Well, party is over and we are slowly coming into this January blue mood, so it’s the right time to write my new year’s resolutions… briefly, without sorting priority:
1. write something of value every week, here and there (blog, linkedin, twitter, newsletter…)
2. finish a working demo for our three main product lines (infrastructure, business applications and the Cloud)
3. improve my oral communication skills – specially the speech part, so I can get my message out there as I got it in my mind.
4. I won’t diet but I’ll do more exercise – gym, pool or a simple stairway
I might be tempted as usually to do some adjustments during the year, but I promise I won’t change the essence of my resolutions, what I call “learn-help-live”.
Since few months ago we have joined a well known networking organization BNI, one of its chapters in Mississauga – BNI Wealth Chapter (see also BNI, BNI Canada, BNI Golden Horseshoe). BNI is a professional marketing organization specializing in word-of-mouth referrals. Our philosophy is “Givers Gain” and through this philosophy, the relationships you develop will convert network contacts into referred business.
Last week I have a 10 minutes opportunity to showcase our Company Sun Technologies, product lines, market targets and referral opportunities and goals — see below the outline of my presentation.
Later, I am gonna follow up through comments on Q&A about this presentation, for future developments and references.
I think this theme is comparable to the “what was first, the egg or the chicken?” that was finally resolved just few days ago, according to what I heard on the radio. For any IT guy (IT girls are included too, of course) that has been dealing with a server room full of separate one on one functional servers; with a rack full of cables running from the routers, to the patch panels, to the servers; trying to solve (for yesterday) a sudden disconnection of part of the network; a peripheral missed in the lan; a broken Catx cable… the “office in a box” solution has been a dream for so long. The efforts to fulfill this solution are countless during the last 25 years in information technology. Any milestone achieved in technology was getting us close. Since few years ago, some companies has been offering their solutions.
I would like to mention the main functions of the most complete solution I had found, in the market. We have been using one of them in our office, for some month now, with very satisfactory results. It is named “edgeBOX”.
- This is a box that fits your needs according to the size of you company. We got
the entry level unit as our company has less than 10 people
- provides All the Phone and Internet Communication and Data Services
- web/email/file/access/security servers in one single box at our premise
- Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus, email/file scan on the Server side included
- Share and Unified Data-Fax-Mail-Voice
- Local wired/wireless and Remote As Local user access
- Automatic Backup to local, network or remote drive and a proven Recovery Plan
besides:
- All-In-OneBox network solution remotely managed; so the ICT guy comes with the Box
and even better:
- Monthly affordable leasing payment, deductible expenses instead of investment
Please, if you have time send your comments.
And by the way, the chicken was first.
It’s more than a word game, what is indeed – it’s the wrapping of our proposal: “your IT infrastructure in OneBox: administration, configuration, updates, backup: forget IT, instead of making IT easier for you, we’ll do IT for you”.
Inspired and driven by two main concepts behind this project “Simplifying through Integration” and “Avoiding the Problems”
It’s the whole idea of combining and getting the best out of the two approach for IT improvement and remediation: Proactive Plus Reactive.
On a side note I want to remark, it was my daughter who connect the dots on this short, I’d say shot?, proposition that is now the back of my business card — shown below — thanks then.
Google.ca search engine top result positions are very tricky to get and harder to keep; they can also change from time to time.
Nevertheless as today April 22, 2010 Google.ca search on edgeBox showed it4lease.ca as first page from Canada, and third page globally — that’s great news for everybody working on this project. We are also first and alone under the Sponsored Links section
We are here now, just waiting for Canadian SMB entrepreneurs looking for the edgeBox solution for their business.
These are the links and the images we got below — Thanks to everyone who is supporting this project. Read more…
Just got this exciting news from our partner in Taiwan Planet Technology and wanted to share it with our readers:
PLANET Technology Corporation, the global leading IP-based networking company, announced being awarded “2010 Taiwan Symbol of Excellence” for it’s latest innovative product: Unified Office Gateway (UMG-2000.) After a two-month intense competition among 717 products from 325 companies, PLANET Technology showed its innovative promises to make our products globally competitive.
“2010 Taiwan Symbol of Excellence” is conducted by TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade Development Council) at the behest of the Ministry of Economics Affair (MOEA) of the R.O.C. government. The award proved outstanding performance of PLANET’s products in R&D Innovation, Design Uniqueness, Quality Systems, and International Marketing. Winning this award is expected to add on PLANET Technology’s already strong global image in product technology, professionalism, and brand awareness.
With 17 years of product developing experience, PLANET Technology combines six core IP Technologies to present this world-leading networking device: Unified Office Gateway (UMG-2000.) Designed for small and medium businesses of up to 250 people, the Unified Office Gateway integrates Switches, Wireless Access Point, Network Storage Service, IP PBX/ VoIP/ Fax Services, Email Services and Internet Security in one device. It provides a simple and easy all in one IP networking solution for small and medium businesses.
Have a look at this video presentation for Planet – Unified Office Gateway (UMG-2000)
It has been two months of working, studying and dealing with the edgeBox from Critical Links with the valuable support of Angelo Giancoulas, a Technical Solutions Specialist from Graybar Canada the exclusive Distributor for the edgeBox in Canada until we formaly become authorized VAR for the whole GTA in Ontario – the big and extended Toronto Area – we are celebrating this important step while polishing all the procedures for a seemless deployment of this Network Unified Solution.
As per Critical Links, the award-winning edgeBOX provides a single-box Office in a Box solution for SMBs that includes a full-fledged IP telephony system, smoothly integrated with email, contact database, calendars, security, VPN, file sharing, and more. The voice and data services integration improves employee productivity, simplifies installation, maintenance and upgrades, and dramatically reduces equipment, communications, and maintenance costs for SMBs. It is available on a range of scalable platforms for companies from 10 to 300 users. The edgeBOX can be fully managed remotely through a simple browser, which makes it specially suited for system integrators that want to get into the business of providing managed services to SMB customers.
Since my earlier years on the IT profession I had the idea that more than 50% of IT knowledge is based on proper understanding and use of Acronyms — let’s share a few and keep here a record of those we are using throughout this web site — click on read more below for details
Well, this is kind of a personal project, in fact a two projects combination: (leasing and integrating) an office-network in a single package-solution.
The idea of leasing dated back in 2002 and was kept in the sandbox since then — One Box project started back in March 2007 exploring available projects at that time, among then I remember Office in a Box from EdgeBox and IT in a Box from EmergeCore, the latter was a simple and amazing box (now discontinued, AFAIK), the former was just an ISO to install at that time and it didn’t work with our server platforms.
After spending a few weeks collaborating with our partners in Panama (some Linux tech out there) we gave up buying and started developing our own OneBox (Office NEtwork in a Box) — it was ready for it360 show in Toronto last year — we are now providing this solution on different flavours, time will tell what’s the main course:
1. Our own OneBox — an all inclusive cabinet, featuring an Intel server and ubuntu
2. A simplified fork thin-client-network OneBox — just a Linux Terminal Server serving Asus diskless PCs
3. Back on current EdgeBox SoHo/Office appliance — signing as their first VAR in Ontario
4. Also checking on Planet Unified Office Gateway — an all-inclusive appliance with a lot of potencial
On top of any of these solutions we are providing a leasing model 24/27 with or new partner National Leasing, so from now on our new clients will be paying a monthly and fair amount for their IT remotely managed platform.
That’s it — we are leasing IT remote managed services, all in One Box at your premises — and more to come.
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
well, as you can read above this is the first by default comment, posted in fact for WP as sample.
I will let it here with its initial line as a thanks post to WP and the OSS Community who made this project feasible.
your IT infrastructure in OneBox
administration, configuration, updates, backup: forget IT, instead of making IT easier for you, we'll do IT for you.
it4lease is a project supported by theXS dedicated to promote, deploy and support integrated IT solutions under a leasing model.
In other words, we are leasing IT remote managed services, all in One Box at your premises.
