10/22/2011
Our first year in business.. we are now fully operational, with a new web site, database and new partners! This next year will be exciting, our partners have been in business for over 10 years and we have already had a customer that liked what they saw in us.


5/12/2012
It's now seven months later and we have submitted four proposals, three interviews, and all had positive feedback for our presentations and discussions. The team still has energy and the technical tools are all working with interesting attributes for each. For example the Zoho CRM tool is cloud a based application and suffered a major outage 4 months ago.

Article excerpt below;

 "The cause of the outage was an abrupt power failure in our state-of-the-art collocated data center facility (owned and operated by Equinix) in the Silicon Valley area, California. Equinix provides us physically secure space, highly redundant power and cooling. We get our internet connectivity from separate service providers. We own, maintain and operate the servers and the network equipment and the software. The problem was not just that the power failure happened, the problem was that it happened abruptly, with no warning whatsoever, and all our equipment went down all at once. Data centers, certainly this one, have triple, and even quadruple, redundancy in their power systems just to prevent such an abrupt power outage. The intent is that any power failure would have sufficient warning so that equipment, databases most importantly, can be shut down gracefully. In fact, the main function such data centers perform is to provide extreme redundancy in power systems, provide cooling for the equipment and provide physical security. Absolutely no warning happened prior to this incident, which is what we have asked our vendor to explain, and we hope they would be transparent with us. I do want to say that Equinix has served us well, they are a leader in this field, we have never suffered an abrupt power outage like this in 5+ years. But they do owe us and other customers in that data center an explanation for what happened on Friday. They restored power quickly, but the damage was done because of the abruptness of the outage."

Another example is the multiple calendering among the different products and Outlook seems to be the solution, and there are a lot of options in social media now...Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN, and don't forget Google+ the tool that integrates with Blogger.

Things are all shipshape and we now have 2 new RFP's to respond to ... so back to work!
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