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Upcoming Events:
Protect Webinar
ITMA March Meeting
Cost Effective DR/BC Utilizing Virtualization and Storage Solutions Seminar
Maximize Your IT Investments in a Tough Economic Climate - Webinar Series

CPR Learning Center News

mailMAX Spam Filtering

Trade Up to a New HP Workstation

Technology Advantage®

Phone Numbers:

Grand Rapids:
616.575.8500

Kalamazoo:
269.375.9094

www.cprgr.com

 

Upcoming Events and Webinars with CPR
CPR hosts a variety of seminars, events and webinars for our customers each year. Our goal is to present relevant information, on timely topics. We choose our upcoming seminar topics based on feedback from our customers. We work with our vendor partners to bring you the latest information on all emerging technologies. Below is a summary of the latest events on our calendar. Watch the e.news each month to see what seminars are coming up next. If you have a suggestion on how we can improve our seminars or an idea for a new topic, please let us know. Click here to send us your thoughts.

Protect - Online Backup Solutions Webinar
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:00am – 12:00pm EST

CPR will be hosting an informational webinar to share with you the latest in online backup. Protect is a unique alternative to traditional backup methods, replacing conventional tape based systems with a fully automated online solution. It provides centralized and automated backups of PCs, file servers and application/database servers with secure offsite storage and immediate online restoration.

This webinar will review:

Protect
Why online backup?
An architectural overview of Protect
Tools available for a backup and archiving strategy
Implementation process for Protect
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ITMA March Meeting - Technology Trends & CIO Panel
CPR hosts The Information Technology Management Association meetings at our facility every month. The
March meeting will feature Dave Fachetti, Managing Director of Globespan who will present on future technology trends featuring the move toward cloud computing and virtualization.

In addition, there will be a CIO Panel Discussion Featuring: ITMA meeting
Patrick O’Hare, CIO of Spectrum Health
Robert Krestakos, CIO of Steelcase
David Couch, VP & CIO of Spartan Stores
The panel discussion will focus on leadership skills for the future, the importance of IT alignment with business objectives and the current state of IT talent in West Michigan.

The meeting is at CPR on Thursday, March 12 from 8:00am to 12:00pm.

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Cost Effective Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Utilizing Virtualization and Storage Solutions
Presented by CPR, VMware, and LeftHand Networks, an HP Company

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 10:15am – 1:45pm
Location: Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

It use to be that business continuity and disaster recovery solutions were designed and priced for enterprise organizations, but we are here to tell you that is fiction and not fact! CPR is actively building affordable disaster recovery/business continuity solutions priced for the Small and Medium sized market.  CPR, VMware and LeftHand Networks, an HP company, will highlight SMB sized disaster recovery solutions. You cannot afford to miss this event. 

Join this interactive and informative luncheon workshop to learn how to build a simple, scalable and cost-effective disaster recovery solution for your virtual server environment!

seminar register

Maximizing Your IT Investments in a Tough Economic Climate
Microsoft Webinar Series: Session 3 - The Business Environment is Changing - Technology Can Help Your Business Stay on Top

Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:00am – 12:00pm EST

Join CPR for a unique Small Business Productivity Essentials webinar.   As a Microsoft Partner, we are offering you an exciting opportunity to experience the latest innovations in small business technology.

  • See how you can enable your people to be more productive by working collaboratively and streamlining access to information. Experience the freedom of working from virtually anywhere, with highly secure access to e-mail, calendar, and your data – even from your phone!
  • Learn how you can help secure and protect your business data.
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Special Training Offers
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To see a complete list of upcoming classes as well as the latest training promotions, click the link below for this month's Learning Center News.

Learning Center Newsletter

Are you frustrated with spam?
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Do you struggle with spam? How many hours of productivity are you losing? Assuming that each employee spends just 5 minutes per day either deleting or reading unwanted email, the cost to your organization is surprising.

The mailMAX Spam Filtering solution is an affordable managed service which is specifically designed to prevent spam from clogging your network and diluting the productivity of its users. mailMAX uses filtering technologies to identify likely spam content and block unwanted messages from entering your network.

mailMAX
The mailMAX filtration process:
Consistently blocks 95% of spam directed at a typical domain
Conserves system resources
Saves valuable employee time

Now through March 31st, we’ll waive the $300 setup fee for new mailMAX customers. If you are tired of dealing with spam and junk mail, click here or call your Account Manager for more details.


Trade Up to a New HP Workstation
And double up the savings!
We want to make it easy for you to upgrade to state-of-the-art HP workstations!
Move out the old. Trade in your existing equipment for credit (up to $375 per system) toward the purchase of your new HP Workstation. HP will retire old systems responsibly. Note that trade in units do not have to contain hard drive(s). HP Workstations
Move in the new. Enjoy already discounted HP Workstation Smart Buys, our most popular configurations, and realize performance gains of up to 250%.

Make it green. Realize savings in power consumption and energy costs with an 80 PLUS efficient power supply and ENERGY STAR qualified systems without sacrificing performance.
Save on shipping. Receive free return shipping on your trade-in systems. How great is that?
Now through May 31, 2009, get up to $375 beyond Fair Market Value on a workstation trade-in. Click here or call your CPR Account Manager for details.

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