Is Business Continuity Important?

Quantum has an important question to ask you, our reseller partner, and promise a valuable seminar if the answer is yes.  Cal Ross of Quantum will be joining us on September 11th to present on Is Business Continuity Important to Your Customers? with the byline “learn how to combine disk and tape technologies in a comprehensive backup solution.  Cal’s provided us with the description:

“This presentation will discuss the data protection issues currently being faced by our customers and some new technologies combining disk based backup and tape automation to help you craft an innovative solution to solve those issues.”

Welcome to Quantum; Nortel goes Green

Good news for those of you in the server and storage space – Quantum has joined the Connex vendor lineup for a seminar and appearance in our vendor fair. Details on their topic will be forthcoming but we’re happy to welcome them on board.

Nortel has also provided us with their seminar topic, and it’s an informative and timely one on the cost savings and reduction in total cost of ownership of a Nortel network:

Nortel Seminar

The Nortel Tax Relief Plan: Calculate Your Nortel Energy Savings

First Seminars, Keynote Announced

I know some of you have been anxiously awaiting the topics our selected vendor partners will be speaking on and I’m happy to report that Cisco and IBM have both provided us with their topics. A final agenda is merely days away, but in the meantime you can plan to listen to:

Cisco Keynote:

Cisco’s SMB Strategy: Partnering to Win

Cisco Seminars:

Be Included: Capture your share of the Canadian SMB Unified Communications Opportunity

Cisco SMB Partner Resources: Taking your Business to the Next Level

Cisco SMB Solutions Update

IBM Seminar

Storage and Disk Virtualization Implementation: Big Dollar Savings

Vancouver Location Announced

Good news for our Vancouver-area resellers, we can finally announce the location for Connex in your region.  We’ll be taking over a good part of the Fairmont Vancouver Airport, a beautiful venue centrally located at the Vancouver Airport on the edge of Richmond.  We’ll confirm an agenda and timeline shortly but we’ve already sourced some great content including keynotes by Cisco Systems; a Unifed Communications Skills Training Camp; solutions seminars with our Networking, Server, and Storage vendors; and let’s not forget some great food, networking, and prizes to end the night.  Connex arrives Thursday, September 11th -  click here to register or for more information.

Welcome to the Connex Blog

On behalf of the Connex team – Azhar, Elio, Sueanne, and myself – allow me to welcome you all to the Connex blog.  What is Connex, you ask?  It’s Ingram Micro’s premier multi-technology event of the year, visiting three cities in the coming months.  We’ve worked long and hard and taken all your feedback over the past year to build a show that provides what you want; an evening of networking and face-time with vendors, all alongside some great food, drink, and prizing.  For those of you interested in learning more about specifics of technology and solutions we’ve even got some brief and optional afternoon seminars featuring the vendor heayvweights of the IT industry.  Keep us bookmarked as we continue to keep you updated on the event, and feel free to pre-register through the links in each Connex city’s area to hold your spot.