Press release: Symantec selects US-Analytics to provide national consulting services and solutions

DALLAS, May 19, 2010 — Professional services firm US-Analytics, headquartered in Dallas Texas, recently announced the expansion of the US-Analytics Partner Alliance Program to shore up the explosive demand for consulting services related to the security and availability software company, Symantec Corporation.

“The program has been so successful we have decided to expand the offering and scope greatly.” says Scott Preszler, CEO of US-Analytics.

US-Analytics attributes the growth to the decision by Symantec Corporation to vastly reduce, and in some instances terminate entirely, their consulting offerings in favor of utilizing the elite National SCP partner organization. US-Analytics is only one of a handful of SCP partners strictly focused on professional services to both direct clients and other Symantec partners.

“We now have a great opportunity to work closer with customers and partners,” said Preszler. “This trend of ‘lean’ involvement should do nothing but lower cost and improve overall client success and happiness with the Symantec community.”

US-Analytics remains impartial to ‘classic Symantec’ partners by solely providing services, versus selling hardware and software. The company has experienced success in this market, providing millions of dollars in revenue to Symantec Corporation and honing their skills with over 500 service engagements to Symantec clients.

“Any VAR organization that wants to join our Partner Alliance Program in essence gets to provide their clients with a vetted, certified and seasoned Symantec team who can augment the need for presales, implementation, delivery and support,” said Preszler. “We offer tremendous value with no additional cost to these organizations as a ‘virtual bench’ to our partners and their customers at a fraction of the cost it would take to build internally.”

More information about the US-Analytics Partner Alliance Program can be found on their website at http://www.us-analytics.com/symantec-services/partner-alliance or by contacting Paul Tatosian at (847) 890-5749.

ABOUT US-Analytics

As a leading consulting firm in full-service enterprise performance management and business intelligence solutions, US-Analytics helps companies unlock the power of their data.

Maintaining the highest levels of partnership with Oracle, Symantec, Microsoft and QlikView software companies, US-Analytics provides best-practice services around infrastructure, installation, custom applications and ongoing system administration.

US-Analytics’ proven solutions empower organizations to stop guessing and start harnessing data strategically to solve complex business problems and rise above competition. More information can be found at http://www.us-analytics.com

ABOUT Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

Layers of Virtualization

Scott H., Senior Consultant

The word for the times is virtualization, and why not? It offers us so many advantages in efficiency and scalability. Unfortunately, human behavior has not caught up with the technology that can make us so much more efficient.

Virtualization has many layers:

Virtual Locations: Schools, Offices

Virtual Travel: Webex (all virtual meeting  technologies), Telepresence

Virtual Infrastructure & Cloud Computing: SaaS, (Software as a service), Hosted Applications, Hosted Servers, Hosted Storage, High-Availability and Disaster Recovery, VMware, Hyper-V

Bandwidth and Networking Technologies

The Internet spawned this revolution; but for a long time, access to the internet was slow and expensive. To this day, there are still challenges in gaining access to anytime, anywhere Internet access.

In 1996, I moved to a “ru-burb” (more rural than a suburb) of New Orleans. The cost of calling my friends and family rose from zero, to roughly 25 cents per minute. I studied access to a Remote Exchange. This would push the calling area closer to me and eliminate the “per minute” charges. The cost was about $600 a month. Can you even imagine this dilemma today, only 15 years later? VoIP would have solved this problem quickly and effectively.

Not very long ago, proximity to the CO (Central Office) was a limiting factor to Internet access.  DSL Technologies require close proximity to a DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer). These typically reside in the CO, where space and power are scarce. Cable and Fiber Optics (FiOS) are major improvements, but still fixed location services.

3G Wireless technology and the proliferation of Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) hotspots provide a major breakthrough in the virtual world.  The “game changer” will be 4G Wireless Technologies. With 100Mbps moving access speed, this technology will be a major breakthrough in completing the Virtualization Model.

Over the coming weeks and months, we’ll be diving deeper into this topic and examining ways to best exploit these “Layers of Virtualization.”

In the meantime, on your daily commute home, ask yourself two questions:

Why is the traffic so bad?

And,

Does it have to be?