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Continuous Data Protection and VoIP Top Emerging Technologies for the Legal Community
Industry Leader Sam Collier to Speak at International Legal Technology Association Conference
Fairfax, VA - 2006-08-16
Tape backup will eventually be eliminated for primary data backup, replaced by Continuous Data Protection (CDP) services, making obsolete some Storage Area Network (SAN) and data backup devices, predicts Sam Collier, a founder of Union Square Technology Group and Director at mindSHIFT Technologies, a leading Managed Services Provider (MSP) and professional services firm.
Collier will elaborate on CDP and other industry trends, such as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and the creeping revolution in broadband access technologies, in a presentation at the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) conference in Orlando August 21 - 24. Collier’s session, entitled “Emerging Technologies: Industry Trends and Cutting-Edge Solutions”, is scheduled for Thursday, August 24, at 8:30 a.m. at the Grande Lakes Resort in Orlando, FL. As a legal integration services expert, Collier will detail the likely impact of these emerging technologies and leading trends on the legal community.
In a special hands-on technology presentation, two other mindSHIFT employees, Silas McCullough and J. Abernethy, will present “Microsoft Sharepoint: Creating Client Portals with SharePoint Technologies” on Wednesday, August 23, from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. The session will focus on client-facing portals using SharePoint technologies. During the session, McCullough and Abernethy will create a basic client portal web site, incorporate information from various data sources and then present the content in a logical, straightforward manner.
mindSHIFT will highlight its professional services for the legal community and its comprehensive managed service provider offerings at Booth #314 at the ILTA conference.
“Instead of doing a tape backup once every 24 hours, organizations will be able to create a highly granular journal or log of changed data every few minutes if they want to,” Collier predicts. “CDP takes the concepts of data mirroring and data backup and merges them.
About mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc.
With operations in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C., mindSHIFT is a leading Managed Services Provider (MSP) offering both managed services and professional services to small- and medium-sized businesses. The company’s portfolio of managed services provides a comprehensive solution which includes such critical services as email management and administration, electronic backup for servers and desktops, virus and spam protection, desktop support, and server management. All customers are supported by both a 24-hour Network Operations Center for proactive management support and a call center which diagnoses and resolves all end-user desktop issues. For advanced and larger businesses, the company provides business application migrations, storage area network upgrades and complex hosting applications. Additionally, mindSHIFT has superior expertise and experience in meeting the complex demands of the legal community for the integration of applications such as document management.
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