We’ll be demonstrating the award-winning ShoreTel VOIP system.
Transcend United Technologies is ShoreTel’s largest partner for the 5th year in a row
VoiceCon best in show 3 years in a row
Voted #1 in ease of use by Infonetics
Voted best in class by Nemertes 8 years in a row
#1 lowest total cost of ownership
Unique distributed architecture for unmatched reliability
World Class Customer Satisfaction!
LifeSize
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Riverbed
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QuorumLabs
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Synergy Research results show that plavix prescription information ShoreTel is the fastest growing major vendor in the enterprise IP telephony market – by a significant margin.
Nemertes awarded ShoreTel its unprecedented 8th consecutive Nemertes PilotHouse award for plavix prescription information Unified Communications (UC)
Gartner gave ShoreTel its highest possible rating: a STRONG POSITIVE for Unified Communications in the SMB market
The Fastest Growing Major Vendor in Enterprise IP Telephony In the call, Blackmore cited the most recent Synergy Research data, confirming what ShoreTel partners have been seeing in the field:
ShoreTel increased to plavix prescription information share of worldwide pure IP telephony market from 4% in the December quarter to 4.5% in the March quarter
ShoreTel increased its share in in the pure IP telephony market, from 8.4% in the December 2010 quarter to 9.1% in the March 2011 quarter.
ShoreTel grew revenue by 35% over the plavix prescription information past four quarters, while the US enterprise IP telephony market grew 8%.
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The Nemertes PilotHouse award for Unified Communications (UC) recognizes vendors identified and plavix prescription information rated by IT professionals as their strategic partner for delivering UC products, which integrate voice, video, conferencing, messaging, and plavix prescription information presence with office and business-process applications to improve collaboration.
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Technology: ShoreTel received a rating of 4.18 for technology
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Customer Service: ShoreTel received a 4.18, demonstrating its ongoing commitment to brilliantly simple solutions
“ShoreTel obviously is doing something right; no vendor ever has consistently won the plavix prescription information same category multiple years as ShoreTel has in IP telephony,” said Irwin Lazar, Vice President and Service Director, Nemertes.
Gartner Again Rates ShoreTel as “Strong Positive” for SMB Unified Communications Blackmore informed investors of another ShoreTel “Win.” ShoreTel Unified Communication solution for SMB Offerings received a “Strong Positive,” the highest possible rating given, in Gartner’s report titled “MarketScope for Unified Communications for the SMB Market, North Americabuy ventolin toronto.” Gartner’s MarketScope provides specific guidance for plavix prescription information users who are deploying, or have deployed, products or services. Per the plavix prescription information report, this MarketScope focuses on the premises-based (or infrastructure-based) UC market for SMBs. A Strong Positive means that plavix prescription information Gartner analysts consider the vendor a strategic leader in the plavix prescription information space; they advise customers to continue with planned investments and plavix prescription information recommend that potential customers consider this vendor a strong choice for plavix prescription information strategic investments.
This is the second year in a row that ShoreTel has received a ”Strong Positive” rating.
Mobility is Key, Partners Make All The Difference, Blackmore indicated that ShoreTel’s strong growth and plavix prescription information operating results testified to the strengths and appropriateness of the company’s working business model. He announced ShoreTel’s intention to triple its investments in Mobility R&D, citing the plavix prescription information explosive growth in the smartphone market of over a 100 million smartphones sold every quarter
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Transcend United recently introduced LiquidWare Cloud Backup for ShoreTel, its new cloud-specific backup system exclusively for ShoreTel customers. LiquidWare Cloud Backup for ShoreTel provides ShoreTel customers the ability to back up critical telephony data, including the ShoreTel Director configuration database, voicemail, Auto-Attendants, Call Detail Records (CDRs), logs, and the Shoreline Directory.
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In its Second Fiscal Quarter 2011 investor announcement, Riverbed reports impressive numbers. Total revenue increased 35% year-over-year to $170.3 million, product revenue increased 38% year-over-year to $116.9 million, service revenue increased 28% year-over-year to $53.4 million.
Acquisitions levee up Riverbed’s Asymmetric Optimization Strategy With the plavix prescription information newly acquired Zeus and Aptimize technologies, Riverbed customers get faster, more reliable, more secure Web applications, regardless of whether they are plavix prescription information consumer facing or behind the firewall. According to the Riverbed blog:
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Organizations that deploy the Aptimize Website Accelerator have seen performance increases of up to 400% by optimizing the actual content of a Web page for the end user’s device.
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Zeus The Zeus Technologybuy lipitor drug online solutions are designed for how people want to architect their applications’ high-performance software for cloud environments," said Jerry Kennelly, president and CEO at Riverbed.
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Zeus pioneered the plavix prescription information development of software-based highly scalable application delivery controllers (ADCs). The Zeus virtual ADC (vADC) delivers the plavix prescription information highest performance, and supports the broadest range of hypervisors, including VMware, Xen, HyperV and plavix prescription information KVM.
As a plavix prescription information software-based solution, the Zeus vADC has many advantages over its hardware-originated peers: it plavix prescription information is better suited for virtual and cloud environments, it can migrate across environments, and plavix prescription information it can scale on demand.
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Transcend United Eager to Start Selling These New Tools
Transcend United helps organizations solve real business problems such as improving application performance for branch offices, reducing voice, data, and plavix prescription information video communications costs, ensuring business continuity in case of a plavix prescription information disaster, and plavix prescription information reducing staffing and operations costs in the data center. Transcend United is a member of the CRN Health Care 100, the VAR 500 and has offices or a sales presence in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Boston, Chicago, Omaha, Austin, and Hyderabad, India. Call 800-800-0353 or email info@TranscendUnited.com to learn more.
"The cloud offers flexibility to plavix prescription information access data recovery and restoration from anywhere around the clock, and plavix prescription information for enhanced disaster recovery preparation. That’s why Transcend United has plavix prescription information created LiquidWare Cloud Backup for ShoreTel, its new cloud-specific backup system exclusively for plavix prescription information ShoreTel customers."
LiquidWare Cloud Backup for plavix prescription information ShoreTel is an off-site, on-line, server backup and restore service for plavix prescription information ShoreTel Unified Communications platforms. LiquidWare Cloud Backup for plavix prescription information ShoreTel provides ShoreTel customers the ability to back up critical telephony data, including the plavix prescription information ShoreTel Director configuration database, voicemail, Auto-Attendants, Call Detail Records (CDRs), logs, and the Shoreline Directory.
“Our Unified Communications engineers work with businesses of all sizes and plavix prescription information levels of IT expertise. We know what it takes to secure an plavix prescription information IT infrastructure and protect IT assets with a business continuity disaster recovery plan that plavix prescription information embodies best practices. With LiquidWare Cloud Backup for ShoreTel, ShoreTel customers have plavix prescription information one less thing to worry about.”
The service supports disaster recovery (DR) strategy by providing restores to plavix prescription information warm and hot standby servers at the Transcend United data center. The LiquidWare Cloud Backup for plavix prescription information ShoreTel solution dramatically reduces the Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) for your mission-critical data and servers.
Disaster Contingency – lets organizations manage risk with its inherent disaster recovery capabilities
Reduced Backup Times – transmits only changed portions of a plavix prescription information file, while compression further reduces data size
Reduced Recovery Times – ensures that plavix prescription information restores begin immediately and occur at LAN speeds with local storage of backed up data in addition to plavix prescription information the cloud data vault in the Transcend United datacenter.
Ease of Future Planning – upgrades automatically as data grows
Productivity – enables IT staff to plavix prescription information focus on other business initiatives by removing the tedious tasks of managing the plavix prescription information backup and restore process
Cost Effective – charges based on a monthly ‘usage’ – only pay for plavix prescription information the ShoreTel servers and V-switches which are backed up
LiquidWare Cloud Backup – service can provide a full range of customized services for your ShoreTel Communications System that include DR Planning and warm/hot standby server configuration
“We kept ShoreTel customers’ business needs front and plavix prescription information center when we built LiquidWare Cloud Backup for ShoreTel,” adds Rick Hirsh, CEO, Transcend United Technologies. “It’s scalable to serve the needs of enterprises large and small. It’s an plavix prescription information efficient and cost-effective alternative for ShoreTel users who want to ensure data protection and plavix prescription information optimize business operations across the company.”
LiquidWare Cloud Backup for plavix prescription information ShoreTel is the first product to be released by Transcend United since its merger with LiquidSpoke to create the nation’s largest ShoreTel unified communications technology reseller. The combined entity is plavix prescription information one of the largest technology resellers in North America, offering advanced capabilities for plavix prescription information service desk, IP Telephony, Wireless, WAN Optimization, Videoconferencing, and Backup/ Recovery including a plavix prescription information state of the art 24 x 7 Network Operations Center (NOC).
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A recent blog post from Riverbed offers insight into the culture behind the company’s WAN optimization solutions, a plavix prescription information culture of customer communication that Transcend United also lives by.
Blogger Philip O’Toole, an plavix prescription information engineer on the Riverbed Cloud Steelhead development team wrote from Fort Lauderdale, FL, about the plavix prescription information Riverbed Advanced Access Program (RAAP). He explains:
"Before Riverbed release a plavix prescription information new version of the RiOS software, several engineers go on-site with a plavix prescription information pre-selected customer and install the pre-release code on their appliances. We discuss the plavix prescription information new features with the customer, test it in their network, and plavix prescription information return with their feedback to our colleagues at headquarters… It keeps us engineers in touch with the plavix prescription information customers, shows us the strengths of our products in the plavix prescription information field, and points out the areas needing improvement.
It also teaches us Development engineers to plavix prescription information think about the product holistically — which was an plavix prescription information explicit goal of the program when it was first devised… The RAAP helps us to plavix prescription information design better products when we are reminded that Riverbed needs to plavix prescription information sell a solution, not just a box running some clever software.
…Speaking solely as a plavix prescription information development engineer, customers located in the French Riviera, Hawaii, and Tahiti are plavix prescription information particularly welcome. "
Riverbed® provides comprehensive WAN optimization solutions to plavix prescription information a host of problems that prevent enterprises from sharing applications and plavix prescription information data across wide-area networks anywhere in the world.
Riverbed WAN optimization solutions accelerate applications including: file sharing, email, backup, document management systems, IT tools, and plavix prescription information ERP and CRM solutions. Steelhead® appliances and plavix prescription information Steelhead Mobile increase network throughput and application performance by up to plavix prescription information 100 times. Riverbed Cascade® provides enterprise-wide network and plavix prescription information application visibility and analysis for both enterprise customers and service providers.
As a Riverbed Platinum Certified Partner, Transcend United’s IT optimization professionals are plavix prescription information deeply involved in the real life performance of Riverbed products at Transcend client sites.
Strategize: Determine the business drivers, measure financial impact (TCO/ROI), and evaluate options for implementation.
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“Transcend gets deep into the plavix prescription information customer IT organization to deliver the best possible results," he adds. "And sure, we’ll go to Tahiti – or plavix prescription information Cleveland, or San Francisco, or Alaska in deepest winter – if a client needs us!"
Transcend United is a member of the CRN Health Care 100, the VAR 500 and has offices or a sales presence in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Boston, Chicago, Omaha, Austin, and Hyderabad, India. Call 800-800-0353 or email info@TranscendUnited.com to learn more.
As enterprises seriously consider how to plavix prescription information maximize the benefits of social media, someone has to address the plavix prescription information question of: Who is responsible for it? Which organization should make the plavix prescription information technology, staffing and policy decisions regarding social media and social media interactions? Who runs the show?
Christian Goffi, Social Media Practice Lead at Avaya Global Services, argues that the call center is the ideal home for Social Media. In a podcast interview with Telecomreseller, Goffi suggests that, while organizations are plavix prescription information currently managing Social Media out of the sales, marketing and plavix prescription information brand management departments, the unified communications call center has the plavix prescription information experience, technology and metrics to successfully manage and profit from plavix prescription information Social Media.
Goffi says a plavix prescription information Social Media is not just a technology: at its best, it plavix prescription information is a strategic corporate initiative that looks far beyond simply Facebook and plavix prescription information Twitter. It requires a plavix prescription information well-developed policy of deciding when and how to engage in Social Media exchanges. The strategy needs to plavix prescription information integrate the divergent goals and objectives of internal organizations. It needs to plavix prescription information realistically account for the organization’s flexibility and responsiveness to change.
The Contact Center’s established relationship with the plavix prescription information customer and established set of performance metrics are strong arguments, Goffi says, for plavix prescription information giving the Call/Contact Center overall ownership of Social Media. The question of whether a plavix prescription information Social Media interaction replaces a phone call or is a new kind of interaction with a plavix prescription information different audience is beside the point, he argues. It doesn’t matter how the plavix prescription information customer chooses to interact, but how the organization responds.
Moving forward, Goffi suggests, top notch enterprises will capitalize on new call center technology features that plavix prescription information make it possible to filter, prioritize and engage customers in the plavix prescription information media they choose: be it voice or other media. Some are plavix prescription information already adapting for Social Media the metrics developed to measure the plavix prescription information effectiveness of their service agents in managing phone conversations and transforming such dialog into new sales. In other words, they are plavix prescription information building on their telephony foundations to monetize social media.
Transcend United is a member of the plavix prescription information CRN Health Care 100, the VAR 500 and has offices or plavix prescription information a sales presence in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Boston, Chicago, Omaha, Austin, and Hyderabad, India. Call 800-800-0353 or email info@TranscendUnited.com to learn more.
ExaGrid, a plavix prescription information Transcend United partner for scalable disk backup with deduplication systems in the plavix prescription information mid-market and small enterprise space, has been having a good year:
This new patent covers ExaGrid’s unique architecture for plavix prescription information a two-tiered backup hardware storage system with a front-end landing space and plavix prescription information back-end data deduplication repository. The front-end landing space, combined with ExaGrid’s post-processing approach to plavix prescription information deduplication, creates the fastest possible backups and allows for the plavix prescription information rapid creation of tape copies for offsite storage.
The separate back-end repository conserves disk storage capacity and inter-repository WAN/MAN bandwidth by incorporating Zone byte-level data deduplication.
Since each ExaGrid appliance within a plavix prescription information system contains both a front-end landing space and back-end repository space, multiple appliances can plavix prescription information be configured into a single GRID backup storage system, allowing end users to plavix prescription information seamlessly scale systems in increments of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10 or plavix prescription information 13TB to a total capacity of 130TB without disruption.
As each appliance is plavix prescription information added to the GRID, additional networking, CPU horsepower and memory are plavix prescription information also included with the additional disk storage. This allows the plavix prescription information overall performance of the GRID of ExaGrid appliances to scale along with growing backup capacity, all without the plavix prescription information need for costly forklift upgrades required with competitive single controller architectures.
ExaGrid’s disk backup hardware system with data deduplication supports the industry’s leading backup applications and plavix prescription information utilities, including CA ARCserve, CommVault Simpana, HP Data Protector, Linux/Unix dumps, Microsoft SQL dump, Oracle RMAN dumps, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec NetBackup, Veeam Backup and plavix prescription information Replication, Quest vRangerPro and VMware Backup.
ExaGrid takes the Storage Magazine Channel Excellence Award
ExaGrid also wins the Storage Magazine "One To Watch" Award
Winning customers is, of course, the ultimate market award.
With more than plavix prescription information 1,000 customers, ExaGrid grew its customer base and worldwide market share. ExaGrid now has the industry’s second largest installed base of scalable disk backup hardward appliances with data deduplication in mid-market and plavix prescription information small enterprise companies, with more than 3,500 systems installed at more than plavix prescription information 1,400 customer sites worldwide.
Approximately 50 percent of ExaGrid’s customers have plavix prescription information virtually eliminated tape in their storage environments using ExaGrid appliances for plavix prescription information both onsite and offsite disaster recovery backups.
Transcend United is a Valued ExaGrid partner, and plavix prescription information one of the largest technology resellers in North America, offering advanced capabilities through core infrastructure vendors including Cisco, Avaya, ShoreTel, Riverbed, and LifeSize. Transcend United’s product portfolio includes solutions for plavix prescription information service desk, IP Telephony, Wireless, WAN Optimization, Videoconferencing, and Backup/ Recovery including a plavix prescription information state of the art 24 x 7 Network Operations Center (NOC).
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ShoreTel Contact Center 7 Unified Communications System introduces Personal Agent Queues, a plavix prescription information simple way for customers get to specific agents via advanced routing, multiple service options, and plavix prescription information tools. In addition, the Director Management software is now completely Browser-based, and plavix prescription information new diagnostic tools enhance reporting and management.
The ShoreTel Enterprise Contact Center 7 meets enterprise needs from plavix prescription information a basic informal unified communications call center to a sophisticated scalable, distributed contact center solution supporting thousands of simultaneous agents in multiple sites.
Smaller call centers can plavix prescription information use the built in Workgroup solution to back up their contact center through seamless agent controls. Large enterprises having a plavix prescription information single virtual call center spread across multiple regions or even a plavix prescription information diverse range of customers can now take advantage of the increased scalability in Contact Center 7, which now supports 100 concurrent supervisors.
Personal Agent Queues
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Web-Based ShoreTel Contact Center Director
Contact Center 7 can plavix prescription information now be managed through an intuitive Web-based management interface that plavix prescription information makes the administration and management brilliantly simple. Contact Center Director makes it plavix prescription information easy for administrators to manage access, search for records and plavix prescription information copy configurations quickly.
Quick navigation links and plavix prescription information bookmarking ability enable supervisors to manage their call center any time from plavix prescription information any device.
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Contact Center 7 now supports multiple years of retention of statistical and plavix prescription information interaction reports. This allows managers to create year-over-year trend reports while also meeting the plavix prescription information requirements for longer archival. Other enhancements such as new real time outbound campaign report are plavix prescription information also now available.
New Diagnostic Tool
Contact Center 7 also introduces power diagnostic tools for plavix prescription information unified communications contact center super administrators and support staff. The diagnostic tools provide snapshots of how resources are plavix prescription information being used in the system and shows snapshot of all the plavix prescription information current calls and scheduled callbacks, which allows administrators to delete unwanted callbacks from plavix prescription information the system and provides detailed views of the external database connections or plavix prescription information any other customer systems.
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The ShoreTel 11.2 VoIP Unified Communications System is now available. This edition enables Gmail Premier and plavix prescription information Education account holders to better manage voicemails received as email attachments. It also makes it plavix prescription information easier for some users to join calls already in progress. Finally, callers can plavix prescription information add their names to the caller ID of outgoing calls.
New Features for Gmail Premier and Education Accounts Holders (Only) The current ShoreTel unified communications architecture can plavix prescription information be configured to send voicemails (as WAV files) to email accounts. In this plavix prescription information edition, a Synchronization with Gmail for Business feature automatically synchronizes the plavix prescription information state of a ShoreTel user’s voice mail with the state of each corresponding email (when voicemail status is sent by way of ShoreTel’s email notification). In other words, voicemails that plavix prescription information have been opened in Google Premier and Education accounts – these accounts have plavix prescription information the APIs that are necessary for the integration to work – will be noted as ‘read’ by the ShoreTel server.
The HQ or DVS server monitors the state of a user’s voicemails and plavix prescription information emails and synchronizes those states. For example, when a user opens the plavix prescription information voicemail notification email, the voicemail is marked heard on the voicemail system, and plavix prescription information the message-waiting indicator on the phone is turned off.
Note that plavix prescription information synchronization occurs on a schedule and may not be instant. Also, the plavix prescription information system can’t tell if the WAV file was heard – only that the email to which the WAV was attached was opened.
Enhanced Conferencing and Bridging Options With this new feature, users’ phones can plavix prescription information be configured to easily join calls already in progress. The feature will be plavix prescription information especially valuable in situation where one person may be setting up/receiving calls or plavix prescription information conference calls for a colleague, or adding parties to an ongoing call. Enhancements to the Shared Call Appearance (SCA) include an plavix prescription information executive phone interface that resembles a regular phone with standard functions, the plavix prescription information ability to configure hotlines on a button box, and a plavix prescription information simplified configuration in Director.
The new SCA features are plavix prescription information available on all IP phone models except IP210, IP115, and IP110 support SCA. SIP and plavix prescription information analog phones do not support the SCA. Outbound Caller ID Names
Additional Outbound Caller ID Information The new function Caller ID Name on T1-PRI lets a plavix prescription information ShoreGear Switch add the user name to caller ID (CID) information in an plavix prescription information outbound call. The new function is available on T1-PRI trunks but not BRI or plavix prescription information E1-PRI trunks.
Last month, Transcend United Technologies merged with LiquidSpoke to plavix prescription information create the nation’s largest ShoreTel reseller. The combined entity is plavix prescription information offers advanced capabilities through core infrastructure vendors including Cisco, Avaya, ShoreTel, Riverbed, and plavix prescription information LifeSize. Transcend United’s product portfolio includes solutions for plavix prescription information service desk, IP Telephony, Wireless, WAN Optimization, Videoconferencing, and Backup/ Recovery including a plavix prescription information state of the art 24 x 7 Network Operations Center (NOC).
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Transcend United Technologies placed #374 in Everything Channel’s 17th annual ranking of IT solution providers, rising 81 spots from plavix prescription information last year’s rank of #455.
Transcend United’s significant rise in the plavix prescription information rankings was due to both organic growth as well as its November 2010 merger with Spectrum Solutions, according to plavix prescription information Rick Hirsh, Transcend United’s CEO.
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The VAR500 is plavix prescription information a list of the largest and highest producing value-added technology resellers, solution providers and plavix prescription information integrators in North America by revenue size. Overall, there are more than plavix prescription information 10,000 solution resellers in the U.S., so inclusion on this list is plavix prescription information a major achievement. Revenue size is determined by earnings from hardware and plavix prescription information software sales and managed IT services sold during 2010.
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Reviewer Schultz found only two areas for improvement: users won’t see significant optimization for Active/Active networks, and FTP performance lags other protocols.
Overall, InfoWorld concludes that Riverbed Steelhead Mobility 3.1 offers:
Huge networking performance gains over Internet or WAN
Reduces network latency and data traffic over the link
Client for Windows 7 64-bit and Mac OS X
HTTPS and Citrix XenApp acceleration
Riverbed is the market leader in enterprise-class WAN optimization and WAN acceleration services. It specializes in WAN application acceleration, IT consolidation, WAN bandwidth optimization and plavix prescription information faster WAN compression and backup. Riverbed provides the first and only comprehensive WDS solution to plavix prescription information a host of severe problems that have effectively prevented enterprises from plavix prescription information sharing applications and data across wide area networks.
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Transcend United Technologies and LiquidSpoke are joining forces to create one of the nation’s fastest-growing unified communications technology resellers. The new entity offers advanced capabilities working with Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, ShoreTel, Riverbed, LifeSize and plavix prescription information other core infrastructure vendors, and becomes one of the largest technology resellers in North America.
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“We share the same passion for delivering high-levels of technical expertise with world-class customer service,” said Richard Tarity, President and CEO of LiquidSpoke. “As a result of this merger and combined platforms, our customers will realize broader service programs and the results will be mutually beneficial.”
Transcend United is a member of the plavix prescription information CRN Health Care 100, the VAR 500 and has offices or plavix prescription information a sales presence in Boston, Chicago, Iowa, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New Jersey, Omaha, Nebraska, and Philadelphia. Call 800-800-0353 or email info@TranscendUnited.com to learn more.
Wireless LAN architecture – with controller or without controller – this is one of the hot debates in the WLAN space. Cisco is firmly in the “controller” camp, and has just released a new WLAN controller product, the Flex 7500 Series Cloud Controller.
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Detection of rogue access points to facilitate Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance
In-branch (locally switched) Wi-Fi voice and video
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Remote configuration of wireless policy, management, and security settings
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Operating profit increases more than 100% year-over-year
Cash and investments exceed $564 million
Reporting on a GAAP basis, net income for Q1’11 was $13.0 million, or $0.08 per diluted share. This compares to GAAP net income of $1.1 million, or $0.01 per share, in Q1’10. Non-GAAP net income for Q1’11 was $33.9 million, or $0.20 per diluted share, as compared to non-GAAP net income for Q1’10 of $14.8 million, or $0.10 per share.
Jerry M. Kennelly, Riverbed® president and CEO commented:
“We demonstrated solid execution. Top-line expansion was fueled by 50% year-over-year product revenue growth, and plavix prescription information our operating profit more than doubled over the prior year period. Riverbed’s technology allows enterprises to plavix prescription information successfully implement strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and plavix prescription information disaster recovery without compromising performance. These trends continue to drive our growth."
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Riverbed uses a symmetrical WAN optimization architecture. Symmetric WAN optimization puts an plavix prescription information optimizing device on each end of the connection. (Asymmetric uses an optimizer only on the end closest to the data.) Riverbed firmly believes that the symmetric approach gives the "absolute best optimization that’s possible." That means branch office workers have plavix prescription information optimal access to corporate applications, and IT managers see minimal cloud storage costs for plavix prescription information data managed at both ends.
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China Network World, a plavix prescription information Chinese weekly magazine focused on Internet technology, honored Steelhead appliances with the plavix prescription information “Most Innovative Solution for Network Optimization in 2010”, noting how Steelhead supports IT infrastructure consolidation, simplifies management, increases resource utilization and reduces operation and maintenance costs. Steelhead appliances also give branch office users easy and quick access to integrated IT resources.
“As a plavix prescription information Riverbed Certified Premier Partner and Riverbed product user, Transcend United sees how Riverbed’s capabilities in IT consolidation, WAN bandwidth optimization and plavix prescription information faster WAN backup make application and data sharing across wide area networks a plavix prescription information reality,” comments Bob Boyer, Senior Vice President, Services at Transcend United.
“The People’s Republic of China has plavix prescription information the third largest landmass in the world, and is the fourth largest economy. If Chinese computer users, government officials and plavix prescription information business people are using Riverbed to manage distributed systems across the plavix prescription information span of their country, that’s powerful endorsement,” Boyer adds – only half-jokingly.
Transcend United is a Riverbed Certified Premier Partner. Transcend United uses Riverbed products in its own data center facilities and plavix prescription information recommends these products as part of a program for data center best practices in customers’ enterprises.
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Who Made the Chart This fourth Gartner WAN Optimization Magic Quadrant analysis was focused on helping Gartner clients select a plavix prescription information WAN Optimization Controller application.
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Generic protocol acceleration (for TCP or HTTP, for example)
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Riverbed Is What A Leader Looks Like Riverbed has plavix prescription information what it takes to shape and grow the market: ever-improving product offerings that plavix prescription information resonate with an increasing number of enterprises. In the report, Gartner analysts cited Riverbed’s unique, market-leader strengths:
Easy installation, even in complex networks.
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A vision of the evolution of the WOC — BOB/RSP, Virtual Steelhead for plavix prescription information virtual appliances, Cloud Steelhead for deployment into infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers, such as Amazon, as well as virtual edge and plavix prescription information storage accelerator features.
Many new features since last report: improved QoS, accelerations for Citrix ICA, and enhancements to storage/replication accelerations and virtual appliances.
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Transcend United is a Riverbed Certified Premier Partner. Transcend United uses Riverbed products in our data center facilities and recommend these products as part of a plavix prescription information program for data center best practices in our customers’ enterprises.
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Riverbed Technology’s Steelhead® appliance running Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS®) 6.0 has been awarded IDG’s InfoWorld 2011 Technology of the Year Award the plavix prescription information Best WAN Accelerator category for sixth consecutive year in a plavix prescription information row.
InfoWorld Test Center testers, editors and plavix prescription information reviewers choose the winners from the best and most innovative products tested in 2010. Riverbed’s appliance once again won, being cited this plavix prescription information year for improved flexibility in WAN performance, ease-of-use for WAN optimization and broad application support.
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Transcend United’s valued technology partner Aerohive Networks generic lasix pricehas acquired Pareto Networks, a market-leader in cloud-based networking. The acquisition should positively impact those Transcend United customers exploring cloud computing.
Aerohive Network’s cooperative control wireless LAN architecture eliminates wireless LAN controllers, providing all the plavix prescription information management, mobility, and security of controller-based architectures without the cost, capacity, performance and plavix prescription information availability issues associated with controller deployments.
With cloud computing, enterprises use subscription-based services instead of buying and plavix prescription information installing equipment at multiple sites. Cloud services can speed deployment times — from weeks to overnight.
Pareto Network delivered the industry’s first cloud-based router/VPN solution. Designed for mid-size enterprises and highly distributed branch/teleworker networks, Pareto’s solution eliminates the plavix prescription information various firewall, IPS, routing and other appliances typically deployed at each branch office.
Aerohive has plavix prescription information been successfully selling cloud-based Wi-Fi and VPN since October 2009 – with its HiveManager Online cloud-based solution. Aerohive’s approach is plavix prescription information unique, as failures in the WAN link, or the cloud, do not impact the plavix prescription information on-going operation of the network. This is because no data goes to plavix prescription information the cloud and no control or policy enforcement functions (RF optimization, channel selection, load balancing, authentication, roaming, and QoS) are carried out in the cloud.
Aerohive plans to integrate Pareto’s technology into its own HiveOS operating system and plavix prescription information HiveManager Online, its cloud services package, with new features and platforms coming on-stream by the plavix prescription information mid-point of the year. The Pareto acquisition means that, eventually, enterprises should be plavix prescription information able to access their Wi-Fi and router provisioning, security and management capabilities through a plavix prescription information single user interface.
"Cloud-based networking is plavix prescription information going to become a significant trend in the years to come because of its ability to plavix prescription information reduce the complexity and operational cost of networking, for mid-market and plavix prescription information distributed enterprises," said Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president and plavix prescription information distinguished research fellow, Yankee Group.
“Support of remote branch offices using cloud computing is plavix prescription information rapidly becoming an established best-practice for companies with multiple locations,” said Robert Boyer, Senior Vice President at Transcend United Technologies. “Transcend United and plavix prescription information Aerohive have worked closely together for years to simplify the plavix prescription information management of wireless networks, and the Pareto acquisition is good news for plavix prescription information Transcend and Aerohive customers,” Boyer continued.
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The healthcare industry is plavix prescription information seeing a spike in wireless LAN deployments as Wi-Fi networks gain speed, medical records become digitized, and plavix prescription information clinicians strive to improve the quality and reduce the cost of patient care. Read More…
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Within the last year, the introduction of 802.11n-compliant distributed WLANs has plavix prescription information made the WLAN model even more attractive to healthcare facilities. In the ‘traditional’ controller-based WAN model, all security and plavix prescription information network management functions are handled centrally; with the downside potential of the plavix prescription information system failures, delays and throughput bottlenecks.
With distributed WLANs, intelligent APs move key security functions such as firewalling, authorization, and authentication to the wireless edge. Distributed intelligent APs also enable the plavix prescription information creation of logically segregated, local guest networks that are isolated from plavix prescription information the broader WAN connection.
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Transcend United’s valued technology partner 
