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Or...Just an excuse to talk about the movie?  You Decide.

AVATAR is like crack- it boasts a 99% addiction rate upon the first usage. It's also a techie's dream.  It's techie crack.  So it will come as no surprise that SolutionPro employees have been talking about this movie.  In fact just about every aspect of the movie has been discussed in our office.  And to finally beat this dead horse one more time- some interesting information exists about the movie as it relates to data center design.  What demands are put on a data center to produce a movie with so much sensory sublimity?
 

For more than 20 years, Advantage Sales and Marketing has specialized in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. Our industry reach, depth of knowledge, diversity of services and years of experience sets us far and above the traditional food brokerage firms. ASM's Speed to Insight™ consulting services use proprietary software to analyze sales data and help increase sales and revenues.
 

Well, actually quite a bit.
An in-depth look at why SolutionPro bets its future on batteries and why a system is only as good as its weakest link.

ITEX is a business-to-business barter exchange. What the heck is that you say? In this economy it’s a darn good thing! And in any economy really. Why? It’s a way for small businesses to make money without spending cash. Here’s how it works. Let’s say I own a restaurant. I join the ITEX Trading Community and sell meals on trade. I get trade dollars in return. (1 trade dollar is equivalent to 1 US dollar.) These funds go into my trade bank account. I can then use those trade dollars to buy all kinds of things available from other businesses in the trading community. Such as: a trip to Mexico, dental care, advertising for my business, printing, jewelry for my wife, and so on. And when these new customers spend their trade dollars in my restaurant, they also bring with them cash-paying friends and business associates. I get trade dollars and new cash paying business! Pretty cool huh?

Tony Romano, owner of Marcello's Pasta Grill in Tempe, AZ says his traffic has increased 10% in the last month. New barter exchange clients also have led to catering jobs. "A lot of small businesses can't afford to take their employees out for a Christmas party, but they can barter it," he says. "I've booked two lawyers' offices and three dentists' holiday parties!"

SolutionPro Network engineers successfully turned up Qwest as a new IP provider.  This represents a significant upgrade in the type of IP capacity that SolutionPro has.  Qwest is considered a Tier-1 bandwidth provider which gives SolutionPro access to the top BGP routes in the region.
 

SolutionPro Sysadmins recently completed turn-up, and testing of a new email server blacklist monitoring system.  As the spammers continue to innovate, so do we.  The problem is these pirates of the internet highways don't need your machine anymore.  All they need is the name of your mail server.  Once they have that they can use it as a spoof.  So it appears to the entity that maintains these blacklists that your email server is the sender when, in fact, it  was not.  This can cause your server to be blacklisted, when in fact you never sent one piece of spam.  Here's how SolutionPro has helped...
 

Welcome to the Re-Designed SolutionPro Newsletter!!

In 2009, we made a pledge to improve how we communicate with you, our valued clients. While we made significant improvements in this area, we continually strive for excellence- technical excellence, excellence in customer service and excellence in all other areas of our business. We realize our newsletter left a little to be desired so for this year, we are pleased to introduce a re-designed newsletter.

We hope you find this new format easier on the eyes as well as a resource that will allow you to get the information you want without having to sift through the stuff you don't care about.

We've included an example image of what the new format will look like in case you are reading this blog post but don't actually receive our newsletter.  Go ahead and subscribe if you'd like:
 

Boise, ID — November 17, 2009 — SolutionPro, Inc., a leading provider of Data Center Services, Colocation, VoIP and Disaster Recovery Services in the Boise, Idaho area and the Pacific Northwest completed the turn-up of two test servers for SpeedTest.net and PingTest.net on November 12^th.

 

What is VDI? VDI enables an organization to eliminate the need for each employee to have a separate PC. All the hard drive storage, processor functions, OS functions, etc. are served-up over a high-speed connection from a centralized server to a glorified monitor also known as a thin client. Each workstation functions virtually as if it had its own OS, desktop preferences, processor and storage.

This Podcast is a great start for anyone who is reading about this for the first time or is just beginning to research VDI.
 

Well...We did it again. The SolutionPro Team enjoyed another successful open house event.

If you didn't make this one-  you really missed out.  The great food catered by the most friendly folks at Chapala and the margarita machine-  ohhhh the margarita machine.  In my opinion that made the party.  But we can't forget all the wonderful SolutionPro customers who showed up- without them- we would have had to party by ourselves, and what fun is that?

If you want to be part of our open house next year, be sure and subscribe to our mailing list at the bottom of this post.