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• Mobility – Desk phone, smart phone, ONE number.
• Unified Communications – Let us help you identify the technology to help you cut costs and improve productivity.

You could miss out on a great purchasing opportunity if you procrastinate until after Dec. 31, 2011 when the government reduces this deduction to $125,000 in 2012!
 

WHO QUALIFIES FOR SECTION 179?  More than likely, you do.

All businesses that purchase, finance, and/or lease less than $2 million in new business equipment during tax year 2011 should qualify for the Section 179 Deduction. If a business is unprofitable in 2011, and has no taxable income to use the deduction, that business can elect to use 100% Bonus Depreciation and carry-forward to a year when the business is profitable.

Contact us for more information.LightBound is your VoIP PBX solutions provider for both hosted and premise based IP Based Telephony.

LightBound overs VoIP across America with SIP, PRI or Analog. LightBound can provide service to over 98% of the populated country.  This is a great option for companies wanting to have virtual numbers in other cities. Connecting multiple offices with a centralized IP PBX phone system.

LightBound, your Virtual Service provider, can combine your managed servers hosting, Shared Storage server, voice and data services to provide you with a seamless Cloud Service that is economical and provides the business continuity that all businesses require regardless of their technical expertise.

LightBound is also expanding. Ask about our new state of the art 47,000 sq ft. Data Center that's now open.

Let us take care of technology, so you can take care of business.

With employee mobility becoming the rule rather than the exception, it is important to address this transition with a clear and flexible business strategy. Designed for SMBs, LightBound IP PBX Heads Up Display Mobile keeps employees productive and reachable even while they are away from the office, enabling employees to stay fully informed and connected no matter where they are.

Available to download in both the Apple and Android app stores, this simple to operate application was built to mirror the user experience of Fonality HUD Desktop client. The paralleled mobile client for your smartphone creates a unified mobile worker that has access to the same telephony features and functionality (including contact center features) regardless of location. Unified mobile workers benefit from:

• One number access regardless of device or location
• Find me/follow me instead of leave message wait for callback
• Accelerated workflow and business processes
• Company directories and Fortune 500 telephony features
• One consolidated voicemail box - no more checking mobile-mail and office-mail
• Real-time employee presence
• Visual call status and call duration for each employee

Cost

Imagine for a moment that DR in the cloud is similar to the way you work with your residential electric company. You pay a small monthly fee for connecting your home to the utility, and then you pay for actual power usage. If you don’t draw any electricity, the small monthly fee remains; if you turn on your pool pump and your refrigerator and your lights, costs are added incrementally as you use increasingly more power. That’s a vastly different model than the way outsourced DR services have traditionally been handled, where you pay a fee commensurate with the amount of service you might need, in the event of a disaster, whether or not you ever use it. Which sounds more cost effective?

Flexibility

A great analogy here is to compare traditional outsourced DR services to your cell phone provider. To upgrade your cell phone or change your coverage model, you often have to sign up for another two years or more on a new service contract. But expanding your BC/DR service levels through the cloud gives you the freedom to reserve more or less space in a shared “container” system without dramatically impacting cost, without having to renegotiate service level agreements (SLAs), and without adding new multi-year commitments. If you’re doing DR in your own data center, or outsourcing to a third party who has reserved dedicated systems for your use only, the cost can be astronomical by comparison. In the cloud, with a shared container model, you simply reserve the space you need available to you, and make changes as your business needs dictate, usually at a very minimal cost, if any, for those changes.

Security

Today’s servers are designed for multi-tenancy use and can support different customers based on a variety of security settings, including advanced encryption methodologies to ensure the security of data in transit as well as at rest. As a result, data stored in the cloud is widely considered to be equally secure to information stored in a redundant local data center.

Design

If you have your own in-house data center, you can design your BC/DR plan and redesign it to meet changing needs, and you can conduct tests at random. Often, however, with traditional outsourced DR providers, the ability to customize your RPOs, RTOs and to conduct multiple tests throughout the year is sharply curtailed according to the parameters of your SLA. But typical DR-in-the-cloud solutions offer users an unrivaled combination of price-performance and custom design options.

Managed Recovery

Does your current DR strategy give you a “SWAT team” of IT professionals who can jump into action to kick-start your failover when disaster strikes? This is yet another reason to consider DR in the cloud. Cloud providers are accustomed to running and managing their own systems, and when you are in crisis mode, they are often able to conduct the initial restore on the customer’s behalf, getting you up and running that much faster.

Source: IT Business Edge

LightBound can help you with your virtualization services, server hosting, off site data backup service, cloud services, storage as a service, and disaster recovery needs.

The rise of mobility

The employee ecosystem is evolving, with more organizations looking beyond “task” workers to highly mobile, remote and information-focused workers. Fifty-one percent of firms said that they are planning to deploy application/desktop virtualization for mobile workers, and the same percent also plan to deploy it for remote/branch office workers. The now-constant need for connectivity during travel, or for telecommuting employees, has led businesses to provide support for all kinds of mobile devices, reducing the need for the PC from an end-user perspective.

Bring your own device

While PCs still remain a primary endpoint right now, 20 to 22 percent of organizations said they’re already providing support for employee-owned laptops, tablets and smartphones, with a further 16 to 21 percent planning to do so over the next two years. Fifty percent said that they see improved self-service as a primary reason for supporting employee-owned smartphones, tablets, netbooks and laptops, while 47 percent see lower purchase costs as a key driver for embracing BYOD. Driven by employees’ consistent dependence on their smartphones and tablets, as well as their personal preferences for devices used to access the corporate network at all times, businesses have started developing formal BYOD policies to support user choice and increasing mobile device contingency.

Improved Security in virtualization

Fifty-nine percent of respondents said that security is a major factor driving their interest in client virtualization. Virtualization technology enables organizations to remove all data from user machines and instead host it in the data center or public cloud. Thereby, reducing the impact of a lost or stolen machine that could potentially lead to a data security breach. IT managers who have successfully deployed client virtualization experienced dramatic improvements in their data security processes and patch management efficiencies.

Desktop Virtualization

More than 50 percent of companies ranked desktop and application virtualization as a critical or major initiative over the next 12 to 18 months. Local desktop virtualization enables desktop managers to provision virtual desktops as files rather than as individual, physical PCs. This desktop is fully managed and secured by the same policies that govern physical PCs. Because a virtual desktop has all the attributes of a file — albeit a large file — it can be encrypted and backed up, helping streamline regulatory compliance and business continuity processes.

Microsoft Windows 7 deployments and end of XP support

Nearly 30 percent of respondents are deliberately aligning their investments in Microsoft Windows 7 and desktop virtualization. Because virtualization reduces dependencies between the hardware, OS, applications, user settings and data layers, organizations are selectively taking advantage of this technology as they architect modern and more flexible systems for their users.

Cloud-hosted deployments are preferred

Forty-eight percent of respondents surveyed have considered cloud-hosted applications (SaaS) as an operational model as they plan their new/continued IT investments, while 45 percent considered cloud-hosted desktops (VDI). User diversity and decentralized and mobile work forces are forcing organizations to take hybrid approaches that balance their technology options with cloud-hosted, streamed, on-premise and thick-client solutions that are optimized for heterogeneous environments.

Source: IT Business Edge

LightBound can help you with your virtualization services, server hosting, off site data backup service, cloud services, storage as a service, and disaster recovery needs.

Techpoint Tech Thursday,Oct 20th with guest speaker, John Wechsler, Partner at DeveloperTown & CEO of Musical DNA.

For 300 years we've been teaching music in a way that's inherently flawed, using a system that's so far removed from the true form and structure of music it's no wonder "genius" has been so scare. Until now.

By combining the patented Musical DNA® technology with the Master Key® Method, MDNA Education will disrupt the musical instruction market by launching a low-cost, subscription-based online learning environment that will enable almost anyone to learn not just how to play music, but how to create and understand it in a way they never thought possible.

MDNA education will forever change the way the world learns to play music.

About Tech Thursday
TechPoint's Tech Thursday presented by LightBound includes an informational presentation, networking, drinks and hors d'oeuvres at the Northside law offices of Baker & Daniels.

There is no charge, but please register so that we may provide adequate supply of drinks and hors d'oeuvres.

If you registered but are not going to be able to attend, please contact Elizabeth Anderson at eanderson@techpoint.org to cancel your registration.

ightBound is your Fonality Authorized Reseller for trixBox Pro Editions for VoIP PBXsolutions both hosted and premise based IP Based.

LightBound overs VoIP across America with SIP, PRI or Analog. LightBound can provide service to over 98% of the populated country.  This is a great option for companies wanting to have virtual numbers in other cities. Connecting multiple offices with a centralized IP PBX phone system.

LightBound, your Virtual Service provider, can combine your managed servers hosting, Shared Storage server, voice and data services to provide you with a seamless Cloud Service that is economical and provides the business continuity that all businesses require regardless of their technical expertise.

Light Bound can be your Virtual Service Provider. We help you answer that email and return the telephone call without worry.