Sponsors
Special thanks go to the generous sponsors listed here. Their contributions are helping to offset direct expenses for the many presenters and panelists who are themselves donating their time to participate in the community based conference.
Windows Small Business Server 2008
Microsoft Response Point
eFolder
Calyptix Security
HP
StorageCraft Technology Corporation
SMB Nation
Conference 2008 Contributors
Coming in the second half of 2008, Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 is the next-generation integrated server solution for small businesses (up to 75 users or network devices) from Microsoft. Part of the Windows Essential Server Solutions family, SBS 2008 offers a targeted combination of technologies and management capabilities for your small-business customers. Streamlined installation and management functions can improve your customers’ operational efficiency and free you to focus on your role as trusted advisor, while you help your customers grow their business capacity at cost-effective price and a manageable pace.
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Microsoft® Response Point™ is phone system software designed especially for small businesses that have 1 to 50 employees. With advanced features such as: voice-enabled user interface, Automated Receptionist, built-in voicemail and support for both traditional phone lines as well as VoIP, Response Point is the perfect small business phone system for your customers.
This amazing phone system is available to small businesses through our partner channel. As a Microsoft Response Point partner, you will benefit from selling Response Point in multiple ways:
- Revenue generated from the initial sale of the phone system
- Recurring revenue possibilities through maintenance fees and remote management fees
- Additional revenue from selling VoIP services through our partnerships with NGT and Cbeyond (available mid-summer 2008)
- Access to the Microsoft Finance program which can ease your customer’s out of pockets costs
To learn how you can become a partner and start reaping the benefits of selling Response Point, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/responsepoint.
eFolder is looking for partners to distribute our award-winning remote and local backup services. Our channel only solution was designed from the ground up to accommodate branding. eFolder’s solution allows partners easy entry into the rapidly growing IP-based backup industry to provide a valuable service. We offer a range of branded partner plans to fit any customer base.
Benefits of Reselling:
- Protect your customers – Over 80% of organizations do not have a reliable way to backup and protect one of their most valuable assets – their data. eFolder provides the easiest, most reliable and safest way to protect this information.
- Generate recurring revenue – eFolder's services are priced so companies of all sizes can afford and benefit from the security we offer. Our partners generate monthly recurring revenue for each customer they sign up.
- Reinforce your brand – Put your brand (logo) on the backup solution you offer to constantly remind your customers who they need to contact with all their computer and backup needs.
- Differentiate your team – Everyone needs an edge in our competitive environment. Offering eFolder’s branded backup services provides an additional service to your existing customers and attracts new customers as well.
Our Advantage:
Offer your customers the best branded online backup solution available.
- Easy – 10 minute account/software setup. Automated protection.
- Secure – Military grade encryption (AES-256). Secure pass phrase recovery.
- Affordable – Competitive pricing. Volume discounts. Flexible billing options.
- Innovative – Continuous incremental backups. Visual policy editor. Exchange/SQL Server support.
- Complete - Fully featured remote and local backups. Unified configuration.
We invite you to www.efolder.net or call us at 800-352-0248 for a free 60-day partner trial.
Calyptix Security manufactures the AccessEnforcerTM, an all-in-one network security appliance that cuts costs, boosts productivity and enhances security for small and medium businesses. All features are available through a single user interface for a single price without any integration, seat licenses or hidden charges. Features provide comprehensive perimeter security with a firewall and intrusion detection & prevention system, email filtering with end user quarantine accounts, web traffic filtering, IM blocking and highly secure remote access via VPN. AccessEnforcer is deployed in financial, healthcare, accounting, legal, manufacturing, nonprofit and other service organizations.
- Perfect network solution for companies with 5 to 250 employees.
- All inclusive pricing with no per seat licenses or hidden charges.
- Simple to install, activate & maintain.
AccessEnforcer is available through a limited number of partners under a flexible program that accelerates sales cycles, saves time and increases customer satisfaction while generating generous partner margins. Contact us to learn how you can partner with Calyptix Security to:
- Build recurring revenue.
- Save time & improve profitability.
- Establish a flexible managed services practice with low upfront costs.
- Deliver tremendous customer value & improve customer satisfaction.
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HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com
StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, data protection and system migration & consolidation solutions that compliment virtualization products such as VMware™ and Microsoft™ Virtual Server and Virtual PC. StorageCraft delivers software products that reduce downtime and protect critical data.
StorageCraft will present and provide evaluation software of their ShadowProtect product line of automatic disk-based backup, data protection and bare metal recovery solutions. A demonstration will be available of ShadowProtect to showcase its uses in virtual environments. ShadowProtect provides hardware independent restore (HIR) for physical to physical (P2P), physical to virtual (P2V), virtual to physical (V2P) and virtual to virtual (V2V) environments for quick and reliable system recovery and migration.
Additional features of ShadowProtect that will be presented:
- Bare metal recovery of Windows servers in minutes.
- Restore or migrate backup images to and from physical systems and virtual environments (P2V, V2P and V2V).
- Hardware Independent Restore (HIR) of backup images to different ystems (P2P).
- Online backup of applications such as Exchange and SQL.
- Schedule automatic full and incremental backup images.
- Image management to minimize storage consumption and simplify archiving.
- Recover files and folders or update backup images.
- ShadowProtect console to simplify backup management across your enterprise.
Ph 801.545.4700 Fax 801.545.4705 www.storagecraft.com
Curt James, VP of Business Development Ph 801.545.4721
curt.james@storagecraft.com
SMB Nation, publishes books and magazines, sponsors technical conferences, and delivers seminars and workshops targeted at Microsoft’s Small Business Specialist (SBS) community. The company was originally formed to promote the books and consulting services of Mr. Harry Brelsford, the author of a successful series of books written for Microsoft's global Small Business Specialist community and IT consultants, and a popular conference speaker on Microsoft-centric SMB consulting.
