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Green IT as a Business Driver     8.18.2010

On Thursday, October 21st we will be sponsoring and presenting a “Green IT Workshop” at the 2010 COSE Business Conference.

Creating a more green IT Department is not simply an environmental decision. From Managed Print Services to Virtualized Computing, we will address and discuss Green IT strategic projects that can cut your utilities, and streamline your business operations.

Our Speaker will be Jack Wilson, Enterprise Architect for Amerisure Mutual Insurance Company. Mr. Wilson has been in the IT Industry for over 30 years and has owned his own consulting firm and has been a principal at Ernest & Young. His experience has included a number of companies and has spanned the insurance, finance, transportation, software and health industries in the United States and Europe. The depth of his experience includes system development, database administration, and for the last decade architectural strategy, design and implementation.
Mr. Wilson and his team at Amerisure reported an estimated savings of four million dollars ($4,000,000) through strategic Green IT programs in 2009 and Jack was also recognized as one of the Top 25 CTO's of 2009 by InfoWorld for his leadership in this highly successful virtualization initiative.

For more information on the COSE 2010 Business Conference and our Green IT Workshop, visit: http://cosesmallbusinessconference.com/content/conference-brochure

For more information on Green IT Initiatives and Solutions, contact us at 440-439-2332

Riverbed Technology - "Think Fast"     8.18.2010

We at Open Systems of Cleveland are constantly looking for IT solution providers and manufacturers to align with, ensuring that we offer our customers and clients with the best possible solutions for ever IT need. It is for this reason that we have proudly partnered with Riverbed Technology, a WAN Optimization solution manufacturer that has been awarded InfoWorld's Technology of the Year for WAN Accelerators every year since 2007.

For more information on Riverbed and their WAN Optimization solutions, please contact Peter Ledger at 440-439-2332 ext. 118, or email Peter at pledger@osinc.com.

VMware vSphere and View 4 for Desktops Virtualization     5.20.2010

Come visit our VMware lab.  Our technicians will show you the features of VMware vSphere for servers, and View 4 desktop virtualization.  Call us for an appointment to stop by and see a vSphere and View 4 deployment.  Talk with our techs and have your questions answered.  To schedule a time to stop by, contact Peter Ledger, 440-439-2332 ext. 118, or email Peter at pledger@osinc.com.

IBM XIV Enterprise Storage     5.20.2010

One of the major requirements of IT teams today is providing users and applications with adequate performance levels. This task is growing increasingly difficult as demand for high performance grows, extracting performance from current systems becomes more complex, and budgets for storage systems and administrative resources diminish.

The XIV system provides an outstanding solution to today's performance requirements by several means:

  • Mass parallelism – The system exploits all system components to the fullest while perfectly balancing load between all disks and modules
  • Innovative cache architecture – The system's innovative distributed cache architecture directly leads to improved cache performance
  • CPU power – The system equips each data module with its own processing power, supplying enormous CPU for complex caching and snapshot management. IBM XIV also provides dual processors in its data modules that contain interface connectivity, adding up to 30% increase in performance, depending on workloads.
  • Consistent performance – The system maintains high performance even during failure of any component
  • High performance with snapshots – The system maintains consistent high performance during differential snapshots and other snapshot activities.

XIV Fact Sheet..
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Contact Kevin Kistner, our storage specialist for more information.  kkistner@osinc.com

Secure Doc Disk Encryption     5.20.2010

If your laptops or other mobile endpoints are stolen or lost, SecureDoc ensures that your sensitive data will not be exposed by employing various pre-boot authentication methodologies and encryting the mobile device with our AES-256 (FIPS 140-2) certified encryption. Port control, disk access control and powerful policy management extends that protection beyond the hard drive to USB removable media. This ensures that you remain compliant with privacy and security legislations and it assists in avoiding accidental or intentional data leakage to unencrypted media. SecureDoc is designed for end-user transparency and as such, the user experience is extremely positive, seamless and painless. Most users will not even realise that their system has been encrypted.  Single user or Enterprise Managed.  Click here to learn more..