April 2009 Newsletter

Green IT Solutions that Benefit Your Business and Our Environment!

We all make decisions every day that have an impact on our environment.  The choices we make can help our world become healthier and more sustainable. The question is, which are the right choices for your business? How can you put your commitments into action while also improving your bottom line? That's where Lanspeed comes in, with cost-effective IT solutions that are as smart as they are green.

  • Server and Desktop virtualization means hosting several servers or desktops on one physical server. What does this mean?  More servers > fewer pieces of hardware > less manufacturing, transportation, and disposal > lower electricity and cooling bills > more savings. An easy choice to make!
  • Power management reduces both direct energy consumption (from the socket you plug equipment into) and indirect energy consumption (air conditioning).
  • Hardware life-cycling extends the life of existing equipment and finds a second life for retiring hardware through re-use and donations. If it really does need to go, though, Lanspeed can also help with responsible recycling and disposal solutions.  Just call us!
  • Mobility solutions give you and your staff more options about where and when work is done, reducing commuting, especially during energy-inefficient rush hours. This also improves employee morale!
  • Eco-Friendly Hardware. Fortunately, the beige boxes are getting greener every day, and we can help you purchase desktops and other equipment that are right for your business and consume less energy.
  • Remote support makes it possible for Lanspeed to provide IT support right from our office, so we don't have to get in our cars and waste energy. Of course, if you do need us, we'll be there.

For more information on Lanspeed's Green IT solutions, or to schedule an appointment to learn more, please contact us at 877-682-9981.

Lanspeed's SMART IT! services are booming!

In today's uncertain economic times, our clients are looking to us to help them lower costs and increase employee productivity.  Many of our clients are now accomplishinging this by using Lanspeed's SMART IT! Services which enables them to know exactly what their IT support costs are going to be each month, regardless of the amount of support needed.  Lanspeed's "Smart IT Service" provides your company with a fixed-fee IT support plan.  In addition to unlimited IT support, Lanspeed includes 24/7 monitoring of your computers and network equipment, ensures your backups are working correctly, provides desktop and server anti-virus, manages all your relationships with technology vendors (i.e. phones, copiers, etc.) and provides an informative and valuable quarterly IT business review meeting to discuss your goals and business needs.

Product Spotlight: Backup and Disaster Recovery

With the increasing demands of today's business world, maintaining Business Continuity is a vital component of day to day operations. Whether a user accidentally deletes a single file or email message, or your office becomes victim to a natural disaster, having the right backup and disaster recovery solution will help you recover quickly and avoid costly downtime. By replacing traditional tape backup solutions, we provide you with a comprehensive Business Continuity package, at an unmatched price.

Traditional tape backup systems are expensive to purchase and maintain, and in many cases are found to be unreliable. Our Smart IT BDR solutions provide an automated backup system that is reliable and easy to manage, while at the same time allowing you to recover from a failed server in minutes (using virtualization and imaging technologies) reducing costly user downtime. Our Smart IT BDR solutions will automatically send your data through a secure connection to datacenters on the west and east coasts, allowing you to recover from just about any type of disaster imaginable.

For more information visit our Backup & Disaster Recovery web site, or to schedule a on-site demonstration, please contact us at 877-682-9981.

Upcoming Seminar - How To Stretch Your IT Budget

We invite you to come join us, as we discuss simple yet effective ways to stretch your IT dollar.  We will showcase new technologies from Microsoft that are proven to significantly lower operational costs and improve communication and employee productivity.  These technologies include virtualization, centralized IT resource management, advantages of moving to a datacenter, and benefits that Microsoft provides with an EA or Select licensing agreement.  Attendees will be entered into a drawing for several giveaways including a Microsoft Zune. Lunch will be provided. This event is free and will be held in Westlake Village on April 15th from 9am to 12pm at the IS West Data Center located at 30077 Agoura Court, Agoura Hills, CA 91301

To register for the event please click here - www.lanspeed.com/registration

Lanspeed offers Colocation Services

If your business is looking for a first-class datacenter to colocate servers or backup devices, look no further.  Lanspeed offers colocation services through our partnership with IS West.  We are able to offer competitive pricing on as little as 1U of rack space.  Lanspeed provides the security through redundant, enterprise class firewalls and switches, offers 24/7 monitoring, and can manage your equipment for you.

IS West is the "Cadillac" provider of Server Colocation in Los Angeles, Ventura County and throughout Southern California. Colocation hosting provides an opportunity for your organization to house servers in the newest IS West data center and take advantage of their Non-Stop Internet, namely the large amounts of redundant power, bandwidth and security they provide.

8 Tier-One Backbone Providers under one roof (Intelligent Routing) High Capacity Fiber Optic Sonet Ring Network Cisco Switches & Routers Strong SLA's with 99.99% Uptime guarantee in writing Redundant Back up Power 24-hour Monitoring by Network Operations Center Pro-Active Support Service

If you would like more information about any of our services, we encourage you to contact us at 877-682-9981 or visit our web site at http://www.lanspeed.com/.

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