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Welcome
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reliable and informative technology news and updates. TECH NEWS &
UPDATES Cisco WAN Optimization Solutions
Help Hundreds of Customers Accelerate Business-Critical Applications across
the WAN Spotlight
on Three Customers' Experiences with Ease of Branch Office Management
Benefits of Cisco WAAS Cisco
announced on March 6, 2007 that Cisco Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization
solutions that ease management of branch offices are achieving rapid adoption
from hundreds of customers. Customers including, freight forwarding company Panalpina Group of North America, architecture firm
Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., and travel leader Sabre
Holdings Corporation, are using the award-winning Cisco Wide Area Application
Services (WAAS) to share centralized files and increase remote users'
productivity and collaboration across the organization. As part of Cisco's
Application Networking Services Advanced Technology segment, these Cisco WAAS
customers help demonstrate Cisco's success in improving the availability,
performance, and security of applications delivered across the network
platform. "Customers
are rapidly deploying Cisco WAN Optimization solutions to simplify branch
data management, enable collaboration and accelerate access to consolidated
application infrastructures," said George Kurian,
vice president of the Application Delivery business unit of Cisco Systems.
"We are pleased that customers are endorsing our core design approach to
enable Cisco WAAS to be deployed and implemented seamlessly within our
customers' existing network services, provisioning and operational
frameworks." An
industry leading freight forwarding and logistics company, the Panalpina Group of With
numerous sites spread across the U.S., the architectural and engineering firm
Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc. (RS&H) faced the challenge of helping
collaborative teams of consultants and clients access and share information.
RS&H distributed data and business critical applications in local offices
connected throughout their WAN. The company's engineers and consultants
struggled with the WAN latencies that slowed mission-critical Computer Aided
Design (CAD) applications when accessing remote engineering files. Sabre Holdings Corporation, a global industry leader that
retails travel products and provides distribution and technology solutions
for the travel industry, was challenged to protect the critical business
information on employee desktop and laptop computers in more than 100 remote
locations across 45 countries. The company had limited WAN bandwidth that
slowed down performance of business applications when shared with their IP
communications applications. Cisco WAAS increased the access performance for
remote offices and reduced their bandwidth usage by 20 percent to enable Sabre to easily protect their business critical data.
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Professional partners with Unitek to provide
technical & certification training PC Professional is happy to announce
our new partnership with Unitek IT Education to
help assist our valued partners in meeting their technical training needs. Unitek IT Education is one of the Nations leading
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locations ( January Employee Of The Month PC
Professional is proud to announce its January Employee of the Month, Jerry
Chance. Jerry not only accepted the challenge of an important project at a
new customer site, but has exemplified the high standards of involvement and
attention to detail PC Professional strives for. Jerry is in the process of
working with the client to overhaul the processes and streamline desktop
refresh procedures for both new hires and upgrade users. With Jerry's current
migration testing and development lab work, it looks like he will be saving
the client approximately 15 minutes per migration. This will result in an
overhead savings of 1500 man hours per year and an approximate budget savings
of 60K per year for the client. It is this creativity and diligence that
clients ask of PC Professional when they hire us. February Employee Of The Month From
Flying to Kentucky for an ADS upgrade, to studying to pass his CCDA
certification exam, to working numerous overtime hours for a number of
clients, to grabbing the bull by the horns at Clausen house to make the final
outcome successful, Gary really stepped to the plate in February and showed
great leadership by setting an example of the Going the extra
mile attitude that makes PC Pro so good at what we do. FANTASTIC
JOB JERRY & GARY - KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. Employee Anniversary Recognition PC
Professional would like to recognize the following individuals on completing
another successful year at PC Professional. Joe
Santorsiero, Sales Manager - 4 years Melanie Neault Purchasing - 1 year Beeje Dann Accounting
3 years We value
the level of commitment and dedication of our employees and we hope to
continue a long and lasting relationship with every member of our team! |
MARCH 2007
TECH NEWS & UPDATES SALES/SERVICE CONTACT Courtney Connor (510) 874-5837 Dan Sanguinetti For comments
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