3:30pm – 4:30pm Windows 2008 by Sean Dring of Microsoft New Zealand
4:30pm – 5:15pm Server Upgrade Case Study by Mike Grant of ITCL
5:15pm – 6:00pm LTO & RDX Drives by Cheng Chuan of Tandberg Data

Windows Server 2008

Sean is a Technical Specialist for the OEM channel based in Auckland.  Sean last addressed our peer group on 24 October 2007 on the same topic when Windows 2008 was only in a beta stage.  Half a year has since gone.  Is Windows 2008 still the same as what we learned last time?  We need to be convinced that there are good incentives for us to take up W2008 in lieu of W2003 or in preference to Linux.  Ask Sean.  In addition to W2008, Microsoft has a full software release program for this year such as SBS 2008 and we may get more insight from Sean.  Sean has supported Compucon consistently since year 2001.

Download Windows Server 2008 PDF (5.45MB)
Download Vista SP1 PDF (3.3MB)
Download WinXP SP3 PDF (0.15MB)

Server Upgrade Case Study

ITCL and Compucon joined hands to win a server upgrade job from a competitor recommended to the customer who has got not just a step in the door of the customer but has done 30 hours of free investigation work there for the job.  When the customer declared practical completion of the job on 22 February 2008, the customer congratulated our team for the highest level of professionalism he has ever seen or heard about in the IT industry.  We finished the upgrade job 2 weeks ahead of the plan, invoiced the client for less than 33% of the competitor quote, caused practically no interruption to the customer business operation during the process when the competitor expected to shut down the server for one or more days, and handed over some reference documentation to the customer at the end.  Most importantly, we achieved virtually the entire wish list of the customer.  Equally importantly, we earn a reasonable income from the job! To give you an idea of the size of the job, the service portion is estimated to take 120 hours.  Let us hear direct from Mike of what he did and how he did it so well.  Mike is a senior consultant of ITCL and has worked closely with Compucon for 15 years.

Download Server Upgrade PDF (1.4MB)

LTO and RXD Drives

Tandberg Data is a Norway based company with a global distribution network.  Cheng Chuan is a senior regional sales manager based in Singapore.  He oversees the Australia and New Zealand market in addition to a few other Asia Pacific areas.  He recently appointed Compucon New Zealand as a direct Tandberg OEM account as recognition of the position of Compucon in the industry.  Tandberg produces a range of storage products and notably the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) series of backup tape drives which are the standard for SMB backup at present.  Cheng Chuan will also introduce a HDD based backup product called RDX Quickstor and a Network Attached Storage product to us.  Please find out how we can benefit from his inside information.  We will supply take-away brochures at the seminar.

Download Tandberg Tape Drives PDF (4.3MB)
Download Tandberg NAS PDF (3.2MB)
Download Tandberg RDX PDF (2.0MB)