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31Oct
LiveOffice Logs Record Growth, Adds New Fortune 100 Client for Message Archiving & Compliance Service
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LiveOffice, Press Releases
TORRANCE, Calif., October 31, 2006 — LiveOffice Corporation’s AdvisorMail division (www.advisormail.net), the leading provider of hosted message archiving and compliance solutions, today announced that it has added another Fortune 100 company to its growing list of premier clients. The AdvisorMail install base now consists of more than 1,000 organizations, including several Fortune 100 companies, 65% of the nation’s leading independent broker-dealers, and hundreds of registered investment advisory firms.
“Our results this quarter reflect the continued adoption of email and instant message monitoring and compliance by businesses of all sizes and confirm the effectiveness of our AdvisorMail solution in meeting the needs of a variety of customers,” said Steve Uhring, vice president of sales and marketing for LiveOffice Corp. “In head-to-head comparisons with its competitors, AdvisorMail’s impressive reliability, scalability, ease of use and pricing have helped it to emerge as the clear solution of choice for 1,000 companies over the last 5 years.”
AdvisorMail aggregates all inbound, outbound, internal messages and attachments from an organization’s email and/or IM systems in an easily searchable database and provides e-discovery services that enable compliance with SEC, NASD, NYSE, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and Gramm-Leach-Bliley requirements related to the proper handling of email and IM (AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, and Bloomberg) communications. It is a highly scalable solution that can be deployed in companies with 1 email account or implemented enterprise-wide.
The newest AdvisorMail features include upgraded spam and virus protection, encryption, business continuity and disaster recovery for in-house mail servers, and mailbox management options. These enhancements provide AdvisorMail users with a broader range of tools to help them more effectively manage system outages and mail traffic issues.
Upcoming Events
LiveOffice will demonstrate its AdvisorMail email & IM archiving solution at the following fall conferences:
- Schwab IMPACT 2006, Washington, D.C. November 5 8, 2006
- NASD Fall Securities Conference, Los Angeles, CA November 15 17, 2006
26Oct
Edge Business Continuity Center Receives Economic Impact Award
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LightEdge Solutions, Press Releases
DES MOINES, Iowa—October 26, 2006— In the 24th annual Celebrate Business awards held at the Des Moines Downtown Marriott Hotel, the Edge Business Continuity Center (EdgeBCC) was recognized today by the Greater Des Moines Partnership, RSM McGladrey and the Des Moines Business Record with an award for Economic Impact. This award commemorates the EdgeBCC and its joint owners LightEdge Solutions and LBC Technology for their significant impact on the community through expansion of operations, facilities and workforce.
“We view the construction and operation of this facility to be of great value to Des Moines”, stated Mary Bontrager, Executive Vice President of the Greater Des Moines Partnership, “We feel that the addition of business continuity services will ultimately make Des Moines businesses more resilient to natural disasters and other factors that could impair their ability to do business.”
The EdgeBCC, a newly completed business continuity center serving Des Monies area businesses, was given an award for Economic Impact due to the scope of its capital investment, the realization of a new facility to serve businesses of the metro and the addition of professional labor positions for the community. The EdgeBCC is a state-of-the-art facility used to provide unique risk mitigation and disaster recovery services for small and medium sized businesses in central Iowa.
“The Celebrate Business award for Economic Impact, provides additional validation to what we’ve known all along”, said Travis Thompson, VP of Operations for the EdgeBCC, “By providing risk mitigation and outsourced technical services, the EdgeBCC can have a significant impact on the small and medium sized businesses located in the Midwest and national companies located in disaster-prone areas.
The Celebrate Business awards recognize companies for specific business practices such as encouraging involvement in community activities, creating an employee-friendly work environment, and building a substantial reputation for integrity and quality while remaining outside the public limelight. Small- and large-business winners are selected annually in each category.
This year’s winners were:
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Economic Impact Award: EdgeBCC Citigroup Soy Innovations Westec InterActive Wells Fargo Community Champion: Workplace Environment: |
Best Kept Secret: Large business – Caleris, Inc. Small business – C & L Companies Commuter Award: Best Workplace for Young Professionals: |
About Edge Business Continuity Center
Edge Business Continuity Center (EdgeBCC) is a state-of-the-art facility located in Altoona, IA offering over 10,000 square feet of secure, environmentally controlled data center space and over 300 disaster recovery workstations provisioned with desktops and VoIP phone handsets. The facility has been built around a highly redundant private network infrastructure, allowing for some of the highest service level agreements in the industry. EdgeBCC is a joint venture between LightEdge Solutions and LBC Technology. For more information, visit the EdgeBCC Web site atwww.edgebcc.com.
About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.
LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
26Oct
LiveOffice Offers Free Web & Audio Conferencing Services to Snowed-In Colorado Businesses & Travelers
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LiveOffice, Press Releases
TORRANCE, Calif., October 26, 2006 LiveOffice’s Conferencing Division announced today that it will provide free web conferencing and conference calling services to all businesses and stranded business travelers affected by the Colorado blizzard.
All of LiveOffice’s services are on-demand and reservationless, which means that once an account is established, anyone can instantly begin a conference call or web conference from anywhere at any time. If you are in need of free access to LiveOffice’s range of conferencing solutions, please call 800.374.2032 to set up an account.
For specific information on LiveOffice’s Free Conferencing, please visithttp://freeconferencing.liveoffice.com/.
For specific information on LiveOffice’s Web Conferencing, please visithttp://webconference.liveoffice.com/.
For specific information on LiveOffice’s Toll-Free Teleconferencing, please visithttp://teleconference.liveoffice.com/.
18Oct
Next Generation Email Services really start to come into their own for SMEs
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as Press Releases, Simply Mail Solutions
Now every UK organisation can compete with the big boys
October 18 2006, Warrington UK. In a paper just published on the Simply Mail Solutions? Website, Bill Unsworth discusses the new mail services that are now available to SMEs and their advantages over the current POP3/SMTP systems.
http://www.simplymailsolutions.com/news_and_analysis.asp
The paper discusses the new mail systems such as Microsoft Exchange and Zimbra and how they work. ?It also outlines the benefits of using these systems to promote collaborative and remote working within smaller organisations.
It also points out that not only can these systems synchronize mail, contacts and calendars between devices such as your desktop PC, notebook and mobile phone but they also provide an invaluable continuous back up function in the event of hardware failure or loss.
17Oct
LiveOffice Enhances AdvisorSquare Web Connect Program
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LiveOffice, Press Releases
TORRANCE, Calif., October 17, 2006 LiveOffice Corp.’s (www.liveoffice.com) AdvisorSquare division, the nation’s #1 provider of financial advisor websites, today became the only website provider in the financial services industry to provide independent broker-dealers with advanced custom publishing options. As the newest addition to AdvisorSquare’s existing Web Connect Program, the Click-to-Publish Toolkit creates an additional marketing channel for broker-dealers, while helping to increase compliance control over content displayed on their registered representatives’ websites.
With AdvisorSquare’s Click-to-Publish Toolkit, broker-dealers can create website content at the corporate level and then with a single click of the mouse, publish it simultaneously to their field representatives’ websites. In addition, any time the corporate office makes an edit to content that is already live; it will make the edit across all websites carrying that particular message. Essentially, AdvisorSquare’s Click-to-Publish Toolkit ensures that consistent program marketing messages appear on the corporate site as well as on registered representatives’ websites. It also helps to keep content up-to-date and in-compliance with regulatory requirements. The Toolkit’s convenient one-click editing and content posting options streamline the entire program marketing effort, while easing the compliance burden on busy supervisory departments.
“The Custom Publishing Toolkit provides broker-dealers with unparalleled marketing reach online. It used to be that broker-dealers hoped their representatives would promote special offers and programs on their websites,” said Michele McGarry, AdvisorSquare’s business development director. “Now the corporate office knows exactly what is being promoted on each representatives website and they even have the ability to edit the content in real-time and publish the updates simultaneously on all representative websites.”
Since 1998, AdvisorSquare’s Web Connect program has helped hundreds of broker-dealers create website programs for their representatives. Now with 74% of the nation’s leading broker-dealers as partners, AdvisorSquare is the nation’s #1 provider of financial advisor websites. In outsourcing their website program to LiveOffice, corporate offices are able to focus internal activities on their core competencies and revenue-generating activities. In turn, LiveOffice leverages its core competencies in website development, marketing and management to provide broker-dealers with a turnkey website program that simultaneously meets the creative needs of representatives and the critical compliance department requirements of the Corporate office.
Pricing & Availability
These services are available now to all existing and new Web Connect partners and their representatives. For registered investment advisors, AdvisorSquare offers a variety of website packages and options to meet their specific needs, including special pricing to financial advisor clients of Fidelity Investments, Schwab and TD Ameritrade.
Learn More About AdvisorSquare & Web Connect
LiveOffice’s AdvisorSquare division will provide demonstrations of its turnkey website offering at the following financial conferences:
- SIA Small Firms, October 18 20 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- FPA Annual Meeting, October 21 24 in Nashville, TN
- Cadaret Grant, October 23 24 in Syracuse, NY
- Schwab IMPACT, November 5 8 in Washington, D.C.
10Oct
Voice Over IP Executive Users Conference Features LightEdge Chief Technical Officer
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LightEdge Solutions, Press Releases
DES MOINES, Iowa; (October 10, 2006) – LightEdge Solutions, a leader in converged
data networking, voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) and managed IT business services, today announced their inclusion in the Broadsoft Connections 2006 Executive Users Conference to be held in Scottsdale, Arizona later this month. Sanjay Srinivasan, LightEdge chief technology officer, will be included on a panel focused on the delivery of innovative
and affordable hosted VoIP solutions for small and medium enterprise customers. Srinivasan joins other industry leaders from Verizon and InfoHighway for this presentation and panel discussion.
| What | Sanjay Srinivasan, chief technology officer at LightEdge Solutions presents hosted VoIP customer case studies at Broadsoft Connections 2006 Executive Users Conference |
| When | October 16, 2006, 4:30PM |
| Where | The Phoenician Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| Details | The session will feature the perspective of the service provider in the life cycle of a small to medium enterprise over IP implementation. Speakers will share best practices as they discuss end-to-end processes involved in facilitating key sales. |
About BroadSoft Connections
This exclusive, invitation-only conference is an industry event for senior-level executives at service providers around the world delivering hosted voice services. BroadSoft Connections 2006 will build on the success of the Connections conferences that have come before. Sponsors and customers told us previous years’ conferences were a smashing success, and we keep raising the bar. Attending customers stated that Connections was the place to learn best practices to increase operational success and to meet with the leading vendors in an informal setting. Also attending will be executives from BroadSoft’s extensive list of world-class carrier customers, sponsors, partners, and third-party developers.
About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.
LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
03Oct
Orthopedic Groups Select LightEdge Solutions to Host Electronic Medical Record Software
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LightEdge Solutions, Press Releases
DES MOINES, Iowa; (October 3, 2006) – LightEdge Solutions Inc., a leader in converged data networking, voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) and managed IT business services today announced that three separate orthopedic clinics in southern California will work directly with LightEdge Solutions as the hosting provider for their electronic medical records (EMR) rather than traditional application service provider (ASP) hosting through the EMR software vendor. The three clinics, representing 27 physicians, 200 total software users and 16 locations, banded together to leverage experience and take advantage of economies of scale in purchasing.
In this third-party hosting model, the EMR software is installed and hosted in one of LightEdge’s secure, redundant data centers that is monitored 24/7 and provides inherent disaster recovery benefits. Care providers and medical staff are able to ensure HIPAA compliance via secure access to the EMR system through a private high-speed connection to the LightEdge Solutions network or a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection. Hosting service and support is provided by LightEdge industry-certified networking technicians while the EMR software support is provided by the EMR software manufacturer.
“All three clinics wanted an EMR solution without the care and feeding of additional on-site servers. Without a full-time technical person on staff or a core competency in IT, it seemed risky to support the EMR ourselves,” said Stephanie Roman, administrator of Orthopedic Consultants Medical Group.
Late in 2005, the Center for Orthopaedic Specialists, Orthopedic Consultants Medical Group and Ventura Orthopedic and Sports Medicine clinics launched a joint search for an electronic medical record system. After extensive evaluation, the groups had agreed on the EMR software, but were unable to find an independent party to host the application in the requisite manner.
“The hosting solutions that we reviewed were cumbersome and expensive, as many of the hosts were merely leasing data center space from another company. There were still middlemen and layers to wade through for support,” said Scott Lilly, administrator of Ventura Orthopedic and Sports Medicine. “LightEdge was the only provider to meet our needs with multiple, privatelyowned and operated data centers, and an affordable solution that was customized to our specific requirements.”
According to Mark Anderson, chief executive officer and healthcare futurist with AC Group, Inc., a healthcare technology advisory and research firm, the market is evolving towards independent third-party hosting for healthcare software. In a recent survey of nearly 2,500 participants, AC Group found that 40 percent of clinics with fewer than 50 users and 75 percent of clinics with more than 500 users prefer a third-party hosted model over a vendor-hosted or internally-hosted infrastructure, and this trend appears to be rising.
“The technology is finally right for electronic medical records, practice management and ePrescribing applications to be delivered through a hosted model. Our direct customer interaction allows LightEdge to act as a consultant, ensuring that the solution we offer meets our customer’s needs and their budget,” remarked Scott Riedel, product marketing manager for LightEdge Solutions.
“Knowing that our servers are being professionally maintained and that our data is secure means we have one less thing to worry about in the changing healthcare field,” said Jean Raives, administrator for the Center for Orthopaedic Specialists.
All administrators sited a ten-year track record, compliance with SAS-70 initiatives, the ownership of multiple data centers, a diversified product portfolio and a dedicated 24/7 engineering team as factors that contributed to their decision to choose LightEdge.
About The Center for Orthopaedic Specialists
Center for Orthopaedic Specialists is a group of fellowship-trained, board-certified/eligible physicians that provide general orthopedic services, as well as sub-specialty care. From sports medicine to hand surgery to total joint reconstruction, physicians provide care for adolescents and adults. For more information, visit www.cos-orthopaedics.com.
About Orthopedic Consultants Medical Group
Orthopedic Consultants Medical Group is a full service orthopedic center. With an emphasis on improving quality of life, movement, activity and work, the clinic provides state-of-the-art, comprehensive care. Orthopedic Consultants has served the San Fernando and Conejo Valley for more than 45 years, always maintaining a high level of personal attention to patients. To learn more about the clinic’s services, visit www.ocmgortho.com. www.ocmgortho.com.
About Ventura Orthopedic & Sports Medicine
Ventura Orthopedics has been serving the Central Coast of California since the 1930s and, over that time, has grown to 10 offices in Ventura County that support the work of 13 orthopedists, a dozen therapists, and a range of ancillary services. For more information visit www.venturaorthopedic.com.
About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.
LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
02Oct
Ceryx is a Finalist for Advanced Infrastructure Solution of the Year in Microsoft Partner Program IMPACT Awards
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as Ceryx, Press Releases
Ceryx is a Finalist for Advanced Infrastructure Solution of the Year in Microsoft Partner Program IMPACT Awards
Microsoft Partners Program IMPACT Awards honor Microsoft’s Canadian technology partners’ and their commitment to customer satisfaction
TORONTO, October 2, 2006 – Ceryx announced that it has been selected as a finalist in the Solution Awards for Advanced Infrastructure Solution of the Year at the 2006 Microsoft Partner Program IMPACT Awards. The fourth annual Microsoft Partner Program IMPACT Awards acknowledge the exceptional work technology partners in Canada are doing with Microsoft-based technologies and software to deliver innovative solutions and unmatched value to their customers.
“Each year, technology partners continue to raise the bar in technology innovation and reaffirm their ability to deliver specific solutions that help meet customer demand,” said Lora Gernon, Director, Partner Group, Microsoft Canada Co. “The 2006 finalists demonstrated strong expertise in a diversity of markets and the Microsoft Partner Program IMPACT Awards celebrate the innovative solutions they developed to help drive real business growth.”
Ceryx was chosen as a finalist in Solution Awards for Advanced Infrastructure Solution of the Year for their highly available Hosted and Managed Exchange services. Ceryx pioneered the 100% SLA to the Exchange messaging community and to date is the only company with the technology capable of backing up the guarantee.
Email is the most mission critical business tool for communications with employees, vendors and customers. Ceryx responded to this need by creating a system that offered unparalleled uptime and performance capable of withstanding any type of disaster coupled with an integrated, industry leading solution for controlling spam and virus threats.
Ceryx built a Hosted Exchange 2003 (HX) infrastructure that is fully geographically redundant with no single point of failure that could affect the customer’s ability to use their messaging or collaboration platform. Ceryx has incorporated unsurpassed levels of security into the solution to ensure that all malicious activity is barred from entry at the geographically redundant perimeter.
Customers have benefited from the solution by substantially higher availability than a traditional clustered Exchange infrastructure at considerably lower operational cost. Partnering with Ceryx has given customers the opportunity to receive quality and highly available email, hygiene, real time business continuity and disaster recovery services from a single vendor at one low monthly cost per user.
“We are very pleased to be an Impact Awards finalist for the Advanced Infrastructure Solution of the Year. We consider this an honor and credit to our customers for whom we have been delivering highly available messaging and collaboration services. Email and messaging services are critical for their business, we understand that and think we have the best solution in this market space,” said Gus Harsfai, President and CEO of Ceryx.
Ceryx, along with other technology partner winners and finalists in each of the award categories, will be honored at a gala event in Toronto on November 2, 2006.
ABOUT THE MICROSOFT PARTNER PROGRAM IMPACT AWARDS
In 2003, Microsoft Canada replaced all of its previous technology partner awards with a unified program that also recognizes customer service, marketing, and contribution to the community. Microsoft Canada has outlined 30 categories to highlight the Partner Program competencies to honor the achievements of top technology partners. The Microsoft Partner Program IMPACT Awards were open to Systems Integrators, Large Account Resellers, Direct Market Resellers, Value Added Resellers, Distributors, Systems Builders, Authorized Education Resellers, Certified Partners for Learning Solutions, Microsoft Certified Partners, Independent Software Vendors, Channel Suppliers, Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) Partners and Original Equipment Manufacturers. For a list of all 2006 finalists, and more information on the Microsoft Partner Program IMPACT Awards, please visit http://www.microsoft.ca/awards.
ABOUT CERYX
Ceryx helps businesses achieve email reliability by bringing together operational experience, advanced infrastructure, and proprietary research and product development with leading messaging and collaboration solutions. With operations in Toronto and New York, as well as Tier 4 redundant data centres in both cities, Ceryx’s team of senior messaging professionals have met Fortune 500 companies’ messaging needs across North America for more than 17 years. Ceryx offers clients a suite of messaging services that include hosted and managed email systems, and email security. Visit www.ceryx.com for more information.
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For more information, please contact:
Aine Magennis
Sequentia Communications
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(416) 203-3656 ext. 224
Bill Di Nardo
Ceryx Inc.
(416) 482-9659 ext. 107
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