(8155,40,'2013-05-16 14:44:51','2013-05-16 18:44:51','Mount Pleasant, SC (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 - <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 services,</a> today announced it has received the 2012 EMC® Velocity™ Services Quality Award from EMC Corporation for achieving outstanding service excellence and customer satisfaction as measured by the EMC Velocity Services Quality (VSQ) program.\n\nThis marks the third time eGroup has won the exclusive award.\n\nThe EMC VSQ program is a project-specific survey program designed for partners with Velocity Services designations to solicit customer feedback regarding the quality of the partner’s service engagements.\n\n“We’re thrilled that our mission to be a trusted advisor, focused solely on positive project outcomes, is once again recognized by EMC and our customers,” said Mike Carter, Principal, eGroup. “eGroup’s project delivery team is continually laser focused on saving the customer time, money and enabling a competitive advantage. Receiving the Velocity Services Quality Award is an endorsement that our smooth project experience process is successful and delivering the highest level of customer satisfaction.”\n\n“EMC’s Total Customer Experience hinges on superior customer satisfaction and quality and is a cornerstone of EMC’s success. I’m delighted to see an increasing number of Velocity Solution Provider partners from around the world who continue to drive and deliver outstanding levels of customer service to their customers. The latest survey results demonstrate that these partners have embraced and honed their EMC services skills set to maintain increasingly high levels of customer satisfaction,” said Jeff Schmitt, Americas Theatre Lead, Global Services Partners, EMC Corporation. “As an EMC Velocity Services Quality Award winner, eGroup demonstrates leadership in service delivery quality and exemplifies the high standards to which EMC holds its own Global Services organization.”\n\nThe EMC Velocity Services program enables a select community of trained and certified EMC authorized partners to deliver a comprehensive portfolio of services ranging from technology implementation to technical support. 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Working closely with eGroup engineers, Acryness quickly consolidated its FTP, Web, and Database servers along with its internal data processing systems into the eCloud.\n\nChris Jarjoura, IT Director, Acryness, said: “We were looking to upgrade our server environment as some of our systems were already in a cloud infrastructure. We took this opportunity to consolidate more of our infrastructure to a reputable cloud environment. We had an existing relationship with eGroup, but after looking at the market cloud providers, we selected eGroup’s eCloud as it offered the best set of functionality and reliability at a competitive price.”\n\n“Acryness is a great example of a forward-thinking firm that truly believes by harnessing cloud computing it can not only improve customer delivery and service, but cut costs and reduce internal inefficiencies as well,” said Steve Rattacasa, Cloud Services Manager, eGroup. “In such a competitive market, Acryness turned to the eCloud so that it could focus on customers, solutions delivery and overall growth, not upgrading and maintaining technology.”\n\nThe eGroup eCloud is a hosted, high-performance computing infrastructure, purpose-built to efficiently maintain, protect, and deliver IT securely to businesses of all sizes. 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Working closely with eGroup engineers, Acryness quickly consolidated its FTP, Web, and Database servers along with its internal data processing systems into the eCloud.\r\n\r\nChris Jarjoura, IT Director, Acryness, said: “We were looking to upgrade our server environment as some of our systems were already in a cloud infrastructure. We took this opportunity to consolidate more of our infrastructure to a reputable cloud environment. We had an existing relationship with eGroup, but after looking at the market cloud providers, we selected eGroup’s eCloud as it offered the best set of functionality and reliability at a competitive price.”\r\n\r\n“Acryness is a great example of a forward-thinking firm that truly believes by harnessing cloud computing it can not only improve customer delivery and service, but cut costs and reduce internal inefficiencies as well,” said Steve Rattacasa, Cloud Services Manager, eGroup. “In such a competitive market, Acryness turned to the eCloud so that it could focus on customers, solutions delivery and overall growth, not upgrading and maintaining technology.”\r\n\r\nThe eGroup eCloud is a hosted, high-performance computing infrastructure, purpose-built to efficiently maintain, protect, and deliver IT securely to businesses of all sizes. 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Working closely with eGroup engineers, Acryness quickly consolidated its FTP, Web, and Database servers along with its internal data processing systems into the eCloud.\r\n\r\nChris Jarjoura, IT Director, Acryness, said: “We were looking to upgrade our server environment as some of our systems were already in a cloud infrastructure. We took this opportunity to consolidate more of our infrastructure to a reputable cloud environment. We had an existing relationship with eGroup, but after looking at the market cloud providers, we selected eGroup’s eCloud as it offered the best set of functionality and reliability at a competitive price.”\r\n\r\n“Acryness is a great example of a forward-thinking firm that truly believes by harnessing cloud computing it can not only improve customer delivery and service, but cut costs and reduce internal inefficiencies as well,” said Steve Rattacasa, Cloud Services Manager, eGroup. “In such a competitive market, Acryness turned to the eCloud so that it could focus on customers, solutions delivery and overall growth, not upgrading and maintaining technology.”\r\n\r\nThe eGroup eCloud is a hosted, high-performance computing infrastructure, purpose-built to efficiently maintain, protect, and deliver IT securely to businesses of all sizes. 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Working closely with eGroup engineers, Acryness quickly consolidated its FTP, Web, and Database servers along with its internal data processing systems into the eCloud.\r\n\r\nChris Jarjoura, IT Director, Acryness, said: “We were looking to upgrade our server environment as some of our systems were already in a cloud infrastructure. We took this opportunity to consolidate more of our infrastructure to a reputable cloud environment. We had an existing relationship with eGroup, but after looking at the market cloud providers, we selected eGroup’s eCloud as it offered the best set of functionality and reliability at a competitive price.”\r\n\r\n“Acryness is a great example of a forward-thinking firm that truly believes by harnessing cloud computing it can not only improve customer delivery and service, but cut costs and reduce internal inefficiencies as well,” said Steve Rattacasa, Cloud Services Manager, eGroup. “In such a competitive market, Acryness turned to the eCloud so that it could focus on customers, solutions delivery and overall growth, not upgrading and maintaining technology.”\r\n\r\nThe eGroup eCloud is a hosted, high-performance computing infrastructure, purpose-built to efficiently maintain, protect, and deliver IT securely to businesses of all sizes. In the eCloud, customers enjoy easy and secure access to their mission-critical applications and data anytime, anywhere, on any device.','Acryness Selects eGroup’s eCloud to Gain a Competitive Advantage','','inherit','open','open','','8156-revision-4','','','2013-05-22 11:35:19','2013-05-22 15:35:19','',8156,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/05/8156-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8161,40,'2013-05-22 11:36:51','2013-05-22 15:36:51','<h1><strong>Acryness Selects eGroup’s eCloud to Gain a Competitive Advantage</strong></h1>\n<strong>eCloud’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provides Acryness the latest in system and server infrastructure solutions</strong>\n\nMount Pleasant, SC (PRWEB) May 21, 2013 - <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/\">eGroup,</a> the Southeast’s leading provider of cloud, application and end-user computing services, today announced that <a href=\"http://acryness.com/\">Acryness,</a> a document solutions company based in Mooresville, NC, has migrated its mission-critical systems and servers into the <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eCloud.</a>\n\nAs a result, Acryness anticipates improvement in its competitive advantage through operational and efficiency savings. Working closely with eGroup engineers, Acryness quickly consolidated its FTP, Web, and Database servers along with its internal data processing systems into the eCloud.\n\nChris Jarjoura, IT Director, Acryness, said: “We were looking to upgrade our server environment as some of our systems were already in a cloud infrastructure. We took this opportunity to consolidate more of our infrastructure to a reputable cloud environment. We had an existing relationship with eGroup, but after looking at the market cloud providers, we selected eGroup’s eCloud as it offered the best set of functionality and reliability at a competitive price.”\n\n“Acryness is a great example of a forward-thinking firm that truly believes by harnessing cloud computing it can not only improve customer delivery and service, but cut costs and reduce internal inefficiencies as well,” said Steve Rattacasa, Cloud Services Manager, eGroup. “In such a competitive market, Acryness turned to the eCloud so that it could focus on customers, solutions delivery and overall growth, not upgrading and maintaining technology.”\n\nThe eGroup eCloud is a hosted, high-performance computing infrastructure, purpose-built to efficiently maintain, protect, and deliver IT securely to businesses of all sizes. 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recognition in the marketplace.</li>\r\n	<li></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nTo join our mailing list send an email to marketing_at_eGroup-us_dot_com.','The eGroup Advantage','','inherit','open','open','','6105-revision-v1','','','2013-05-23 10:45:21','2013-05-23 14:45:21','',6105,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/05/6105-revision-38/',0,'revision','',0),(8169,2,'2013-05-23 10:48:00','2013-05-23 14:48:00','Check out the current online issue of <em>The eGroup Advantage</em>, \"Growth Plan Pays Off for eGroup and Its Customers.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>May/June 2013 <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/May_June-2013-PDF-Newsletter.pdf\">(PDF Version)</a></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.itnewsletter.net/newsletters/index.cfm?cid=120&amp;sid=6421\"><strong><b>Plan Pays Off for eGroup and Its Customers</b></strong></a>: eGroup credits the focus and expertise of its team for its geographic growth, increased revenue and recognition in the marketplace.</li>\r\n	<li><strong><b></b></strong><b>Faster, Cooler Storage</b>: Flash storage is becoming increasingly popular for a wide range of data center requirements.</li>\r\n	<li><strong><b></b></strong><b>The Year of Unified Storage</b>: Systems blending block, file and object storage key to realizing potential of virtualization and cloud.</li>\r\n	<li><strong><b></b></strong><b>File Sharing in the Cloud</b>: Online file-sharing solutions allow organizations to reap the benefits of easy file sharing and collaboration in the cloud.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nTo join our mailing list send an email to marketing_at_eGroup-us_dot_com.','The eGroup Advantage','','inherit','open','open','','6105-revision-v1','','','2013-05-23 10:48:00','2013-05-23 14:48:00','',6105,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/05/6105-revision-39/',0,'revision','',0),(8170,2,'2013-05-23 10:48:48','2013-05-23 14:48:48','Check out the current online issue of <em>The eGroup Advantage</em>, \"Growth Plan Pays Off for 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Now that the Response Headers are in place, the server is much more responsive and crawls take a fraction of the time that they did before!  In addition, this issue applies to SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, and SharePoint 2013.','SharePoint - Search Issues','','publish','open','open','','sharepoint-search-issues','','','2013-06-03 09:47:31','2013-06-03 13:47:31','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8180',0,'post','',1),(8173,40,'2013-05-23 11:07:58','2013-05-23 15:07:58','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Rob-Evans.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8174\" alt=\"Rob Evans\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Rob-Evans-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n[\"First Day...Four Questions\" will be an ongoing blog series throughout 2013 as we on-board dozens of new team members. We want you to understand what makes our new colleagues tick. 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Anything to be in the business.\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>What’s your headline?</b></span>\n\nThe expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. – Confucius\n\n&nbsp;','First Day...Four Questions: Rob Evans, Technical Project Manager','','inherit','open','open','','8173-revision','','','2013-05-23 11:05:26','2013-05-23 15:05:26','',8173,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/05/8173-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8176,40,'2013-05-23 11:06:16','2013-05-23 15:06:16','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Rob-Evans.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8174\" alt=\"Rob Evans\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Rob-Evans-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n[\"First Day...Four Questions\" will be an ongoing blog series throughout 2013 as we on-board dozens of new team members. We want you to understand what makes our new colleagues tick. And what drives them to be \"serious competitors.\" We hope you enjoy.]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>Why eGroup?</b></span>\r\n\r\nI wanted to be part of company on the cutting edge of technology but one that is also focused on solutions for the customer and not just the selling the latest and greatest toy. Also, the culture at eGroup is amazing, they truly want you to be a “thinker” and not just a “doer,” and I really like that. After meeting everyone my first couple of days, I knew I was at the right place.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>What makes you a serious competitor?</b></span>\r\n\r\nI enjoy a good challenge and I take a lot of pride in being able to solve problems. I strive to make a difference each and every day I’m in the office. 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Anything to be in the business.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>What’s your headline?</b></span>\r\n\r\nThe expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. – Confucius\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','First Day...Four Questions: Rob Evans, Technical Project Manager','','inherit','open','open','','8173-revision-2','','','2013-05-23 11:06:16','2013-05-23 15:06:16','',8173,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/05/8173-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8177,40,'2013-05-23 11:07:32','2013-05-23 15:07:32','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Rob-Evans.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8174\" alt=\"Rob Evans\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Rob-Evans-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n[\"First Day...Four Questions\" will be an ongoing blog series throughout 2013 as we on-board dozens of new team members. We want you to understand what makes our new colleagues tick. And what drives them to be \"serious competitors.\" We hope you enjoy.]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>Why eGroup?</b></span>\r\n\r\nI wanted to be part of company on the cutting edge of technology but one that is also focused on solutions for the customer and not just the selling the latest and greatest toy. Also, the culture at eGroup is amazing, they truly want you to be a “thinker” and not just a “doer,” and I really like that. After meeting everyone my first couple of days, I knew I was at the right place.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>What makes you a serious competitor?</b></span>\r\n\r\nI enjoy a good challenge and I take a lot of pride in being able to solve problems. I strive to make a difference each and every day I’m in the office. Be it helping to solve an issue for a client or helping a teammate with a problem, I try to remember that my customers are both internal and external to the company.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>If you weren’t in Tech what would you be doing?</b></span>\r\n\r\nI’m an avid motorcycle rider, so I’d probably be doing something in that field. Either on the mechanical side or just selling them. Anything to be in the business.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>What’s your headline?</b></span>\r\n\r\nThe expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. – Confucius\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','First Day...Four Questions: Rob Evans, Technical Project Manager','','inherit','open','open','','8173-revision-3','','','2013-05-23 11:07:32','2013-05-23 15:07:32','',8173,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/05/8173-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8178,40,'2013-05-23 11:07:38','2013-05-23 15:07:38','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Rob-Evans.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8174\" alt=\"Rob Evans\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Rob-Evans-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n[\"First Day...Four Questions\" will be an ongoing blog series throughout 2013 as we on-board dozens of new team members. We want you to understand what makes our new colleagues tick. And what drives them to be \"serious competitors.\" We hope you enjoy.]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>Why eGroup?</b></span>\r\n\r\nI wanted to be part of company on the cutting edge of technology but one that is also focused on solutions for the customer and not just the selling the latest and greatest toy. Also, the culture at eGroup is amazing, they truly want you to be a “thinker” and not just a “doer,” and I really like that. After meeting everyone my first couple of days, I knew I was at the right place.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>What makes you a serious competitor?</b></span>\r\n\r\nI enjoy a good challenge and I take a lot of pride in being able to solve problems. I strive to make a difference each and every day I’m in the office. Be it helping to solve an issue for a client or helping a teammate with a problem, I try to remember that my customers are both internal and external to the company.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>If you weren’t in Tech what would you be doing?</b></span>\r\n\r\nI’m an avid motorcycle rider, so I’d probably be doing something in that field. Either on the mechanical side or just selling them. Anything to be in the business.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>What’s your headline?</b></span>\r\n\r\nThe expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. – Confucius\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','First Day...Four Questions: Rob Evans, Technical Project Manager','','inherit','open','open','','8173-revision-4','','','2013-05-23 11:07:38','2013-05-23 15:07:38','',8173,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/05/8173-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8179,40,'2013-05-23 11:09:02','2013-05-23 15:09:02','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Rob-Evans.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8174\" alt=\"Rob Evans\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Rob-Evans-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\n[\"First Day...Four Questions\" will be an ongoing blog series throughout 2013 as we on-board dozens of new team members. We want you to understand what makes our new colleagues tick. And what drives them to be \"serious competitors.\" We hope you enjoy.]\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>Why eGroup?</b></span>\n\nI wanted to be part of company on the cutting edge of technology but one that is also focused on solutions for the customer and not just the selling the latest and greatest toy. Also, the culture at eGroup is amazing, they truly want you to be a “thinker” and not just a “doer,” and I really like that. After meeting everyone my first couple of days, I knew I was at the right place.\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>What makes you a serious competitor?</b></span>\n\nI enjoy a good challenge and I take a lot of pride in being able to solve problems. I strive to make a difference each and every day I’m in the office. Be it helping to solve an issue for a client or helping a teammate with a problem, I try to remember that my customers are both internal and external to the company.\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>If you weren’t in Tech what would you be doing?</b></span>\n\nI’m an avid motorcycle rider, so I’d probably be doing something in that field. Either on the mechanical side or just selling them. Anything to be in the business.\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>What’s your headline?</b></span>\n\nThe expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. – Confucius\n\n&nbsp;','First Day...Four Questions: Rob Evans, Technical Project Manager','','inherit','open','open','','8173-autosave','','','2013-05-23 11:09:02','2013-05-23 15:09:02','',8173,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/05/8173-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8182,23,'2013-06-03 09:45:59','2013-06-03 13:45:59','I recently had an issue with a SharePoint Server 2007 farm where the Search service was completely ignoring an entire document library on one of the sites. It was the only issue that we were aware of at the time and it was very odd. We engaged with Microsoft to try to solve the issue. After what seemed like a very long time, we finally solved it.\n\nThe answer: Check Response Headers in IIS for your SharePoint Web Applications and ensure that the MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices header is listed with a value that matches your farm\'s build number (ie. 12.0.0.6653).\n\nThe SharePoint Search service checks Response Headers to identify whether the site is a SharePoint site or not. If this Response Header is not detected, then it will be crawled like a normal site. When a non-SharePoint site is crawled, things like permissions, visibility settings, etc are ignored and some content may not be crawled at all. This was the issue we ran into.\n\nBefore adding the Response Header, our CPU was getting maxed out more than normal and crawls were taking a very long time. Now that the Response Headers are in place, the server is much more responsive and crawls take a fraction of the time that they did before!','SharePoint - Search Issues','','inherit','open','open','','8180-revision','','','2013-06-03 09:45:59','2013-06-03 13:45:59','',8180,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8180-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8183,23,'2013-06-03 09:46:32','2013-06-03 13:46:32','I recently had an issue with a SharePoint Server 2007 farm where the Search service was completely ignoring an entire document library on one of the sites. It was the only issue that we were aware of at the time and it was very odd. We engaged with Microsoft to try to solve the issue. After what seemed like a very long time, we finally solved it.\r\n\r\nThe answer: Check Response Headers in IIS for your SharePoint Web Applications and ensure that the MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices header is listed with a value that matches your farm\'s build number (ie. 12.0.0.6653).\r\n\r\nThe SharePoint Search service checks Response Headers to identify whether the site is a SharePoint site or not. If this Response Header is not detected, then it will be crawled like a normal site. When a non-SharePoint site is crawled, things like permissions, visibility settings, etc are ignored and some content may not be crawled at all. This was the issue we ran into.\r\n\r\nBefore adding the Response Header, our CPU was getting maxed out more than normal and crawls were taking a very long time. Now that the Response Headers are in place, the server is much more responsive and crawls take a fraction of the time that they did before!','SharePoint - Search Issues','','inherit','open','open','','8180-revision-2','','','2013-06-03 09:46:32','2013-06-03 13:46:32','',8180,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8180-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8185,40,'2013-06-03 15:32:20','2013-06-03 19:32:20','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8188 alignnone\" alt=\"CRN\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSurely the topic of infrastructure convergence will come up at this week\'s VMware User Summit in Charlotte. (By the way, come see us at Booth #27, or at 2:00 p.m. in Room 213 A talking about cloud security with Trend Micro or in the Labs in Room 211 AB)\r\n\r\neGroup\'s Technical Consultant, Jeffrey Flowers, was quoted extensively throughout CRN\'s feature, \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\"\r\n\r\nBelow is a short blurb of what Jeffrey had to say.\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For customers, converged infrastructure has shifted the conversation away from the actual components in the data center to a focus on reducing infrastructure complexity, said Jeffrey Flowers, technical consultant at eGroup, a Mount Pleasant, S.C.-based solution provider.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"These conversations have shifted to one that optimizes the infrastructure and creates a much more simple-to-manage, simple-to-scale-up, and simple-to-scale-out architecture and platform,\" Flowers said.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Less equipment means less cost and fewer maintenance contracts, Flowers said. \"Fewer moving parts and fewer steps equals fewer administrators to manage the platform,\" he said. \"Streamlining the administrative and operational costs for customers allows those extra administrators to focus their attention on adding additional value to the business with other IT initiatives that simply fell to the wayside before.</p>\r\nClick \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\" to hear more insight from Jeffrey.','eGroup Press Coverage: CRN, Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?','','publish','open','open','','egroup-press-coverage-crn-converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off','','','2013-06-03 15:32:20','2013-06-03 19:32:20','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8185',0,'post','',0),(8216,40,'2012-02-23 15:06:43','2012-02-23 15:06:43','Our team of professionals are dedicated to ensuring our client needs are not only met but exceeded. We appreciate the opportunity to tackle unique challenges for all our our clients and have highlighted some of the solutions we have helped implement and the results realized.\r\n\r\nDo any of these challenges sound familiar or do the solutions look appealing? If so, please contact us so we can help design the right solution for you and your organization.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/featured-case-studies\">Click here to see a few of the most recently published case studies featuring eGroup customers!</a>','Our Work','','inherit','open','open','','26-revision-11','','','2012-02-23 15:06:43','2012-02-23 15:06:43','',26,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/02/26-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(8188,40,'2013-06-03 15:30:17','2013-06-03 19:30:17','','images','','inherit','open','open','','images-3','','','2013-06-03 15:30:17','2013-06-03 19:30:17','',8185,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(8189,40,'2013-06-03 15:27:53','2013-06-03 19:27:53','&nbsp;\n\nSurely the topic of infrastructure convergence will come up at this week\'s VMware User Summit in Charlotte. (By the way, come see us at Booth #27, or at 2:00 p.m. in Room 213 A talking about cloud security with Trend Micro or in the Labs in Room 211 AB)\n\neGroup\'s Technical Consultant, Jeffrey Flowers, was quoted extensively throughout CRN\'s feature, \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\"\n\nBelow is a short blurb of what Jeffrey had to say.\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For customers, converged infrastructure has shifted the conversation away from the actual components in the data center to a focus on reducing infrastructure complexity, said Jeffrey Flowers, technical consultant at eGroup, a Mount Pleasant, S.C.-based solution provider.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"These conversations have shifted to one that optimizes the infrastructure and creates a much more simple-to-manage, simple-to-scale-up, and simple-to-scale-out architecture and platform,\" Flowers said.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Less equipment means less cost and fewer maintenance contracts, Flowers said. \"Fewer moving parts and fewer steps equals fewer administrators to manage the platform,\" he said. \"Streamlining the administrative and operational costs for customers allows those extra administrators to focus their attention on adding additional value to the business with other IT initiatives that simply fell to the wayside before.</p>\nClick \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\" to hear more insight from Jeffrey.','eGroup Press Coverage: CRN, Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?','','inherit','open','open','','8185-revision-v1','','','2013-06-03 15:27:53','2013-06-03 19:27:53','',8185,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8185-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8190,40,'2013-06-03 15:30:54','2013-06-03 19:30:54','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8188 alignleft\" alt=\"CRN\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Surely the topic of infrastructure convergence will come up at this week\'s VMware User Summit in Charlotte. (By the way, come see us at Booth #27, or at 2:00 p.m. in Room 213 A talking about cloud security with Trend Micro or in the Labs in Room 211 AB)\r\n\r\neGroup\'s Technical Consultant, Jeffrey Flowers, was quoted extensively throughout CRN\'s feature, \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\"\r\n\r\nBelow is a short blurb of what Jeffrey had to say.\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For customers, converged infrastructure has shifted the conversation away from the actual components in the data center to a focus on reducing infrastructure complexity, said Jeffrey Flowers, technical consultant at eGroup, a Mount Pleasant, S.C.-based solution provider.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"These conversations have shifted to one that optimizes the infrastructure and creates a much more simple-to-manage, simple-to-scale-up, and simple-to-scale-out architecture and platform,\" Flowers said.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Less equipment means less cost and fewer maintenance contracts, Flowers said. \"Fewer moving parts and fewer steps equals fewer administrators to manage the platform,\" he said. \"Streamlining the administrative and operational costs for customers allows those extra administrators to focus their attention on adding additional value to the business with other IT initiatives that simply fell to the wayside before.</p>\r\nClick \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\" to hear more insight from Jeffrey.','eGroup Press Coverage: CRN, Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?','','inherit','open','open','','8185-revision-v1','','','2013-06-03 15:30:54','2013-06-03 19:30:54','',8185,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8185-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8191,40,'2013-06-03 15:31:00','2013-06-03 19:31:00','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8188 alignleft\" alt=\"CRN\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Surely the topic of infrastructure convergence will come up at this week\'s VMware User Summit in Charlotte. (By the way, come see us at Booth #27, or at 2:00 p.m. in Room 213 A talking about cloud security with Trend Micro or in the Labs in Room 211 AB)\r\n\r\neGroup\'s Technical Consultant, Jeffrey Flowers, was quoted extensively throughout CRN\'s feature, \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\"\r\n\r\nBelow is a short blurb of what Jeffrey had to say.\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For customers, converged infrastructure has shifted the conversation away from the actual components in the data center to a focus on reducing infrastructure complexity, said Jeffrey Flowers, technical consultant at eGroup, a Mount Pleasant, S.C.-based solution provider.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"These conversations have shifted to one that optimizes the infrastructure and creates a much more simple-to-manage, simple-to-scale-up, and simple-to-scale-out architecture and platform,\" Flowers said.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Less equipment means less cost and fewer maintenance contracts, Flowers said. \"Fewer moving parts and fewer steps equals fewer administrators to manage the platform,\" he said. \"Streamlining the administrative and operational costs for customers allows those extra administrators to focus their attention on adding additional value to the business with other IT initiatives that simply fell to the wayside before.</p>\r\nClick \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\" to hear more insight from Jeffrey.','eGroup Press Coverage: CRN, Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?','','inherit','open','open','','8185-revision-v1','','','2013-06-03 15:31:00','2013-06-03 19:31:00','',8185,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8185-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8192,40,'2013-06-03 15:31:29','2013-06-03 19:31:29','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8188 alignnone\" alt=\"CRN\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Surely the topic of infrastructure convergence will come up at this week\'s VMware User Summit in Charlotte. (By the way, come see us at Booth #27, or at 2:00 p.m. in Room 213 A talking about cloud security with Trend Micro or in the Labs in Room 211 AB)\r\n\r\neGroup\'s Technical Consultant, Jeffrey Flowers, was quoted extensively throughout CRN\'s feature, \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\"\r\n\r\nBelow is a short blurb of what Jeffrey had to say.\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For customers, converged infrastructure has shifted the conversation away from the actual components in the data center to a focus on reducing infrastructure complexity, said Jeffrey Flowers, technical consultant at eGroup, a Mount Pleasant, S.C.-based solution provider.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"These conversations have shifted to one that optimizes the infrastructure and creates a much more simple-to-manage, simple-to-scale-up, and simple-to-scale-out architecture and platform,\" Flowers said.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Less equipment means less cost and fewer maintenance contracts, Flowers said. \"Fewer moving parts and fewer steps equals fewer administrators to manage the platform,\" he said. \"Streamlining the administrative and operational costs for customers allows those extra administrators to focus their attention on adding additional value to the business with other IT initiatives that simply fell to the wayside before.</p>\r\nClick \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\" to hear more insight from Jeffrey.','eGroup Press Coverage: CRN, Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?','','inherit','open','open','','8185-revision-v1','','','2013-06-03 15:31:29','2013-06-03 19:31:29','',8185,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8185-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8193,40,'2013-06-03 15:31:35','2013-06-03 19:31:35','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8188 alignnone\" alt=\"CRN\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Surely the topic of infrastructure convergence will come up at this week\'s VMware User Summit in Charlotte. (By the way, come see us at Booth #27, or at 2:00 p.m. in Room 213 A talking about cloud security with Trend Micro or in the Labs in Room 211 AB)\r\n\r\neGroup\'s Technical Consultant, Jeffrey Flowers, was quoted extensively throughout CRN\'s feature, \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\"\r\n\r\nBelow is a short blurb of what Jeffrey had to say.\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For customers, converged infrastructure has shifted the conversation away from the actual components in the data center to a focus on reducing infrastructure complexity, said Jeffrey Flowers, technical consultant at eGroup, a Mount Pleasant, S.C.-based solution provider.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"These conversations have shifted to one that optimizes the infrastructure and creates a much more simple-to-manage, simple-to-scale-up, and simple-to-scale-out architecture and platform,\" Flowers said.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Less equipment means less cost and fewer maintenance contracts, Flowers said. \"Fewer moving parts and fewer steps equals fewer administrators to manage the platform,\" he said. \"Streamlining the administrative and operational costs for customers allows those extra administrators to focus their attention on adding additional value to the business with other IT initiatives that simply fell to the wayside before.</p>\r\nClick \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\" to hear more insight from Jeffrey.','eGroup Press Coverage: CRN, Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?','','inherit','open','open','','8185-revision-v1','','','2013-06-03 15:31:35','2013-06-03 19:31:35','',8185,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8185-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8194,40,'2013-06-03 15:31:49','2013-06-03 19:31:49','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8188 alignnone\" alt=\"CRN\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSurely the topic of infrastructure convergence will come up at this week\'s VMware User Summit in Charlotte. (By the way, come see us at Booth #27, or at 2:00 p.m. in Room 213 A talking about cloud security with Trend Micro or in the Labs in Room 211 AB)\r\n\r\neGroup\'s Technical Consultant, Jeffrey Flowers, was quoted extensively throughout CRN\'s feature, \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\"\r\n\r\nBelow is a short blurb of what Jeffrey had to say.\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For customers, converged infrastructure has shifted the conversation away from the actual components in the data center to a focus on reducing infrastructure complexity, said Jeffrey Flowers, technical consultant at eGroup, a Mount Pleasant, S.C.-based solution provider.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"These conversations have shifted to one that optimizes the infrastructure and creates a much more simple-to-manage, simple-to-scale-up, and simple-to-scale-out architecture and platform,\" Flowers said.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Less equipment means less cost and fewer maintenance contracts, Flowers said. \"Fewer moving parts and fewer steps equals fewer administrators to manage the platform,\" he said. \"Streamlining the administrative and operational costs for customers allows those extra administrators to focus their attention on adding additional value to the business with other IT initiatives that simply fell to the wayside before.</p>\r\nClick \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\" to hear more insight from Jeffrey.','eGroup Press Coverage: CRN, Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?','','inherit','open','open','','8185-revision-v1','','','2013-06-03 15:31:49','2013-06-03 19:31:49','',8185,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8185-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(8195,40,'2013-06-03 15:31:55','2013-06-03 19:31:55','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8188 alignnone\" alt=\"CRN\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/images-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSurely the topic of infrastructure convergence will come up at this week\'s VMware User Summit in Charlotte. (By the way, come see us at Booth #27, or at 2:00 p.m. in Room 213 A talking about cloud security with Trend Micro or in the Labs in Room 211 AB)\r\n\r\neGroup\'s Technical Consultant, Jeffrey Flowers, was quoted extensively throughout CRN\'s feature, \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\"\r\n\r\nBelow is a short blurb of what Jeffrey had to say.\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For customers, converged infrastructure has shifted the conversation away from the actual components in the data center to a focus on reducing infrastructure complexity, said Jeffrey Flowers, technical consultant at eGroup, a Mount Pleasant, S.C.-based solution provider.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"These conversations have shifted to one that optimizes the infrastructure and creates a much more simple-to-manage, simple-to-scale-up, and simple-to-scale-out architecture and platform,\" Flowers said.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Less equipment means less cost and fewer maintenance contracts, Flowers said. \"Fewer moving parts and fewer steps equals fewer administrators to manage the platform,\" he said. \"Streamlining the administrative and operational costs for customers allows those extra administrators to focus their attention on adding additional value to the business with other IT initiatives that simply fell to the wayside before.</p>\r\nClick \"<a href=\"http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240155540/converged-infrastructure-bets-are-in-where-are-they-paying-off.htm\">Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?</a>\" to hear more insight from Jeffrey.','eGroup Press Coverage: CRN, Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?','','inherit','open','open','','8185-revision-v1','','','2013-06-03 15:31:55','2013-06-03 19:31:55','',8185,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8185-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(8196,40,'2013-02-12 10:37:14','2013-02-12 15:37:14','When you think about the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon, does it send shivers up and down your spine?\r\n\r\nIf you answered \"no\" - great! Sounds like you have everything under control. But, if you answered, \"yes\" - you\'re not alone according to our research.\r\n\r\nThese days, business and IT leadership wake up in a world where one-third of young employees use three different devices. For many, it\'s a nightmare because there’s a gang of monsters hiding under the bed (i.e. security, cost, management, etc.). No wonder 73% of UK IT directors surveyed said they are concerned BYOD will cause IT costs to \"spiral out of control.\" Their fears are supported by Aberdeen Group’s finding that a company with 1,000 mobile devices spends an extra $170,000 per year, on average, when it uses a BYOD approach.\r\n\r\nYet, most IT leaders aren’t disputing the business case for BYOD.\r\n\r\nWith all this Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, filling the market, we\'re pleased to offer advice and practical solutions in the latest eGroup eBook, \"<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>7 Steps to a Sensible BYOD Strategy (So You Can Sleep at Night)</strong></span>.\" In it, you will learn how to devise and implement an effective BYOD strategy. Enjoy - and don\'t let those gang of monsters win!\r\n\r\n[gview file=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Seven-Steps-to-a-Sensible-BYOD-Strategy_Feb-2013.pdf\"]','eBook: 7 Steps to a Sensible BYOD Strategy (So You Can Sleep at Night)','','inherit','open','open','','7883-revision-7','','','2013-02-12 10:37:14','2013-02-12 15:37:14','',7883,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/02/7883-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(8197,40,'2013-06-04 09:42:39','2013-06-04 13:42:39','When you think about the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon, does it send shivers up and down your spine?\r\n\r\nIf you answered \"no\" - great! Sounds like you have everything under control. But, if you answered, \"yes\" - you\'re not alone according to our research.\r\n\r\nThese days, business and IT leadership wake up in a world where one-third of young employees use three different devices. For many, it\'s a nightmare because there’s a gang of monsters hiding under the bed (i.e. security, cost, management, etc.). No wonder 73% of UK IT directors surveyed said they are concerned BYOD will cause IT costs to \"spiral out of control.\" Their fears are supported by Aberdeen Group’s finding that a company with 1,000 mobile devices spends an extra $170,000 per year, on average, when it uses a BYOD approach.\r\n\r\nYet, most IT leaders aren’t disputing the business case for BYOD.\r\n\r\nWith all this Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, filling the market, we\'re pleased to offer advice and practical solutions in the latest eGroup eBook, \"<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>7 Steps to a Sensible BYOD Strategy (So You Can Sleep at Night)</strong></span>.\" In it, you will learn how to devise and implement an effective BYOD strategy. Enjoy - and don\'t let those gang of monsters win!\r\n\r\n[gview file=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Seven-Steps-to-a-Sensible-BYOD-Strategy_Feb-2013.pdf\"]','eBook: 7 Steps to a Sensible BYOD Strategy (So You Can Sleep at Night)','','inherit','open','open','','7883-revision-8','','','2013-06-04 09:42:39','2013-06-04 13:42:39','',7883,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/7883-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(8202,40,'2013-06-04 10:15:25','2013-06-04 14:15:25','When you think about the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon, does it send shivers up and down your spine?\r\n\r\nIf you answered \"no\" - great! Sounds like you have everything under control. But, if you answered, \"yes\" - you\'re not alone according to our research.\r\n\r\nThese days, business and IT leadership wake up in a world where one-third of young employees use three different devices. For many, it\'s a nightmare because there’s a gang of monsters hiding under the bed (i.e. security, cost, management, etc.). No wonder 73% of UK IT directors surveyed said they are concerned BYOD will cause IT costs to \"spiral out of control.\" Their fears are supported by Aberdeen Group’s finding that a company with 1,000 mobile devices spends an extra $170,000 per year, on average, when it uses a BYOD approach.\r\n\r\nYet, most IT leaders aren’t disputing the business case for BYOD.\r\n\r\nWith all this Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, filling the market, we\'re pleased to offer advice and practical solutions in the latest eGroup eBook, \"<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>7 Steps to a Sensible BYOD Strategy (So You Can Sleep at Night)</strong></span>.\" In it, you will learn how to devise and implement an effective BYOD strategy. Enjoy - and don\'t let those gang of monsters win!','eBook: 7 Steps to a Sensible BYOD Strategy (So You Can Sleep at Night)','','inherit','open','open','','7883-revision-13','','','2013-06-04 10:15:25','2013-06-04 14:15:25','',7883,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/7883-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(8199,40,'2013-06-04 10:10:51','2013-06-04 14:10:51','When you think about the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon, does it send shivers up and down your spine?\r\n\r\nIf you answered \"no\" - great! Sounds like you have everything under control. But, if you answered, \"yes\" - you\'re not alone according to our research.\r\n\r\nThese days, business and IT leadership wake up in a world where one-third of young employees use three different devices. For many, it\'s a nightmare because there’s a gang of monsters hiding under the bed (i.e. security, cost, management, etc.). No wonder 73% of UK IT directors surveyed said they are concerned BYOD will cause IT costs to \"spiral out of control.\" Their fears are supported by Aberdeen Group’s finding that a company with 1,000 mobile devices spends an extra $170,000 per year, on average, when it uses a BYOD approach.\r\n\r\nYet, most IT leaders aren’t disputing the business case for BYOD.\r\n\r\nWith all this Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, filling the market, we\'re pleased to offer advice and practical solutions in the latest eGroup eBook, \"<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>7 Steps to a Sensible BYOD Strategy (So You Can Sleep at Night)</strong></span>.\" In it, you will learn how to devise and implement an effective BYOD strategy. Enjoy - and don\'t let those gang of monsters win!\r\n\r\n[gview file=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Seven-Steps-to-a-Sensible-BYOD-Strategy_Feb-2013.pdf\"]','eBook: 7 Steps to a Sensible BYOD Strategy (So You Can Sleep at Night)','','inherit','open','open','','7883-revision-10','','','2013-06-04 10:10:51','2013-06-04 14:10:51','',7883,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/7883-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(8200,40,'2013-06-04 10:11:34','2013-06-04 14:11:34','When you think about the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon, does it send shivers up and down your spine?\r\n\r\nIf you answered \"no\" - great! Sounds like you have everything under control. But, if you answered, \"yes\" - you\'re not alone according to our research.\r\n\r\nThese days, business and IT leadership wake up in a world where one-third of young employees use three different devices. For many, it\'s a nightmare because there’s a gang of monsters hiding under the bed (i.e. security, cost, management, etc.). No wonder 73% of UK IT directors surveyed said they are concerned BYOD will cause IT costs to \"spiral out of control.\" Their fears are supported by Aberdeen Group’s finding that a company with 1,000 mobile devices spends an extra $170,000 per year, on average, when it uses a BYOD approach.\r\n\r\nYet, most IT leaders aren’t disputing the business case for BYOD.\r\n\r\nWith all this Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, filling the market, we\'re pleased to offer advice and practical solutions in the latest eGroup eBook, \"<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>7 Steps to a Sensible BYOD Strategy (So You Can Sleep at Night)</strong></span>.\" In it, you will learn how to devise and implement an effective BYOD strategy. Enjoy - and don\'t let those gang of monsters win!\r\n\r\n[gview file=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Seven-Steps-to-a-Sensible-BYOD-Strategy_Feb-2013.pdf\"]','eBook: 7 Steps to a Sensible BYOD Strategy (So You Can Sleep at Night)','','inherit','open','open','','7883-revision-11','','','2013-06-04 10:11:34','2013-06-04 14:11:34','',7883,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/7883-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(8201,40,'2013-06-04 10:15:05','2013-06-04 14:15:05','When you think about the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon, does it send shivers up and down your spine?\r\n\r\nIf you answered \"no\" - great! Sounds like you have everything under control. But, if you answered, \"yes\" - you\'re not alone according to our research.\r\n\r\nThese days, business and IT leadership wake up in a world where one-third of young employees use three different devices. For many, it\'s a nightmare because there’s a gang of monsters hiding under the bed (i.e. security, cost, management, etc.). No wonder 73% of UK IT directors surveyed said they are concerned BYOD will cause IT costs to \"spiral out of control.\" Their fears are supported by Aberdeen Group’s finding that a company with 1,000 mobile devices spends an extra $170,000 per year, on average, when it uses a BYOD approach.\r\n\r\nYet, most IT leaders aren’t disputing the business case for BYOD.\r\n\r\nWith all this Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, filling the market, we\'re pleased to offer advice and practical solutions in the latest eGroup eBook, \"<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>7 Steps to a Sensible BYOD Strategy (So You Can Sleep at Night)</strong></span>.\" In it, you will learn how to devise and implement an effective BYOD strategy. Enjoy - and don\'t let those gang of monsters win!\r\n\r\n[gview file=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Seven-Steps-to-a-Sensible-BYOD-Strategy_Feb-2013.pdf\"]','eBook: 7 Steps to a Sensible BYOD Strategy (So You Can Sleep at Night)','','inherit','open','open','','7883-revision-12','','','2013-06-04 10:15:05','2013-06-04 14:15:05','',7883,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/7883-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(8203,40,'2013-06-04 10:17:07','2013-06-04 14:17:07','When you think about the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon, does it send shivers up and down your spine?\r\n\r\nIf you answered \"no\" - great! Sounds like you have everything under control. But, if you answered, \"yes\" - you\'re not alone according to our research.\r\n\r\nThese days, business and IT leadership wake up in a world where one-third of young employees use three different devices. For many, it\'s a nightmare because there’s a gang of monsters hiding under the bed (i.e. security, cost, management, etc.). No wonder 73% of UK IT directors surveyed said they are concerned BYOD will cause IT costs to \"spiral out of control.\" Their fears are supported by Aberdeen Group’s finding that a company with 1,000 mobile devices spends an extra $170,000 per year, on average, when it uses a BYOD approach.\r\n\r\nYet, most IT leaders aren’t disputing the business case for BYOD.\r\n\r\nWith all this Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, filling the market, we\'re pleased to offer advice and practical solutions in the latest eGroup eBook, \"<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>7 Steps to a Sensible BYOD Strategy (So You Can Sleep at Night)</strong></span>.\" In it, you will learn how to devise and implement an effective BYOD strategy. 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For many, it\'s a nightmare because there’s a gang of monsters hiding under the bed (i.e. security, cost, management, etc.). No wonder 73% of UK IT directors surveyed said they are concerned BYOD will cause IT costs to \"spiral out of control.\" Their fears are supported by Aberdeen Group’s finding that a company with 1,000 mobile devices spends an extra $170,000 per year, on average, when it uses a BYOD approach.\r\n\r\nYet, most IT leaders aren’t disputing the business case for BYOD.\r\n\r\nWith all this Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, filling the market, we\'re pleased to offer advice and practical solutions in the latest eGroup eBook, \"<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>7 Steps to a Sensible BYOD Strategy (So You Can Sleep at Night)</strong></span>.\" In it, you will learn how to devise and implement an effective BYOD strategy. 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Simply put, eGroup is a visionary company with the ability to execute swiftly in a rapidly changing information technology landscape.\r\n\r\nDesigning and deploying innovative and cost-effective technology solutions that enable customers to achieve a competitive advantage keeps eGroup prominently on the forefront of technology – especially as the industry shifts to the uncharted new territory of cloud computing and secure application and information delivery.\r\n<blockquote>eGroup reduces the complexity of our customer’s IT environments, while dramatically lowering costs and enabling a flexible, agile IT service delivery model that better supports both users and business needs.</blockquote>\r\nAs users demand consumer-style access to data and applications on any device, anywhere, at any time, the eGroup vSpecialist Team, staffed with experts in both private and public cloud technologies, are designing and delivering these solutions. 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To deliver these solutions, eGroup has strategic partnerships with IT Industry leaders that include VMware, Cisco, and EMC, along with Citrix, Microsoft, and Trend Micro.\r\n\r\nWith the proliferation of end user devices like iPads, iPhones, Droids, MacBooks and Blackberrys, executives are demanding secure access to their applications and data while also expecting optimal performance. eGroup is unique in our ability to deliver these services rapidly to our customers. We excel in our ability to deliver information technology solutions as quickly as executives define the need for them.\r\n\r\neGroup provides a comprehensive portfolio of solutions spanning cloud infrastructure and management, cloud application platforms, and end-user computing, supporting and accelerating cloud adoption with our customers. 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Our modular designs are highly scalable to meet growth needs, provide investment protection, and lower total cost of ownership.\r\n\r\nCloud computing is well understood as a profound shift in the IT model, evolving over time and having long-lasting implications for how IT builds applications, runs and delivers those applications, and how end users consume applications across an ever-expanding range of devices. Cloud has the potential to change everything about IT, allowing enterprise IT to create a competitive advantage by intelligently and dynamically anticipating and responding to business needs.\r\n\r\neGroup approaches cloud computing as a model that must be flexible and adaptive to the specific needs of each customer. Each individual business will approach cloud computing with unique goals, assets, timelines and budgets. Our message to customers is clear: it’s not about moving your business to somebody else’s cloud. 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This will increase productivity, flexibility and agility without compromising security and operational efficiency.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\"Any application, Any device, Anywhere\" Solutions</li>\r\n	<li>iPad, iPhone, MacBook, Thin Client, Zero Client, Tablet, PC, etc.</li>\r\n	<li>Information Liberation and Mobility Services</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>End-User Freedom. IT Control.</strong>\r\n\r\nEnd-user computing is creating a modern user-centric approach to personal computing that delivers secure access to applications and data from any device, anywhere and when a user needs it. Enabling freedom of choice of devices for end users, while making it easier for IT to provision and securely manage users and sensitive data.\r\n\r\nA lot has been made about the profound changes Cloud computing has been making to IT and the way services are delivered. Less has been said about how many of these same changes and trends are very much influencing the world of end-user computing. What are these forces of change? One of them is the new world of heterogeneous devices, their disparate operating systems and application platforms. It’s clearly no longer a Windows-only world. To drive this reality home, one only has to go into a business meeting or get on an airplane and count the number of iPads. The days when IT was able to rigidly enforce client-side device standardization are gone forever.\r\n\r\nIs your infrastructure ready to support the wave of portable devices out there in the market today? Can you deploy your applications to any device anywhere? 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href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BMH-eGroup-Cisco-Case-Study.pdf\">\"Hospital Provides Secure Virtual Desktops to Clinical Staff\"</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/VMware-Beaufort-Memorial-Hospital-12Q1-EN-Case-Study2.pdf\">\"Desktop Virtualization Eases CPOE Adoption at “Most Wired” Hospital\"</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Arrow_eGroup_CS_high.pdf\">\"eGroup Helps University Improve the Performance, Reliability and Manageability of its Storage Environment\"</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/VMware-City-of-North-Myrtle-Beach-11Q3-EN-Case-Study.pdf\">\"Beach uses VMware View to Provide Mobile Staff with Powerful Data Access using Virtual Desktops\"</a>\r\n\r\n<a 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href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BMH-eGroup-Cisco-Case-Study.pdf\">\"Hospital Provides Secure Virtual Desktops to Clinical Staff\"</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/VMware-Beaufort-Memorial-Hospital-12Q1-EN-Case-Study2.pdf\">\"Desktop Virtualization Eases CPOE Adoption at “Most Wired” Hospital\"</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Arrow_eGroup_CS_high.pdf\">\"eGroup Helps University Improve the Performance, Reliability and Manageability of its Storage Environment\"</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/VMware-City-of-North-Myrtle-Beach-11Q3-EN-Case-Study.pdf\">\"Beach uses VMware View to Provide Mobile Staff with Powerful Data Access using Virtual Desktops\"</a>\r\n\r\n<a 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href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BMH-eGroup-Cisco-Case-Study.pdf\">\"Hospital Provides Secure Virtual Desktops to Clinical Staff\"</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/VMware-Beaufort-Memorial-Hospital-12Q1-EN-Case-Study2.pdf\">\"Desktop Virtualization Eases CPOE Adoption at “Most Wired” Hospital\"</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Arrow_eGroup_CS_high.pdf\">\"eGroup Helps University Improve the Performance, Reliability and Manageability of its Storage Environment\"</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/VMware-City-of-North-Myrtle-Beach-11Q3-EN-Case-Study.pdf\">\"Beach uses VMware View to Provide Mobile Staff with Powerful Data Access using Virtual Desktops\"</a>\r\n\r\n<a 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So we\'re especially excited when we get to publicly share a successful customer project around virtualization.\r\n\r\nFor example, take International Forwarders, Inc. (IFI), a full-service international logistics management and Customs brokerage firm that manages imports and exports of products valued in the millions of dollars.\r\n\r\nAs international shipping costs and complexities have increased, the requirements for precision among IFI\'s clients have grown along with them. Even small delays or problems can have a huge ripple effect in other parts of the supply chain, which puts enormous pressure on IFI to ensure its systems are always available and working properly when needed.\r\n\r\nWhile there had not been a serious problem to date, after evaluating its then-current technology IFI recognized that the potential was there.\r\n\r\n“We had a completely physical server environment, and as a result there were a lot of single points of failure,” says Bonnie Miley, IT Supervisor at IFI. “If something were to happen it could be tough to recover quickly. We wanted to get on more current technology, and after reviewing our options we liked the flexibility and expandability that virtualization offered – particularly when it came to deploying and cloning servers. We especially liked the idea that if there was a failure in one piece of hardware or host, we could move the server to another host quickly. We also wanted to find a better data backup option than the weekly tape backups we were running.”\r\n\r\nThe ultimate goal was to create a high-availability environment that ensured systems and data could be restored quickly in the event of a failure. With a small IT staff, IFI wanted a long-term solution that would be easy to manage and update.\r\n\r\nAnd that\'s where eGroup came in to develop and design a solution to meet IFI\'s requirements. For the full scoop and details of the successful outcome, be sure to download the case study below!\r\n\r\n[gview file=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/eGroup_International-Forwarders-Case-Study.pdf\"]','eGroup Delivers Successful Virtualization & DR Project for IFI','','publish','open','open','','case-study-egroup-helps-international-forwarders-inc-ifi-build-a-high-availability-virtualized-environment','','','2013-06-12 14:05:54','2013-06-12 18:05:54','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8230',0,'post','',0),(8231,40,'2013-06-12 13:35:11','2013-06-12 17:35:11','At eGroup, we\'re all about delivering successful outcomes for our customers.\n\n&nbsp;\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Case Study: eGroup Helps International Forwarders, Inc. 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The ultimate goal was to create a high-availability environment that ensured systems and data could be restored quickly in the event of a failure. With a small IT staff, IFI wanted a long-term solution that would be easy to manage and update.\n\n“We had a completely physical server environment, and as a result there were a lot of single points of failure,” says Bonnie Miley, IT Supervisor at IFI. “If something were to happen it could be tough to recover quickly. We wanted to get on more current technology, and after reviewing our options we liked the flexibility and expandability that virtualization offered – particularly when it came to deploying and cloning servers. We especially liked the idea that if there was a failure in one piece of hardware or host, we could move the server to another host quickly. We also wanted to find a better data backup option than the weekly tape backups we were running.”\n\nRead all about the solution developed by eGroup and benefits to IFI at <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/eGroup_International-Forwarders-Case-Study.pdf\">Virtualization helps company fast-forward into high availability/disaster recovery mode</a>.','','','inherit','open','open','','8230-revision','','','2013-06-12 13:35:11','2013-06-12 17:35:11','',8230,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8230-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8232,40,'2013-06-12 13:49:38','2013-06-12 17:49:38','At eGroup, we\'re all about delivering successful outcomes for our customers. So we\'re especially excited when we get to publicly share a successful customer project.\n\nFor example, take International Forwarders, Inc. 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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-16','','','2013-05-23 10:41:44','2013-05-23 14:41:44','',6141,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/05/6141-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(8249,40,'2013-06-18 09:37:12','2013-06-18 13:37:12','<strong>General Information</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. respects the privacy of our customers, business partners and employees. We recognize the need for appropriate protections and management of your personal information that you provide to us. eGroup, Inc. has therefore established this Privacy Statement to set forth our information gathering and dissemination practices for www.egroup-us.com and www.myecloud.com.\r\n\r\n<strong>Safe Harbor Compliance</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc.’s privacy practices are in compliance with the U.S. and E.U. Safe Harbor Principles listed below:\r\n• Notice\r\n• Choice\r\n• Onward Transfer\r\n• Access\r\n• Security\r\n• Data Integrity\r\n• Enforcement\r\n\r\nInformation about the U.S. Department of Commerce Safe Harbor certification can be found at http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/.\r\n\r\n<strong>Notice</strong>\r\nThis policy applies to data that eGroup, Inc. has received either through its website, hosting services, or in the normal course of providing professional services to our customers. Data refers to information that is (a) about, or relates to, an identified or identifiable individual; (b) can be linked to that individual, and, (c) recorded. Data may include, among other things, an individual’s name, address phone number, e-mail address, social security number, or other like information.\r\n\r\nWhen visiting eGroup, Inc.’s website, we collect the following visitor information:\r\n• IP addresses – We use the visitors’ network addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers, and to administer our website.\r\n• Cookies – Visitors accessing this web site may be offered a “cookie” which can be described as small pieces of information that a web site can store in a designated file on a user’s computer for various reasons. The use of cookies enables eGroup, Inc. to analyze site traffic patterns.\r\nIn serving our customers, eGroup, Inc., stores and transmits customer information that may be regarded as private or sensitive. To establish service, customers provide eGroup, Inc. with information such as:\r\n• Customer’s name\r\n• Address\r\n• Telephone number\r\n\r\nIn the normal course of providing service, eGroup, Inc. creates and maintains:\r\n• The customer’s account status and designated customer contacts\r\n• List of purchased services\r\n\r\nIn providing hosting services, eGroup, Inc. does not collect data for processing directly from the party in possession, but enables the IT infrastructure for holding such data under strict rules of confidentiality and privacy.\r\n\r\n<strong>Choice &amp; Consent</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. does not share client information with third parties unless required by law or lawfully directed by the originating individual or organization to do so, nor does it ever use the information for a purpose incompatible with the purpose for which it was originally collected, there is no need to offer individuals the opportunity to opt out from having the information disclosed. However, should the need arise, eGroup, Inc. will provide individuals with reasonable notice and mechanisms to exercise their choice to opt-out from having their information so disclosed.\r\n\r\n<strong>Onward Transfer</strong>\r\nAs mentioned above, eGroup, Inc. does not share client information with third parties, unless required by law or lawfully directed by the originating individual or organization to do so. However, should disclosure of personal information to a third party be required, prior to such disclosure eGroup, Inc. will utilize the notice and choice principles noted above. Moreover, where the need arises, eGroup, Inc. will obtain assurances from third parties that they will safeguard that information consistent with this policy.\r\n\r\nIf eGroup, Inc. becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, personal information may be provided to the entities and advisors involved in such sale subject to a confidentiality agreement, and we will provide notice before any personal information is finally transferred as part of such merger, acquisition or sale and becomes subject to a different privacy notice.\r\n\r\n<strong>Access</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. only uses the information in a manner compatible with the purpose for which it was collected or subsequently authorized by the individual or organization. eGroup, Inc. provides customers with the opportunity to review, modify, and request removal of any personally identifiable information that the customer may have provided to eGroup, Inc.\r\n\r\n<strong>Security</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. has appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures in place to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of protected information. eGroup, Inc. will protect the confidentiality of its customers’ information, account information, and personal communications to the fullest extent possible and consistent within the law and the legitimate business interests of eGroup, Inc.\r\n\r\n<strong>Data Integrity</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. takes reasonable steps to ensure that data is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and current.\r\n\r\n<strong>Enforcement</strong>\r\nIn order to ensure compliance with the safe harbor principles, there must be readily available and affordable independent recourse mechanisms so that each individual’s complaints and disputes can be investigated and resolved. eGroup, Inc. will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes regarding use and disclosure of personal information originating from the European Union in accordance with the principles contained in this Privacy Policy. For unresolved complaints, eGroup, Inc. has agreed to binding arbitration pursuant to the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association as well as the Safe Harbor Enforcement Principle. The exclusive location for such arbitration shall be Columbia, SC, United States of America.\r\n\r\n<strong>Verification</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. will engage in periodic self-assessment to verify that it continues to be in compliance with this Privacy Statement.\r\n\r\n<strong>Contact Information</strong>\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions regarding the Privacy Statement or believe that the privacy of your personal information has not been respected, you may submit a complaint in writing to the attention of eGroup, Inc’s Office of the General Counsel, 1476 Ben Sawyer Blvd. Suite 1, Mt. 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Data refers to information that is (a) about, or relates to, an identified or identifiable individual; (b) can be linked to that individual, and, (c) recorded. Data may include, among other things, an individual’s name, address phone number, e-mail address, social security number, or other like information.\n\nWhen visiting eGroup, Inc.’s website, we collect the following visitor information:\n• IP addresses – We use the visitors’ network addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers, and to administer our website.\n• Cookies – Visitors accessing this web site may be offered a “cookie” which can be described as small pieces of information that a web site can store in a designated file on a user’s computer for various reasons. The use of cookies enables eGroup, Inc. to analyze site traffic patterns.\nIn serving our customers, eGroup, Inc., stores and transmits customer information that may be regarded as private or sensitive. To establish service, customers provide eGroup, Inc. with information such as:\n• Customer’s name\n• Address\n• Telephone number\n\nIn the normal course of providing service, eGroup, Inc. creates and maintains:\n• The customer’s account status and designated customer contacts\n• List of purchased services\n\nIn providing hosting services, eGroup, Inc. does not collect data for processing directly from the party in possession, but enables the IT infrastructure for holding such data under strict rules of confidentiality and privacy.\n\n<strong>Choice &amp; Consent</strong>\neGroup, Inc. does not share client information with third parties unless required by law or lawfully directed by the originating individual or organization to do so, nor does it ever use the information for a purpose incompatible with the purpose for which it was originally collected, there is no need to offer individuals the opportunity to opt out from having the information disclosed. However, should the need arise, eGroup, Inc. will provide individuals with reasonable notice and mechanisms to exercise their choice to opt-out from having their information so disclosed.\n\n<strong>Onward Transfer</strong>\nAs mentioned above, eGroup, Inc. does not share client information with third parties, unless required by law or lawfully directed by the originating individual or organization to do so. However, should disclosure of personal information to a third party be required, prior to such disclosure eGroup, Inc. will utilize the notice and choice principles noted above. 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Data refers to information that is (a) about, or relates to, an identified or identifiable individual; (b) can be linked to that individual, and, (c) recorded. Data may include, among other things, an individual’s name, address phone number, e-mail address, social security number, or other like information.\r\n\r\nWhen visiting eGroup, Inc.’s website, we collect the following visitor information:\r\n• IP addresses – We use the visitors’ network addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers, and to administer our website.\r\n• Cookies – Visitors accessing this web site may be offered a “cookie” which can be described as small pieces of information that a web site can store in a designated file on a user’s computer for various reasons. The use of cookies enables eGroup, Inc. to analyze site traffic patterns.\r\nIn serving our customers, eGroup, Inc., stores and transmits customer information that may be regarded as private or sensitive. To establish service, customers provide eGroup, Inc. with information such as:\r\n• Customer’s name\r\n• Address\r\n• Telephone number\r\n\r\nIn the normal course of providing service, eGroup, Inc. creates and maintains:\r\n• The customer’s account status and designated customer contacts\r\n• List of purchased services\r\n\r\nIn providing hosting services, eGroup, Inc. does not collect data for processing directly from the party in possession, but enables the IT infrastructure for holding such data under strict rules of confidentiality and privacy.\r\n\r\n<strong>Choice &amp; Consent</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. does not share client information with third parties unless required by law or lawfully directed by the originating individual or organization to do so, nor does it ever use the information for a purpose incompatible with the purpose for which it was originally collected, there is no need to offer individuals the opportunity to opt out from having the information disclosed. 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Moreover, where the need arises, eGroup, Inc. will obtain assurances from third parties that they will safeguard that information consistent with this policy.\r\n\r\nIf eGroup, Inc. becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, personal information may be provided to the entities and advisors involved in such sale subject to a confidentiality agreement, and we will provide notice before any personal information is finally transferred as part of such merger, acquisition or sale and becomes subject to a different privacy notice.\r\n\r\n<strong>Access</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. only uses the information in a manner compatible with the purpose for which it was collected or subsequently authorized by the individual or organization. eGroup, Inc. provides customers with the opportunity to review, modify, and request removal of any personally identifiable information that the customer may have provided to eGroup, Inc.\r\n\r\n<strong>Security</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. has appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures in place to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of protected information. eGroup, Inc. will protect the confidentiality of its customers’ information, account information, and personal communications to the fullest extent possible and consistent within the law and the legitimate business interests of eGroup, Inc.\r\n\r\n<strong>Data Integrity</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. takes reasonable steps to ensure that data is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and current.\r\n\r\n<strong>Enforcement</strong>\r\nIn order to ensure compliance with the safe harbor principles, there must be readily available and affordable independent recourse mechanisms so that each individual’s complaints and disputes can be investigated and resolved. eGroup, Inc. will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes regarding use and disclosure of personal information originating from the European Union in accordance with the principles contained in this Privacy Policy. For unresolved complaints, eGroup, Inc. has agreed to binding arbitration pursuant to the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association as well as the Safe Harbor Enforcement Principle. The exclusive location for such arbitration shall be Columbia, SC, United States of America.\r\n\r\n<strong>Verification</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. will engage in periodic self-assessment to verify that it continues to be in compliance with this Privacy Statement.\r\n\r\n<strong>Contact Information</strong>\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions regarding the Privacy Statement or believe that the privacy of your personal information has not been respected, you may submit a complaint in writing to the attention of eGroup, Inc’s Office of the General Counsel, 1476 Ben Sawyer Blvd. Suite 1, Mt. 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To establish service, customers provide eGroup, Inc. with information such as:\r\n• Customer’s name\r\n• Address\r\n• Telephone number\r\n\r\nIn the normal course of providing service, eGroup, Inc. creates and maintains:\r\n• The customer’s account status and designated customer contacts\r\n• List of purchased services\r\n\r\nIn providing hosting services, eGroup, Inc. does not collect data for processing directly from the party in possession, but enables the IT infrastructure for holding such data under strict rules of confidentiality and privacy.\r\n\r\n<strong>Choice &amp; Consent</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. does not share client information with third parties unless required by law or lawfully directed by the originating individual or organization to do so, nor does it ever use the information for a purpose incompatible with the purpose for which it was originally collected, there is no need to offer individuals the opportunity to opt out from having the information disclosed. 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Moreover, where the need arises, eGroup, Inc. will obtain assurances from third parties that they will safeguard that information consistent with this policy.\r\n\r\nIf eGroup, Inc. becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, personal information may be provided to the entities and advisors involved in such sale subject to a confidentiality agreement, and we will provide notice before any personal information is finally transferred as part of such merger, acquisition or sale and becomes subject to a different privacy notice.\r\n\r\n<strong>Access</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. only uses the information in a manner compatible with the purpose for which it was collected or subsequently authorized by the individual or organization. eGroup, Inc. provides customers with the opportunity to review, modify, and request removal of any personally identifiable information that the customer may have provided to eGroup, Inc.\r\n\r\n<strong>Security</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. has appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures in place to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of protected information. eGroup, Inc. will protect the confidentiality of its customers’ information, account information, and personal communications to the fullest extent possible and consistent within the law and the legitimate business interests of eGroup, Inc.\r\n\r\n<strong>Data Integrity</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. takes reasonable steps to ensure that data is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and current.\r\n\r\n<strong>Enforcement</strong>\r\nIn order to ensure compliance with the safe harbor principles, there must be readily available and affordable independent recourse mechanisms so that each individual’s complaints and disputes can be investigated and resolved. eGroup, Inc. will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes regarding use and disclosure of personal information originating from the European Union in accordance with the principles contained in this Privacy Policy. For unresolved complaints, eGroup, Inc. has agreed to binding arbitration pursuant to the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association as well as the Safe Harbor Enforcement Principle. The exclusive location for such arbitration shall be Columbia, SC, United States of America.\r\n\r\n<strong>Verification</strong>\r\neGroup, Inc. will engage in periodic self-assessment to verify that it continues to be in compliance with this Privacy Statement.\r\n\r\n<strong>Contact Information</strong>\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions regarding the Privacy Statement or believe that the privacy of your personal information has not been respected, you may submit a complaint in writing to the attention of eGroup, Inc’s Office of the General Counsel, 1476 Ben Sawyer Blvd. Suite 1, Mt. 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It simply couldn’t manage each desktop at the level needed for the company to continue offering professional, effective service to its clients.\n\nWilliams &amp; Fudge needed a scalable infrastructure and a way to alleviate the burden on the IT staff. So it looked at several solutions, but virtual desktops were the only solution that came close to meeting their requirements.\n\nWant to know how they implemented and ultimately succeeded with the project? Read the case study below.\n\n[gview file=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/eGroup-WF-Case-Study_June-2013.pdf\"]','Williams & Fudge: how to virtualize desktops the right way','','inherit','open','open','','8257-autosave','','','2013-06-24 14:07:03','2013-06-24 18:07:03','',8257,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8257-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8264,40,'2013-06-26 09:21:05','2013-06-26 13:21:05','Converged infrastructure is quickly becoming big business. Look no further than this <a href=\"http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=237979\" target=\"_blank\">November 2012 IDC study</a> which predicts overall spending on converged systems will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 54.7% from $2.0 billion in 2011 to $17.8 billion in 2016.\r\n\r\nAccording to <a href=\"http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=PRF002652\" target=\"_blank\">Jed Scaramella</a>, research manager, Enterprise Server Group, \"The use of converged systems as an alternative to traditional procurement and delivery models will continue to be one of the most important developments in the evolution of IT infrastructure market. End users and service providers alike will rely heavily on suppliers to offer converged systems, which encapsulate server, storage, networking, and management services into smaller, more easily managed and efficiency infrastructure.\"\r\n\r\nIn light of all this, we asked one of eGroup\'s Technical Consultants, Jeffrey Flowers, his thoughts on the converged space and how it pertains to our customers directly around our EMC and Cisco relationships.\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">JF: The converged infrastructure conversation could cover either protocol converged transport platforms (FC and Ethernet --&gt; FCoE) or it could relate to the integrated stack platform and how products interact with one another such as the VMware, Cisco, and EMC alliances. I’ll address each of them separately and how they impact one another.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Customer conversations in the past several years have centered around virtualization efforts and have been predominately due to their desire to manage fewer devices and create a much more simplistic infrastructure environment. An environment that is scalable, agile, and high performance is a requirement. Effectively, the goal of those conversations and goals were to reduce their capital expenditures. Less equipment means less cost and fewer maintenance contracts. These conversations have shifted to one that optimizes the infrastructure and creates a much more simple to manage, simple to scale up, and simple to scale out architecture and platform.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">How can we reduce our operational expenses? Fewer moving parts, fewer steps equals fewer administrators to manage the platform.  Streamlining the administrative and operational costs for customers allows those extra administrators to focus their attention to adding additional value to the business with other IT initiatives that simply fell to the wayside before.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is exactly where converged infrastructures have come into play during the past several years in the virtualization landscape - by combining protocol transports together (FC and Ethernet merging into FCoE) results in fewer devices and fewer interfaces / connections. What traditionally would have required redundant Ethernet <em>and </em>redundant Fibre Channel switches with redundant connections from each host have now been consolidated down into one set of redundant devices running FCoE that can handle either or both across a single pair of connections. This has resulted in lower capital expenditures for some customers and also contributes to lower operational expenditures due to fewer points of management.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This has been particularly true for eGroup and our Cisco UCS/Nexus offerings, even more so for Cisco UCS Blade platforms. In looking back just a few years, Cisco is the new comer to the server market, but has experienced great success in this area of their offerings.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">eGroup’s Cisco UCS business has seen steady growth over the past two years. By leveraging Cisco UCS Manager and Data Center Network Management tools, provisioning and management of the server environment have become incredibly simple. These tools handle firmware management, network adapter definitions and VLAN assignments, FC zoning, and BIOS settings quickly and simply. Server provisioning times, as a result, are dramatically reduced from days to just hours. With UCS blades, we no longer have to run cables for new server deployments, as the chassis is already cabled to the Nexus switching infrastructure. Even EMC storage arrays can communicate using traditional or converged protocols – with FC, iSCSI, and FCoE being connectivity options on a vast majority of the storage offerings.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As there are a multitude of new server peripherals, server model numbers, CPUs, NICs, storage arrays, network switches, storage switches, firmware, and virtualization software components / versions getting released monthly, this has introduced a bit of a dilemma in managing platform upgrades.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">EMC, Cisco, VMware and others have recognized this challenged and have begun offering integrated stack / converged infrastructure offerings – portfolios of products tested, certified, and validated to be compatible. A vBlock’s converged infrastructure would be upgraded using packages of pre-certified and tested components/software intended for that particular platform. Although a vBlock may be comprised of several different products, the end user can feel at ease that the platform is upgraded together as opposed to managing multiple independent components.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">eGroup also understands that a vBlock isn’t for all customers. We all work hard to ensure the solutions we design for customers meet their individual goals and their specific TCO and ROI objectives. In scenarios where customers want the integrated components and validated solutions around our offerings without the constraints that a rigorously tested and fully certified vBlock solution impose, eGroup also leverages the EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure offerings.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">VSPEX is a fully tested solution blueprint on how to build compute, storage, and network solutions using various server and network products with EMC storage platforms. VSPEX serves as a solution validation point for customers who choose their own server platforms but still want to ensure everything functions properly for their intended use case and workload on EMC storage. eGroup uses VSPEX Proven Infrastructure offerings to ensure EMC storage array code levels are supported by their server and virtualization versions before it is deployed or before an update is rolled out. This simplifies the IT environment, as it prevents the customer administrators from having to do all the legwork themselves to validate every component independently and brings further value to our solution and service offerings.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ultimately, eGroup can deliver solutions from fully converged and integrated (vBlock), to hybrid (VSPEX), to best-in-breed all based upon the customer’s unique requirements.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As further adoption of 10GbE based infrastructures continues, we see the converged conversation becoming increasingly central to strategy. As all the technologies continue to evolve, cable specifications change, connectivity speeds increase, and virtualization adoption further increases, converged infrastructures offer some incredible administrative benefits while also avoiding continuous and costly cable infrastructure upgrades. Focuses are shifting more towards deeper operational efficiencies and automation of the infrastructure, so the converged infrastructure push will surely continue in the years to come.</p>','Converged Infrastructure: thoughts from an eGroup consultant','','publish','open','open','','converged-infrastructure-thoughts-from-an-egroup-consultant','','','2013-06-26 09:21:05','2013-06-26 13:21:05','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8264',0,'post','',0),(8265,40,'2013-06-25 15:34:34','2013-06-25 19:34:34','Hello Joe,\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBelow are my ideas around the converged infrastructure conversation and how it pertains to eGroup, our customers, and our prospects – directly around our EMC and Cisco relationships.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe converged infrastructure conversation could cover either protocol converged transport platforms (FC and Ethernet à FCoE) or it could relate to the integrated stack platform and how products interact with one another such as the VMware, Cisco, and EMC alliances.  I’ll address each of them separately and how they impact one another.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCustomer conversations in the past several years have centered around virtualization efforts and have been predominately due to their desire to manage fewer devices and create a much more simplistic infrastructure environment.  An environment that is scalable, agile, and high performance is a requirement.  Effectively, the goal of those conversations and goals were to reduce their capital expenditures.  Less equipment means less cost and fewer maintenance contracts.  These conversations have shifted to one that optimizes the infrastructure and creates a much more simple to manage, simple to scale up, and simple to scale out architecture and platform.  How can we reduce our operational expenses?  Fewer moving parts, fewer steps = fewer administrators to manage the platform.  Streamlining the administrative and operational costs for customers allows those extra administrators to focus their attention to adding additional value to the business with other IT initiatives that simply fell to the wayside before.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis is exactly where converged infrastructures have come into play during the past several years in the virtualization landscape.  By combining protocol transports together (FC and Ethernet merging into FCoE) results in fewer devices and fewer interfaces/connections.  What traditionally would have required redundant Ethernet AND redundant Fibre Channel switches with redundant connections from each host have now been consolidated down into one set of redundant devices running FCoE that can handle either or both across a single pair of connections.  This has resulted in lower capital expenditures for some customers and also contributes to lower operational expenditures due to fewer points of management.  This has been particularly true for eGroup and our Cisco UCS/Nexus offerings, even more so for Cisco UCS Blade platforms.  In looking back just a few years, Cisco is the new comer to the server market, but has experienced great success in this area of their offerings.  eGroup’s Cisco UCS business has seen steady growth over the past two years.  By leveraging Cisco UCS Manager and Data Center Network Management tools, provisioning and management of the server environment have become incredibly simple.  These tools handle firmware management, network adapter definitions and VLAN assignments, FC zoning, and BIOS settings quickly and simply.  Server provisioning time as a result are dramatically reduced from days to just hours.  With UCS blades, running cables isn’t even needed for new server deployments, as the chassis is already cabled to the Nexus switching infrastructure.  Even EMC storage arrays can communicate using traditional or converged protocols – with FC, iSCSI, and FCoE being connectivity options on a vast majority of the storage offerings.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs there are a multitude of new server peripherals, server model numbers, CPUs, NICs, storage arrays, network switches, storage switches, firmware, and virtualization software components/versions getting released monthly, this has introduced a bit of a dilemma in managing platform upgrades.  EMC, Cisco, VMware and others have recognized this challenged and have begun offering integrated stack/converged infrastructure offerings – portfolios of products tested, certified, and validated to be compatible.  eGroup can position, design, and sell VCE vBlock solutions that offer a fully integrated solution (all hardware and software) pre-tested, and configured to run customer environments.  A vBlock’s converged infrastructure would be upgraded using packages of pre-certified and tested components/software intended for that particular platform.  Although a vBlock may be comprised of several different products, the end user can feel at ease that the platform is upgraded together as opposed to managing multiple independent components.  eGroup also understands that a vBlock isn’t for all customers.  We all work hard to ensure the solutions we design for customers meet their individual goals and their specific TCO and ROI objectives.  In scenarios where customers want the integrated components and validated solutions around our offerings without the constraints that a rigorously tested and fully certified vBlock solution impose, eGroup also leverages the EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure offerings.  VSPEX is a fully tested solution blueprint on how to build compute, storage, and network solutions using various server and network products with EMC storage platforms.  VSPEX serves as a solution validation point for customers who choose their own server platforms but still want to ensure everything functions properly for their intended use case and workload on EMC storage.  eGroup uses VSPEX Proven Infrastructure offerings to ensure EMC storage array code levels are supported by their server and virtualization versions before it is deployed or before an update is rolled out.  This simplifies the IT environment, as it prevents the customer administrators from having to do all the legwork themselves to validate every component independently and brings further value to our solution and service offerings.  Ultimately, eGroup can deliver solutions from fully converged and integrated (vBlock), to hybrid (VSPEX), to best-in-breed all based upon the customer’s unique requirements.  As further adoption of 10GbE based infrastructures continues, we see the converged conversation becoming increasingly central to strategy.  As all the technologies continue to evolve, cable specifications change, connectivity speeds increase, and virtualization adoption further increases, converged infrastructures offer some incredible administrative benefits while also avoiding continuous and costly cable infrastructure upgrades.  Focuses are shifting more towards deeper operational efficiencies and automation of the infrastructure, so the converged infrastructure push will surely continue in the years to come.','Converged Infrastructure: thoughts from an eGroup consultant','','inherit','open','open','','8264-revision','','','2013-06-25 15:34:34','2013-06-25 19:34:34','',8264,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8264-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8266,40,'2013-06-26 09:17:59','2013-06-26 13:17:59','Converged infrastructure is quickly becoming big business. Look no further than this <a href=\"http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=237979\" target=\"_blank\">November 2012 IDC study</a> which predicts overall spending on converged systems will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 54.7% from $2.0 billion in 2011 to $17.8 billion in 2016.\n\nAccording to <a href=\"http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=PRF002652\" target=\"_blank\">Jed Scaramella</a>, research manager, Enterprise Server Group, \"The use of converged systems as an alternative to traditional procurement and delivery models will continue to be one of the most important developments in the evolution of IT infrastructure market. End users and service providers alike will rely heavily on suppliers to offer converged systems, which encapsulate server, storage, networking, and management services into smaller, more easily managed and efficiency infrastructure.\"\n\nIn light of all this, we asked one of eGroup\'s Technical Consultants, Jeffrey Flowers, his thoughts on the converged space and how it pertains to our customers directly around our EMC and Cisco relationships.\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">JF: The converged infrastructure conversation could cover either protocol converged transport platforms (FC and Ethernet --&gt; FCoE) or it could relate to the integrated stack platform and how products interact with one another such as the VMware, Cisco, and EMC alliances. I’ll address each of them separately and how they impact one another.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Customer conversations in the past several years have centered around virtualization efforts and have been predominately due to their desire to manage fewer devices and create a much more simplistic infrastructure environment. An environment that is scalable, agile, and high performance is a requirement. Effectively, the goal of those conversations and goals were to reduce their capital expenditures. Less equipment means less cost and fewer maintenance contracts. These conversations have shifted to one that optimizes the infrastructure and creates a much more simple to manage, simple to scale up, and simple to scale out architecture and platform.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">How can we reduce our operational expenses? Fewer moving parts, fewer steps equals fewer administrators to manage the platform.  Streamlining the administrative and operational costs for customers allows those extra administrators to focus their attention to adding additional value to the business with other IT initiatives that simply fell to the wayside before.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is exactly where converged infrastructures have come into play during the past several years in the virtualization landscape - by combining protocol transports together (FC and Ethernet merging into FCoE) results in fewer devices and fewer interfaces / connections. What traditionally would have required redundant Ethernet <em>and </em>redundant Fibre Channel switches with redundant connections from each host have now been consolidated down into one set of redundant devices running FCoE that can handle either or both across a single pair of connections. This has resulted in lower capital expenditures for some customers and also contributes to lower operational expenditures due to fewer points of management.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This has been particularly true for eGroup and our Cisco UCS/Nexus offerings, even more so for Cisco UCS Blade platforms. In looking back just a few years, Cisco is the new comer to the server market, but has experienced great success in this area of their offerings.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">eGroup’s Cisco UCS business has seen steady growth over the past two years. By leveraging Cisco UCS Manager and Data Center Network Management tools, provisioning and management of the server environment have become incredibly simple. These tools handle firmware management, network adapter definitions and VLAN assignments, FC zoning, and BIOS settings quickly and simply. Server provisioning times, as a result, are dramatically reduced from days to just hours. With UCS blades, we no longer have to run cables for new server deployments, as the chassis is already cabled to the Nexus switching infrastructure. Even EMC storage arrays can communicate using traditional or converged protocols – with FC, iSCSI, and FCoE being connectivity options on a vast majority of the storage offerings.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As there are a multitude of new server peripherals, server model numbers, CPUs, NICs, storage arrays, network switches, storage switches, firmware, and virtualization software components / versions getting released monthly, this has introduced a bit of a dilemma in managing platform upgrades.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">EMC, Cisco, VMware and others have recognized this challenged and have begun offering integrated stack / converged infrastructure offerings – portfolios of products tested, certified, and validated to be compatible. A vBlock’s converged infrastructure would be upgraded using packages of pre-certified and tested components/software intended for that particular platform. Although a vBlock may be comprised of several different products, the end user can feel at ease that the platform is upgraded together as opposed to managing multiple independent components.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">eGroup also understands that a vBlock isn’t for all customers. We all work hard to ensure the solutions we design for customers meet their individual goals and their specific TCO and ROI objectives. In scenarios where customers want the integrated components and validated solutions around our offerings without the constraints that a rigorously tested and fully certified vBlock solution impose, eGroup also leverages the EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure offerings.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">VSPEX is a fully tested solution blueprint on how to build compute, storage, and network solutions using various server and network products with EMC storage platforms. VSPEX serves as a solution validation point for customers who choose their own server platforms but still want to ensure everything functions properly for their intended use case and workload on EMC storage. eGroup uses VSPEX Proven Infrastructure offerings to ensure EMC storage array code levels are supported by their server and virtualization versions before it is deployed or before an update is rolled out. This simplifies the IT environment, as it prevents the customer administrators from having to do all the legwork themselves to validate every component independently and brings further value to our solution and service offerings.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ultimately, eGroup can deliver solutions from fully converged and integrated (vBlock), to hybrid (VSPEX), to best-in-breed all based upon the customer’s unique requirements.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As further adoption of 10GbE based infrastructures continues, we see the converged conversation becoming increasingly central to strategy. As all the technologies continue to evolve, cable specifications change, connectivity speeds increase, and virtualization adoption further increases, converged infrastructures offer some incredible administrative benefits while also avoiding continuous and costly cable infrastructure upgrades. Focuses are shifting more towards deeper operational efficiencies and automation of the infrastructure, so the converged infrastructure push will surely continue in the years to come.</p>','Converged Infrastructure: thoughts from an eGroup consultant','','inherit','open','open','','8264-revision-2','','','2013-06-26 09:17:59','2013-06-26 13:17:59','',8264,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8264-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8267,40,'2013-06-26 09:20:04','2013-06-26 13:20:04','Converged infrastructure is quickly becoming big business. Look no further than this <a href=\"http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=237979\" target=\"_blank\">November 2012 IDC study</a> which predicts overall spending on converged systems will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 54.7% from $2.0 billion in 2011 to $17.8 billion in 2016.\r\n\r\nAccording to <a href=\"http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=PRF002652\" target=\"_blank\">Jed Scaramella</a>, research manager, Enterprise Server Group, \"The use of converged systems as an alternative to traditional procurement and delivery models will continue to be one of the most important developments in the evolution of IT infrastructure market. End users and service providers alike will rely heavily on suppliers to offer converged systems, which encapsulate server, storage, networking, and management services into smaller, more easily managed and efficiency infrastructure.\"\r\n\r\nIn light of all this, we asked one of eGroup\'s Technical Consultants, Jeffrey Flowers, his thoughts on the converged space and how it pertains to our customers directly around our EMC and Cisco relationships.\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">JF: The converged infrastructure conversation could cover either protocol converged transport platforms (FC and Ethernet --&gt; FCoE) or it could relate to the integrated stack platform and how products interact with one another such as the VMware, Cisco, and EMC alliances. I’ll address each of them separately and how they impact one another.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Customer conversations in the past several years have centered around virtualization efforts and have been predominately due to their desire to manage fewer devices and create a much more simplistic infrastructure environment. An environment that is scalable, agile, and high performance is a requirement. Effectively, the goal of those conversations and goals were to reduce their capital expenditures. Less equipment means less cost and fewer maintenance contracts. These conversations have shifted to one that optimizes the infrastructure and creates a much more simple to manage, simple to scale up, and simple to scale out architecture and platform.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">How can we reduce our operational expenses? Fewer moving parts, fewer steps equals fewer administrators to manage the platform.  Streamlining the administrative and operational costs for customers allows those extra administrators to focus their attention to adding additional value to the business with other IT initiatives that simply fell to the wayside before.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is exactly where converged infrastructures have come into play during the past several years in the virtualization landscape - by combining protocol transports together (FC and Ethernet merging into FCoE) results in fewer devices and fewer interfaces / connections. What traditionally would have required redundant Ethernet <em>and </em>redundant Fibre Channel switches with redundant connections from each host have now been consolidated down into one set of redundant devices running FCoE that can handle either or both across a single pair of connections. This has resulted in lower capital expenditures for some customers and also contributes to lower operational expenditures due to fewer points of management.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This has been particularly true for eGroup and our Cisco UCS/Nexus offerings, even more so for Cisco UCS Blade platforms. In looking back just a few years, Cisco is the new comer to the server market, but has experienced great success in this area of their offerings.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">eGroup’s Cisco UCS business has seen steady growth over the past two years. By leveraging Cisco UCS Manager and Data Center Network Management tools, provisioning and management of the server environment have become incredibly simple. These tools handle firmware management, network adapter definitions and VLAN assignments, FC zoning, and BIOS settings quickly and simply. Server provisioning times, as a result, are dramatically reduced from days to just hours. With UCS blades, we no longer have to run cables for new server deployments, as the chassis is already cabled to the Nexus switching infrastructure. Even EMC storage arrays can communicate using traditional or converged protocols – with FC, iSCSI, and FCoE being connectivity options on a vast majority of the storage offerings.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As there are a multitude of new server peripherals, server model numbers, CPUs, NICs, storage arrays, network switches, storage switches, firmware, and virtualization software components / versions getting released monthly, this has introduced a bit of a dilemma in managing platform upgrades.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">EMC, Cisco, VMware and others have recognized this challenged and have begun offering integrated stack / converged infrastructure offerings – portfolios of products tested, certified, and validated to be compatible. A vBlock’s converged infrastructure would be upgraded using packages of pre-certified and tested components/software intended for that particular platform. Although a vBlock may be comprised of several different products, the end user can feel at ease that the platform is upgraded together as opposed to managing multiple independent components.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">eGroup also understands that a vBlock isn’t for all customers. We all work hard to ensure the solutions we design for customers meet their individual goals and their specific TCO and ROI objectives. In scenarios where customers want the integrated components and validated solutions around our offerings without the constraints that a rigorously tested and fully certified vBlock solution impose, eGroup also leverages the EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure offerings.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">VSPEX is a fully tested solution blueprint on how to build compute, storage, and network solutions using various server and network products with EMC storage platforms. VSPEX serves as a solution validation point for customers who choose their own server platforms but still want to ensure everything functions properly for their intended use case and workload on EMC storage. eGroup uses VSPEX Proven Infrastructure offerings to ensure EMC storage array code levels are supported by their server and virtualization versions before it is deployed or before an update is rolled out. This simplifies the IT environment, as it prevents the customer administrators from having to do all the legwork themselves to validate every component independently and brings further value to our solution and service offerings.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ultimately, eGroup can deliver solutions from fully converged and integrated (vBlock), to hybrid (VSPEX), to best-in-breed all based upon the customer’s unique requirements.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As further adoption of 10GbE based infrastructures continues, we see the converged conversation becoming increasingly central to strategy. As all the technologies continue to evolve, cable specifications change, connectivity speeds increase, and virtualization adoption further increases, converged infrastructures offer some incredible administrative benefits while also avoiding continuous and costly cable infrastructure upgrades. Focuses are shifting more towards deeper operational efficiencies and automation of the infrastructure, so the converged infrastructure push will surely continue in the years to come.</p>','Converged Infrastructure: thoughts from an eGroup consultant','','inherit','open','open','','8264-revision-3','','','2013-06-26 09:20:04','2013-06-26 13:20:04','',8264,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8264-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8268,40,'2013-06-26 09:20:44','2013-06-26 13:20:44','Converged infrastructure is quickly becoming big business. Look no further than this <a href=\"http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=237979\" target=\"_blank\">November 2012 IDC study</a> which predicts overall spending on converged systems will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 54.7% from $2.0 billion in 2011 to $17.8 billion in 2016.\r\n\r\nAccording to <a href=\"http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=PRF002652\" target=\"_blank\">Jed Scaramella</a>, research manager, Enterprise Server Group, \"The use of converged systems as an alternative to traditional procurement and delivery models will continue to be one of the most important developments in the evolution of IT infrastructure market. End users and service providers alike will rely heavily on suppliers to offer converged systems, which encapsulate server, storage, networking, and management services into smaller, more easily managed and efficiency infrastructure.\"\r\n\r\nIn light of all this, we asked one of eGroup\'s Technical Consultants, Jeffrey Flowers, his thoughts on the converged space and how it pertains to our customers directly around our EMC and Cisco relationships.\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">JF: The converged infrastructure conversation could cover either protocol converged transport platforms (FC and Ethernet --&gt; FCoE) or it could relate to the integrated stack platform and how products interact with one another such as the VMware, Cisco, and EMC alliances. I’ll address each of them separately and how they impact one another.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Customer conversations in the past several years have centered around virtualization efforts and have been predominately due to their desire to manage fewer devices and create a much more simplistic infrastructure environment. An environment that is scalable, agile, and high performance is a requirement. Effectively, the goal of those conversations and goals were to reduce their capital expenditures. Less equipment means less cost and fewer maintenance contracts. These conversations have shifted to one that optimizes the infrastructure and creates a much more simple to manage, simple to scale up, and simple to scale out architecture and platform.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">How can we reduce our operational expenses? Fewer moving parts, fewer steps equals fewer administrators to manage the platform.  Streamlining the administrative and operational costs for customers allows those extra administrators to focus their attention to adding additional value to the business with other IT initiatives that simply fell to the wayside before.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is exactly where converged infrastructures have come into play during the past several years in the virtualization landscape - by combining protocol transports together (FC and Ethernet merging into FCoE) results in fewer devices and fewer interfaces / connections. What traditionally would have required redundant Ethernet <em>and </em>redundant Fibre Channel switches with redundant connections from each host have now been consolidated down into one set of redundant devices running FCoE that can handle either or both across a single pair of connections. This has resulted in lower capital expenditures for some customers and also contributes to lower operational expenditures due to fewer points of management.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This has been particularly true for eGroup and our Cisco UCS/Nexus offerings, even more so for Cisco UCS Blade platforms. In looking back just a few years, Cisco is the new comer to the server market, but has experienced great success in this area of their offerings.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">eGroup’s Cisco UCS business has seen steady growth over the past two years. By leveraging Cisco UCS Manager and Data Center Network Management tools, provisioning and management of the server environment have become incredibly simple. These tools handle firmware management, network adapter definitions and VLAN assignments, FC zoning, and BIOS settings quickly and simply. Server provisioning times, as a result, are dramatically reduced from days to just hours. With UCS blades, we no longer have to run cables for new server deployments, as the chassis is already cabled to the Nexus switching infrastructure. Even EMC storage arrays can communicate using traditional or converged protocols – with FC, iSCSI, and FCoE being connectivity options on a vast majority of the storage offerings.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As there are a multitude of new server peripherals, server model numbers, CPUs, NICs, storage arrays, network switches, storage switches, firmware, and virtualization software components / versions getting released monthly, this has introduced a bit of a dilemma in managing platform upgrades.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">EMC, Cisco, VMware and others have recognized this challenged and have begun offering integrated stack / converged infrastructure offerings – portfolios of products tested, certified, and validated to be compatible. A vBlock’s converged infrastructure would be upgraded using packages of pre-certified and tested components/software intended for that particular platform. Although a vBlock may be comprised of several different products, the end user can feel at ease that the platform is upgraded together as opposed to managing multiple independent components.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">eGroup also understands that a vBlock isn’t for all customers. We all work hard to ensure the solutions we design for customers meet their individual goals and their specific TCO and ROI objectives. In scenarios where customers want the integrated components and validated solutions around our offerings without the constraints that a rigorously tested and fully certified vBlock solution impose, eGroup also leverages the EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure offerings.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">VSPEX is a fully tested solution blueprint on how to build compute, storage, and network solutions using various server and network products with EMC storage platforms. VSPEX serves as a solution validation point for customers who choose their own server platforms but still want to ensure everything functions properly for their intended use case and workload on EMC storage. eGroup uses VSPEX Proven Infrastructure offerings to ensure EMC storage array code levels are supported by their server and virtualization versions before it is deployed or before an update is rolled out. This simplifies the IT environment, as it prevents the customer administrators from having to do all the legwork themselves to validate every component independently and brings further value to our solution and service offerings.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ultimately, eGroup can deliver solutions from fully converged and integrated (vBlock), to hybrid (VSPEX), to best-in-breed all based upon the customer’s unique requirements.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As further adoption of 10GbE based infrastructures continues, we see the converged conversation becoming increasingly central to strategy. As all the technologies continue to evolve, cable specifications change, connectivity speeds increase, and virtualization adoption further increases, converged infrastructures offer some incredible administrative benefits while also avoiding continuous and costly cable infrastructure upgrades. Focuses are shifting more towards deeper operational efficiencies and automation of the infrastructure, so the converged infrastructure push will surely continue in the years to come.</p>','Converged Infrastructure: thoughts from an eGroup consultant','','inherit','open','open','','8264-revision-4','','','2013-06-26 09:20:44','2013-06-26 13:20:44','',8264,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8264-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8269,40,'2013-06-26 09:22:09','2013-06-26 13:22:09','Converged infrastructure is quickly becoming big business. Look no further than this <a href=\"http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=237979\" target=\"_blank\">November 2012 IDC study</a> which predicts overall spending on converged systems will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 54.7% from $2.0 billion in 2011 to $17.8 billion in 2016.\n\nAccording to <a href=\"http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=PRF002652\" target=\"_blank\">Jed Scaramella</a>, research manager, Enterprise Server Group, \"The use of converged systems as an alternative to traditional procurement and delivery models will continue to be one of the most important developments in the evolution of IT infrastructure market. End users and service providers alike will rely heavily on suppliers to offer converged systems, which encapsulate server, storage, networking, and management services into smaller, more easily managed and efficiency infrastructure.\"\n\nIn light of all this, we asked one of eGroup\'s Technical Consultants, Jeffrey Flowers, his thoughts on the converged space and how it pertains to our customers directly around our EMC and Cisco relationships.\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">JF: The converged infrastructure conversation could cover either protocol converged transport platforms (FC and Ethernet --&gt; FCoE) or it could relate to the integrated stack platform and how products interact with one another such as the VMware, Cisco, and EMC alliances. I’ll address each of them separately and how they impact one another.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Customer conversations in the past several years have centered around virtualization efforts and have been predominately due to their desire to manage fewer devices and create a much more simplistic infrastructure environment. An environment that is scalable, agile, and high performance is a requirement. Effectively, the goal of those conversations and goals were to reduce their capital expenditures. Less equipment means less cost and fewer maintenance contracts. These conversations have shifted to one that optimizes the infrastructure and creates a much more simple to manage, simple to scale up, and simple to scale out architecture and platform.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">How can we reduce our operational expenses? Fewer moving parts, fewer steps equals fewer administrators to manage the platform.  Streamlining the administrative and operational costs for customers allows those extra administrators to focus their attention to adding additional value to the business with other IT initiatives that simply fell to the wayside before.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is exactly where converged infrastructures have come into play during the past several years in the virtualization landscape - by combining protocol transports together (FC and Ethernet merging into FCoE) results in fewer devices and fewer interfaces / connections. What traditionally would have required redundant Ethernet <em>and </em>redundant Fibre Channel switches with redundant connections from each host have now been consolidated down into one set of redundant devices running FCoE that can handle either or both across a single pair of connections. This has resulted in lower capital expenditures for some customers and also contributes to lower operational expenditures due to fewer points of management.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This has been particularly true for eGroup and our Cisco UCS/Nexus offerings, even more so for Cisco UCS Blade platforms. In looking back just a few years, Cisco is the new comer to the server market, but has experienced great success in this area of their offerings.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">eGroup’s Cisco UCS business has seen steady growth over the past two years. By leveraging Cisco UCS Manager and Data Center Network Management tools, provisioning and management of the server environment have become incredibly simple. These tools handle firmware management, network adapter definitions and VLAN assignments, FC zoning, and BIOS settings quickly and simply. Server provisioning times, as a result, are dramatically reduced from days to just hours. With UCS blades, we no longer have to run cables for new server deployments, as the chassis is already cabled to the Nexus switching infrastructure. Even EMC storage arrays can communicate using traditional or converged protocols – with FC, iSCSI, and FCoE being connectivity options on a vast majority of the storage offerings.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As there are a multitude of new server peripherals, server model numbers, CPUs, NICs, storage arrays, network switches, storage switches, firmware, and virtualization software components / versions getting released monthly, this has introduced a bit of a dilemma in managing platform upgrades.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">EMC, Cisco, VMware and others have recognized this challenged and have begun offering integrated stack / converged infrastructure offerings – portfolios of products tested, certified, and validated to be compatible. A vBlock’s converged infrastructure would be upgraded using packages of pre-certified and tested components/software intended for that particular platform. Although a vBlock may be comprised of several different products, the end user can feel at ease that the platform is upgraded together as opposed to managing multiple independent components.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">eGroup also understands that a vBlock isn’t for all customers. We all work hard to ensure the solutions we design for customers meet their individual goals and their specific TCO and ROI objectives. In scenarios where customers want the integrated components and validated solutions around our offerings without the constraints that a rigorously tested and fully certified vBlock solution impose, eGroup also leverages the EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure offerings.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">VSPEX is a fully tested solution blueprint on how to build compute, storage, and network solutions using various server and network products with EMC storage platforms. VSPEX serves as a solution validation point for customers who choose their own server platforms but still want to ensure everything functions properly for their intended use case and workload on EMC storage. eGroup uses VSPEX Proven Infrastructure offerings to ensure EMC storage array code levels are supported by their server and virtualization versions before it is deployed or before an update is rolled out. This simplifies the IT environment, as it prevents the customer administrators from having to do all the legwork themselves to validate every component independently and brings further value to our solution and service offerings.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ultimately, eGroup can deliver solutions from fully converged and integrated (vBlock), to hybrid (VSPEX), to best-in-breed all based upon the customer’s unique requirements.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As further adoption of 10GbE based infrastructures continues, we see the converged conversation becoming increasingly central to strategy. As all the technologies continue to evolve, cable specifications change, connectivity speeds increase, and virtualization adoption further increases, converged infrastructures offer some incredible administrative benefits while also avoiding continuous and costly cable infrastructure upgrades. Focuses are shifting more towards deeper operational efficiencies and automation of the infrastructure, so the converged infrastructure push will surely continue in the years to come.</p>','Converged Infrastructure: thoughts from an eGroup consultant','','inherit','open','open','','8264-autosave','','','2013-06-26 09:22:09','2013-06-26 13:22:09','',8264,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/8264-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8282,40,'2013-07-10 12:06:07','2013-07-10 16:06:07','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. Products positioned to win in 2013</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. 20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3. The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery models</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">4. Hybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 5. Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 6. Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 7. Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 8. Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 9. Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 10. Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Better, More Attractive, Devices</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Enterprise runs on Windows</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</span></li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','publish','open','open','','view-from-the-wpc-13-conference-floor-part-i','','','2013-07-10 16:33:55','2013-07-10 20:33:55','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8282',0,'post','',0),(8271,2,'2013-07-02 10:06:47','2013-07-02 14:06:47','','More','','inherit','open','open','','marketing_corp-comms-specialist_job-description-july-2013','','','2013-07-02 10:06:47','2013-07-02 14:06:47','',4668,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Marketing_Corp-Comms-Specialist_Job-Description-July-2013.pdf',0,'attachment','application/pdf',0),(8272,40,'2013-06-11 11:56:17','2013-06-11 15:56:17','Headquartered in South Carolina with offices throughout the entire southeast, eGroup is always looking for upbeat, driven and self-motivated \"go getters\" to join our rapidly growing team! Available positions include:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Sales Account Executive</strong></span>: As an eGroup Sales Executive, you will utilize your sales experience to extend eGroup’s products, services, and solutions to executive management in a defined geography or strategic area, with an emphasis on selling products and services as “solutions” designed to directly address the business initiatives and requirements of these customers. Professional territory management and account development skills are a must. You must be motivated to generate new business, provide excellent customer service, and be self-reliant. You must be able to prospect, qualify, engage, and manage all the elements of a complex solution sale. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Sales-Account-Executive.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Inside Sales Executive</strong></span>: This is an excellent opportunity for the sales professional with a positive, “can do” attitude. The right individual will be responsible for engaging customers, vendors, distributors, and manufacturers to assist eGroup in building maintaining, and delivering its sales pipeline. This will include lead qualification, proposal development, and writing with customer follow-up. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a growing organization while mastering your skills. As an eGroup Inside Sales Executive, you will utilize your skills and drive to assist our Outside Sales team in extending eGroup’s products, services, and solutions to customers and prospects. You must be motivated to provide excellent customer service, work well in a team environment, and be self-reliant. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Inside-Sales-Account-Executive.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Technical Consultant</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated technical sales professional, you\'ll be backed by eGroup\'s continual investment in market proven technologies and support resources.  These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs. This position primarily focuses on consultation, design and deployment of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. You will work directly with our outside and inside sales teams to meet with current and prospective customers, understand their needs, and propose technology solutions to help them overcome their challenges based on intimate knowledge of eGroup services, products and technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGroup-Technical-Consultant.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Applications Services Engineer</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of application and development focused professionals; the role of the Application Services Engineer is to assist in the design, deployment  and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs.  You will be customer facing, must be able to discuss with customers their unique business challenges and to communicate complex technical objectives in a detailed manner that can be received by audiences of all technical levels. You will work with the Application Services team to identify and develop new opportunities within the existing customer base. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ApplicationServicesEngineer2.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Customer Support Engineer</strong></span>: The Customer Support Engineer role provides an ideal opportunity for those getting into the fast paced, solution driven Information Technology industry. Our talented team and proven processes have transformed countless individuals from Customer Support Engineers, to total technology rock stars.  Our most successful Customer Support Engineer’s are great communicators, have a natural ability to sense and adapt to changing customer situations, and are very driven individuals. They have a passion for technology and love to jump right in to learn the latest and greatest technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Customer-Support-Engineer1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Senior Systems Engineer</strong></span>: An excellent opportunity for the motivated technical professional, you\'ll be backed by eGroup\'s continual investment in market proven technologies and support resources. These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs.  This position primarily focuses on design, deployment, and support of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Senior-Systems-Engineer1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior Applications Services Engineer</strong></span>: The role of the Junior Application Services Engineer is to assist in the design, deployment and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs.  You may work as part of a team or individually on tasks and projects of varying size and scope, clearly  documenting and delivering solutions that directly address customer requirements on time and within the defined scope of work.  You should have a firm understanding of theoretical computer science and applications development using object oriented techniques.   <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorApplicationServicesEngineer1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Senior Applications Services Engineer</strong>:</span> The role of the Senior Application Services Engineer is to lead in the design, deployment and support of custom-developed and commercial application solutions that address business needs. You will be customer facing, able to discuss with customers their unique business challenges and to communicate complex technical objectives in a detailed manner that can be received by audiences of all technical levels. You will work with the Application Services team to identify and develop new opportunities within the existing customer base. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SeniorApplicationServicesEngineer3.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Systems Engineer</strong></span>:  An excellent opportunity for the motivated technical professional, you\'ll be backed by eGroup\'s continual investment in market proven technologies and support resources. These \"best of breed\" technology offerings will position you for success in delivering sophisticated solutions to a growing set of customers with increasingly complex needs.  This position primarily focuses on deployment and support of VMware, EMC, Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix technologies. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eGROUP-Systems-Engineer4.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Data Services Engineer</strong>:</span>  <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the Data Services Engineer is to lead in the design and implementation of eGroup’s ETL, Business Intelligence, and Big Data projects. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/DataServicesEngineer1.pdf\">More</a></span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior Data Services Engineer</strong>:</span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the Junior Data Services Engineer is to assist in the support and implementation of ETL, Business Intelligence, and Big Data projects. </span> <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorDataServicesEngineer3.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup End-User Applications Engineer</strong>:</span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the End User Applications Engineer is to design and implement end user computing solutions focused on Applications Delivery. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/EndUserAppsEngineer1.pdf\">More</a></span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Junior End-User Applications Engineer</strong>:</span> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">An excellent opportunity for the accomplished and motivated professional to be a part of a growing team of Applications and Data focused professionals; the role of the Junior End User Applications Engineer is to assist in the support and implementation of end user computing solutions focused on Applications Delivery. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JuniorEndUserAppsEngineer2.pdf\">More</a></span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>eGroup Technical Operations Project Manager:</strong></span> An excellent opportunity for the motivated and organized Technical Operations (Tech Ops) team member, you\'ll be a part of eGroup’s award-winning, highly-capable, and continually growing professional services delivery team. Your position primarily focuses on: technically managing projects, providing leadership during professional services delivery engagements, people-resource scheduling, process development and implementation, and consistent levels of interactive customer-facing communication. You should be highly proficient in both verbal and written communication, as well as highly organized with a ‘sixth sense’ of how to handle competing priorities. <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Tech-Opps-PM-Job-Description1.pdf\">More</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>To apply or for more information: <a href=\"mailto:hr@eGroup-us.com\">hr@eGroup-us.com</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<script type=\"text/javascript\" language=\"JavaScript\" src=\"https://www.msgapp.com/js/frs-app.js\"></script>\r\n<script type=\"text/javascript\">frt(96248);</script>','Careers','','inherit','open','open','','4668-revision-v1','','','2013-06-11 11:56:17','2013-06-11 15:56:17','',4668,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/4668-revision-89/',0,'revision','',0),(8274,40,'2013-07-09 09:32:09','2013-07-09 13:32:09','<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">As our readers know, eGroup has been rapidly expanding across the North Carolina region - growing both its team and customer-base. Below is the latest piece of news related to our NC expansion strategy, announcing the addition of a seasoned enterprise sales professional based in Raleigh. Welcome to the team, Bartley!</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Bartley Dixon Joins eGroup as an Executive Account Manager</b></p>\r\n<b>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – July 9, 2013</b> – <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 addition of Bartley Dixon to its expanding North Carolina-based sales team. He will work with mid-market and enterprise level organizations across Eastern North Carolina.\r\n\r\nBartley brings nearly 12 years of solution selling excellence to eGroup, having delivered strong revenue and profit gains in highly competitive enterprise IT markets.\r\n\r\n“We’re thrilled with the addition of Bartley to the sales team given his successful track record in providing business value to his long term customer base,” said Mike Stokes, Director of Sales and Marketing, eGroup. “His knowledge and experience delivering public, private and hybrid cloud architectures will prove invaluable to existing eGroup and eCloud customers.”\r\n\r\nPrior to joining eGroup, Bartley worked for SAS as an Account Manager. 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PLEASANT, S.C. – July 9, 2013</b> – <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 addition of Bartley Dixon to its expanding North Carolina-based sales team. 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Previous to that sales role, he served as Red Hat’s Enterprise Account Manager, Financial Services and Insurance Vertical Accounts.\r\n\r\nBartley holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from University of North Carolina Wilmington.','Bartley Dixon Joins eGroup as an Executive Account Manager','','inherit','open','open','','8274-revision-4','','','2013-07-09 09:24:53','2013-07-09 13:24:53','',8274,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8274-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8279,40,'2013-07-09 09:30:23','2013-07-09 13:30:23','<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">As our readers know, eGroup has been rapidly expanding across the North Carolina region - growing both its team and customer-base. Below is the latest piece of news related to our NC expansion strategy, announcing the addition of a seasoned enterprise sales professional based in Raleigh. Welcome to the team, Bartley!</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Bartley Dixon Joins eGroup as an Executive Account Manager</b></p>\r\n<b>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – July 9, 2013</b> – <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 addition of Bartley Dixon to its expanding North Carolina-based sales team. He will work with mid-market and enterprise level organizations across Eastern North Carolina.\r\n\r\nBartley brings nearly 12 years of solution selling excellence to eGroup, having delivered strong revenue and profit gains in highly competitive enterprise IT markets.\r\n\r\n“We’re thrilled with the addition of Bartley to the sales team given his successful track record in providing business value to his long term customer base,” said Mike Stokes, Director of Sales and Marketing, eGroup. “His knowledge and experience delivering public, private and hybrid cloud architectures will prove invaluable to existing eGroup and eCloud customers.”\r\n\r\nPrior to joining eGroup, Bartley worked for SAS as an Account Manager. Previous to that sales role, he served as Red Hat’s Enterprise Account Manager, Financial Services and Insurance Vertical Accounts.\r\n\r\nBartley holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from University of North Carolina Wilmington.','Bartley Dixon Joins eGroup as an Executive Account Manager','','inherit','open','open','','8274-revision-5','','','2013-07-09 09:30:23','2013-07-09 13:30:23','',8274,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8274-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8280,40,'2013-07-09 09:30:29','2013-07-09 13:30:29','<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">As our readers know, eGroup has been rapidly expanding across the North Carolina region - growing both its team and customer-base. Below is the latest piece of news related to our NC expansion strategy, announcing the addition of a seasoned enterprise sales professional based in Raleigh. Welcome to the team, Bartley!</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Bartley Dixon Joins eGroup as an Executive Account Manager</b></p>\r\n<b>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – July 9, 2013</b> – <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 addition of Bartley Dixon to its expanding North Carolina-based sales team. He will work with mid-market and enterprise level organizations across Eastern North Carolina.\r\n\r\nBartley brings nearly 12 years of solution selling excellence to eGroup, having delivered strong revenue and profit gains in highly competitive enterprise IT markets.\r\n\r\n“We’re thrilled with the addition of Bartley to the sales team given his successful track record in providing business value to his long term customer base,” said Mike Stokes, Director of Sales and Marketing, eGroup. “His knowledge and experience delivering public, private and hybrid cloud architectures will prove invaluable to existing eGroup and eCloud customers.”\r\n\r\nPrior to joining eGroup, Bartley worked for SAS as an Account Manager. Previous to that sales role, he served as Red Hat’s Enterprise Account Manager, Financial Services and Insurance Vertical Accounts.\r\n\r\nBartley holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from University of North Carolina Wilmington.','Bartley Dixon Joins eGroup as an Executive Account Manager','','inherit','open','open','','8274-revision-6','','','2013-07-09 09:30:29','2013-07-09 13:30:29','',8274,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8274-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(8281,40,'2013-07-09 09:33:13','2013-07-09 13:33:13','<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">As our readers know, eGroup has been rapidly expanding across the North Carolina region - growing both its team and customer-base. Below is the latest piece of news related to our NC expansion strategy, announcing the addition of a seasoned enterprise sales professional based in Raleigh. Welcome to the team, Bartley!</p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Bartley Dixon Joins eGroup as an Executive Account Manager</b></p>\n<b>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – July 9, 2013</b> – <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 addition of Bartley Dixon to its expanding North Carolina-based sales team. He will work with mid-market and enterprise level organizations across Eastern North Carolina.\n\nBartley brings nearly 12 years of solution selling excellence to eGroup, having delivered strong revenue and profit gains in highly competitive enterprise IT markets.\n\n“We’re thrilled with the addition of Bartley to the sales team given his successful track record in providing business value to his long term customer base,” said Mike Stokes, Director of Sales and Marketing, eGroup. “His knowledge and experience delivering public, private and hybrid cloud architectures will prove invaluable to existing eGroup and eCloud customers.”\n\nPrior to joining eGroup, Bartley worked for SAS as an Account Manager. Previous to that sales role, he served as Red Hat’s Enterprise Account Manager, Financial Services and Insurance Vertical Accounts.\n\nBartley holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from University of North Carolina Wilmington.','Bartley Dixon Joins eGroup as an Executive Account Manager','','inherit','open','open','','8274-autosave','','','2013-07-09 09:33:13','2013-07-09 13:33:13','',8274,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8274-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8283,40,'2013-07-10 12:02:50','2013-07-10 16:02:50','eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.\n\nIn between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\">Twitter</a> for further explanation.\n\nPart II coming later today.\n<ul>\n	<li>Products positioned to win in 2013:\n<ul>\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April\n<ul>\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery models\n<ul>\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n	<li>Hybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</li>\n	<li>Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</li>\n	<li>Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</li>\n	<li>Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</li>\n	<li>Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</li>\n	<li>Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</li>\n	<li>Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market\n<ul>\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>','View from the WPC 13 Conference Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision','','','2013-07-10 12:02:50','2013-07-10 16:02:50','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8284,40,'2013-07-10 12:04:17','2013-07-10 16:04:17','eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.\r\n\r\nIn between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\">Twitter</a> for further explanation.\r\n\r\nPart II coming later today.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Products positioned to win in 2013:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery models\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>Hybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</li>\r\n	<li>Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</li>\r\n	<li>Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</li>\r\n	<li>Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</li>\r\n	<li>Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</li>\r\n	<li>Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>','View from the WPC 13 Conference Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-2','','','2013-07-10 12:04:17','2013-07-10 16:04:17','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8285,40,'2013-07-10 12:04:28','2013-07-10 16:04:28','eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.\r\n\r\nIn between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\">Twitter</a> for further explanation.\r\n\r\nPart II coming later today.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Products positioned to win in 2013:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery models\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>Hybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</li>\r\n	<li>Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</li>\r\n	<li>Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</li>\r\n	<li>Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</li>\r\n	<li>Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</li>\r\n	<li>Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>','View from the WPC 13 Conference Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-3','','','2013-07-10 12:04:28','2013-07-10 16:04:28','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8295,40,'2013-07-10 16:24:07','2013-07-10 20:24:07','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\n\r\nLync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100\r\n\r\nAzure – 1,000+ customers a day\r\n\r\nOffice 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!\r\n\r\nCRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery modelsHybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-12','','','2013-07-10 16:24:07','2013-07-10 20:24:07','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(8286,40,'2013-07-10 12:05:26','2013-07-10 16:05:26','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery modelsHybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>','View from WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-4','','','2013-07-10 12:05:26','2013-07-10 16:05:26','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8287,40,'2013-07-10 12:05:41','2013-07-10 16:05:41','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery modelsHybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-5','','','2013-07-10 12:05:41','2013-07-10 16:05:41','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(8288,40,'2013-07-10 12:06:00','2013-07-10 16:06:00','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery modelsHybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-6','','','2013-07-10 12:06:00','2013-07-10 16:06:00','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(8291,40,'2013-07-10 16:15:39','2013-07-10 20:15:39','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery modelsHybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-8','','','2013-07-10 16:15:39','2013-07-10 20:15:39','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(8289,40,'2013-07-10 16:34:59','2013-07-10 20:34:59','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. Products positioned to win in 2013</span>\n<ul>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</span></li>\n</ul>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. 20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\n<ul>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</span></li>\n</ul>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3. The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery models</span>\n<ul>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</span></li>\n</ul>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">4. Hybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 5. Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 6. Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 7. Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 8. Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 9. Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 10. Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\n<ul>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Better, More Attractive, Devices</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Enterprise runs on Windows</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</span></li>\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-autosave','','','2013-07-10 16:34:59','2013-07-10 20:34:59','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8292,40,'2013-07-10 16:16:54','2013-07-10 20:16:54','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery modelsHybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-9','','','2013-07-10 16:16:54','2013-07-10 20:16:54','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(8290,40,'2013-07-10 12:06:07','2013-07-10 16:06:07','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. 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Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\nLync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\nAzure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\nOffice 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\nCRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery modelsHybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-10','','','2013-07-10 16:23:21','2013-07-10 20:23:21','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(8294,40,'2013-07-10 16:23:46','2013-07-10 20:23:46','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\nLync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\nAzure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\nOffice 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\nCRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery modelsHybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-11','','','2013-07-10 16:23:46','2013-07-10 20:23:46','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(8296,40,'2013-07-10 16:25:03','2013-07-10 20:25:03','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery modelsHybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-13','','','2013-07-10 16:25:03','2013-07-10 20:25:03','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(8297,40,'2013-07-10 16:25:34','2013-07-10 20:25:34','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery modelsHybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-14','','','2013-07-10 16:25:34','2013-07-10 20:25:34','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(8298,40,'2013-07-10 16:26:04','2013-07-10 20:26:04','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. 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Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery modelsHybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li></li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-18','','','2013-07-10 16:28:22','2013-07-10 20:28:22','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-18/',0,'revision','',0),(8299,40,'2013-07-10 16:26:27','2013-07-10 20:26:27','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery modelsHybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-16','','','2013-07-10 16:26:27','2013-07-10 20:26:27','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(8300,40,'2013-07-10 16:26:53','2013-07-10 20:26:53','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery modelsHybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-17','','','2013-07-10 16:26:53','2013-07-10 20:26:53','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(8302,40,'2013-07-10 16:30:58','2013-07-10 20:30:58','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery models</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device marke</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-19','','','2013-07-10 16:30:58','2013-07-10 20:30:58','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-19/',0,'revision','',0),(8303,40,'2013-07-10 16:31:13','2013-07-10 20:31:13','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Products positioned to win in 2013:</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. 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Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. Products positioned to win in 2013</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. 20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3. The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. 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Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. Products positioned to win in 2013</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. 20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3. The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery models</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">4. Hybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-22','','','2013-07-10 16:32:34','2013-07-10 20:32:34','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-22/',0,'revision','',0),(8306,40,'2013-07-10 16:33:24','2013-07-10 20:33:24','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">eGroup’s Director of Professional Services, Jason Webster, has been down in Houston this week attending Microsoft’s World Partner Conference.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In between accepting an award for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/eGroup_Inc/status/354578101784690688\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft’s Growth Partner of the Year</span></a> (US SMB East Region) and participating in the Microsoft Partner Executive Summit that included an exclusive Q&amp;A Session with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Jason managed to share his real time notes, session factoids and observations. Hit Jason up on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonBWebster\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twitter</span></a> for further explanation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part II coming later today.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. Products positioned to win in 2013</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Lync – Utilized in 90 of the Fortune 100</li>\r\n	<li>Azure – 1,000+ customers a day</li>\r\n	<li>Office 365 – Fastest growing Microsoft product. Overtook SharePoint and Lync!</li>\r\n	<li>CRM Online – 2 out of 3 new customers are going with the cloud and gaining momentum on SalesForce</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. 20 Million Customers will be impacted by the Windows XP end-of-life in April</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The time is now to leave behind the 13 year old Operating System!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3. The “Cloud OS” – the cloud is a revolution not and evolution. The demand for increasing modern apps and many ways to access them is nothing short of a takeover of the old ways of limited delivery models</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Companies without a Cloud Strategy today are behind and will wake up wondering “what happened” and might not be able to catch up to their competition. New companies today are “born into the cloud” which further puts pressure on organizations to evolve their strategies to maintain agility and a competitive edge</li>\r\n	<li>Companies need to engage with a Microsoft Partner to develop their Cloud OS/Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Public and Private Cloud</li>\r\n	<li>Cloud OS is a strategy about a consistent enterprise ready platform across all devices.  Desktop/Laptop/Phone/Tablet</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">4. Hybrid Cloud will dominate the next 5 years – Microsoft is the only true Hybrid Cloud with the capabilities and most comprehensive set of enterprise assets to seamlessly migrate workloads from on-prem to the cloud – any cloud. No other Cloud company is working today in the Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud</span>\r\n5. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oracle bet on Microsoft for its cloud Platform</span>\r\n6. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azure Pack enables Private and Service Provider Clouds the same automation features that the Azure Public Cloud has available</span>\r\n7. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microsoft launched Power BI – The Business Intelligence Cloud Platform</span>\r\n8. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hyper-V is experiencing 4x Growth over VMware vSphere and gaining 1% market share Quarter over Quarter</span>\r\n9. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows Intune coupled with SCCM allows you to manage your public and private cloud assets in a single location</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">10. Microsoft is focused on winning in the consumer device market</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Better, More Attractive, Devices</li>\r\n	<li>The Enterprise runs on Windows</li>\r\n	<li>Committed to a seamless device experience. Instantaneously transfer content from one device to another</li>\r\n	<li>Closing the App Gap on the Mobile Platform. Microsoft has more Apps for Windows Tablets than any other manufacturer.</li>\r\n	<li>Only 20% of business users with tablets use them for business purposes. Microsoft Surface is a Productivity Device. Microsoft 8” Windows 8.1 Tablets are a Consumer Device</li>\r\n</ul>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part I','','inherit','open','open','','8282-revision-23','','','2013-07-10 16:33:24','2013-07-10 20:33:24','',8282,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8282-revision-23/',0,'revision','',0),(8307,40,'2013-07-10 16:39:33','2013-07-10 20:39:33','<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Continuing the Jason Webster WPC braindump, we bring you Part II. (Scroll down for Part I or simply, <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/view-from-the-wpc-13-conference-floor-part-i/\">click here</a>)\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. Microsoft Windows 8.1</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Start Button is Back!</span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Customizable Tiles that persist seamlessly across all devices</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. Outlook is coming for Surface RT</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3. Google and Microsoft have the only real agile infrastructure.  Experience in building robust search engine products have given them the edge against Amazon Web Services.  Amazon Web Services requires a lot more work in the background to give the appearance of Agility.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">4. Microsoft Acquisition StorSimple (<a href=\"http://storsimple.com\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http://storsimple.com</span></a>) is allowing customers to have a “bottomless pit” of resources by seamlessly tiering data between private cloud and public cloud locations.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">5. Big Data and the “Internet of Things” continuing to impact lives in positive ways.  There are 15 billion “things” connected to the internet.  The vast majority of them are sensor devices collecting data.  The Azure Data Marketplace allows organizations to consume this data and build more intelligent business applications.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">6. Bing has captured 33% of the US search market and their decision engine ranks #1 in search relevance over Google.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">7. SharePoint and Yammer are used in over 400 of the Fortune 500 organizations.</span>','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part II','','publish','open','open','','view-from-microsoft-wpc-13-floor-part-ii','','','2013-07-10 16:40:27','2013-07-10 20:40:27','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8307',0,'post','',0),(8308,40,'2013-07-10 16:37:24','2013-07-10 20:37:24','Continuing the Jason Webster WPC braindump, we bring you Part II.\n\n1. Microsoft Windows 8.1\n<ul>\n	<li>The Start Button is Back!</li>\n	<li>Customizable Tiles that persist seamlessly across all devices</li>\n</ul>\n2. Outlook is coming for Surface RT\n\n3. Google and Microsoft have the only real agile infrastructure.  Experience in building robust search engine products have given them the edge against Amazon Web Services.  Amazon Web Services requires a lot more work in the background to give the appearance of Agility.\n\n4. Microsoft Acquisition StorSimple (<a href=\"http://storsimple.com\">http://storsimple.com</a>) is allowing customers to have a “bottomless pit” of resources by seamlessly tiering data between private cloud and public cloud locations.\n\n5. Big Data and the “Internet of Things” continuing to impact lives in positive ways.  There are 15 billion “things” connected to the internet.  The vast majority of them are sensor devices collecting data.  The Azure Data Marketplace allows organizations to consume this data and build more intelligent business applications.\n\n6. Bing has captured 33% of the US search market and their decision engine ranks #1 in search relevance over Google.\n\n7. SharePoint and Yammer are used in over 400 of the Fortune 500 organizations.','','','inherit','open','open','','8307-revision','','','2013-07-10 16:37:24','2013-07-10 20:37:24','',8307,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8307-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8309,40,'2013-07-10 16:37:35','2013-07-10 20:37:35','Continuing the Jason Webster WPC braindump, we bring you Part II.\r\n\r\n1. Microsoft Windows 8.1\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The Start Button is Back!</li>\r\n	<li>Customizable Tiles that persist seamlessly across all devices</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n2. Outlook is coming for Surface RT\r\n\r\n3. Google and Microsoft have the only real agile infrastructure.  Experience in building robust search engine products have given them the edge against Amazon Web Services.  Amazon Web Services requires a lot more work in the background to give the appearance of Agility.\r\n\r\n4. Microsoft Acquisition StorSimple (<a href=\"http://storsimple.com\">http://storsimple.com</a>) is allowing customers to have a “bottomless pit” of resources by seamlessly tiering data between private cloud and public cloud locations.\r\n\r\n5. Big Data and the “Internet of Things” continuing to impact lives in positive ways.  There are 15 billion “things” connected to the internet.  The vast majority of them are sensor devices collecting data.  The Azure Data Marketplace allows organizations to consume this data and build more intelligent business applications.\r\n\r\n6. Bing has captured 33% of the US search market and their decision engine ranks #1 in search relevance over Google.\r\n\r\n7. 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Microsoft Acquisition StorSimple (<a href=\"http://storsimple.com\">http://storsimple.com</a>) is allowing customers to have a “bottomless pit” of resources by seamlessly tiering data between private cloud and public cloud locations.\r\n\r\n5. Big Data and the “Internet of Things” continuing to impact lives in positive ways.  There are 15 billion “things” connected to the internet.  The vast majority of them are sensor devices collecting data.  The Azure Data Marketplace allows organizations to consume this data and build more intelligent business applications.\r\n\r\n6. Bing has captured 33% of the US search market and their decision engine ranks #1 in search relevance over Google.\r\n\r\n7. SharePoint and Yammer are used in over 400 of the Fortune 500 organizations.','View from Microsoft WPC 13 Floor: Part II','','inherit','open','open','','8307-revision-3','','','2013-07-10 16:37:57','2013-07-10 20:37:57','',8307,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8307-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8311,40,'2013-07-10 16:38:13','2013-07-10 20:38:13','Continuing the Jason Webster WPC braindump, we bring you Part II.\r\n\r\n1. Microsoft Windows 8.1\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The Start Button is Back!</li>\r\n	<li>Customizable Tiles that persist seamlessly across all devices</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n2. Outlook is coming for Surface RT\r\n\r\n3. Google and Microsoft have the only real agile infrastructure.  Experience in building robust search engine products have given them the edge against Amazon Web Services.  Amazon Web Services requires a lot more work in the background to give the appearance of Agility.\r\n\r\n4. Microsoft Acquisition StorSimple (<a href=\"http://storsimple.com\">http://storsimple.com</a>) is allowing customers to have a “bottomless pit” of resources by seamlessly tiering data between private cloud and public cloud locations.\r\n\r\n5. Big Data and the “Internet of Things” continuing to impact lives in positive ways.  There are 15 billion “things” connected to the internet.  The vast majority of them are sensor devices collecting data.  The Azure Data Marketplace allows organizations to consume this data and build more intelligent business applications.\r\n\r\n6. Bing has captured 33% of the US search market and their decision engine ranks #1 in search relevance over Google.\r\n\r\n7. 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Check out Brad Shannon\'s advice on <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/02/egroup-quoted-sharepoint-upgrade-requires-sharp-focus-on-planning-user-preparation/\">upgrading SharePoint</a>, insight into <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/12/egroup-roundtable-series-microsofts-business-intelligence-big-data-play/\">Microsoft\'s business intelligence strategy</a> in this eGroup Roundtable, and Ian Jones\' discussion which will help you <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/11/demystifying-big-data/\">demystify Big Data</a>.\r\n\r\nSo, to keep the information and advice flowing to you, our loyal readership, we are committing to 22 posts in 22 business days in August! 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We want you to understand what makes our new colleagues tick. And what drives them to be \"serious competitors.\" We hope you enjoy.]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Why eGroup?</strong></span>\r\n\r\nIn a sea of products, solutions, and challenges it is easy for businesses to lose sight of the horizon. There is nothing more rewarding than helping clients navigate through the world of changing technology to meet their goals and business needs. As an account executive at eGroup and part of the sales team, I have the opportunity to advise \"captains\" of competitive businesses, helping them stay true to their course and plan for the future.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>What makes you a serious competitor?</strong></span>\r\n\r\nMy love for technology and the feeling of accomplishment I get while assisting clients provides constant motivation to be the best at what I do. If I\'m not winning new opportunities, I don\'t get to do what I love most.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>If you weren’t in Tech what would you be doing?</strong></span>\r\n\r\nAs an avid free surfer I would likely find a way to globe-trot and search for surf in remote locations.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>What’s your Headline?</strong></span>\r\n\r\nWhile most are dreaming of success, winners wake-up and work hard to achieve it. - Unknown','First Day...Four Questions: Bartley Dixon, Executive Account Executive','','inherit','open','open','','8317-revision-9','','','2013-07-12 11:22:31','2013-07-12 15:22:31','',8317,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8317-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(8328,40,'2013-07-12 11:23:46','2013-07-12 15:23:46','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Bart.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8320\" alt=\"eGroup\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Bart-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\n[\"First Day...Four Questions\" will be an ongoing blog series throughout 2013 as we on-board dozens of new team members. We want you to understand what makes our new colleagues tick. And what drives them to be \"serious competitors.\" We hope you enjoy.]\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Why eGroup?</strong></span>\n\nIn a sea of products, solutions, and challenges it is easy for businesses to lose sight of the horizon. There is nothing more rewarding than helping clients navigate through the world of changing technology to meet their goals and business needs. As an account executive at eGroup and part of the sales team, I have the opportunity to advise \"captains\" of competitive businesses, helping them stay true to their course and plan for the future.\n\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>What makes you a serious competitor?</strong></span>\n\nMy love for technology and the feeling of accomplishment I get while assisting clients provides constant motivation to be the best at what I do. 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PLEASANT, SC – July 15, 2013</b> – <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, announced today the expansion of its hosted, high-performance computing infrastructure, <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eCloud</a>.\r\n\r\nAs a result of the latest enhancements, eGroup customers will experience a much easier and faster data backup process to the eCloud as well as to multiple offsite locations.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, the eCloud self-service portal enables “point-and-click” based virtual machine (VM) creation. If a customer foresees the need to rapidly provision servers, they can do so online, in the matter of minutes, at their convenience.\r\n\r\n“During the past few years, we’ve seen companies’ operational and business cloud-powered application requirements become more complex. This has resulted in the need for enterprise-level protection against potential disasters for even the small and mid-sized market,” said Jirah Cox, Cloud Practice Lead, eGroup. “The consistent challenge for those businesses has always been the lack of affordable and easy options to secure data at an offsite location. Today, with the eCloud’s self-service portal and ability to rapidly provision servers, SMBs will be armed with a much more effective backup and disaster recovery solution.”\r\n\r\nIn a recent <a href=\"http://www.spiceworks.com/news/press-release/2013/03-14/\">Spiceworks survey</a>, SMBs revealed that they face persistent backup and disaster recovery challenges. According to the results, nearly 30 percent of the respondents believe their backup methods are insufficient.\r\n\r\n“Unfortunately, as the Spiceworks study illustrates, there are a number of SMBs that continue to lose ground by sticking with inefficient and insufficient backups,” continued Cox. “By moving to the cloud, SMBs have immediate access to enterprise-class technology, which makes them more competitive within their respective markets.”\r\n\r\nFor more information on the eCloud and to learn how it can transform your business, contact eGroup sales: <a href=\"mailto:Sales@eGroup-us.com\">Sales@eGroup-us.com</a>.','eGroup’s eCloud Delivers Fast and Easy Backups, Disaster Recovery Solutions to Small and Mid-Size Business','','publish','open','open','','egroups-ecloud-delivers-fast-and-easy-backups-disaster-recovery-solutions-to-small-and-mid-size-business','','','2013-07-15 09:27:38','2013-07-15 13:27:38','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8329',0,'post','',0),(8330,40,'2013-07-15 09:22:52','2013-07-15 13:22:52','<p align=\"center\"><b>eGroup’s eCloud Delivers Fast and Easy Backups,</b></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Disaster Recovery Solutions to Small and Mid-Size Business</b></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Rapid and self-service provisioning of computing infrastructure leads to successful outcomes for eGroup customers<em></em></i></p>\n<b>MT. PLEASANT, SC – July 15, 2013</b> – <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, announced today the expansion of its hosted, high-performance computing infrastructure, <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eCloud</a>.\n\nAs a result of the latest enhancements, eGroup customers will experience a much easier and faster data backup process to the eCloud as well as to multiple offsite locations.\n\nAdditionally, the eCloud self-service portal enables “point-and-click” based virtual machine (VM) creation. If a customer foresees the need to rapidly provision servers, they can do so online, in the matter of minutes, at their convenience.\n\n“During the past few years, we’ve seen companies’ operational and business cloud-powered application requirements become more complex. This has resulted in the need for enterprise-level protection against potential disasters for even the small and mid-sized market,” said Jirah Cox, Cloud Practice Lead, eGroup. “The consistent challenge for those businesses has always been the lack of affordable and easy options to secure data at an offsite location. Today, with the eCloud’s self-service portal and ability to rapidly provision servers, SMBs will be armed with a much more effective backup and disaster recovery solution.”\n\nIn a recent <a href=\"http://www.spiceworks.com/news/press-release/2013/03-14/\">Spiceworks survey</a>, SMBs revealed that they face persistent backup and disaster recovery challenges. According to the results, nearly 30 percent of the respondents believe their backup methods are insufficient.\n\n“Unfortunately, as the Spiceworks study illustrates, there are a number of SMBs that continue to lose ground by sticking with inefficient and insufficient backups,” continued Cox. “By moving to the cloud, SMBs have immediate access to enterprise-class technology, which makes them more competitive within their respective markets.”\n\nFor more information on the eCloud and to learn how it can transform your business, contact eGroup sales: <a href=\"mailto:Sales@eGroup-us.com\">Sales@eGroup-us.com</a>.','','','inherit','open','open','','8329-revision','','','2013-07-15 09:22:52','2013-07-15 13:22:52','',8329,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8329-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8331,40,'2013-07-15 09:24:27','2013-07-15 13:24:27','<p align=\"center\"><b>eGroup’s eCloud Delivers Fast and Easy Backups, Disaster Recovery Solutions to Small and Mid-Size Business</b></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Rapid and self-service provisioning of computing infrastructure leads to successful outcomes for eGroup customers<em></em></i></p>\n<b>MT. PLEASANT, SC – July 15, 2013</b> – <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, announced today the expansion of its hosted, high-performance computing infrastructure, <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eCloud</a>.\n\nAs a result of the latest enhancements, eGroup customers will experience a much easier and faster data backup process to the eCloud as well as to multiple offsite locations.\n\nAdditionally, the eCloud self-service portal enables “point-and-click” based virtual machine (VM) creation. If a customer foresees the need to rapidly provision servers, they can do so online, in the matter of minutes, at their convenience.\n\n“During the past few years, we’ve seen companies’ operational and business cloud-powered application requirements become more complex. This has resulted in the need for enterprise-level protection against potential disasters for even the small and mid-sized market,” said Jirah Cox, Cloud Practice Lead, eGroup. “The consistent challenge for those businesses has always been the lack of affordable and easy options to secure data at an offsite location. Today, with the eCloud’s self-service portal and ability to rapidly provision servers, SMBs will be armed with a much more effective backup and disaster recovery solution.”\n\nIn a recent <a href=\"http://www.spiceworks.com/news/press-release/2013/03-14/\">Spiceworks survey</a>, SMBs revealed that they face persistent backup and disaster recovery challenges. According to the results, nearly 30 percent of the respondents believe their backup methods are insufficient.\n\n“Unfortunately, as the Spiceworks study illustrates, there are a number of SMBs that continue to lose ground by sticking with inefficient and insufficient backups,” continued Cox. “By moving to the cloud, SMBs have immediate access to enterprise-class technology, which makes them more competitive within their respective markets.”\n\nFor more information on the eCloud and to learn how it can transform your business, contact eGroup sales: <a href=\"mailto:Sales@eGroup-us.com\">Sales@eGroup-us.com</a>.','eGroup’s eCloud Delivers Fast and Easy Backups, Disaster Recovery Solutions to Small and Mid-Size Business','','inherit','open','open','','8329-revision-2','','','2013-07-15 09:24:27','2013-07-15 13:24:27','',8329,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8329-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8332,40,'2013-07-15 09:26:52','2013-07-15 13:26:52','<p align=\"center\"><b>eGroup’s eCloud Delivers Fast and Easy Backups, Disaster Recovery Solutions to Small and Mid-Size Business</b></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Rapid and self-service provisioning of computing infrastructure leads to successful outcomes for eGroup customers<em></em></i></p>\n<b>MT. PLEASANT, SC – July 15, 2013</b> – <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, announced today the expansion of its hosted, high-performance computing infrastructure, <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eCloud</a>.\n\nAs a result of the latest enhancements, eGroup customers will experience a much easier and faster data backup process to the eCloud as well as to multiple offsite locations.\n\nAdditionally, the eCloud self-service portal enables “point-and-click” based virtual machine (VM) creation. If a customer foresees the need to rapidly provision servers, they can do so online, in the matter of minutes, at their convenience.\n\n“During the past few years, we’ve seen companies’ operational and business cloud-powered application requirements become more complex. This has resulted in the need for enterprise-level protection against potential disasters for even the small and mid-sized market,” said Jirah Cox, Cloud Practice Lead, eGroup. “The consistent challenge for those businesses has always been the lack of affordable and easy options to secure data at an offsite location. Today, with the eCloud’s self-service portal and ability to rapidly provision servers, SMBs will be armed with a much more effective backup and disaster recovery solution.”\n\nIn a recent <a href=\"http://www.spiceworks.com/news/press-release/2013/03-14/\">Spiceworks survey</a>, SMBs revealed that they face persistent backup and disaster recovery challenges. 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PLEASANT, SC – July 15, 2013</b> – <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, announced today the expansion of its hosted, high-performance computing infrastructure, <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eCloud</a>.\r\n\r\nAs a result of the latest enhancements, eGroup customers will experience a much easier and faster data backup process to the eCloud as well as to multiple offsite locations.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, the eCloud self-service portal enables “point-and-click” based virtual machine (VM) creation. 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According to the results, nearly 30 percent of the respondents believe their backup methods are insufficient.\r\n\r\n“Unfortunately, as the Spiceworks study illustrates, there are a number of SMBs that continue to lose ground by sticking with inefficient and insufficient backups,” continued Cox. “By moving to the cloud, SMBs have immediate access to enterprise-class technology, which makes them more competitive within their respective markets.”\r\n\r\nFor more information on the eCloud and to learn how it can transform your business, contact eGroup sales: <a href=\"mailto:Sales@eGroup-us.com\">Sales@eGroup-us.com</a>.','eGroup’s eCloud Delivers Fast and Easy Backups, Disaster Recovery Solutions to Small and Mid-Size Business','','inherit','open','open','','8329-revision-4','','','2013-07-15 09:27:17','2013-07-15 13:27:17','',8329,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8329-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8334,40,'2013-07-15 09:28:44','2013-07-15 13:28:44','<p align=\"center\"><b>eGroup’s eCloud Delivers Fast and Easy Backups, Disaster Recovery Solutions to Small and Mid-Size Business</b></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Rapid and self-service provisioning of computing infrastructure leads to successful outcomes for eGroup customers<em></em></i></p>\n<b>MT. PLEASANT, SC – July 15, 2013</b> – <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, announced today the expansion of its hosted, high-performance computing infrastructure, <a href=\"http://www.myecloud.com/\">eCloud</a>.\n\nAs a result of the latest enhancements, eGroup customers will experience a much easier and faster data backup process to the eCloud as well as to multiple offsite locations.\n\nAdditionally, the eCloud self-service portal enables “point-and-click” based virtual machine (VM) creation. 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PLEASANT, SC – July 24, 2013</b> – <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 addition of Toby Brauer to its sales team.\r\n\r\nWith a decade of experience selling enterprise software solutions to commercial and public-sector enterprises, Toby will be responsible for growing eGroup’s Application and Data Services business within existing customers and into new markets.\r\n\r\nMost recently, Toby served as a Regional Sales Manager for Serenic Software. In that role, he sold the complete suite of the Serenic Navigator ERP Financial Solution to enterprise nonprofits and NGOs that provide aid to foreign countries.\r\n\r\nPrior to that, he spent ten years at Blackbaud, a $440M provider of nonprofit software. While there, Toby worked collaboratively with a customer base of over 400 private/independent schools, of which 25 percent were considered large budget customers (over $8M in budget) private/independent schools. As a result of his sales excellence, Toby received many awards including President’s Club for several years and sales leader of the year and month on numerous occasion.\r\n\r\nMike Stokes, Director of Sales &amp; Marketing, eGroup, said: “What sets eGroup’s Application and Data Services team apart from the competition is our ability to focus on a customers’ business process and design solutions that best meet the needs of their end user. 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PLEASANT, SC – July 24, 2013</b> – <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 addition of Toby Brauer to its sales team.\n\nWith a decade of experience selling enterprise software solutions to commercial and public-sector enterprises, Toby will be responsible for growing eGroup’s Application and Data Services business within existing customers and into new markets.\n\nMost recently, Toby served as a Regional Sales Manager for Serenic Software. 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But, first, a word from our sponsor...\n\nIf you\'re a loyal (or even occasional) reader of the eGroup Blog, you\'re exposed to a TON of useful technology and business  information. For example, if you\'re having trouble when <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/06/citrix-receiveronline-plugin-allowhotkey-2/\">launching the Citrix Receiver through a URL</a>, we have the fix. Or, want to learn about <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/williams-fudge-how-to-virtualize-desktops-the-right-way/\">how to properly and successfully virtualize desktops</a>, read the Williams &amp; Fudge case study or hear from Dave Riberdy, SC Farm Bureau\'s Infrastructure Architect, on how he <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/11/egroup-roundtable-seriesvirtual-desktop-strategies-keys-to-success/\">took the plunge with VMware View</a>. Perhaps you\'re an applications and data services minded person - we got you covered there too. Check out Brad Shannon\'s advice on <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/02/egroup-quoted-sharepoint-upgrade-requires-sharp-focus-on-planning-user-preparation/\">upgrading SharePoint</a>, insight into <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/12/egroup-roundtable-series-microsofts-business-intelligence-big-data-play/\">Microsoft\'s business intelligence strategy</a> in this eGroup Roundtable, and Ian Jones\' discussion which will help you <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/11/demystifying-big-data/\">demystify Big Data</a>.\n\nSo, to keep the information and advice flowing to you, our loyal readership, we are committing to 22 posts in 22 business days in August! We understand that the dog days of summer can be long and occasionally boring, so what better than to check back each day on the eGroup Blog, learn something new, share what you\'ve learned, compare notes with eGroup Thought Leaders and ultimately become a better version of yourself!\n\n&nbsp;','eGroup\'s Blog Days of August is here!','','inherit','open','open','','8353-revision','','','2013-07-30 10:21:25','2013-07-30 14:21:25','',8353,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8353-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(8356,40,'2013-07-30 10:22:34','2013-07-30 14:22:34','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/index.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8354\" alt=\"blog\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/index-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\neGroup\'s Blog Days of August is finally here. But, first, a word from our sponsor...\r\n\r\nIf you\'re a loyal (or even occasional) reader of the eGroup Blog, you\'re exposed to a TON of useful technology and business  information. For example, if you\'re having trouble when <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/06/citrix-receiveronline-plugin-allowhotkey-2/\">launching the Citrix Receiver through a URL</a>, we have the fix. Or, want to learn about <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/williams-fudge-how-to-virtualize-desktops-the-right-way/\">how to properly and successfully virtualize desktops</a>, read the Williams &amp; Fudge case study or hear from Dave Riberdy, SC Farm Bureau\'s Infrastructure Architect, on how he <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/11/egroup-roundtable-seriesvirtual-desktop-strategies-keys-to-success/\">took the plunge with VMware View</a>. Perhaps you\'re an applications and data services minded person - we got you covered there too. Check out Brad Shannon\'s advice on <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/02/egroup-quoted-sharepoint-upgrade-requires-sharp-focus-on-planning-user-preparation/\">upgrading SharePoint</a>, insight into <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/12/egroup-roundtable-series-microsofts-business-intelligence-big-data-play/\">Microsoft\'s business intelligence strategy</a> in this eGroup Roundtable, and Ian Jones\' discussion which will help you <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/11/demystifying-big-data/\">demystify Big Data</a>.\r\n\r\nSo, to keep the information and advice flowing to you, our loyal readership, we are committing to 22 posts in 22 business days in August! We understand that the dog days of summer can be long and occasionally boring, so what better than to check back each day on the eGroup Blog, learn something new, share what you\'ve learned, compare notes with eGroup Thought Leaders and ultimately become a better version of yourself!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','eGroup\'s Blog Days of August is here!','','inherit','open','open','','8353-revision-2','','','2013-07-30 10:22:34','2013-07-30 14:22:34','',8353,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8353-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(8428,40,'2013-08-06 12:00:58','2013-08-06 16:00:58','SQL Server 2012 made huge improvements to the available HA\\DR technologies in its flagship RDBMS and they have been widely reported on and documented. This post is not meant to recreate those that provide instructions for installing or setting up the newest features but is an effort to provide my perspective as someone who has been working closely with this platform since 1998. I have also included a few thoughts on the upcoming release of SQL Server 2014.\r\n\r\nAlwaysOn is really just a fancy marketing term for two great legacy features of SQL Server that have been taken to the next level; <strong>Failover Clustering</strong> and <strong>Database Mirroring</strong>. The distinction is important as Failover Clustering is designed to provide protection against the failure of the Operating System, SQL Services, and the underlying hardware while database mirroring is designed to offer protection at the granularity of the database. For the purposes of this post, I want to concentrate on the changes to Database Mirroring but will touch on Failover Clustering in several different areas.\r\n\r\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Availability Groups</strong>\r\n\r\nThis is the term given to the added Mirroring functionality in SQL Server 2012. Traditional mirroring is still available (for now!) but Availability Groups takes it to another level. This is because in a simple Mirroring setup, one must rely on an external technology to determine which database is healthy at any given time and perform the failover. Examples of this would be newer versions of the Windows ODBC Client, Citrix NetScaler (<a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/products/netscaler-application-delivery-controller/features/app-delivery/database-load-balancing.html\">DataStream</a>), custom application functionality, etc. Additionally, Availability Groups allow the secondary replicas (up to 4) to be placed into a configuration that allows read-only access for items such as reporting and backups. It is important to note that automatic failover requires the use of Synchronous or \"High Safety\" mode.\r\n\r\nSQL Server 2012 abstracts the detection of a failover and subsequent re-routing of database activity using Windows Failover Clustering. Just as it does in SQL Server Failover Clustering, Windows takes on the task of providing a single connection point (<a href=\"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213080.aspx\">Availability Group Listener</a>) and directs incoming connections to whichever database is serving the desired role (i.e. primary, read-only, etc.)\r\n\r\nAnother nice feature of Availability Groups is that it takes some of the complexity out of setting up with primary and replica by only requiring a full backup to be taken of the primary database. Previously one would need to take the backup(s), create the secondary database, restore the backup, etc. before synchronization could occur - this is no longer the case.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Example of High Availability Across Individual SQL Server Instances</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8385\" alt=\"AG\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AG.gif\" width=\"464\" height=\"185\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\r\n<strong>AlwaysOn - Failover Clustering</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are several new features in SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering but the essence remains the same as it allows the protection against failures at the Operating System, SQL Server Service, and hardware layers. Coupled with AlwaysOn High Availability Groups it provides layers of protection at every critical point in the SQL Server solutions stack.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Example of High Availability Groups Across Individual SQL Server Instances and SQL Server Failover Clusters</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8386\" alt=\"AGCluster\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AGCluster.gif\" width=\"499\" height=\"347\" /></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Image courtesy of msdn.microsoft.com</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>What\'s New in 2014?</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SQL Server 2012 was HUGE for Microsoft in the BI and Analytics space. If the promises hold true 2014 will reinforce Microsoft\'s commitment to the core RDBMS platform that has been solid  for many years. There will also be additional features added to AlwaysOn such as capacity for additional replicas beyond the 1 Primary\\4 Secondary supported today. Other new features\\improvements in SQL Server 2014:</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510411(v=sql.120).aspx\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Database Engine</span></a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522628(v=sql.120).aspx\">Analysis Services and Business Intelligence</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522534(v=sql.120).aspx\">Integration Services</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb500342(v=sql.120).aspx\">Replication</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170438(v=sql.120).aspx\">Reporting Services</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/sql-server-2014.aspx\">Download a trial of SQL Server 2014</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Next Level</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In all my the years of deploying, configuring, and optimizing the SQL Server platform I have put Mirroring into production exactly ONCE (with an HA pair of NetScalers serving up DataStream) and conversely have put AlwaysOn Availability Groups into highly available production environments time and time again since it was released last year. It is a game changer from design and setup to failover and management. Give it a try or reach out to us for a demonstration and more information on how we can assist in deploying, configuring, or maintaining your SQL Server environment.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Or, drop a question below and I\'ll be sure to answer!</p>','SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn - What\'s the Big Deal?','','inherit','open','open','','8384-revision-9','','','2013-08-06 12:00:58','2013-08-06 16:00:58','',8384,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/8384-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(8358,40,'2013-07-30 10:22:40','2013-07-30 14:22:40','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/index.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8354\" alt=\"blog\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/index-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\neGroup\'s Blog Days of August is finally here. But, first, a word from our sponsor...\r\n\r\nIf you\'re a loyal (or even occasional) reader of the eGroup Blog, you\'re exposed to a TON of useful technology and business  information. For example, if you\'re having trouble when <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/06/citrix-receiveronline-plugin-allowhotkey-2/\">launching the Citrix Receiver through a URL</a>, we have the fix. Or, want to learn about <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/williams-fudge-how-to-virtualize-desktops-the-right-way/\">how to properly and successfully virtualize desktops</a>, read the Williams &amp; Fudge case study or hear from Dave Riberdy, SC Farm Bureau\'s Infrastructure Architect, on how he <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/11/egroup-roundtable-seriesvirtual-desktop-strategies-keys-to-success/\">took the plunge with VMware View</a>. Perhaps you\'re an applications and data services minded person - we got you covered there too. Check out Brad Shannon\'s advice on <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/02/egroup-quoted-sharepoint-upgrade-requires-sharp-focus-on-planning-user-preparation/\">upgrading SharePoint</a>, insight into <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/12/egroup-roundtable-series-microsofts-business-intelligence-big-data-play/\">Microsoft\'s business intelligence strategy</a> in this eGroup Roundtable, and Ian Jones\' discussion which will help you <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/11/demystifying-big-data/\">demystify Big Data</a>.\r\n\r\nSo, to keep the information and advice flowing to you, our loyal readership, we are committing to 22 posts in 22 business days in August! We understand that the dog days of summer can be long and occasionally boring, so what better than to check back each day on the eGroup Blog, learn something new, share what you\'ve learned, compare notes with eGroup Thought Leaders and ultimately become a better version of yourself!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','eGroup\'s Blog Days of August is here!','','inherit','open','open','','8353-revision-3','','','2013-07-30 10:22:40','2013-07-30 14:22:40','',8353,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8353-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(8359,40,'2013-07-30 10:28:14','2013-07-30 14:28:14','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/index.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8354\" alt=\"blog\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/index-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\neGroup\'s Blog Days of August is finally here. But, first, a word from our sponsor...\r\n\r\nIf you\'re a loyal (or even occasional) reader of the eGroup Blog, you\'re exposed to a TON of useful technology and business  information. For example, if you\'re having trouble when <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/06/citrix-receiveronline-plugin-allowhotkey-2/\">launching the Citrix Receiver through a URL</a>, we have the fix. Or, want to learn about <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/williams-fudge-how-to-virtualize-desktops-the-right-way/\">how to properly and successfully virtualize desktops</a>, read the Williams &amp; Fudge case study or hear from Dave Riberdy, SC Farm Bureau\'s Infrastructure Architect, on how he <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/11/egroup-roundtable-seriesvirtual-desktop-strategies-keys-to-success/\">took the plunge with VMware View</a>. Perhaps you\'re an applications and data services minded person - we got you covered there too. Check out Brad Shannon\'s advice on <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/02/egroup-quoted-sharepoint-upgrade-requires-sharp-focus-on-planning-user-preparation/\">upgrading SharePoint</a>, insight into <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/12/egroup-roundtable-series-microsofts-business-intelligence-big-data-play/\">Microsoft\'s business intelligence strategy</a> in this eGroup Roundtable, and Ian Jones\' discussion which will help you <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/11/demystifying-big-data/\">demystify Big Data</a>.\r\n\r\nSo, to keep the information and advice flowing to you, our loyal readership, we are committing to 22 posts in 22 business days in August! We understand that the dog days of summer can be long and occasionally boring, so what better than to check back each day on the eGroup Blog, learn something new, share what you\'ve learned, compare notes with eGroup Thought Leaders and ultimately become a better version of yourself!\r\n\r\nContent over the month will range from IT advice, observations around new products and start ups we\'re watching to winning sales strategies from some of our superstar sales staff and everything in between.\r\n\r\nAs always, if there\'s something you would like to read, drop me a line and we\'ll be sure to get it covered.\r\n\r\nUntil then, enjoy eGroup\'s Blog Days of Summer!','eGroup\'s Blog Days of August is here!','','inherit','open','open','','8353-revision-4','','','2013-07-30 10:28:14','2013-07-30 14:28:14','',8353,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8353-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8360,40,'2013-07-30 10:29:57','2013-07-30 14:29:57','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/index.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8354\" alt=\"blog\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/index-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\neGroup\'s Blog Days of August is finally here. But, first, a word from our sponsor...\n\nIf you\'re a loyal (or even occasional) reader of the eGroup Blog, you\'re exposed to a TON of useful technology and business  information. For example, if you\'re having trouble when <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/06/citrix-receiveronline-plugin-allowhotkey-2/\">launching the Citrix Receiver through a URL</a>, we have the fix. Or, want to learn about <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/06/williams-fudge-how-to-virtualize-desktops-the-right-way/\">how to properly and successfully virtualize desktops</a>, read the Williams &amp; Fudge case study or hear from Dave Riberdy, SC Farm Bureau\'s Infrastructure Architect, on how he <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/11/egroup-roundtable-seriesvirtual-desktop-strategies-keys-to-success/\">took the plunge with VMware View</a>. Perhaps you\'re an applications and data services minded person - we got you covered there too. Check out Brad Shannon\'s advice on <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/02/egroup-quoted-sharepoint-upgrade-requires-sharp-focus-on-planning-user-preparation/\">upgrading SharePoint</a>, insight into <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/12/egroup-roundtable-series-microsofts-business-intelligence-big-data-play/\">Microsoft\'s business intelligence strategy</a> in this eGroup Roundtable, and Ian Jones\' discussion which will help you <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/11/demystifying-big-data/\">demystify Big Data</a>.\n\nSo, to keep the information and advice flowing to you, our loyal readership, we are committing to 22 posts in 22 business days in August! We understand that the dog days of summer can be long and occasionally boring, so what better than to check back each day on the eGroup Blog, learn something new, share what you\'ve learned, compare notes with eGroup Thought Leaders and ultimately become a better version of yourself!\n\nContent over the month will range from IT advice, observations around new products and start ups we\'re watching to winning sales strategies from some of our superstar sales staff and everything in between.\n\nAs always, if there\'s something you would like to read, drop me a line and we\'ll be sure to get it covered.\n\nUntil then, enjoy eGroup\'s Blog Days of Summer!','eGroup\'s Blog Days of August is here!','','inherit','open','open','','8353-autosave','','','2013-07-30 10:29:57','2013-07-30 14:29:57','',8353,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/07/8353-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(8361,40,'2012-11-09 16:29:40','2012-11-09 21:29:40','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/big-data.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7695\" title=\"big data\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/big-data-300x147.jpg\" alt=\"big data\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe following article was featured in our most recent eGroup Advantage Newsletter. It\'s a big data conversation with our Data Services Practice Lead, Ian Jones. Give it a read to understand how eGroup is demystifying big data for our customers.\r\n<h1><strong>Demystifying Big Data</strong></h1>\r\n<strong><em>eGroup has launched a new practice dedicated to helping customers gain business insight and competitive advantage through data analytics.</em></strong>\r\n\r\n“Big data” is the one of the biggest buzzwords in the IT industry today. Like most buzzwords, it is somewhat vague and frequently misused. Is it simply a large amount of data? If so, how much? And what are you supposed to do with it? Arcane terms such as “analytics,” and strange-sounding technologies such as Hadoop, do little to clarify the matter.\r\n\r\n“A lot of organizations are wondering what ‘big data’ is and how it might benefit them,” said Ian Jones, Data Services Practice Leader, eGroup. “It really boils down to taking all the data a business generates and using it to make better business decisions. We’re engaging with some of our larger customers, particularly in healthcare, from a big data standpoint. But the concepts and methodologies can benefit organizations of all sizes and in a wide range of industries.”\r\n\r\neGroup has launched a data analytics practice to help customers take advantage of big data tools and techniques to improve decision-making and gain new business insight. eGroup can cut through the hype and help customers understand how data analytics might fit within their organization. And because of its engineering skills and industry relationships, eGroup is uniquely positioned to deliver the technologies needed for effective data analytics and business intelligence (BI).\r\n\r\n“Our vision is to demystify big data and business intelligence for customers,” Jones said. “Our engineering team can help customers ask the right questions of their data and develop strategies for identifying, analyzing and incorporating that data back into their business.”\r\n\r\n<strong>Looking for Opportunities</strong>\r\n\r\nThe term “big data” is used to describe the massive amount of data generated by today’s line-of-business applications that cannot be analyzed efficiently using traditional analytical tools. Although the definition is necessarily subjective, most analysts use the term in reference to petabytes, exabytes or even zettabytes of data.\r\n\r\nOf course, no organization stores all its data in one gigantic data warehouse. On the contrary, information may be locked in a variety of different applications and stored as unstructured files. So the first step is to aggregate the information to be analyzed.\r\n\r\n“One of the key components of being successful with big data is breaking down data silos,” said Jones. “Organizations have many different applications with different datasets that result in silos with vertical communication. Healthcare is the perfect example. Healthcare organizations have financial systems, electronic medical records, data coming out of emergency rooms and many other data points. Big data analytics seeks to glean intelligence from all of this information, so the data has to be extracted from those sources and combined into one pool which allows for horizontal communication across those different systems.”\r\n\r\nOnce the data is aggregated, informatics and data science come into play. These disciplines use software and mathematics to discover patterns in the data that humans cannot perceive.\r\n\r\n“In the healthcare field, the utopia of big data is predictive healthcare — the theoretical point when we’ll be able to take all the data generated in a hospital, analyze it in real time and provide feedback to clinicians and physicians to aid in diagnoses as well as how to effectively treat that patient. That’s something a lot of hospitals are working toward,” Jones said.\r\n\r\n“But healthcare is merely an example. The whole point of big data is enabling companies to uncover opportunities they didn’t know they had and respond to them at a speed that meets the needs of their business. Organizations are generating a tremendous amount of valuable data, and every industry has an opportunity to use that data to improve their business.”\r\n\r\n<strong>Not Your Father’s BI</strong>\r\n\r\nBI technologies have been around for years — as long as there have been computers, really. But datasets are getting so large that traditional BI systems cannot process them in real time. Big data technologies provide the raw processing power needed to perform these analyses.\r\n\r\n“When selecting a big data platform, you have to consider not only the size of the dataset but the speed with which the business needs to process and ingest it. Products like Hadoop and Greenplum provide a distributed, parallel processing platform and clustered computing to allow faster, real-time data analytics,” said Jones.\r\n\r\nAnother key feature of big data tools is the ability to process unstructured data such as text files and web pages. Hadoop in particular was designed to extract and analyze information that does not fit neatly into traditional database schemas.\r\n\r\n“Unstructured data is where the real opportunity lies with big data,” Jones said. “And along with unstructured data there’s metadata — data about the data. Whereas business intelligence is about transactions, big data is about interactions between various sources of information. Context becomes very relevant.”\r\n\r\nBut Jones stresses that it’s important to not get hung up on the “big data” buzzword.\r\n\r\n“We’ve taken a step back and said let’s stop talking about big data and just talk about data,” he said. “Big data is a very specific subset of the problem of how we ingest, analyze and process data to make business decisions. That’s really the core of it. Some or our customers need the tools and systems associated with big data and some don’t. The point is to use the data they have to drive their business, whether with big data analytics or more traditional business intelligence tools.”\r\n\r\n<strong>Challenges and Opportunities</strong>\r\n\r\nTechnology is only one aspect of the big data paradigm. Organizations will face obstacles with finding the right talent to implement their big data strategies. They will also have to be prepared to deal with the security and regulatory issues that may arise.\r\n\r\n“Financial and healthcare systems, for example, have a lot of controls in place to prevent security and regulatory issues,” said Jones. “As you’re pulling data from all these different systems and putting it into a consolidated system, you wind up with a big dataset that could include information you have to segment and not allow certain people to see.\r\n\r\n“But probably the biggest issue is the cultural shift that needs to occur. It’s important to have deep organizational integration when you’re talking about big data because it affects everyone. Everyone has to participate in it.”\r\n\r\nIndustry experts say organizations that jump on the big data bandwagon now will be well ahead of the competition in terms of operational efficiencies. Some experts have suggested that big data analytics ultimately will become essential to driving innovation and optimizing business performance.\r\n\r\n“Right now, big data is an opportunity,” Jones said. “But as competitors latch onto it, it can become a competitive threat. Our goal is to help customers understand that big data is nothing magical. There’s a lot of opportunity through traditional analytical and integration tools to do a better job of asking the right questions of the data customers already have. That’s the number one takeaway.”','Demystifying Big Data','','inherit','open','open','','7693-revision-4','','','2012-11-09 16:29:40','2012-11-09 21:29:40','',7693,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2012/11/7693-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(8362,40,'2013-07-30 10:46:57','2013-07-30 14:46:57','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/big-data.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7695\" title=\"big data\" alt=\"big data\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/big-data-300x147.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe following article was featured in our most recent eGroup Advantage Newsletter. It\'s a big data conversation with our Data Services Practice Lead, Ian Jones. Give it a read to understand how eGroup is demystifying big data for our customers.\r\n<h1><strong>Demystifying Big Data</strong></h1>\r\n<strong><em>eGroup has launched a new practice dedicated to helping customers gain business insight and competitive advantage through data analytics.</em></strong>\r\n\r\n“Big data” is the one of the biggest buzzwords in the IT industry today. Like most buzzwords, it is somewhat vague and frequently misused. Is it simply a large amount of data? If so, how much? And what are you supposed to do with it? Arcane terms such as “analytics,” and strange-sounding technologies such as Hadoop, do little to clarify the matter.\r\n\r\n“A lot of organizations are wondering what ‘big data’ is and how it might benefit them,” said Ian Jones, Data Services Practice Leader, eGroup. “It really boils down to taking all the data a business generates and using it to make better business decisions. We’re engaging with some of our larger customers, particularly in healthcare, from a big data standpoint. But the concepts and methodologies can benefit organizations of all sizes and in a wide range of industries.”\r\n\r\neGroup has launched a data analytics practice to help customers take advantage of big data tools and techniques to improve decision-making and gain new business insight. eGroup can cut through the hype and help customers understand how data analytics might fit within their organization. And because of its engineering skills and industry relationships, eGroup is uniquely positioned to deliver the technologies needed for effective data analytics and business intelligence (BI).\r\n\r\n“Our vision is to demystify big data and business intelligence for customers,” Jones said. “Our engineering team can help customers ask the right questions of their data and develop strategies for identifying, analyzing and incorporating that data back into their business.”\r\n\r\n<strong>Looking for Opportunities</strong>\r\n\r\nThe term “big data” is used to describe the massive amount of data generated by today’s line-of-business applications that cannot be analyzed efficiently using traditional analytical tools. Although the definition is necessarily subjective, most analysts use the term in reference to petabytes, exabytes or even zettabytes of data.\r\n\r\nOf course, no organization stores all its data in one gigantic data warehouse. On the contrary, information may be locked in a variety of different applications and stored as unstructured files. So the first step is to aggregate the information to be analyzed.\r\n\r\n“One of the key components of being successful with big data is breaking down data silos,” said Jones. “Organizations have many different applications with different datasets that result in silos with vertical communication. Healthcare is the perfect example. Healthcare organizations have financial systems, electronic medical records, data coming out of emergency rooms and many other data points. Big data analytics seeks to glean intelligence from all of this information, so the data has to be extracted from those sources and combined into one pool which allows for horizontal communication across those different systems.”\r\n\r\nOnce the data is aggregated, informatics and data science come into play. These disciplines use software and mathematics to discover patterns in the data that humans cannot perceive.\r\n\r\n“In the healthcare field, the utopia of big data is predictive healthcare — the theoretical point when we’ll be able to take all the data generated in a hospital, analyze it in real time and provide feedback to clinicians and physicians to aid in diagnoses as well as how to effectively treat that patient. That’s something a lot of hospitals are working toward,” Jones said.\r\n\r\n“But healthcare is merely an example. The whole point of big data is enabling companies to uncover opportunities they didn’t know they had and respond to them at a speed that meets the needs of their business. Organizations are generating a tremendous amount of valuable data, and every industry has an opportunity to use that data to improve their business.”\r\n\r\n<strong>Not Your Father’s BI</strong>\r\n\r\nBI technologies have been around for years — as long as there have been computers, really. But datasets are getting so large that traditional BI systems cannot process them in real time. Big data technologies provide the raw processing power needed to perform these analyses.\r\n\r\n“When selecting a big data platform, you have to consider not only the size of the dataset but the speed with which the business needs to process and ingest it. Products like Hadoop and Greenplum provide a distributed, parallel processing platform and clustered computing to allow faster, real-time data analytics,” said Jones.\r\n\r\nAnother key feature of big data tools is the ability to process unstructured data such as text files and web pages. Hadoop in particular was designed to extract and analyze information that does not fit neatly into traditional database schemas.\r\n\r\n“Unstructured data is where the real opportunity lies with big data,” Jones said. “And along with unstructured data there’s metadata — data about the data. Whereas business intelligence is about transactions, big data is about interactions between various sources of information. Context becomes very relevant.”\r\n\r\nBut Jones stresses that it’s important to not get hung up on the “big data” buzzword.\r\n\r\n“We’ve taken a step back and said let’s stop talking about big data and just talk about data,” he said. “Big data is a very specific subset of the problem of how we ingest, analyze and process data to make business decisions. That’s really the core of it. Some or our customers need the tools and systems associated with big data and some don’t. The point is to use the data they have to drive their business, whether with big data analytics or more traditional business intelligence tools.”\r\n\r\n<strong>Challenges and Opportunities</strong>\r\n\r\nTechnology is only one aspect of the big data paradigm. Organizations will face obstacles with finding the right talent to implement their big data strategies. They will also have to be prepared to deal with the security and regulatory issues that may arise.\r\n\r\n“Financial and healthcare systems, for example, have a lot of controls in place to prevent security and regulatory issues,” said Jones. “As you’re pulling data from all these different systems and putting it into a consolidated system, you wind up with a big dataset that could include information you have to segment and not allow certain people to see.\r\n\r\n“But probably the biggest issue is the cultural shift that needs to occur. It’s important to have deep organizational integration when you’re talking about big data because it affects everyone. Everyone has to participate in it.”\r\n\r\nIndustry experts say organizations that jump on the big data bandwagon now will be well ahead of the competition in terms of operational efficiencies. Some experts have suggested that big data analytics ultimately will become essential to driving innovation and optimizing business performance.\r\n\r\n“Right now, big data is an opportunity,” Jones said. “But as competitors latch onto it, it can become a competitive threat. Our goal is to help customers understand that big data is nothing magical. There’s a lot of opportunity through traditional analytical and integration tools to do a better job of asking the right questions of the data customers already have. 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workloads and the complexity it brings.  Through augmenting their existing teams expertise with experts on specific workloads.</li>\r\n	<li>Organization B realizes that one size doesn\'t fit all or better said one Cloud doesn\'t fit all and they see a need for the managed cloud where they can realize the operational benefits of cloud technology and still have the customization they need.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nBoth of these drivers allow the organization to scale in expertise and take advantage of the operational efficiencies that the managed cloud can provide.\r\n\r\neGroup launched the evolution of it\'s customer support solution in 2013 for managed services that work in both the on-premise world, the cloud world, or any level in between.  eGroup\'s Managed Services is focused on solutions management, and it\'s priced and consumed accordingly.  eGroup is leveraging expertise on Public and Private Cloud Services, Application Services and End User Computing to offer a variety of solutions based managed services offerings that manage your services whether they are on premise, in the eCloud, or in the Public Cloud.  These solutions are managed proactively and day to day, extending your IT team with experts where you need them the most, for one solution or for your entire IT organization.  Some examples of these solutions:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Managed Virtual Desktops (Citrix, VMware, Microsoft)</li>\r\n	<li>Managed Storage (SAN and Non-SAN)</li>\r\n	<li>Managed Network Infrastructure</li>\r\n	<li>Managed Collaboration (Email, CRM, SharePoint, Lync, etc...)</li>\r\n	<li>Managed Virtualization (vSphere or Hyper-V)</li>\r\n	<li>Managed Physical Desktops</li>\r\n	<li>Many more...</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAs the migration towards cloud computing continues, expect to see a continued growth in solution complexity and need for high levels of service availability to push the need for on-premise and cloud management expertise.  This transformation will lead us to 100 percent IT as a Service where we can overcome the challenge of the 3 year release cycle, consume only services that drive value to our business and pay for it operationally.  Managing those solutions in a similar manner will require IT service providers to focus on the value to customers vs. the products they provide.','Managed IT Services in the Cloud era','','publish','open','open','','managed-it-services-in-the-cloud-era','','','2013-08-03 10:36:25','2013-08-03 14:36:25','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=8364',0,'post','',0),(8365,8,'2013-08-03 10:35:07','2013-08-03 14:35:07','Many prognosticators in the last 5 years have predicted a decline in the need for IT Managed Services as centralization and cloud have been adopted.  Offerings like Software as a Service (SAAS) presented organizations with options for consuming IT on their terms with self service management and support.  In reality, Managed Services has grown and thrived in the cloud era.  As organizations have developed their Private, Hybrid 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