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October has been full of Winnipeg Jets action and exciting news. Please take a moment to read all about it.
Customer Appreciation Event 2011
As a Client Appreciation Event Broadview Networks presents a fully catered evening for our clients that includes: a live screening of the Jets vs. Capitals game, personal appearance by veteran Winnipeg Jets players, a variety of prizes (including Jets tickets), sport simulator games, Wii Suites, billiards, bubble hockey and a poker competition!
Join us for a brief technology presentation and a fun-filled evening. The event will commence with a presentation outlining storage solutions. Come for food and drinks, to play your favorite virtual games, or to watch your favourite sporting events on the big screen. We will be sure to have something for everyone!
Discussion will cover:
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Storage Solutions
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Broadview messaging and security solutions
All attendees will have the opportunity to win Winnipeg Jets tickets and a variety of prizes.
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We will also be giving away Gift Certificates throughout the evening.
Guests unable to stay for the Winnipeg Jets game will have an opportunity to leave after the presentation.
This is an event you don't want to miss! More exciting updates to follow.
REGISTER TODAY! 
Please contact an Account Executive if you are interested in attending this event or e-mail solutions@broadviewnetworks.ca
Broadview a Gold Winner in the Best Channel Marketing Initiative
Broadview Networks was named a Gold winner in the Best Channel Marketing Initiative category for this year's CDN Channel Elite Awards. CDN's Channel Elite Awards recognizes IT Solution Providers for their innovation, leadership and commitment to creating value for their customers, and their achievements in improved sales or revenues, improved efficiency and customer service.
This award honours the partner that created and executed a dynamic advertising, marketing campaign or event showcase in 2010. The winner had to present evidence that the partner has increased its visibility, respect or profitability in its community through the campaign or event. Broadview had to explain the process, strategy and thought leadership behind the marketing and event initiative, and the outcome of the campaign and event with measurements: return on investment figures, number of business leads generated, etc. in the award submission.
Broadview Networks won Gold for their innovative and collaborative event that centered around a preview screening of TRON: Legacy in 3D and a presentation on the IBM product road map.
The bronze, silver and gold winners accepted the awards at a gala evening event at the Paramount Conference & Event Venue on September 29, 2011.
CDN’s Channel Elite Awards is more than just an award ceremony. It is designed to promote the business advantages that technology solutions can create and to recognize achievement in the channel. The gala attracts more than 200 solution providers across the country and truly is an opportunity to meet and network with some of the best resellers across the country.
CDN reporters and camera people were on present at the gala to cover the event for the magazine and online portal. Coverage of the event will also be in national publications such as Computer World Canada and Direction informatique. These three publications serve more than 100,000 C-level IT executives and solution providers in English and French. As an added benefit, this year all qualified nominees will have their creative solution profiled on ITBusiness.ca, which reaches more than 145,000 Technical Decision Makers each month. This is recognition and market awareness that is second to none.
Read about more of Broadviews achievements here.
Event Wrap-Up: KACE Lunch and Learn
Broadview clients and prospects enjoyed a lunch and learn featuring Dell KACE appliance.
Two events were held. One in Brandon, Manitoba at Remington's Seafood and Steakhouse. The other event was held at the Broadview Networks head office and was catered by Carbone Coal Fired Pizza.
All attendees learnt how Broadview Networks and Dell KACE can provide an appliance-based approach to systems management, to save time for systems administration professionals, while saving money for their companies.
The Dell KACE Family of Systems Management Appliances are easy-to-use, comprehensive and affordable and fulfill the systems management needs of organizations of all sizes, from initial computer deployment to ongoing management and retirement.
Discussion was centered around patching, software license compliance and imaging. There was also a live demo of both the K1000 and K2000 appliances.
Stay tuned for details on our upcoming events on our events page.
IBM V7000
In storage management today, breaking the cycle of increased complexity and explosive data growth can be a big challenge. The old ways of buying and managing storage have become less effective. Due to resource constraints—both physical storage resources and human resources—IT organizations must act quickly to optimize and simplify their infrastructure. Unchecked complexity and growth will only become bigger problems over time.
Small and midsize organizations may also suffer from a range of challenges:
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Disruptive migrations
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Difficulty deploying tiered storage
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Inability to share storage among servers
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Reduced productivity and increased cost caused by isolated server and storage management tools
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Inability to use virtualized storage, like virtual servers, as a tool for optimizing expenditures, resources and capabilities
To stand up to these challenges and allow businesses to respond to a rapidly changing marketplace, IBM V7000 is a virtualized storage system to complement virtualized server environments that provides unmatched performance, availability, advanced functions, and highly scalable capacity never seen before in midrange disk systems. IBM V7000 is a powerful midrange disk system that has been designed to be easy to use and enable rapid deployment without additional resources. IBM V7000 is virtual storage that offers greater efficiency and flexibility through built-in solid state drive (SSD) optimization and thin provisioning technologies. IBM V7000 advanced functions also enable non-disruptive migration of data from existing storage, simplifying implementation and minimizing disruption to users. IBM V7000 also enables you to virtualize and reuse existing disk systems, supporting a greater potential return on investment (ROI).
Product features:
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Provisioning support for business applications that need to grow dynamically, but only consume the storage space they are actually using
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Migration capabilities that provide efficiency and business value in a non-disruptive migration
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Support for near instant data copies for backup or application testing
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Integrated instant copy capabilities for critical business needs
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Integrated tools and capabilities for server and storage management
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Clustered systems support growing business needs while controlling costs
Hardware Summary:
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2U rack-mountable chasses
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Twenty four 2.5" drive bays (model x24) or twelve 3.5" drive bays (model x12)
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Up to 24 TB of physical storage per enclosure using 2 TB near-line SAS disk drive modules or up to 14 TB physical storage per enclosure using 600 GB SAS disk drive modules
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SAS disk drives, near-line SAS disk drives and SSDs
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Redundant dual-active intelligent RAID controllers
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16 GB cache memory per control enclosure (8 GB per internal RAID controller) as a base feature
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For each control enclosure: Eight 8 Gbps Fibre Channel host ports (four 8 Gbps FC ports per RAID controller), four 1 Gbps and optionally four 10 Gbps iSCSI host ports (two 1 Gbps and optionally two 10 Gbps iSCSI host ports per RAID controller)
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RAID controller supports attachment of up to nine storage expansion units with configurations up to 240 TB physical storage capacities (480 TB in clustered systems)
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Dual power supplies and cooling components
Broadview Networks is an authorized reseller for IBM products. Call us today for more information about the IBM V7000 or view our products here.
LG Monitor- Innovative Technology Made Easy
Getting a great picture from your monitor shouldn’t be hard work. With the LG 43 series, it’s downright easy. It’s a perfect mix of advanced technology, like the 30,000:1 Contrast Ratio, and easy-to-use features like the picture-improving Photo Effect.
Key Features Include:
Full HD 1080p- Full HD contents should be displayed on a Full HD resolution display to maintain their original details.
Photo Effect- Convenient for color correction of photographs and movies. Also, screen images can be adjusted to Monochrome, Sepia or to the Gaussian Blur effect.
4:3 Wide- For watching games and films produced in 4:3 format without image distortion.
30,000:1 Digital Fine Contrast- Delivers premium picture performance for viewing videos or using graphic-intensive applications.
EZ Zooming- Converts resolution to enlarge images and text on screen for better viewing.
Now: $147.00
To learn more about these promotions contact Sales@broadviewnetworks.ca or call 204.984.9897
Please note- these promotion are only available until supplies last.
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