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Microsoft’s Birger Steen Making a Move to Parallels

Posted Aug 6 2010 by drew in Cloud Services, Microsoft, Microsoft Partner Network, Uncategorized with 1 Comment

Birger Steen, current vice president for small and midmarket business and distribution (SMB&D), will be leaving the company at the end of this month to become President at Parallels, a cloud services enablement software company.   As you no doubt know, Steen has played an instrumental role in helping SMBs find and use technology through his leadership in the past year.  Vahe Torossian, Corp VP for SMS&P at Microsoft, said that Birger felt this was an opportunity that he just couldn’t pass up. 

“Our small and mid-market business (SMB) leadership group, and specifically Birger Steen, has played an instrumental role in bridging the gap between the SMBs and technology through their leadership in the past year.  Microsoft remains committed to investing in small and mid-market businesses and our partners who serve them.   The list of products and offerings that we launched last year specifically for the SMBs is a great testament to the priority and focus we have with this customer segment.  I am even more excited with the opportunities that cloud computing can bring to SMBs now and in the near future.  We appreciate all that Birger has done and wish him well.” 

Steen spent eight years at Microsoft.  He moved to Redmond after leading Microsoft’s sales and marketing operations in Norway and Russia. A search for Steen’s replacement has begun. 

We are sorry that the Microsoft Partner community lost an advocate in this leader.  On the other hand, we are glad for Paralllels; they’re gaining his expertise and leadership.  Congratulations on your new role as President.  We are glad to see his career advancing and hope to see him  at future industry events. 

Bill Huckabee, Secretary of the West Sound Technology Association at ITEC Seattle 2009

Posted Dec 11 2009 by Aaron Booker in Cloud Services, Conferences, ITEC Seattle, Microsoft, Web/Tech with 0 Comments

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.  Huckabee spoke with Bryce Read from Varvid.com




Tom Henderson of ExtremeLabs Inc. Speaks at ITEC Seattle 2009 Conference

Posted Dec 10 2009 by Aaron Booker in Cloud Services, Conferences, ITEC Seattle, Managed Services with 0 Comments


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.

Network Computing Group Gains Fresh Perspective on Operations at ConnectWise Partner Summit

Posted Nov 11 2009 by Aaron Booker in Cloud Services, Conferences, ConnectWise Conference, Managed Services with 0 Comments

Varvid speaks with Mark Bowles of Network Computing Group in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia, who 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.

ConnectWise Features & Partner Summit Speaker Impress Wade DeVore of NetVision Consulting

Posted Nov 10 2009 by Aaron Booker in Cloud Services, Conferences, ConnectWise Conference, Managed Services, Microsoft Partner Network with 0 Comments

Varvid speaks with Wade DeVore, NetVision Consulting of Arlington Texas who 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.






Computer Hut Benefits From Internal Situational Awareness ConnectWise Affords

Posted Nov 9 2009 by Aaron Booker in Cloud Services, Conferences, ConnectWise Conference, Microsoft Partner Network with 0 Comments

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.

Adnet Technologies Benefits from using Quosal with ConnectWise

Posted Nov 9 2009 by Aaron Booker in Cloud Services, Conferences, ConnectWise Conference, Managed Services, Microsoft, Microsoft Partner Network, SBS with 0 Comments

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.


Over 300 HTG Members Attend ConnectWise Partner Summit – Green Shirts Gain Notice!

Posted Nov 7 2009 by Aaron Booker in Cloud Services, Conferences, ConnectWise Conference, HTG Peer Groups, Managed Services, Microsoft Partner Network with 0 Comments

Christy Sacco, Director of Operations for HTG Peer Groups speaks with Pat Dolan of Varvid.com about the Q Forums HTG presented to members during the ConnectWise Partner Summit in Orlando Florida.

Over 300 HTG members representing 220 member companies, over 25% of the total attendees were at the Summit this year.

Jeannine Edwards Director of ConnectWise Community Gives an Overview of the Partner Summit

Posted Nov 6 2009 by Aaron Booker in Cloud Services, Conferences, ConnectWise Conference, Managed Services with 0 Comments

Jeannine Edwards, Director of ConnectWise Community speaks of creating an IT ecosystem around the platform at the ConnectWise Partner Summit in Orlando FL. There are 49 ConnectWise Integration and Strategic Alliance Partners presenting their unique features and benefits at the Summit this year. Jeannine articulates that ConnectWise’s goal is to facilitate its Integrators and Partners new and existing customer relationships by offering a comprehensive solution that meets and exceeds expectations. She also mentioned the concept of vendor/VAR collaboration on sales and technical problems as key to mutual success, and that ConnectWise as a vendor should not be viewed as competition to its own partners. Message for Next Year’s Partner Summit: There will be a lot more room with a larger facility (30%), hope you can make it! Jeannine was speaking with Pat Dolan of Varvid.com.




Alex Rogers, President, CEO of Chartec on Keynote Speeches at ConnectWise Partner Summit

Posted Nov 6 2009 by Aaron Booker in Cloud Services, Conferences, ConnectWise Conference, Managed Services with 0 Comments

Alex Rogers, President, CEO of Chartec of Bakersfield CA is fired up after listening to Keynote Speeches from Arnie Bellini co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ConnectWise and Chris Anderson of Wired at the ConnectWise Partner Summit. Alex was impressed with the idea of stepping back and considering what simple value-adds you can provide your customer for free that either drive them to other products and services, and/or bolster their loyalty to your firm. Creating and communicating the value of little things that customers may or may not realize are important that your firm can provide to customers at no cost and little or no cost to your company is paramount in both professional/technical market differentiation and customer loyalty and perceived value.

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