He also doesn\'t get caught too often breaking into systems...\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\"Information is the new currency\"</li>\r\n	<li>Advising companies to monitor what employees are saying about the company on their social networks</li>\r\n	<li>Walking us through the lengths thieves take to methodically research and detail their targeted person</li>\r\n	<li>Thieves are always a step ahead of their target, but that doesn\'t mean you can not take precautions. For example, purchase domain names that are similar to your domain except for one letter. They often change \"O\" (letter) with \"0\" (number) so you would never notice</li>\r\n	<li>If you\'re a business owner and receive a call from your pest control company, be suspicious! Jim loves using them to access facilities, the are left alone, seen as low brow and not a threat and are expected to be snooping around under desks. Makes perfect sense</li>\r\n	<li>Even better, acting as a fire inspector. Who doesn\'t love a man in uniform? They demand respect, according to Jim, so they get complete and unfettered access to the entire facility</li>\r\n	<li>Jim went into a company to audit their IT \'closet,\' a rack server had a sticky note with the username and password on it. Wow</li>\r\n	<li></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-25','','','2012-10-09 12:57:19','2012-10-09 16:57:19','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-25',0,'revision','',0),(7564,40,'2012-10-09 12:59:05','2012-10-09 16:59:05','<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></span></a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Welcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\nAlso, don\'t forget to check out the eGroup <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/about/careers\" target=\"_blank\">Career page</a> for the latest openings!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc). Jim talks fast. He admitted it! He also doesn\'t get caught too often breaking into systems...\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\"Information is the new currency\"</li>\r\n	<li>Advising companies to monitor what employees are saying about the company on their social networks</li>\r\n	<li>Walking us through the lengths thieves take to methodically research and detail their targeted person</li>\r\n	<li>Thieves are always a step ahead of their target, but that doesn\'t mean you can not take precautions. For example, purchase domain names that are similar to your domain except for one letter. They often change \"O\" (letter) with \"0\" (number) so you would never notice</li>\r\n	<li>If you\'re a business owner and receive a call from your pest control company, be suspicious! Jim loves using them to access facilities, the are left alone, seen as low brow and not a threat and are expected to be snooping around under desks. Makes perfect sense</li>\r\n	<li>Even better, acting as a fire inspector. Who doesn\'t love a man in uniform? They demand respect, according to Jim, so they get complete and unfettered access to the entire facility</li>\r\n	<li>Jim went into a company to audit their IT \'closet,\' a rack server had a sticky note with the username and password on it. Wow</li>\r\n	<li>So what can business owners do to stay secure: ID must be verified when accessing secured areas, ensure people are always escorted at all times, open communication channel between offices, branches or departments</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-26','','','2012-10-09 12:59:05','2012-10-09 16:59:05','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-26',0,'revision','',0),(7565,40,'2012-10-09 13:03:50','2012-10-09 17:03:50','<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></span></a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Welcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\nAlso, don\'t forget to check out the eGroup <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/about/careers\" target=\"_blank\">Career page</a> for the latest openings!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc). Jim talks fast. He admitted it! He also doesn\'t get caught too often breaking into systems...\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\"Information is the new currency\"</li>\r\n	<li>Advising companies to monitor what employees are saying about the company on their social networks</li>\r\n	<li>Walking us through the lengths thieves take to methodically research and detail their targeted person</li>\r\n	<li>Thieves are always a step ahead of their target, but that doesn\'t mean you can not take precautions. For example, purchase domain names that are similar to your domain except for one letter. They often change \"O\" (letter) with \"0\" (number) so you would never notice</li>\r\n	<li>If you\'re a business owner and receive a call from your pest control company, be suspicious! Jim loves using them to access facilities, the are left alone, seen as low brow and not a threat and are expected to be snooping around under desks. Makes perfect sense</li>\r\n	<li>Even better, acting as a fire inspector. Who doesn\'t love a man in uniform? They demand respect, according to Jim, so they get complete and unfettered access to the entire facility</li>\r\n	<li>Jim went into a company to audit their IT \'closet,\' a rack server had a sticky note with the username and password on it. Wow</li>\r\n	<li>So what can business owners do to stay secure: ID must be verified when accessing secured areas, ensure people are always escorted at all times, open communication channel between offices, branches or departments</li>\r\n	<li>Does your company have a strict policies for your cleaning crew? Get on it. And test your cleaning crew from time to time by sending real employees after hours to see if they can gain access</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-27','','','2012-10-09 13:03:50','2012-10-09 17:03:50','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-27',0,'revision','',0),(7566,40,'2012-10-09 13:11:51','2012-10-09 17:11:51','<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></span></a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Welcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\nAlso, don\'t forget to check out the eGroup <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/about/careers\" target=\"_blank\">Career page</a> for the latest openings!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc). Jim talks fast. He admitted it! He also doesn\'t get caught too often breaking into systems...\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\"Information is the new currency\"</li>\r\n	<li>Advising companies to monitor what employees are saying about the company on their social networks</li>\r\n	<li>Walking us through the lengths thieves take to methodically research and detail their targeted person</li>\r\n	<li>Thieves are always a step ahead of their target, but that doesn\'t mean you can not take precautions. For example, purchase domain names that are similar to your domain except for one letter. They often change \"O\" (letter) with \"0\" (number) so you would never notice</li>\r\n	<li>If you\'re a business owner and receive a call from your pest control company, be suspicious! Jim loves using them to access facilities, the are left alone, seen as low brow and not a threat and are expected to be snooping around under desks. Makes perfect sense</li>\r\n	<li>Even better, acting as a fire inspector. Who doesn\'t love a man in uniform? They demand respect, according to Jim, so they get complete and unfettered access to the entire facility</li>\r\n	<li>Jim went into a company to audit their IT \'closet,\' a rack server had a sticky note with the username and password on it. Wow</li>\r\n	<li>So what can business owners do to stay secure: ID must be verified when accessing secured areas, ensure people are always escorted at all times, open communication channel between offices, branches or departments</li>\r\n	<li>Does your company have a strict policies for your cleaning crew? Get on it. And test your cleaning crew from time to time by sending real employees after hours to see if they can gain access</li>\r\n	<li>eCard scams are still extremely successful and easy to execute</li>\r\n	<li>As Jim moves into hacking mobile technology part of the presentation, we learn that some guy in the audience - ONE - has a Nokia</li>\r\n	<li></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-28','','','2012-10-09 13:11:51','2012-10-09 17:11:51','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-28',0,'revision','',0),(7567,40,'2012-10-09 13:18:51','2012-10-09 17:18:51','<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></span></a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Welcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall. We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).</span>\r\n\r\nAlso, don\'t forget to check out the eGroup <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/about/careers\" target=\"_blank\">Career page</a> for the latest openings.\r\n\r\nLastly, we just publicly launched the <a href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/egroup-launches-data-services-practice-2012-10-08\" target=\"_blank\">eGroup Data Services Practice</a> yesterday, swing by the booth to learn more.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc). Jim talks fast. He admitted it! He also doesn\'t get caught too often breaking into systems...\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\"Information is the new currency\"</li>\r\n	<li>Advising companies to monitor what employees are saying about the company on their social networks</li>\r\n	<li>Walking us through the lengths thieves take to methodically research and detail their targeted person</li>\r\n	<li>Thieves are always a step ahead of their target, but that doesn\'t mean you can not take precautions. For example, purchase domain names that are similar to your domain except for one letter. They often change \"O\" (letter) with \"0\" (number) so you would never notice</li>\r\n	<li>If you\'re a business owner and receive a call from your pest control company, be suspicious! Jim loves using them to access facilities, the are left alone, seen as low brow and not a threat and are expected to be snooping around under desks. Makes perfect sense</li>\r\n	<li>Even better, acting as a fire inspector. Who doesn\'t love a man in uniform? They demand respect, according to Jim, so they get complete and unfettered access to the entire facility</li>\r\n	<li>Jim went into a company to audit their IT \'closet,\' a rack server had a sticky note with the username and password on it. Wow</li>\r\n	<li>So what can business owners do to stay secure: ID must be verified when accessing secured areas, ensure people are always escorted at all times, open communication channel between offices, branches or departments</li>\r\n	<li>Does your company have a strict policies for your cleaning crew? Get on it. And test your cleaning crew from time to time by sending real employees after hours to see if they can gain access</li>\r\n	<li>eCard scams are still extremely successful and easy to execute</li>\r\n	<li>As Jim moves into hacking mobile technology part of the presentation, we learn that some guy in the audience - ONE - has a Nokia</li>\r\n	<li></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-29','','','2012-10-09 13:18:51','2012-10-09 17:18:51','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-29',0,'revision','',0),(7568,40,'2012-10-09 13:20:50','2012-10-09 17:20:50','<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></span></a></span>\r\n\r\nWelcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall. We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).\r\n\r\nAlso, don\'t forget to check out the eGroup <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/about/careers\" target=\"_blank\">Career page</a> for the latest openings.\r\n\r\nLastly, we just publicly launched the <a href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/egroup-launches-data-services-practice-2012-10-08\" target=\"_blank\">eGroup Data Services Practice</a> yesterday, swing by the booth to learn more.\r\n\r\n<strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong>\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc). Jim talks fast. He admitted it! He also doesn\'t get caught too often breaking into systems...\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\"Information is the new currency\"</li>\r\n	<li>Advising companies to monitor what employees are saying about the company on their social networks</li>\r\n	<li>Walking us through the lengths thieves take to methodically research and detail their targeted person</li>\r\n	<li>Thieves are always a step ahead of their target, but that doesn\'t mean you can not take precautions. For example, purchase domain names that are similar to your domain except for one letter. They often change \"O\" (letter) with \"0\" (number) so you would never notice</li>\r\n	<li>If you\'re a business owner and receive a call from your pest control company, be suspicious! Jim loves using them to access facilities, the are left alone, seen as low brow and not a threat and are expected to be snooping around under desks. Makes perfect sense</li>\r\n	<li>Even better, acting as a fire inspector. Who doesn\'t love a man in uniform? They demand respect, according to Jim, so they get complete and unfettered access to the entire facility</li>\r\n	<li>Jim went into a company to audit their IT \'closet,\' a rack server had a sticky note with the username and password on it. Wow</li>\r\n	<li>So what can business owners do to stay secure: ID must be verified when accessing secured areas, ensure people are always escorted at all times, open communication channel between offices, branches or departments</li>\r\n	<li>Does your company have a strict policies for your cleaning crew? Get on it. And test your cleaning crew from time to time by sending real employees after hours to see if they can gain access</li>\r\n	<li>eCard scams are still extremely successful and easy to execute</li>\r\n	<li>As Jim moves into hacking mobile technology part of the presentation, we learn that some guy in the audience - ONE - has a Nokia</li>\r\n	<li></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n*****\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-30','','','2012-10-09 13:20:50','2012-10-09 17:20:50','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-30',0,'revision','',0),(7569,40,'2012-10-09 13:44:57','2012-10-09 17:44:57','','SharePoint 2013','','inherit','open','open','','share','','','2012-10-09 13:44:57','2012-10-09 17:44:57','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/share.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7570,40,'2012-10-09 13:27:05','2012-10-09 17:27:05','<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></span></a></span>\r\n\r\nWelcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall. We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).\r\n\r\nAlso, don\'t forget to check out the eGroup <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/about/careers\" target=\"_blank\">Career page</a> for the latest openings.\r\n\r\nLastly, we just publicly launched the <a href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/egroup-launches-data-services-practice-2012-10-08\" target=\"_blank\">eGroup Data Services Practice</a> yesterday, swing by the booth to learn more.\r\n\r\n<strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong>\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc). Jim talks fast. He admitted it! He also doesn\'t get caught too often breaking into systems...\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\"Information is the new currency\"</li>\r\n	<li>Advising companies to monitor what employees are saying about the company on their social networks</li>\r\n	<li>Walking us through the lengths thieves take to methodically research and detail their targeted person</li>\r\n	<li>Thieves are always a step ahead of their target, but that doesn\'t mean you can not take precautions. For example, purchase domain names that are similar to your domain except for one letter. They often change \"O\" (letter) with \"0\" (number) so you would never notice</li>\r\n	<li>If you\'re a business owner and receive a call from your pest control company, be suspicious! Jim loves using them to access facilities, the are left alone, seen as low brow and not a threat and are expected to be snooping around under desks. Makes perfect sense</li>\r\n	<li>Even better, acting as a fire inspector. Who doesn\'t love a man in uniform? They demand respect, according to Jim, so they get complete and unfettered access to the entire facility</li>\r\n	<li>Jim went into a company to audit their IT \'closet,\' a rack server had a sticky note with the username and password on it. Wow</li>\r\n	<li>So what can business owners do to stay secure: ID must be verified when accessing secured areas, ensure people are always escorted at all times, open communication channel between offices, branches or departments</li>\r\n	<li>Does your company have a strict policies for your cleaning crew? Get on it. And test your cleaning crew from time to time by sending real employees after hours to see if they can gain access</li>\r\n	<li>eCard scams are still extremely successful and easy to execute</li>\r\n	<li>As Jim moves into hacking mobile technology part of the presentation, we learn that some guy in the audience - ONE - has a Nokia</li>\r\n	<li>Hackers don\'t need to execute malicious acts, they simply need to create legitimate means (i.e. a mobile app) for the user to execute</li>\r\n	<li>Summary: a) You can\'t avoid every scam b) Be suspicious c) When in doubt, stop and think about it</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n*****\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-31','','','2012-10-09 13:27:05','2012-10-09 17:27:05','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-31',0,'revision','',0),(7573,40,'2012-10-09 13:53:12','2012-10-09 17:53:12','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/booth.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7571\" title=\"booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/booth-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"eGroup\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWelcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall. We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).\r\n\r\nAlso, don\'t forget to check out the eGroup <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/about/careers\" target=\"_blank\">Career page</a> for the latest openings.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lastly, we just publicly launched the <a href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/egroup-launches-data-services-practice-2012-10-08\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup Data Services Practice</span></a> yesterday, swing by the booth to learn more.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup\'s Application Services Manager, Jason Webster, kicking off his SharePoint 2013 lab. Go check it out!</span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/share.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7569\" title=\"SharePoint 2013\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/share-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"SharePoint 2013\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc). Jim talks fast. He admitted it! He also doesn\'t get caught too often breaking into systems...\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\"Information is the new currency\"</li>\r\n	<li>Advising companies to monitor what employees are saying about the company on their social networks</li>\r\n	<li>Walking us through the lengths thieves take to methodically research and detail their targeted person</li>\r\n	<li>Thieves are always a step ahead of their target, but that doesn\'t mean you can not take precautions. For example, purchase domain names that are similar to your domain except for one letter. They often change \"O\" (letter) with \"0\" (number) so you would never notice</li>\r\n	<li>If you\'re a business owner and receive a call from your pest control company, be suspicious! Jim loves using them to access facilities, the are left alone, seen as low brow and not a threat and are expected to be snooping around under desks. Makes perfect sense</li>\r\n	<li>Even better, acting as a fire inspector. Who doesn\'t love a man in uniform? They demand respect, according to Jim, so they get complete and unfettered access to the entire facility</li>\r\n	<li>Jim went into a company to audit their IT \'closet,\' a rack server had a sticky note with the username and password on it. Wow</li>\r\n	<li>So what can business owners do to stay secure: ID must be verified when accessing secured areas, ensure people are always escorted at all times, open communication channel between offices, branches or departments</li>\r\n	<li>Does your company have a strict policies for your cleaning crew? Get on it. And test your cleaning crew from time to time by sending real employees after hours to see if they can gain access</li>\r\n	<li>eCard scams are still extremely successful and easy to execute</li>\r\n	<li>As Jim moves into hacking mobile technology part of the presentation, we learn that some guy in the audience - ONE - has a Nokia</li>\r\n	<li>Hackers don\'t need to execute malicious acts, they simply need to create legitimate means (i.e. a mobile app) for the user to execute</li>\r\n	<li>Summary: a) You can\'t avoid every scam b) Be suspicious c) When in doubt, stop and think about it</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n*****\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','Live Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-33','','','2012-10-09 13:53:12','2012-10-09 17:53:12','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-33',0,'revision','',0),(7571,40,'2012-10-09 13:51:00','2012-10-09 17:51:00','','booth','','inherit','open','open','','booth','','','2012-10-09 13:51:00','2012-10-09 17:51:00','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/booth.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7572,40,'2012-10-09 13:46:19','2012-10-09 17:46:19','<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7535\" title=\"eGroup Booth\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></span></a></span>\r\n\r\nWelcome to the Carolina Technology Conference. Come visit the eGroup booth, can\'t miss us as you enter the exhibit hall. We\'ll be live blogging throughout the morning into the early afternoon so check back often. (most recent updates at the top).\r\n\r\nAlso, don\'t forget to check out the eGroup <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/about/careers\" target=\"_blank\">Career page</a> for the latest openings.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lastly, we just publicly launched the <a href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/egroup-launches-data-services-practice-2012-10-08\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup Data Services Practice</span></a> yesterday, swing by the booth to learn more.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Twitter Hashtag #CTC12</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup\'s Application Services Manager, Jason Webster, kicking off his SharePoint 2013 lab. Go check it out!</span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/share.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7569\" title=\"SharePoint 2013\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/share-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"SharePoint 2013\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\nAwaiting <a href=\"http://www.jimstickley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Stickley\'s</a> keynote on security and identity theft. Should be a good one. You can find him on Twitter @jimstickley (you can find us @eGroup_Inc). Jim talks fast. He admitted it! He also doesn\'t get caught too often breaking into systems...\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\"Information is the new currency\"</li>\r\n	<li>Advising companies to monitor what employees are saying about the company on their social networks</li>\r\n	<li>Walking us through the lengths thieves take to methodically research and detail their targeted person</li>\r\n	<li>Thieves are always a step ahead of their target, but that doesn\'t mean you can not take precautions. For example, purchase domain names that are similar to your domain except for one letter. They often change \"O\" (letter) with \"0\" (number) so you would never notice</li>\r\n	<li>If you\'re a business owner and receive a call from your pest control company, be suspicious! Jim loves using them to access facilities, the are left alone, seen as low brow and not a threat and are expected to be snooping around under desks. Makes perfect sense</li>\r\n	<li>Even better, acting as a fire inspector. Who doesn\'t love a man in uniform? They demand respect, according to Jim, so they get complete and unfettered access to the entire facility</li>\r\n	<li>Jim went into a company to audit their IT \'closet,\' a rack server had a sticky note with the username and password on it. Wow</li>\r\n	<li>So what can business owners do to stay secure: ID must be verified when accessing secured areas, ensure people are always escorted at all times, open communication channel between offices, branches or departments</li>\r\n	<li>Does your company have a strict policies for your cleaning crew? Get on it. And test your cleaning crew from time to time by sending real employees after hours to see if they can gain access</li>\r\n	<li>eCard scams are still extremely successful and easy to execute</li>\r\n	<li>As Jim moves into hacking mobile technology part of the presentation, we learn that some guy in the audience - ONE - has a Nokia</li>\r\n	<li>Hackers don\'t need to execute malicious acts, they simply need to create legitimate means (i.e. a mobile app) for the user to execute</li>\r\n	<li>Summary: a) You can\'t avoid every scam b) Be suspicious c) When in doubt, stop and think about it</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n*****\r\n\r\nJohn Flisher kicking off the first lab of the day - Hands on with vSphere 5.1. If you want to learn more about VMware from Flisher himself, check out his <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/author/jflisher\" target=\"_blank\">past posts</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551\" title=\"photo (7)\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/photo-7-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"vSphere 5.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coffee break!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Steven Dryden, CEO, of the <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group</span></a> kicks things off with the presentation portion of the conference.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mariner Group software, <a href=\"http://themarinergroup.net/commandbridge/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge</span></a>, helped aid in 1,432 search and rescues.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden discusses the concept of Situational Awareness (SA) and how it\'s becoming mainstream.\r\n</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CommandBridge in action was very cool. Zoom into a port (in this case, Dryden used port of Miami), click on an outline of a vessel and learn more about that particular vessel.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dryden\'s final thoughts: 1) Simple is Hard, 2) Innovation comes in many forms, 3) The status quo rarely change from the inside\r\n</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">*****</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup has a full day of labs, sign up at registration:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">9:30-10:10: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10:20-11:00: ThinApp Factory</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">11:10-11:50: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:00-12:40: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">12:45-1:25: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:30-2:10: SharePoint 2013</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2:15-2:55: vSphere 5.1</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3:10-4:15: Cisco Nexus 1000v</span>','bLive Blog: Carolina Technology Conference','','inherit','open','open','','7534-revision-32','','','2012-10-09 13:46:19','2012-10-09 17:46:19','',7534,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7534-revision-32',0,'revision','',0),(7574,23,'2012-10-07 10:39:23','2012-10-07 14:39:23','','Auto Draft','','inherit','open','open','','7527-revision','','','2012-10-07 10:39:23','2012-10-07 14:39:23','',7527,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7527-revision',0,'revision','',0),(7580,40,'2012-10-12 11:56:59','2012-10-12 15:56:59','Microsoft announced yesterday that the engineering phase of the entire Office 2013 family of products is complete. 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