The company is made up of one or more central offices and the Executive and Sales team is very dispersed. Or, the company is going through a development phase and everyone’s traveling all the time. How do we keep everyone connected and with access to all our corporate applications?
Continue Reading February 1, 2010
Many of you have heard about Server Based Computing or SBC. It encompasses many options and technical solutions but the result is usually similar; applications, files, folders, and services actually run on servers, usually in a data center, and you use a method to get to them. Sometimes it’s a web browsers, sometimes it’s a remote client, sometimes it’s a terminal. Not a new concept, it’s been around since mainframes.
So, why is this option a good option and why is everyone clamoring to use it? The answers are simple and really go back to the idea of central powerful computers being utilized to a high degree and costs spread across many users. It’s about a “Green” in concept as possible with expensive equipment being managed by extremely bright people in a very strong secure environment, and delivered to staff across the world.
Is this what IVDesk’s doing??? YES IT IS!!! IVDesk has been providing Server Based Computing solutions for over 9 years with dramatic results for its customers. Fantastic uptime, ability to work from anywhere in the world via an Internet connection, dramatic security, service service service! We’ run and manage a dramatic infrastructure and split that up to provide centralized computing to small companies. To an end-user it looks like Windows XP with all their applications, files and folders, and services on one desktop that’s “hosted”. User’s experiences are very good and they get access to a 24 hour helpdesk of our staff. We’re there, always, anytime, for anyone.
Time for you to get out of running your own small “data center” of 1 – 6 servers and get all the benefits of SBC without the dramatic costs. A per user fee per month gets it done. Get started reviewing this today!
Thanks for your time
Bill Sorenson
CEO
www.IVDesk.com
January 26, 2010
It’s snowing again… Roads are in tough shape, looks like the commute will be a couple of hours to get the 20 miles or so. Not very productive. And, this time of year, it happens often.
No matter where you are in the country, there are times when it would be much better to be able to work from home or your neighborhood coffee shop. With IVDesk, we make that a reality for every person at every customer! The Windows Desktop you see at work is available to you from anywhere at anytime. 24×7 support is a phone call away, from anywhere at anytime.
We run all your applications in our Tier 3 data center and provide you a virtual desktop with everything you need and are used to. Looks like your old local desktop but all the applications are running centrally on our equipment in a secure and high performance environment. Dramatically better then on your existing equipment and all for a small monthly fee per user.
Get started today and get your flexibility back.
Thanks
Bill Sorenson
www.IVDesk.com
January 7, 2010
You’ve decided you want to get out of the IT business and let someone else manage everything. You’ve got to find someone you trust, someone who’s solution will work for now and in the future, and someone who can cover all your needs. Oh yeah, you need someone to take care of your REAL disaster recovery needs. Not just back-ups off-site, not a “We’ll get it running ASAP” service level, but real DR. And, you don’t want to pay for it “through the nose”…
Is there a solution that fits??? YES THERE IS! IVDesk offers a complete IT solution that fits your specific needs and includes dramatic disaster recovery built in! You get out of the IT business all together and get a monthly fee per user that’s predictable. All your systems are run by IVDesk, you can work from anywhere with the same experience as you have in the office, and get 24 x 7 helpdesk included, for everyone. And Disaster Recover? IVDesk runs in a Tier 3 data center managed by SunGard and includes dramatic built in redundancy at every level.
So, what does that Disaster Recovery cost you? Nothing, it’s built in! You can’t get to your office due to snow or storm, no problem, work from home. Your office is involved in a fire or other incident that causes you no access? No problem, with IVDesk you staff can work from anywhere. A Hotel, a person’s home, anywhere there’s Internet connectivity. It’s built-in!
So when you’re out looking for a Managed Services solution, checkout IVDesk and get all the benefits of getting out of the IT business and back to your business and get Disaster Recovery taken care of.
To learn more take a look at www.IVDesk.com or search for IVDesk on YouTube and hear what our customers are saying.
Thanks
Bill Sorenson
CEO
December 30, 2009
We know how it is; as the end of year approaches you’re reviewing your budget compared to actuals, looking for ways to make a change to the better for next year. In looking at overall IT expenditures, it surprises you how much capital and new PCs you’ve bought this year, unexpectedly. So how can you get a handle on making IT spending consistent and predictable?
The answer is simple; Move to IVDesk. You can change your IT environment to a monthly fee per user and extend the life of your investment in PCs now. Additionally, you get a complete Disaster Recovery solution, 24 x 7 Helpdesk, no more capital spending on IT, ever, and the assurance that you can get out of the IT business all together. Focus on growing your business and always know that IVDesk will be a predictable cost and fantastic service that takes care of all your IT needs. No more concerns, always up and available from anywhere there’s an Internet connection, and help when anyone on your staff needs it. We don’t sleep, go on vacation, go to lunch, or get sick. We’re always there serving you for a predictable cost per user per month.
So next year, you’re reviewing how the budget to actuals look, you scan down to the IT section and notice that it matches! It matches completely! No over spend, no surprise capital cash needed, predictable. You then remember your actually working in IVDesk right now, it’s fast, consistent, and always available, even from home at 11pm, the day before the annual budget review.
Give us a call or take a look at our website www.IVDesk.com or see us on YouTube by searching for IVDesk and hear what our customers say about us.
Thanks
Bill Sorenson
CEO
December 9, 2009
When we look at the service offerings of IVDesk, our focus is on making sure that systems are as smooth as possible and that service is much better then expected. We look at the running of systems, providing server resources, helpdesk, all the other items that are needed as back-office systems, as things a company should want to do. Companies want to run their organizations, support their customers, provide their services, not run IT shops.
You can think of this providing the details and environment as someone taking out the trash. It needs to be done, it’s important because if it’s not done, things really stink, but, it doesn’t add value to your business. It just doesn’t.
But, companies create services for “taking out the trash”, and take care of these things so you can focus on what you’re good at. You don’t run electrical plants to provide electricity for you lights. You don’t run phone networks to provide connections for your phones, why get stuck providing IT services when you only really want them to work. The answer is, DON’T!
Let us at IVDesk focus on getting your systems glass smooth and providing support for everyone. Work from everywhere, get 24 x 7 real support for every employee, don’t spend you capital, and get back to your business. Give us a call to get started today!
Thanks
Bill Sorenson
CEO
www.IVDesk.com
November 16, 2009
You’ve grown over the last number of years and now your business isn’t that small any more. There’s sales, production, customer service, accounting, management, and people want to work from everywhere. Email’s a key communication method and can’t be down, and if the CRM package or, heaven forbid, the ordering system, goes down, people can’t help the customers or take new orders. How did we get so dependent on IT anyway? Why can’t it just work so I can focus on our business? Is there really a good solution for this or do I have to deal with another IT vendor who only does part of the deal???
Talk about frustration! You’re in business to provide your products or services. You want to offer the best service you can for the money you spend. You want to be the choice for your customers not just one of the many options. You want to have focus on delivering and making progress towards your company goals. But, there’s this IT stuff that seems to get in the way.
Here at IVDesk we’ve actually got the answer to that. Not just part of the answer but the complete answer. We install all your applications and move all your data and run it centrally and provide you virtual Windows desktops. You login from any Internet connection, anywhere and you see your work desktop. Office is there, your files and folders, email, your ordering and CRM applications, everything is there. It’s always up and always available. Questions, you’re provided a 24 x 7 helpdesk staff that really knows your stuff and speaks your language. Within seconds someone’s working on the issue or question you have and getting you back to work. No waiting, no call menus, real people.
How can this be? Can it really work this well? Can I really get back to focusing on my business? Can we believe them?
Take a look at our customer YouTube testimonials by searching for IVDesk at YouTube. Give us a call and we can provide references in your industry. Think about how things would be if the whole IT thing was taken care of without dramatic costs, unknowns, or periodic capital outlays. Just think, like electricity, always there, always on, never thinking much about it. It just works!
Get a different perspective today and get out of the IT business and back to what you want to do. Let us jump in and take care of these things now.
Thanks
Bill Sorenson
CEO
www.IVDesk.com
November 9, 2009
Ok, the worst case scenario for mid-sized companies: You’ve got two or three critical systems that run your daily operations and if they’re down, you’re out of the water. You can take an outage for maybe 4 hours without too much impact, but after that, production stops, customers don’t get served, and you’re just racking up expenses.
But… You’re not big enough to have a Hot or Cold site, you don’t want to duplicate the infrastructure for a second site, you don’t want to have the capital expense of a fully replicated hosted system, so what do you do?
The outage happens and everyone scrambles. Very tough situation.
How about a very cost-effective alternative? IVDesk’s Disaster Recovery Services leverages the 8 year history in Cloud Computing and Hosted Applications that IVDesk has been involved in. Here’s how it works:
- We install your core applications on our equipment utilizing Virtual Servers.
- We take a copy of your production data, and test the applications using our IVDesk Virtual Desktops, fully hosted at our Tier 3 data center.
- We validate all the processes, data, and setup any number of users, so that those accounts are ready to go should there be a disaster.
- We schedule remote backup of the associated production data and apply that data as it come into IVDesk each night. This way, the IVDesk Disaster Recovery Service has up-to-date data every day.
- We schedule tests when you’d like to bring up the IVDesk version of the application and data.
- We wait for your call, in case of an emergency.
Currently, IVDesk hosts hundreds of applications for companies across all industries and provides 24 x 7 Helpdesk support all based on a monthly fee per user. Leveraging this infrastructure allows IVDesk to offer the same Fortune 500 backend environment for Disaster Recovery Services for your company. We provide straight-forward setup, daily backup and application of data, and testing when you need it.
So what happens if you call an emergency? IVDesk staff will activate the users and provide a secure remote desktop session running your application. You can then connect from any Internet connection anywhere and immediately get access to the application. You’re live NOW!, not hours or days from now. All your users need is an Internet connection and they’re in. Once the disaster is over and your environment is available again, we fail back by moving a copy of the application data to your equipment, test, and cut back over to your site. You can run indefinitely on IVDesk, so there isn’t a time-frame that you’re under to recover back locally.
Easy setup, low setup and monthly fees, and available when you need it for testing or a disaster situation. The cost-effective Disaster Recovery Service from IVDesk. Move your DR needs to Cloud Computing today! To find out more, contact Randy Olson at 612-605-5461.
November 4, 2009
What does the Cloud environment provide that small companies (SMB) can’t normally get? What can be included in a total cloud based solution and why do we at IVDesk provide the complete turnkey solution?
Small companies really get no respect from the technology world. Support companies may mean well but the environment that small companies have is difficult to support and tougher to provide great up times. Not enough capital to spend on computer servers and software, low levels of preventative maintenance, difficult systems to deal with for backups, email, redundancy, virus protection, etc. It’s just tough and most small companies got into their businesses to sell their products or provide their services, not to run a small IT company.
The cloud can provide:
1. Dramatic Redundancy – small company systems can be up dramatically more than running locally.
2. Scalability – get access to new capabilities when you need them and pay for what you use.
3. Expertise – companies like IVDesk provide dramatic expertise on demand.
4. Telework – telecommuting is a real advantage when all your systems are available from anywhere .
5. Variable Costs – variable cost structures allow small companies to pay for what they use.
6. A Complete Solution – IVDesk offers small companies a complete solution that’s high touch, all inclusive, and lets businesses get back to the reason they’re in business to begin with.
Check out what our customers say on YouTube by searching for IVDesk. Get started today and get back to your business.
Thanks,
Bill Sorenson
CEO
bsorenson@ivdesk.com
www.IVDesk.com
November 4, 2009
It’s time to get out of the IT business and get back to the business you’re involved with. Too many smaller companies spend too much time and money trying to keep their IT infrastructure up and running. Too much capital is spent on IT that should go into growing your product lines or supporting your services. Too much staff time is spent helping other staff with computer issues or as down time when there are IT issues. Email shouldn’t go down, your applications should run, your staff should keep working on your business without IT issues. That’s how it SHOULD work!
With IVDesk, it DOES! For a small monthly fee per user we run everything. All your applications on our equipment in a Tier 3 data center. All your data, no matter how much you have. Your email is always up and running, your desktops always work, and you can work from any Internet connection anywhere. Have an issue, call our Helpdesk. No matter what size that issue is, we correct it, give advice, help with Microsoft Office questions, everything. Our staff doesn’t do the “Tech Speak” thing, we talk to you in English that you understand.
Just think: All you applications, all your data, work from anywhere, Helpdesk that really likes to talk to you, all for a small monthly fee per user. No more worrying about IT, ever again. Just focus on what you do best, your business!
Give us a call or take a peek at what our customers say about us on YouTube. We’d love to help and get IT out of your hair completely.
Thanks
Bill Sorenson
CEO
www.IVDesk.com
October 28, 2009
