Rachel Rose, Agent Support Manager with Bandwidth
Advisors spoke with us at the ITEC 2009
Conference in Seattle.
Bandwidth
Advisors provides Data Center, MPLS,
Wholesale Internet and Managed Hosting consulting and brokerage services from
their base in Seattle to clients across the country.
Bandwidth
Advisors can be a valuable resource that systems integrators, VARs and IT
consultants can utilize to source the best solution for a customer’s needs in
these complex and ever-changing markets.
Bill Huckabee is the Secretary of the West
Sound Technology Association (WSTA) was part of a three member
panel/presentation on things to consider when deploying a content management
solution (CMS)
at the ITEC 2009 Conference in Seattle.
Bill brings to the table his
professional experience with Envisioneering, Inc., a engineering assessment and
advanced technology solution company doing work with the U.S. armed forces to
the membership of the WSTA.
Damien Bowersock, Technical Sales
Manager at GreenBytes storage solutions spoke with us at the ITEC 2009
Conference in Seattle.
GreenBytes has developed easy-to-use,
energy-efficient storage appliances that bring the benefits of data
deduplication to a broader storage market and felt ITEC Conferences were a good
fit to meet new and existing systems integrator and VAR partners.
Charles Keating, VP of the West Sound
Technology Association (WSTA) was a featured speaker at the ITEC 2009 Conference in Seattle.Here he shares
a little background of this unique group that focuses on IT professionals doing
business on the west side of Puget Sound in Washington State with Varvid.com.
WSTA was formed “to increase public
awareness of the availability and quality of local technology professionals,
and to serve technology professionals both at a general level of interest and
in specialized technology fields” on the West Side of Puget Sound, including
the Olympic Peninsula.
Keating said even though the peninsula
is separated by Seattle by relatively short ferry rides, the logistical challenges
posed by transportation makes their members and members’ clients look to a more
convenient, local organization to engage with rather than trying to ‘commute’
by ferry to the big city.
Keating’s ‘day job’ is President of
Keating Consulting Service (KCS), an IT consulting firm he founded in Illinois in
1983 and moved to Bremerton WA several years ago.
Charles holds several Microsoft MCP
certifications and KCS has clients in all industries/sectors, Business,
Government, Educational and ranging in size from Fortune100 to SMB.
Sherry Zins,
Membership Development Director of the Washington Technology Industry
Association speaks to Bryce Read of Varvid.com about the evolution of the W.T.I.A.
at the ITEC 2009 Seattle Conference.
Tom
Henderson, Managing Director of ExtremeLabs Inc. speaks with Bryce Read of
Varvid.com at the ITEC Seattle 2009 Conference about his experience at the show
and touches on a few of the subjects he spoke on at the conference.
Tom’s firm
ExtremeLabs has performed technical
analysis, product testing, investor technical due-diligence, and research in
the enterprise computing/infrastructure field for over twenty-five years.This real world perspective made his
observations both interesting and relevant during the Keynote Presentation on
“The Top 10 Challenges Facing CIOs and IT Management Today.”Interesting points he made include increasing
regional/national/international data security standards and the increasing use
of SANs by organizations large and small.
Later in the day he gave a second
presentation on “The Four Flavors of Virtualization And How To Use Them” –
noting that virtualization is really starting to take hold at all levels of
business computing.
Mark Bowles of Network Computing Group in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia was impressed with Verne Harnish’s speech at the ConnectWise Partner Summit and is looking forward to putting some of the things gleaned from the speech to work for his company.
Calling customers personally to see how they can be better served, and implementing more ‘small huddles’ with team members will improve consistency and quality of the services Network Computing Group provides.
Wade DeVore, NetVision Consulting of Arlington Texas was impressed with the Blueprinting and Process Automation aspects of Connectwise that were demonstrated at the Partner Summit.
Wade has also committed to personally calling five customers per week, as suggested by Verne Harnish’s talk given on Friday morning at the 2009 ConnectWise Partner Summit in Orlando.
Chris Bates, The Computer Hut of Little
Rock, AR appreciated Keynote Speaker Verne Harnish’s message of focusing on the
customer’s needs for loss avoidance.
Key in this is emphasizing
cross-department, full-team communication and meetings to ensure all hands know
what’s going on, in general terms, with the company week to week.
Verne Harnish is founder and CEO of
Gazelles, Inc., an outsourced corporate university for mid-size firms, and has
published the book “Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to
Increase the Value of Your Fast-Growth Firm”
Chris was speaking with Pat Dolan of
Varvid.com at the ConnectWise Partner Summit held this past week in Orlando.
Pat Dolan of Varvid.com speaks with Ed Laprade of Adnet Technologies Inc. of Windsor Connecticut, a CPLS authorized Microsoft Training Center at the ConnectWise Partner Summit in Orlando.
Adnet utilizes Quosal, a quote/proposal generation application that integrates with ConnectWise, and Laprade really appreciates the seemlessness and productivity this affords Adnet.
