Varvid.com founder Aaron Booker expounds the virtues YouSendIt, an online file transfer service. YouSendIt offers fast and secure file transfers for a reasonable price, and is far easier to use than an FTP setup. By pinning the sender’s email address to each file, YouSendIt makes tracking each client’s progress a snap. Aaron uses YouSendIt for his business’s cloud-based video editing service and highly recommends their services for anyone who needs to transfer large files over the web.
Varvid.com founder Aaron Booker is back to tell the world about DropBox, a fantastic backup/file sync utility that he uses to make sure his small business has access to all the files it needs at any time. DropBox, whose free version give users up to 2 gigabytes of storage, offers a wide range of price points for organizations of any size. Quickly and securely, DropBox syncs itself between all of the enabled machines – Mac, Windows, and mobile – ensuring an end to the all-day wait for someone to email you the latest version of a file. DropBox has improved efficiency at Varvid so much that we needed to upgrade our account – and we’re so happy with their service that we’d highly recommend it to anyone who needs a cloud storage solution.
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 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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
