August 2008
In this issue...

• SMART IT! Services 
• Microsoft Recognition
• SBS 2008
• Product Spotlight
• Employee Spotlight
• Win an AirBook!
• Event Calendar

Product Spotlight

 

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems.

Lanspeed has certified SharePoint expertise and has worked with businesses across many industries to develop and support SharePoint.

For additional information on SharePoint, please call us at 877-682-9981.

Lanspeed Introduces New Service - SMART IT! 

SMART IT! is a more efficient and pro-active model for managing and supporting IT environments.  We start by assessing your network, then making recommendations and improvements to make it more reliable, higher performing, and less costly to maintain.  By utilizing the latest technologies, monitoring your network 24/7, ensuring your infrastructure is always up to date, and verifying your critical information assets are secured and backed up, SMART IT! is the best model for maximing the effectiveness of your IT environment.  

SMART IT! services are proven to save your company money.  A reliable, high performance network will increase employee productivity, reduce downtime, and safeguard your assets.  SMART IT! allows you to control your IT costs.  We charge a fixed fee per month based on the number of servers and workstations you have, and you get UNLIMITED SUPPORT! 

If you would like more information about SMART IT!, we encourage you to contact us at 877-682-9981 or visit our web site at http://www.lanspeed.com/smart-it.


Lanspeed selected as prestigious Managed Partner by Microsoft

Lanspeed was recently selected by Microsoft to be a Managed Partner. This prestigious recognition is only awarded to a small number of Microsoft's Gold Partners world-wide. To achieve this recognition, partners must have a proven record of extensive experience with Microsoft solutions, a strong team of Microsoft certified engineers on staff, and be highly regarded in the IT community. Lanspeed is honored to receive this recognition and is fully committed to continuing to grow our relationship with Microsoft.


Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 

Microsoft will launch Windows Small Business Server 2008 in November.  SBS 2008 will come in two version - standard and premium.  Premium will require two servers - the second for the SQL 2008 database.

Both versions come with Server 2008, Exchange 2007, SharePoint Services 3.0, Server Update Services, ForeFront Security for Exchange, Live OneCare for Server and integration with Office Live.

The standard version will be priced at $1,089 which includes 5 CALS. The premium version will be priced at $1,899, which also includes 5 CALS.

Click here for more information on SBS 2008. 

Employee Spotlight

 

Angel Cardenas is a senior network engineer who joined the Lanspeed team in 2007.  Angel has extensive experience with Cisco and Microsoft, and also is an instructor at Santa Barbara City College. 

Angel enjoys spending time with his family, going to movies, watching his kids play soccer, and taking walks.


Win a MacBook Air!

We will be giving away a MacBook Air to the winner of our "Referral Contest"! To enter, simply refer one or more businesses to us. Your name will be entered into our drawing for each business you refer.


Upcoming Events

Disaster Preparedness and Virtualization.  This event will be held in Westlake Village on September 11 from 9am to 11am at the IS West Data Center.  30077 Agoura Court
Agoura Hills, CA 91301.

Please register here.

For more information on any upcoming event, please contact us at 877-682-9981.