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Modular Data Protection Services 360° Partner Program™ Launch | Modular DPS

An Innovative Way to Adopt Cloud Services.

Join us for a Webinar on March 27 to Launch the Modular Data Protection Services 360° Partner Program™

The increasing array of offerings and associated marketing misuse of terminology such as business continuity and disaster recovery has only added to the complexity, confusion and business risk for IT Service Providers to “get it right” as they attempt to make sense of the dizzying array of data protection service offerings available.

Modular DPS Inc. is a cloud services aggregator. Our Modular 360° Partner Program™ brings together an alliance of some of the leading names in the cloud services space. This program, co-sponsored by the Intel Hybrid Cloud group, 6fusion Inc. and MSPexcellence represents a unique approach in that it combines all of the necessary business knowledge, support and technical components necessary to enable IT Service Providers to quickly and effectively deliver profitable Cloud Data Protection services rooted in the fundamental principle that establishing a secure and absolutely recoverable client data set is the critical foundation of any data protection strategy.

Is your services practice capturing maximum wallet share within the exploding data protection services market opportunity?

Data protection remains one of the leading use cases within the cloud services delivery model owing largely to:

Explosive growth in corporate data

Increased corporate governance and compliance requirements

Rising demand for business continuity planning services

Service provider interest in data protection services is also growing because it is one of the most logical and tactical market entry points for IT Service Providers to establish a managed services foothold within their SMB/SME clients.

You should absolutely attend this if you meet some or all of the criteria below:

I am an MSP who recognizes and has the need for a simple way to evolve to offering a well formed comprehensive Data Protection strategy and solution for my customers

I am an MSP who recognizes that the evolution of the cloud significantly complicates and adds variables in the decision process for bringing this solution to market

I am an MSP who wants to stay in front of my customer with best in breed solutions that look and feel like my own and set me apart from my competition

I am an MSP who is looking for ways and means to have more strategic conversations with my customers to cement longer term predictable relationships

 I am an MSP who wants clear line of sight and clarity to appropriately and efficiently harnessing the cloud for my customers when it comes to Data Protection

Title: Modular Data Protection Services 360° Partner Program™ Launch: An Innovative Way to Adopt Cloud Services

Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

Reserve your Webinar seat now

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements

PC-based attendees: Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Macintosh®-based attendees: Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

Co-sponsored by the Intel AppUp℠ Small Business Service, 6Fusion Inc.* and MSPExcellence*.

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Please note I am an Advisor to Modular DPS

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Friday Fun: The Gender of a Computer

A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.

'House' for instance, is feminine: 'la casa.' 'Pencil,' however, is masculine: 'el lapiz.'

Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether computer should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.

The men's group decided that 'computer' should definitely be of the feminine gender ('la computadora'), because:

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;

2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;

3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and

4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

(THIS GETS BETTER!)

The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be Masculine ('el computador'), because:

1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;

2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;

3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and

4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.

The women won.

OR did they?

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We had written code for 8 months in our home town of Missoula, Montana before it occurred to us we might need to raise money to launch our startup. There were a number of reasons for this: 1) We had no idea what we'd do with the money. 2) We assumed our apps' success would be huge and immediate.

Obviously, this was naive.This naivete was complicated by the fact of our geographical remoteness from the centers of funding.

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#Cloud Computing for Businesses - The Place to Be..

The cloud is no longer just a buzz word, it's a part of our daily lives.

Powerful enterprise software that was only available to the biggest companies is now available to the smallest. It's the perfect storm of advancements in mobility, flexibility, productivity and affordability. And it's setting up the small and medium size market with a massive growth opportunity, making it clear that this is the place to be. 

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Pedigree® Adoption Drive™ 2011 and help a Dog like Ripley

Help take Ripley for a virtual walk around the web and unlock a £1 donation for the Pedigree Adoption Drive! #PAD2011 and save a dog like this from taking his last walk

Pedigree Adoption Drive 2011: Where Does The Money Go?

  Hopefully by now you’ve already taken Ripley on a virtual dog walk around the web and unlocked a £1 donation for this year’s Pedigree Adoption Drive. We’re hoping to raise a grand total of £100,000 for rescue centres around the UK, so make sure you tell your friends to get involved too.

Since 2008, the Pedigree Adoption Drive has raised over £1million, helping rescue centres across the country continue working to find loving homes for the 120,000 dogs who are abandoned every year. By getting involved, your donation will help fund vital refurbishment of dilapidated kennel blocks, desperately needed veterinary facilities and the supply of essential surgical equipment.

We work with a number of charities, all members of the ADCH (Association of Dogs and Cat Homes). Some of the rescue centres we’re working with this year include The Mayhew Animal Home, JSPCA, EDCH, HULA Animal Rescue, NAWT, Blue Cross, Manchester & Cheshire Dogs Home and Newcastle Dogs & Cats Home. For more details, take a peek at our partners list.

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All it takes is 3 minutes and you can help save a dog like Ripley so visit Pedigree® Adoption Drive™ and don't forget to pass the message on!

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Every one in the UK has a distrust of Traffic Wardens (well, maybe not themselves) but sometimes even they…

Watch what happened when thousands of motorists across Britain, got a...

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The question should be: When.

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An Alternative punishment 4 #UKRiots #cartoon

Mac on... riot thugs getting sentenced

By Mac

'For all those anticipating some nice soft sentencing. Today is the Glorious twelfth and you have a 30-second start...'

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An Explanation for those who have outside the UK:

The Glorious Twelfth is usually used to refer to 12 August, the start of the shooting season for Red Grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus) and to a lesser extent the Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in the United Kingdom. This is one of the busiest days in the shooting season, with large amounts of game being shot. The date itself is traditional, the current legislation enshrining it is the Game Act 1831 (and in Northern Ireland, the Wildlife (Northern Ireland) Order 1985). Not all game (as defined by the Game Act 1831) have the same start to their open seasons - most begin on September 1, with October 1 for Woodcock and Pheasant.

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Flowtown have come up with an Infograph to help you decide whether it worth taking the Potential client out again and what are the pain point.

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Lessons from History

I just finished reading Bloodmoney by David Ignatius (Amazon) and while it is a good read, the following quote at the begining of the book caught my eye:

First, you push on your territories, where you have no business to be, and where you had promised not to go; secondly, your intrusion provokes resentment, and resentment means resistance. Thirdly, you instantly cry out that the people are rebellious and their act is rebellion.... Fourthly, you send out a force to stamp out rebellion; and fifthly, having spread bloodshed, confusion and anarchy, you declare with your hands uplifted to the heavens that moral reasons forced you to stay: for if you were to leave, this territory would be left in a condition which no civilized power could contemplate with equanimity or with composure.

This was not written in the last 20 years, it was orginally written by Viscount John Morley, State Secretary for India 1905 -1910 (summarizing the anger of the Pashtun tribesmen; quoted in C.E. Andrews, The Challenge of the North West Frontier 1937). 

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Send a message opposing Murdoch's media takeover in light of hacking case

In the UK s over the last few days, few will not have heard the news that News Corporation has:

admitted responsibility for hacking the phones of politicians and celebrities, 

stands accused of listening to messages (voice mail) and deleting messages of a murdered 13 year old girl.

Heard that Ford pulls UK paper ads over phone hacking claims - Yahoo! News http://yhoo.it/j4C6Tn 

So if you think that News Internation should be held responsible, please consider signing this message or pass it on. 

Dear friends across the UK,

Jeremy Hunt just said he'll let Rupert Murdoch own all of BSkyB. We have three days to flood the public consultation with requests to stop the deal, and call on the government to initiate a public inquiry into the hacking scandals. Let's save our media and democracy. Send a message now.

Jeremy Hunt has just said he'll allow Murdoch to own all of BSkyB. We have just three days to flood the government's public consultation with requests to stop the deal.

We've done it before -- in the last consultation Hunt said our avalanche of 40,000 messages delayed the deal as his officials had to read each email carefully, fearing a legal challenge. But the government is pushing the deal through despite the hacking scandal of murdered Milly Dowler -- the latest grim episode that shows how Murdoch's media tramples standards and ignores ethics.

Murdoch already controls more of our media than is legal in many countries – and is notorious for using his power to skew our politics. The official consultation ends this Friday -- let's tell the government we don't want his media empire to control our largest commercial broadcaster. Send a message now calling on Jeremy Hunt and David Cameron to refuse Murdoch's BSkyB deal until there's a full Competition Commission review and a full public inquiry into phone hacking. And tell your friends to do the same.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/murdoch_messages_2/?vl

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation already owns 40% of British newspapers and 40% of BSkyB, the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster. In the US, Australia and elsewhere this degree of media dominance would not be allowed. News Corporation has admitted responsibility for hacking the phones of politicians and celebrities, and now stands accused of listening to messages of a murdered 13 year old girl. But our government wants to give Murdoch power over half of our media, allowing him to then squeeze out his rivals one by one.

Since November we’ve repeatedly rallied to stop Murdoch. We've sent messages, phoned ministers, done stunts, and funded adverts and legal challenges. Jeremy Hunt says our actions have delayed the deal and persuaded him to make changes to how Sky News will be treated if Murdoch takes over BSkyB. He's had to hire extra lawyers and is nervous about a battle in the courts. We're making an impact, but the conditions Hunt plans to put on the takeover won't work, as Murdoch regularly runs rings round regulators.

Now is the moment to stand up for our media and our democracy and build pressure on the government. Let's send messages calling on Jeremy Hunt and David Cameron to refuse Murdoch's BSkyB deal until the deal has been reviewed by the Competition Commission and a full judge led public inquiry into the hacking scandal is conducted and completed. Send a message now, and encourage your friends to do so.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/murdoch_messages_2/?vl

An independent and diverse media is vital for holding governments to account and should not be in the hands of someone known for unethical journalistic practices and who often seeks favours in return for endorsing politicians and parties. But people power can stop this deal. If we all stand up together now in the UK, we’ll give hope to independent media advocates across the world.

With hope and determination,

Alex, Sam, Brianna, Alice, Ricken, Luis and the whole Avaaz team

More information

Power that threatens both an industry and democracy http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-power-that-threatens-both-an-industry-and-democracy-2305054.html

News Corp's battle for BSkyB shows global ambition http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/8612669/News-Corps-battle-for-BSkyB-shows-global-ambition.html

News Corp/BSkyB deal underlines Murdoch's political clout http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/30/news-corp-bskyb-murdoch?intcmp=239

Rupert Murdoch: Empire of the Sun http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/30/rupert-murdoch-empire-the-sun

Police to meet NoW executives over Milly hacking claims http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14024668

Cameron: Dowler phone hack allegations 'truly dreadful' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8617387/David-Cameron-allegations-of-Milly-Dowler-phone-hacking-are-truly-dreadful.html

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40 years of #Email

Beleieve it or not, Email is celebrating it 40th  anniversary. From starting as an academic tool, through corporate internal systems, the explosion of Compuserve and AOL to the systems we rely on today it has become an essential part of our daily lives.

Here’s a commemorative 40th anniversary infographic from email delivery company Reachmail.

Enjoy

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Greatest NHL Player: Gretzky vs. Lemieux totally agree

Greatest NHL Player: Gretzky vs. Lemieux

June 17, 2011 |  by Tim  |  Sports

The recent riots in Vancouver have made headlines lately putting the Canadian city and its residents on trial. The majority of those from Vancouver didn’t take part in the riots. The city blamed the uprising on a mixture of young people and alcohol. With that logic one could wonder why college towns don’t have a riots every weekend.

Hockey is important in Canada, its like football in Texas and its a very serious thing. Losing to America must suck. We don’t appreciate the sport of hockey over here. It is pretty obvious when there are only three players on the championship team the Boston Bruins that were actually born in the states. Almost the entire team is made of up Canadians. Vancouver should be celebrating, not lighting police cars on fire.

Gretzky and Lemieux are some of the biggest names in hockey. With Gretzky pulling in around 200 million dollars during his career compared to Lemieux’s 45 mill makes it seem like Gretzky won in some sense. Although $45 million will get you through a lifetime pretty easily too.

I’ve never been a big fan of hockey, and I’m not sure if America is ready to really get into the sport. I know I’ve picked up on watching soccer, maybe I’ll throw some NHL in there too. [Via]

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At the end of the day, the best team won, as shown on TV when the majority of the supporters in Rogers Arena, while crying in their beer, watch the awards