As we move quickly toward the end of 2011 we’re feeling the effects from companies who have waited too long to refresh their IT Infrastructure. More and more LANAIR is being called into emergency situations due to hardware failure. We understand that the economy has been soft and that companies have a tendency to shove IT to the bottom of the priority list for capital expenditures.

Unfortunately many companies fail to realize the true cost of downtime when critical systems fail. With cutbacks in IT staff, monitoring and maintaining critical systems is often the last task performed within the IT Department. In fact, for many companies, no one cares about IT except when it DOESN’T work. The loss of a critical system failure typically far exceeds the cost of regular monitoring and maintenance.

If this sounds familiar, LANAIR can help. We offer affordable plans that ensure your critical IT Infrastructure is monitored and maintained, reducing down time and outages. Call LANAIR today and speak to one of our Solutions Consultants for an estimate.

"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. "

   — Steve Jobs

Cloud computing has become one of the IT industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc.

Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility computing, however it does have its own meaning if contextually used correctly. The conceptual overlap is partly due to technology changes, usages and implementations over the years.

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The EqualLogic PS Series is based on the unique peer storage architecture. In this context, peer describes the collaboration and equal partnership of a single, simple architecture; components and arrays function as peers, working together to share resources, evenly distribute loads, and collaborate to help optimize application performance and provide comprehensive data protection.

How well do you know Dell EqualLogic? Can you answer these questions?

1. What is Dell EqualLogic's architecture: Frame-Based or PEER?
2. What (if any) other technologies are required to load balance Dell EqualLogic across resources?
3. Does the Dell EqualLogic PS Series simplify SAN Expansion?
4. What describes the collaboration and equal partnership of a single simple Architecture?
5. Does Dell EqualLogic utilize data-based page mover technology?

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ShoreTel is proud to share the results of a customer satisfaction study performed by the Eastern Management Group, a leading independent research firm. In August they published their findings gathered from over 8,000 IT professionals from over 1,000 companies with between 10-20,000 employees in the US and Canada.

We are pleased to report that ShoreTel earned the highest ratings as indicated by our customers, placing us above all other vendors including Avaya, Cisco, Mitel, and others.

Key Points

1. Eastern Management Group is a leading independent research firm. We do not pay them to conduct the survey, nor do we provide customers for them to interview or pay them for the results.
2. ShoreTel earned the highest ratings in customer satisfaction including key measures such as customer service, installation, management tools, technology, value and overall rating.