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> Going Green
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| FEATURED WHITE PAPER |
Improving Energy Efficiency Using Application Infrastructure Virtualization
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| FEATURED WEBCASTS |
Complimentary Webcasts
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
June 12, 2008 at 2:00 PM EDT
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Discover how to Reduce Your TCO for Disaster Recovery
June 3, 2008 at 11:00 AM EDT
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| DATA DEDUPLICATION |
Eliminate redundant data objects and realize cost savings
- Space Savings - Up to 90%
- Cost savings through reduced storage capacity requirements
- Improved storage resource efficiencies
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| AWARDS & RECOGNITION |
Champion wins Microsoft Customer Service Hero Award for demonstrating a significant impact around customer satisfaction
AmCOMP, Inc. partners with Champion for SharePoint project, resulting in high-level of customer satisfaction
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| TOP 10 REASONS |
Managed Maintenance Services
How can you effectively capture, manage, deliver and preserve your company's asset information, while preventing downtime and paying support for retired items, and dramatically reducing your administrative overhead and time?
It is a Fact: Champion Managed Maintenance Services customers save 20%-40% on hardware maintenance while dramatically reducing administrative costs.
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| TECHNOLOGY INSIGHTS |
IBM Power Systems
PowerVM: Virtualization Leadership for the UNIX/LINUX marketplace
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New System p Servers: IBM announces new Power6 p520 and p550
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IBM Software
Open. Scalable. Secure.IBM Software products help you innovate and become more flexible, while making the most of current resources and controlling costs.
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Double-Take Software
Introducing TimeData for continuous data protection featuring Zero Data Loss technology
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Acronis Software
Acronis TrueImage Echo - An enterprise-class solution to backup, restore and migrate physical or virtual servers.
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 The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa Creates
Cost-Effective, Simplified Disaster Recovery Architectures, Provides 24x7 Application Availability and Follows Their Daily Contingency Plan.
Borgata teamed with Champion, Double-Take Software, and VMware to meet their business requirements
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 What is the Virtualization Roadmap?
This article explores the "Virtualization Roadmap", which helps organizations journey through four superhighways of Virtualization in order to maximize your investment.
 How does an organization manage its data in a virtual .....server environment?
 How do virtual strategies affect an organization's
.....disaster recovery initiatives?
 What is your organization's server utilization rate?
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Top Virtualization Trends
1. Management
Pain Point: Virtual Sprawl - Server and Storage Virtualization
2. Desktop Virtualization
Desktop patching, deployment, management
3. Application Virtualization
4. Environmentally Friendly in a Virtualized Environment
Power, Cooling, Floor Space
 What is your Virtualization Story?
Share your Virtualization experience and how it has helped your organization's business needs. What challenges have you faced and how have you overcome these hurdles? What results have you realized? Your response may be featured in a future newsletter!
Submit your story and enter for a chance to win Bose in-ear headphones. Write to Kevin Vogl, VP Virtualization Solutions:
kvogl@championsg.com
 Management & Automation
On May 19, 2008, VMware launched Management & Automation Products to increase business agility by automating key IT processes
- Business Continuity
- IT Service Delivery
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 Green Movement
VIRTUALIZATION: BE GREEN AND SAVE GREEN
Reduce power consumption, floor space and cooling requirements with a Champion Virtualization solution.
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 See Champion in South Florida Business Journal's "Going Green" section circulated May 9th
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Full Steam Ahead!
 Help support your growing business with Virtualization
Able Body Labor Gets Positioned for Future Growth Through Storage Virtualization - Solution delivers dramatic improvements to enable competitive advantages and continued business success
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The City of Hollywood Saves $326,000 Over Four Years Through Server Consolidation. Champion Solutions Group Implements IBM Servers, VMware for City Government.
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 Champion Consulting & Training Credits
STRETCH YOUR Services and Training BUDGET
For even greater convenience and flexibility, Champion has made available the ability to purchase Services credits, which can be redeemed for custom and/or standard consulting and education services.
Use your pre-paid credits and save on your total purchase!
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 Red Hat Advanced Partner
Champion is now a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner, the highest level of partnership
Make Champion your go-to partner for all new Red Hat subscriptions and renewals. Contact Champion today for all of your Red Hat support and services needs at 800.771.7000 x165
VMware Virtualization Forum 2008 - Various Cities
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Microsoft TechEd 2008
June 10-13, 2008 - Orlando, FL
- Visit NetApp at Booth 201
- Visit Double-Take Software at Booth 809
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