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Francis Buttle

Who Is Educating the Next Generation?

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CRM may have become one of the Top 10 tools used by managers, according to a recent Bain and Co. global survey, but that cuts no ice with our higher education institutions. We are still producing streams of graduates and post-graduates who have little or no knowledge or understanding of CRM. Not only do they not know why it is important, but also they don't even know what it is. Indeed, they might join the world of business without even hearing the expression, "customer relationship management."

Of course, there are a few noble and notable exceptions that only go to prove the rule. Table 1 lists some of the schools that offer educational programs in CRM.

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Predictive Analytics World Toronto 2012 Conference Announces Speaker Line-Up

Toronto, Ontario – Predictive Analytics World, the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners, today announced the speaker line-up for the April 25-26, 2012 Toronto Conference (www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/toronto/2012).

Predictive Analytics World (predictiveanalyticsworld.com.com) is the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners, covering today's commercial deployment of predictive analytics, across industries and across software vendors.

PAW Toronto promises to once again break records as the biggest cross-vendor predictive analytics event ever. PAW's program is packed with the top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and business thought leaders, including keynote addresses from Edward Nazarko, Client Technical Advisor, IBM and PAW Program Chair Eric Siegel, plus special session from industry heavy-weight John Elder, CEO & Founder, Elder Research, Inc.

Case Studies: How the Leading Enterprises Do It

Predictive Analytics World focuses on concrete examples of deployed predictive analytics. You can hear from the horse's mouth precisely how Fortune 500 analytics competitors and other top practitioners deploy predictive modeling, and what kind of business impact it delivers.

PAW's Toronto 2012 program is one of the richest and most diverse yet, featuring over 25 sessions across 1 track: "All Audiences,” -- so you can witness how predictive analytics is applied by Adobe, Alberta Motor Association, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Crawford & Company, Galorath, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Pfizer, Topsy Labs, U.S. Federal Government and true-to-life anecdotes based on miscellaneous enterprise successes, plus insights from projects for Anheuser-Busch, Disney, HSBC, Pfizer, U.S. Govt., and others.

HOT TOPICS AND ADVANCED METHODS: PAW SF’s agenda covers ensemble models, financial services, fraud detection, healthcare analytics, human resources analytics, insurance, social data, software development cost estimation, text analytics and uplift modeling, including other innovative applications that benefit organizations in new and creative ways.

WORKSHOPS: PAW also features several full-day pre- and post-conference workshops that complement the core conference program.

Join PAW and access the premier keynotes, sessions, workshops, exposition, expert panel, live demos during "Lab session," networking coffee breaks, reception, birds-of-a-feather lunches, brand-name enterprise leaders, and industry heavyweights in the business.

Cross-Industry Applications:

Predictive Analytics World is the only conference of its kind, delivering vendor-neutral sessions across verticals such as banking, financial services, e-commerce, education, government, healthcare, high technology, insurance, non-profits, publishing, social gaming, retail and telecommunications

And PAW covers the gamut of commercial applications of predictive analytics, including response modeling, customer retention with churn modeling, product recommendations, fraud detection, online marketing optimization, human resource decision-making, law enforcement, sales forecasting, and credit scoring.

Why bring together such a wide range of endeavors? No matter how you use predictive analytics, the story is the same: Predicatively scoring customers optimizes business performance. Predictive analytics initiatives across industries leverage the same core predictive modeling technology, share similar project overhead and data requirements, and face common process challenges and analytical hurdles.

Rave Reviews:

"I came to PAW because it provides case studies relevant to my industry. It has lived up to the expectation and I think it's the best analytics conference I've ever attended!"

Shaohua Zhang, Senior Data Mining Analyst
Rogers Telecommunications

"Hands down, best applied analytics conference I have ever attended. Great exposure to cutting-edge predictive techniques and I was able to turn around and apply some of those learnings to my work immediately. I've never been able to say that after any conference I've attended before!"

Jon Francis, Senior Statistician
T-Mobile

Read more: Articles and blog entries about PAW can be found at pawcon.com/pressroom.php

VENDORS. Meet the vendors and learn about their solutions, software and service. Discover the best predictive analytics vendors available to serve your needs - learn what they do and see how they compare

COLLEAGUES. Mingle, network and hang out with your best and brightest colleagues. Exchange experiences over lunch, coffee breaks and the conference reception connecting with those professionals who face the same challenges as you.

GET STARTED. If you're new to predictive analytics, kicking off a new initiative, or exploring new ways to position it at your organization, there's no better place to get your bearings than Predictive Analytics World. See what other companies are doing, witness vendor demos, participate in discussions with the experts, network with your colleagues and weigh your options!

For more information: predictiveanalyticsworld.com/toronto/2012

Registration: http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/toronto/register.php -- THREE WAYS TO SAVE:

1. Super Early Bird Registration by February 10, 2012 – Save up to $400.

2. Take $150 off the Early Bird or the Advance Two Day Pass registration fee with this posting's promotional discount code: CUS150.

3. Save an additional $200 for each additional attendee from the same company registered at the same time.

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ALL ANALYTICS EVENTS:
PAW San Francisco: March 4-10, 2012 – www.pawcon.com/sanfrancisco
Text Analytics World SF: March 7, 2012 – www.tawcon.com/sanfrancisco/2012
PAW Toronto: April 25-26, 2012 – www.pawcon.com/toronto/2012/
PAW Chicago: June 25-26, 2012 - www.pawcon.com/chicago/2012/
PAW Germany - Nov 6-7, 2012 - www.pawcon.com
PAW London - Nov 27-28, 2012 - www.pawcon.com
PAW Videos: Available on-demand – www.pawcon.com/video

Text Analytics World Topics & Case Studies – March 6-7, 2012 in San Francisco

Text Analytics World San Francisco 2012 (tawgo.com) is the business-focused event for text analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners. This conference delivers case studies, expertise and resources to leverage unstructured data for business impact and deploy the latest text analytics technology.

CASE STUDIES:

Text Analytics World San Francisco 2012 will feature over 20 sessions with case studies from leading enterprises in e-commerce, financial services, government, healthcare, high technology, insurance, retail, and social media such as: Accident Fund Insurance, AlphaGenius, AVG (security), Amdocs and the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a U.S. Federal Department, Brocade, Center for Disease Control, Hewlett-Packard, MTV and Warner Music Group, Samsung, a Fortune 500 global technology company, hedge funds, emergency response companies, plus special examples from U.S. government agencies DoD, DHS, and SSA.

HOT TOPICS:

TAW San Francisco's agenda covers hot topics and advanced methods such as blackbox trading, customer service and call centers, decision support, document discovery, document filtering, financial indicators from social media, government applications, insurance applications, knowledge discovery, marketing and branding, product launching, sentiment analysis, social data, social media applications, test analytics software, topic discovery, voice of the customer, and other innovative applications that benefit organizations in new and creative ways.

WORKSHOPS: TAW also features a full-day, hands-on text analytics workshop, plus several other pre- and post-conference workshops in analytics that complement the core conference program.

For more information: tawgo.com

Save $400 on Predictive Analytics World and Text Analytics World 2-Day Combo Pass:

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ALL ANALYTICS EVENTS:
PAW San Francisco: March 4-10, 2012 – www.pawcon.com/sanfrancisco
Text Analytics World SF: March 6-7, 2012 – www.tawgo.com
PAW Toronto: April 25-26, 2012 – www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com
PAW Chicago: June 25-26, 2012 - www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com
PAW Videos: Available on-demand – www.pawcon.com/video

eGain named to Software Magazine’s 29th Annual Software 500

Software Magazine ranks eGain as one of the world’s largest software companies for the ninth straight year

Mountain View, CA (October 13, 2011): eGain ( NASDAQ: EGAN), the leading provider of cloud and on-site customer interaction hub software, today announced its inclusion in Software Magazine’s Software 500 ranking of the world’s largest software and service providers, now in its 29th year.

“The 2011 Software 500 results show that revenue growth in the software and services industry was healthy, with total Software 500 revenue of $541.5 billion worldwide for 2010, representing approximately 10 percent growth from the previous year’s list,” said John P Desmond, editor of Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com.

“The Software 500 helps CIOs, senior IT managers, and IT staff research and create the short list of business partners,” Desmond said. “It is a quick reference of vendor viability. And the online version, to be posted soon at www.softwaremag.com, is searchable by category, making it what we call the online catalog to enterprise software.”

“As consumers go social and mobile, businesses are struggling to consistently manage interactions across the customer lifecycle,” said Ashu Roy, eGain Chairman and CEO. “Our Customer Interaction Hub platform enables businesses to deliver differentiated and consistent customer experiences across the web, social, and phone. We are pleased to be in the Software 500 list for the ninth straight year.”

The Software 500 is a revenue-based ranking of the world’s largest software and services suppliers, targeting medium to large enterprises, their IT professionals, software developers, and business managers involved in software and services purchasing.

Some 27 percent of the 2011 Software 500 companies are privately held. More than 100 companies are on the list in 2011 for the first time, a reflection of the dynamic nature of the industry.

Go to www.softwaremag.com/register to subscribe to be among the first to see the 2011 Software 500. It is being released first in the digital publication, to be distributed in late September.

The ranking is based on total worldwide software and services revenue for 2010. This includes revenue from software licenses, maintenance and support, training, and software-related services and consulting. Suppliers are not ranked on their total corporate revenue, since many have other lines of business, such as hardware. The financial information was gathered by a survey prepared by King Content Co. and posted at www.softwaremag.com, as well as from public documents.

About Digital Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com
Digital Software Magazine, the Software Decision Journal, has been a brand name in the high-tech industry for more than 35 years. Softwaremag.com, its Web counterpart, is the online catalog to enterprise software and the home of the Software 500 ranking of the world’s largest software and services companies. Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com are owned and operated by King Content Co.

About eGain
eGain (NASDAQ: EGAN) is the leading provider of cloud and on-premise customer interaction software for sales and service. For over a decade, eGain solutions have helped improve customer experience, grow sales, and optimize service processes across the web, social, and phone channels. Hundreds of global enterprises rely on eGain to transform fragmented sales engagement and customer service operations into unified Customer Interaction Hubs (CIHs). To find out more about eGain products, visit http://www.egain.com/products/index.asp

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, eGain has operating presence in North America, EMEA and APAC. To learn more about us, visit www.eGain.com or call our offices: +1-800-821-4358 (US), +44-(0)-1753-464646 (EMEA), or +91-(0)-20-6608-9200 (APAC). Also, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/egain and Facebook at http://facebook.com/egain

eGain contact:
Jamie Abayan
Phone: 650-230-7532
Email: jabayan@egain.com

Software 500 contact:
Tracy Kunichika
Software 500 Project Leader
Email: Tracyk@softwaremag.com

SMS Varanasi organizes SMART for School and College Students

SMS Varanasi organizes SMART for School and College Students
SMART is an offering to the academic society from School of Management Science to recognize and reward talented students of Intermediate and Undergraduate level. The objective of SMART is to explore & promote the talent of Young Generation. SMART is an endeavor to discover the best of the best students having the right academic quotient. It is the platform for the participant to evaluate oneself in holistic manner, through participating at state level competition.
SMART provides following opportunities to the participants:
• To participate and represent school/college in a state level academic competition.
• Winners to be recognized at institutional & State Level.
• Awareness about the competitive environment which they will face in the near future.
• A self evaluating opportunity for assessing their aptitude and knowledge beyond their School/College Boundary at state level.
• Cash prize of Rs.25,000, Rs.15,000 & Rs.10,000 for the first, second and third position holder respectively. Two consolation prizes of Rs.5,000 each.
• To secure financial assistance for pursuing higher education in the form of Scholarships.
Entry Process
• Only Regular students of Class 12 and Final Year Graduation can participate in the event.
• Participants have to fill registration form available at their school/college office.
• Photocopy of Identity Card issued by School/College to be attached with the registration form.
• Registration form should be submitted at School/College office only.
• Date of Event will be notified on Notice board of School/College.
• Entry in SMART is FREE.
Rules and Regulations
• Preliminary Round will be held at School / College premises.
• Preliminary Round will have 100 objective questions of general awareness & mental ability.
• There will be no negative marking. Duration of examination will be of 90 Minutes.
• From each School/College top five students will be invited to participate in the Final SMART Round on 19th November, 2011.
• Incomplete Registration form will be rejected.
• All the correspondence will be through school/college authority and Short Message Services at mobile number provided by the participant.
• In case of any dispute the decision of organizing committee of SMART will be final.

Advanced Centre for Corporate Training at SMS Varanasi

Advanced Centre for Corporate Training at SMS Varanasi
Today India is at driving seat in terms of striking economic growth. To transform India into world’s economic authority it is imperative to establish all Indian business organizations on global platform as highly trusted, productive and endearing organizations.
With an objective to develop robust corporate-academia partnership, the Advanced Centre for Corporate Training (ACCT) at SMS Varanasi is actively engaged in breeding different applicative models based on most recent research outcomes in the field of human behavior. Following are the training modules offered by Advanced Centre for Corporate Training:
Leadership Development Programme: Being good at "The process" is not good enough! Today, the modern manager needs to be good human being, creative, inspiring, motivating and have great interpersonal and people skills. We specialize in helping managers/entrepreneurs to acquire skills, behavior and competencies to be able to drive performance through their teams in a motivating and empowering way.
Motivation Development Programme: Handsome salary, excellent physical ambiance, attractive designation, and phenomenal company’s brand can only attract people to work but these may not be instrumental behind the way people will work, utilization of people’s full potential and engendering excellent performances. This training module is making business executives (all levels) aware of latest research findings on motivation.
Development of Unconscious Competence: Emotional Intelligence is extremely important to make highly productive decision-making in various business situations. This module is based on Self- Diagnosis, Self-Counseling and Self Nurturing. The self- Diagnosis and counseling is developed on transactional analysis and the Self-Nurturing is developed on the basis of latest researches done in the area of positive psychology.
Organizational Development Programme: Life expectancy of people is increasing but of companies is decreasing. One third of the companies listed in the 1970 fortune 500 had vanished by 1983. A Dutch survey showing the average corporate life expectancy in Japan and Europe was 12.5 years. The basic reasons behind financial decline are corporate culture and core values that serve a company best in times of volatile change. This programme is designed to develop competencies for organizational development.
Employee Assessment Programme: Everyone needs to be assessed – whether at work or in every day life. The assessment of an employee can improve their motivation and can help them to make useful suggestions about how their jobs can operate more effectively. After all, everyone needs encouragement and personal attention. At the same time, you can tell your employees where they need to focus.

Centre for Advanced Computing at SMS Varanasi

Centre for Advanced Computing at SMS Varanasi
To enrich the Information Technology knowledge pool of a range of academicians, students, corporate representatives and other stakeholders of society, SMS Varanasi has formed a cell named Centre for Advance Computing (CAC), in year 2008, to make the above mentioned parties aware of recent upgradations, innovations and modifications in respective stream. On the one end this Centre is fulfilling the educational and training related needs of different aspirants, and on the other hand same is also engaged in IT consultancy and related research work. To supply the quality input in various programs of Centre, SMS has already tied-up with academic and research institutions like IIT-Kanpur and Software Companies like Adobe, Sun Microsystems, SPSS and Microsoft. CAC has successfully trained plenty of professionals, academicians and scholars from diverse engineering, graphic and management backgrounds. Successful participants have received Centre for Advance Computing Certification, a true testimony of skill.
This is needless to mention that Centre keeps on organizing training and research activities like Certificate in Advance Networking (in association with IIT-K), Certificate in Web-Designing (in association with a Software Company), at regular intervals. Besides this, SMS is only Certified Associate with Adobe, in Eastern UP region, for the purpose of certification program under flagship of CAC. In accordance with this certification SMS is authorized to delivered high volume of Adobe Certified Associate Certification exams in a single designated class room. Seeing the turnaround changes in the IT stream, importance and future activities of CAC appear extremely bright.
In case you expect some more information about the Centre, feel free to write to the coordinator Mr.Pradeep Kumar through e-mail: cac@smsvaranasi.com.

LOGiQ3 Protects Critical Data Automatically with e-ternity Cloud Backup Powered by Asigra

Leading Canadian Insurance Company Cuts Backup Administration Time up to 90 Percent

TORONTO – August 31, 2011 – Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup™, recovery and restore (BURR) software provider since 1986, today announced that LOGiQ3, a leading Canadian insurance and reinsurance outsourcing company, is protecting its critical data with Asigra's Cloud Backup solution, delivered by Asigra partner e-ternity Business Continuity Consultants, Inc.

A leading agent of change within the life insurance and reinsurance industry, LOGiQ3, a PROFIT 200 company, is one of Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies. LOGiQ3 provides a variety of outsourcing services including reinsurance administration, production underwriting, auditing, consulting and training to companies in North America, Europe and the Caribbean from its offices in Toronto, Canada, and Cardiff, U.K. The company selected cloud backup for its simplicity and ability to cut backup administration time up to 90 percent compared to traditional backup technologies.

Prior to engaging a cloud backup solution, backing up LOGiQ3's distributed computing environment was challenging. The company performed file synchronization of laptop data, requiring users to protect the data on their own laptops. To improve the process, LOGiQ3 built a portal for users to save data in a SharePoint structured environment, but it was not 100 percent effective; manual processes were still required. When users searched the backup data set for specific information, data was often difficult to locate. This indicated that backups using only file synchronization were incomplete. The company looked at on-premise solutions but did not like their heavy backup agents or the fact that they provided file-level rather than block-level data protection and deduplication. Furthermore, LOGiQ3 wanted a backup time of 10 minutes maximum, not the 30 minutes required by on-premise solutions.

LOGiQ3 turned to e-ternity, also a Canadian company, because it offered the best solution for its distributed environment. e-ternity provides monthly managed services that guarantee business continuance to customers and depends on Asigra Cloud Backup as the technology behind its services.

"Protecting the laptop data of our mobile workforce was difficult; we needed a more advanced alternative," said Ian Sanderson, Vice President, Technology at LOGiQ3. "For our company, loss of communications or information assets can result in a loss of credibility which was not an option. e-ternity's cloud backup service provides the highest level of protection, which is critical to our business."

e-ternity cloud backup Powered by Asigra happens quickly and seamlessly, with no user intervention. The solution automatically protects 100 percent of the data across all LOGiQ3 laptops and desktops and select server data. Block-level backup minimizes the time required to capture all recent changes, thereby reducing backup run time and its impact on computing performance.

"Compared to on-premise solutions, Asigra Cloud Backup from e-ternity has cut our backup administration hours by 80 to 90 percent and reduced maintenance and management costs up to 25 percent," said Sanderson. "Plus, we now trust that the recovery of data is assured, allowing us to sleep better at night. Since deploying the solution we've had to do two data restores, one for a stolen laptop and one for a laptop with a crashed disk drive. In both cases, data recovery took only a couple of hours.

"The decentralized model of cloud backup is ideal for a 'road warrior' company like LOGiQ3, where the computing environment is highly distributed," said Greg Onoprijenko, president of e-ternity. "Our Asigra-based Cloud Backup service provides seamless backup of all data, wherever it is located, with no end-user intervention."

"More and more companies like LOGiQ3, where data is stored in disparate computing environments, are realizing that Asigra Cloud Backup can greatly simplify their backup procedures," said Tracy Staniland, senior director, corporate marketing, Asigra. "Because we partner with professional service providers such as e-ternity, end-users can be sure to receive excellent customer service from an experienced support team."

Tweet this: @LOGiQ3 Protects Laptop Data Automatically with #CloudBackup from @Asigra

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About e-ternity
e-ternity provides internet-based services to companies in North America that guarantee business continuance despite any disaster or threat. With its innovative monthly managed services model, e-ternity utilizes cloud computing technologies combined with a comprehensive service program that will allow organizations to optimize their business processes and maximize efficiency and productivity. More information about e-ternity can be found at www.e-ternity.ca.

About Asigra
Asigra is the leading Canadian cloud computing vendor focused on backup, recovery and restoration with more than 400,000 customer sites deployed globally. Asigra Cloud Backup™ transforms the way businesses manage and protect their data by delivering seamless end-to-end data protection that efficiently scales and easily adapts to any IT environment. Asigra Cloud Backup is built for new and existing MSPs/VARs who focus on data protection, IT constrained organizations, and industries with compliance mandates that are looking to improve their backup with a secure, reliable and predictable data protection cloud backup model. With more than 25 years of experience as backup/recovery pioneers, Asigra manages one of the largest business-class backup service provider ecosystems in the world who power their cloud backup services using Asigra technology. Asigra is recognized among top-tier industry analysts, including the Enterprise Strategy Group, Gartner, IDC, Forrester Research and the 451 Group. Recently, the company was recognized as a leader in cloud backup for 2011 by the MSPmentor 250, a leading online destination for managed service providers. Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices globally. For more information, visit www.asigra.com.

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Asigra
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nerissa.martin@asigra.com

Liberty University Offloads 69 Percent Of Unstructured SharePoint Content With Metalogix StoragePoint

Large Private University Dramatically Improves SharePoint Performance, Scalability, Fault Tolerance, and Reduces Backup Time by Reducing BLOBs Stored in SQL Server Databases

WASHINGTON, DC, August 23, 2011 – Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments, announced today that Liberty University has purchased its Metalogix StoragePoint solution to manage its SharePoint content database. As the largest and fastest growing Christian university in the world, Liberty needed to be able to manage the business processes of the university, including finance administration and financial aid, as well as its education information knowledge database. With their SQL database bursting at the seams, they turned to Metalogix StoragePoint to alleviate the issue.

“Before we selected the Metalogix solution, our backups would take several hours, but with StoragePoint - bam it’s done,” said Adkins. “I don’t have to worry about backup windows, or the protection and recovery of our content.”

Liberty University offers more than 60 accredited programs of study to its over 72,000 distance learning students as well as its 12,000 students on campus. It also employs another 5,000 faculty and staff. With close to 200GB of storage in their SQL database, backups were becoming too complicated. Optimizing their SharePoint storage to improve performance and data protection processes was their answer. Liberty began to seek a solution that would minimize its unstructured SharePoint data or binary large objects (BLOBs) stored in its SQL database and by selecting and leveraging Metalogix StoragePoint they were able to do so.

StoragePoint enables Liberty to keep its unstructured BLOB content such as PDFs, JPEG images and Microsoft Word documents out of SharePoint’s content databases and offload them onto virtually any mix of NAS or SAN storage – on premises or in the cloud. Just a couple of hours after installation, the university began to see immediate ROI by enabling it to leverage more cost-effective storage without sacrificing performance, functionality or user experience.

Now that Liberty has its SharePoint infrastructure optimized for continued growth, it is planning its migration from SharePoint 2007 to 2010. So pleased with the product quality and knowledgeable support team, the university came back to Metalogix for its migration solution. They will be using Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint to streamline the upgrade providing them a comprehensive content lifecycle management solution.

"The amount of reduction Liberty University experienced with their SQL content database is what most of our customers experience once they offload," said Steven Murphy, CEO of Metalogix. "We offer the most seamless and transparent solution on the market. We are so glad Liberty was pleased enough with StoragePoint to now utilize Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint, too."

Metalogix StoragePoint
Winner of Microsoft’s® SharePoint® 2010 Innovation award, Metalogix StoragePoint enables organizations to keep their unstructured content such as PDF, JPEG images, Microsoft Word documents, video and other digital content – also known as Binary Large Objects (BLOBs), out of SharePoint’s content databases and offload them onto virtually any mix of NAS or SAN storage – on premises or in the cloud. Installed and configured in minutes, StoragePoint provides immediate ROI by enabling companies to leverage cost effective storage without sacrificing performance, functionality or user experience.

Tweet this: @LibertyU offloads 69 percent of unstructured #SharePoint content with #Metalogix StoragePoint http://bit.ly/pYL1lT

Follow Metalogix at http://www.twitter.com/metalogix

About Liberty University
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY®, founded in 1971 by Jerry Falwell Sr., prepares Christian leaders to influence their world. With over 72,000 undergraduate and graduate students, Liberty is America's 8th largest four-year university. www.liberty.edu.

About Metalogix
Metalogix is a leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Exchange, and legacy enterprise content environments. We enable organizations to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content whether on-premises or in the cloud. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, privately held, and backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://www.metalogix.com.

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New GD400 Rugged Handheld Computer Narrows Divide Between SmartPhones And Full-Sized Computers

Improving worker productivity, the eight-ounce GD400 handheld enables mobile professionals to scan bar codes, receive work assignments, check email, communicate with the office and send pictures, videos and text messages, easily and efficiently.

SUNRISE, Fla.--General Dynamics Itronix introduces the GD400 rugged handheld computer, designed for mobile professionals whose jobs range from ensuring the public s safety and working inside warehouses to maintaining utilities. Weighing less than eight ounces, the sleek GD400 handheld is equipped with ultra-sensitive GPS, a barcode scanner/imager, a high-resolution camera with flash and a daylight-viewable, water resistant touch-screen screen display.

"Using the GD400, utilities, law enforcement or any mobile enterprise can immediately improve business operations, increase worker productivity and reduce costs," said Mark Johnston, director of Strategic Computing Solutions of General Dynamics Itronix. "By combining robust computing with cell phone-like functionality, the GD400 bridges the communications and computing gap between notebook computers and commercial cell phones."

The GD400 hosts the Windows® Embedded Handheld 6.5 operating system that integrates quickly and easily with enterprise operations and IT networks. General Dynamics Itronix also offers service and support to ensure a smooth transition of the GD400 into business operations. The GD400 is IP54 certified against dust and water intrusion and built to withstand multiple drops onto concrete. It is powered by a high-performance ARM Cortex!"-A8 processor that comes with NEON!" multimedia technology, accelerating the transmission of multimedia and large data files across WiFi and wireless wide area networks.

Key features of the GD400 include:
- Ergonomic design for simple one-hand operation
- Eight-hour battery life
- 3.7 inch color, touch-screen display
- 3.2 mega-pixel auto-focus camera with flash
- Digital compass
- Bluetooth®, 802.11 a/b/g/n, cellular network connectivity

Available with a number of accessories, the General Dynamics Itronix GD400 list price starts at $1,829.

For a complete list of features, benefits and specifications, please visit www.gd-itronix.com/GD400. To speak to a sales representative or to order a GD400, call 1-800-441-1309.

General Dynamics Itronix is a leading developer of wireless, rugged computing solutions for mobile workers, offering a full range of field computing systems including full-sized laptops, ultra-mobile notebook PCs and tablet PCs. Additional information is available at www.gd-itronix.com.

General Dynamics Itronix is part of General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). Information about General Dynamics is available online at www.generaldynamics.com.

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Related topics: rugged handheld, handheld PC, ultra portable, ultra mobile, mobile computing, UMPC

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