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Cobweb Solutions Supports New Charity ‘Give Us Time’

We would like to announce our sponsorship of new charity Give Us Time – a worthy cause that aims to provide holidays to soldiers and their families before they settle back into daily life after combat.

It’s hard to imagine what life is like after a long stretch away from family or after a strenuous tour, where settling back into civilian life can be tough. Part of Afghan Heroes, Give Us Time launches today and is a cause that has been possible thanks to those who have generously donated week-long holidays in second homes, holiday homes and timeshares across the UK and beyond.

Jim Young (Ex-RN) is Project Manager at Cobweb Solutions and supports the cause, saying:

“These soldiers keep us safe in our country; please offer them a safe place to rest or recuperate.”

Offering the use of your holiday home to help Service Personnel adjust to ordinary life can only bring them benefits and will show that we, the general public, support and thank them for the services they provide. If you would like to donate some time to our soldiers and their families, please visit www.giveustime.org.uk and submit your details.

 

Can Hybrid Cloud Really Work?

The recent trend of cloud computing is seeing public, private and hybrid cloud solutions rapidly becoming a mainstream alternative to a purely in-house deployment. For companies growing quickly and requiring more management flexibility, this deployment model represents a great alternative both financially and operationally. Yet there is always a concern that putting the control in the hands of a cloud provider may present a risk.

On Friday 4th May 2012 we’ll be conducting a webinar with our panel of industry leading experts who will share their experience, knowledge and advice on the cloud services model, as well as some up-to-date research to ensure you get the right balance.

The webinar discussion will take place at 10:00 BST and will last one hour, providing viewers with a first-hand insight into some of these cloud projects, how success has been achieved and the lessons learned along the way.

If you’d like to attend the webinar, register soon as there are only limited places available.

The Panel

Dale Vile
CEO of the independent analyst house Freeform Dynamics

As head of the business, Dale looks after Freeform Dynamics’ overall direction and performance, as well as overseeing the company’s primary research activities, which provide ongoing insights into how IT industry developments map onto practical business needs in the Enterprise and SMB mainstream. More…

Kim Richards
IT Technical Manager of Stemcor

Stemcor is the world’s largest independent steel trader with a turnover that exceeded £5bn in 2010. The company trades around 20 million tonnes of steel and steel-making raw materials per annum through a network of 125 offices across the globe. More…

Oliver Moazzezi
Senior Technical Architect at Cobweb and Microsoft Exchange MVP

Oliver Moazzezi is one of a select few to hold a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) title for Exchange, making him one of the most experienced Exchange experts in Europe. He’s also a senior technical architect and has worked at Cobweb for the past ten years. More…

Accelerating the adoption of Microsoft SaaS in the Cloud - Live Blogging Ends

Thank you to all those that attended our events today, including all those who joined us virtually through Cob-Blog and Twitter. We hope that the event was beneficial to all those who attended, and we look forward to helping many of you tackle your messaging, collaboration and unified communication challenges.

Be sure to check back on Cob-Blog for slide decks, key takeaways and more, which will be available in the coming days.

One day in the life of EPA as a Cobweb channel partner

For the final session of the afternoon Craig MacAlpine from the Email Protection Agency joins us to run the audience through “a day in the life” as a Cobweb reseller.  

His session draws a very concise, but very powerful conclusion for any business looking to partner and resell:

• Be an expert on the services you sell
• There is a lot of technology that you can sell – pick the correct ones
• Select the correct vendors
• Understand how to make money!

About EPA
The EPA (originally called Email Protection Agency) was setup 2003 and as a company began selling email filtering services, which has evolved over the years. They have always sold Cloud services – previously under the banner on managed services or SaaS, from their head office in Devon, UK.

An overview of the voice industry for partners and how it’s moving on - SipCom

Oliver Compton, Senior VP from SipCom has just begun his keynote, he is going to be presenting to the delegates a high level view of the voice industry and their view of how partnering within that industry will become critical to maintaining a competitive edge.

Within his presentation he has some great examples of just how big the Cloud market has become:

• CRN predicts that small business spending on Cloud Computing will hit $100 billion by 2014
• IDC estimates the market for public cloud products and services at $16 billion in 2010, growing to $56B by 2014
• Gartner estimates the Cloud market at $150 billion by 2013 while Merrill Lynch has it at 160 billion by 2011
• A recent survey of 500 IT decision-makers by Sand Hill found that 50% of respondents cited business agility as their primary reason for adopting cloud applications