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    Saturday, May 9, 2009

    Video Conferencing - An Introduction

    Video Conferencing Tutorial at a high level. Nice and easy read...

    Video Conferencing - An Introduction

    Great article on getting introduced to the technology. By far the LifeSize Video solution and MCU addition is one of the most powerful combinations available for the price. The real fun is integrating Microsoft OCS, Presence, Cisco MeetingPlace conferencing and WebEx into a single point solution. I would be happy to give a demo of it sometime.

    Cheers!

    Doug
    www.peakipsolutions.com
    Peak IP Solutions
    Livermore, CA

    Wednesday, May 6, 2009

    Microsoft Direct Access in Windows 7

    Have you heard about Direct Access? It is the next big thing from Microsoft. It will allow users to access resources internal to a business network over any public IP network. This is a new feature in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 working in conjunction with IPv6 to enable a whole new paradigm in the Windows Domain (no pun intended).

    Here is a nice link to a blog on the solution details;

    http://www.microsoftpartnernetwork.com/groups/windows_7/blog/archive/2009/02/24/windows-7-direct-access.aspx

    Enjoy,

    Doug

    Cornerstone Fellowship is now on Twitter...

    Take a look at my church now on Twitter. Everyone is going social now even my Church.

    http://twitter.com/cornerstoneweb

    Cornerstone is also a good customer of ours. We have worked with them on their Microsoft, VMware, Cisco Voice, Wireless and LAN/WAN. Most of all we are blessed to share our talents to help make them more efficient and extend the reach of God's message.

    Thursday, April 23, 2009

    IT Trends for VAR's

    Notes:

    The cloud has potential. What are the trends? Will it take over? How fast?

    The cloud is on track. It is gainging momentum. How will it evolve? We see this as moving similar to the Internet boom. From 96 to 99, everything was goign to be on the Internet. Then in 200-2003 it was over... Then in 2003 till now, it has over run us all.

    Is the cloud the same? Will it gain momentum, crash (somewhat?), and then come back with a vengence to be the defacto solution in 2015? Where will a VAR make money? Who will survive? Will there be no on premise resources left?

    The product vendors and product sellers are in trouble. The services vendors are in a better place but the projects will be less prevalent. The managed services providers will have the edge. They are managing the IT for the customer. They will manage the infrastructure whether on premise or off premise. They are the trusted advisor to the customer and will direct where and how the customer (gained now) moves to this new model (or doesn't).

    I know one thing, I dont want to be the one holding the bag selling product. We are a company selling Networking and Unified Communications, Voice and Video. We work heavily with Cisco Systems and are investing in Data Center and Voice and Video solutions like Unity Connections, LifeSize Video Solutions,

    Where is the Server? Who manages the server? who touches the end customer? the value will be with the people perceived by the end customer to be the ones who assist them daily.

    What does all this mean? Obviously it is open to interpretation. Cloud computing is on the rise. On prem + Cloud or Cloud + on prem or all cloud appear to be the options. At which point does the VAR of the future sit to stay relevant?

    Best,

    Doug Renner
    Peak IP Solutions LLC
    www.peakipsolutions.com

    Sunday, December 28, 2008

    Peak IP Solutions, LLC Executive Summary


    Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 11:00 AM

    Subject: Executive Summary

     

    Management Summary

    Prepared for: Peak IP Solutions, LLC
    Created on: 12/27/2008
    Period: 11/27/2008 - 12/27/2008

    Network Health:

    Company Details:

    81%

    Contact:

    Doug Renner

    Account Manager:

    Douglas Renner

    Total Windows Servers:

     2

    Total Windows Workstations:

     0

    Total Servers:

    2

    Total Managed Machines:

     2

    Total SNMP Machines:

     3

    Server Disk Space:

    Service Request Statistics:

    Escalated Items:

     

    Server Offline Alerts

     0

    Server Disk Space Low

     0

    Total Closed Helpdesk Tickets

     29

    Computer Security Patches:

    Business Continuity Indicators:


    Network Uptime:

     

    Server Availability

     80%

    Threats Removed:

     

    Windows Patches Installed

     7

    Computer OS Graph: