Special thanks go to the generous sponsors listed here. Their contributions are helping to offset direct expenses for the many presenters and panelists who are themselves donating their time to participate in the community based conference.
You are invited for the SBS Bash Riverboat Dinner Cruise
The SBS Product Team invites you to meet our senior SBS Dev Team managers coming to New Orleans for the conference to discuss and take feedback on plans for Cougar, the upcoming release of SBS planned for 2008.
Of course, you don't want to miss three hours of great food and live jazz/blues on the SBS Bash Riverboat Dinner Cruise Sunday night onboard the Mississippi paddlewheeler Creole Queen. This evening includes performance by the Anthony "AB" Brown Band giving you a taste of New Orleans music lead by the rhythm guitarist who recorded and toured with Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint for the 2006 Grammy nominated album "River in Reverse".
Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2
According to the research firm IDC, from 2005 through 2009, small businesses worldwide are expected to install more than 1 million servers. That means unprecedented opportunities for partners promoting Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (SBS 2003 R2) solutions.
Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (SBS 2003 R2) is an advanced IT solution designed to help you protect important data, do more with less, and to connect skilled IT professionals with customers like never before.
Designed for businesses with up to 75 users or network devices, SBS 2003 R2 provides email, Internet connectivity, internal websites, remote access, support for wireless devices, file and printer sharing, backup, and restore-all in one cost-effective, integrated solution.
Learn More: Case Studies for Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2
Whether you are an IT Pro consulting small businesses or the driving force of IT decisions in your company, you may not realize just how many ways SBS 2003 R2 can become the catalyst for a powerful and flexible server solution. Visit the SBS 2003 R2 Case Studies page to review more than 30 success stories available that illustrate how Windows Small Business Server 2003 can meet the needs of an organization like yours, or the customers you service.
StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, data protection and system migration solutions for servers, desktops and laptops. StorageCraft delivers software products that reduce downtime and protect critical data.
StorageCraft will present and provide evaluation software of their ShadowProtect product line of automatic disk-based backup, data protection and bare metal recovery solutions. A demonstration will be available of ShadowProtect IT Edition 3.0. This solution provides hardware independent restore (HIR) for physical to physical (P2P), physical to virtual (P2V), virtual to physical (V2P) and virtual to virtual (V2V) environments for quick and reliable system recovery and migration.
Additional features of ShadowProtect IT Edition 3.0 that will be presented:
- Take hot and cold state backup images without the need to install software.
- Bare metal recovery of a server or desktop.
- Improved recovery environment, including the ability to dynamically load new storage and network drivers.
- Bootable recovery CD based on Windows Vista.
- New Verify Backup Image tool to ensure backup files are recoverable.
- Visual partitioning support.
- Simple view to quickly recover files and folders or update backup images.
- Network Configurator to manage domains, mapped drives and network resources
180 West Election Road, Suite 230 Draper, Utah 84020 USA
Ph 801.545.4700 Fax 801.545.4705 www.storagecraft.com
Curt James, VP of Business Development Ph 801.545.4721
curt.james@storagecraft.com
BackupAssist Backup Software
The popular backup software package designed for small and medium business - reliable, straightfoward and low maintenance. And thanks to its intelligent design, it's less than half the price of the other major brands.
Achieve hassle-free business-level data protection for your Windows Servers, Exchange and SQL Servers with a complete backup strategy "out of the box"!
Designed for small business needs
- Simple setup and "set and forget" design - low maintenance
- Visible reporting & integration with monitoring packages (incl. SBS)
Reliable
- Reminder emails to your backup operator ensures media rotation scheme is followed
- Anticipate problems in advance - eg. Warnings when your backup media is almost full, or if the media wasn't swapped
Wide range of hardware support
- Seamless integration with traditional media: Tape, USB HDD, NAS, FTP, and the latest disk-cartridge systems
- Backup schemes tailored for each hardware type - achieve the highest and best usage
Easy restore
- BackupAssist will NEVER lock your data in obscure, proprietary data formats.
- Integration with Windows backup technologies (bkf, pst) ensures your data can be restored now and in the future
Smart, efficient approach to backup
- Reuses & builds upon the existing backup technologies already built into Windows
- Adds management features to make the backup system reliable
- Avoid "reinventing the wheel" - big cost savings
Try BackupAssist and have your backups running in under 12 minutes. Visit www.backupassist.com
CA is one of the world's largest providers of computer software. Founded in 1976, CA has maintained a position of technological and business leadership with over 300 patents worldwide. CA solutions help consumers and businesses to secure, store and manage critical data wherever it resides.
A VARBusiness 5-Star Partner Program Winner, the CA Channel Partner Program is among the best in the industry with an impressive array of tools, support and financial benefits - all designed with maximum flexibility in mind. We have delivered an estimated $750 million in leads each year to our partners, created new deal registration programs, offer incredible rebates, and more.
CA relies on Channel Partners for the added value they bring to delivery of award-winning, industry-leading storage, security, modeling, and SMB solutions including CA ARCserve© Backup, CA XOsoft™ solutions, CA Threat Manager, CA ERwin© modeling suite solutions and CA Protection Suites.
CA ARCserve Backup provides a complete, flexible and integrated backup and recovery solution for Windows, NetWare, Linux and UNIX environments, while CA XOsoft solutions ensure uninterrupted access to all types of file and application servers allowing instantaneous recovery from any type of disaster. The combination of CA XOsoft solutions and CA ARCserve Backup provides customers with the most comprehensive data protection portfolio in the industry today.
CA's Threat Management solutions help prevent spyware, viruses, worms, spam and malicious content from infiltrating and infecting networks, email and business applications. They empower security personnel to identify a threat to or weakness in their infrastructure, and help take immediate actions - preventing incidents before they negatively impact assets. CA's Threat Management solutions also confront content security challenges by keeping corporate content confidential and holding malicious content at bay.
CA ERwin modeling suite solutions are an end-to-end family of application life cycle management solutions for designing, building, deploying and managing eBusiness applications. Coupled with efficient process and project management and CA's own Best Practices, CA ERwin modeling suite solutions can help organizations quickly respond to change, accelerate time-to-market and remain competitive in today's evolving marketplaces.
CA Protection Suites are the industry's first, fully integrated protection solutions for SMBs that combine award-winning security, storage and desktop migration into single solutions that help reduce risks, system downtime and IT management costs. Designed and priced for SMBs, the suites protect customers from a range of data-loss and business-interruption threats.
For more information about CA, the CA Partner Program and CA solutions, visit: ca.com/channel.
Citrix Access Essentials keeps small businesses in touch with their internal Windows systems during periods of crisis and disaster. As importantly, it provides convenient, secure, Web-based access to corporate applications during normal operations via remote or mobile computers, including handheld PCs and non-Windows devices such as MacOs computers and thin terminals.
To further reduce the impact of system failures, our newly released 2.0 version automatically bypasses a down central server through built-in session load balancing. It also supports unattended failover of the master application server to a hot standby machine.
- Perfect fit for smaller organizations with 5 to 75 users
- Great front-end to a Windows Small Business Server
- Simple, secure remote access to Windows applications from any standard Web browser
- NEW! Grow in place from single server to redundant multi-server configuration
- Only $249 per user, including Microsoft Windows Terminal Server CALs
HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. We explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. We apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way our customers live and work.
No other company offers as complete a technology product portfolio as HP. We provide infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world's most powerful supercomputer installations. We offer consumers a wide range of products and services from digital photography to digital entertainment and from computing to home printing. This comprehensive portfolio helps us match the right products, services and solutions to our customers' specific needs.
Own Web Now Corp specializes in delivering cost-effective, reliable and scalable communications solutions to customers of all sizes, all over the world. ExchangeDefender SMTP security solution provides security and instant failover so that clients can continue to work without spending a fortune in infrastructure costs, software or training. Other OWN services, such as hosted Exchange, SharePoint, SBS, Windows server etc. keep companies in business through 14 data centers worldwide.
SBSfaq.com has been a constant source of quality information about Microsoft's Small Business Server product for the last 7 years. It's aim is to provide a large amount of tried and tested answers to the Small Business Server resellers and owners. SBSfaq.com is backed by Wayne Small, a long time SBS MVP and experienced at running his own SBS consulting practice for over 10 years. In the last 12 months, SBSfaq.com has launched a subscription based service to provide deeper reference materials to the discerning SBSer. Under the subscription model, Wayne has made available a number of installation and configuration guides that show step by step with plenty of screenshots to make configuration fast and foolproof.
SBSfaq.com
SMB Nation was founded by Harry Brelsford, CEO. Over the past few years SMB Nation has experienced explosive growth and has been fortunate to find exceptional individuals to help grow and mature the SMB Nation team.
Since the 1997 release of Microsoft's Small Business Server, SMB Nation tribal members have been relying on SMB Nation to deliver business and technical books, workshops and conferences geared towards the SMB (small-medium business) community, helping channel partners grow a profitable business.
