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DMC Software announce the latest edition to their programme of seminars designed to keep businesses up-to-date with the latest advancements in Finance and CRM software. In association with Microsoft, DMC explains how Microsoft SharePoint can unlock the secret to business data.

DMC Software, leading Sage Business Partner, has a unique offering that combines Microsoft SharePoint technology with Sage Business solutions to enable better leverage business data through collaboration.

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Allen McCaskill, Senior Director of Media for Ericsson Worldwide and also Head of UK TV and Media Practice, has over twenty years experience in leading commercial digital developments and will be a keynote speaker at the forthcoming Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference, taking place in March 2010.

Allen McCaskill is a senior consultancy expert with commercial acumen from proposition development to successful delivery, predominately from within the broadcast, media, mobile and internet sectors. He also has strong business development, account and commercial management experience underpinned with more than a decade of managing large multi-disciplined teams including sales, accounts, software developers, information architects, marketing and PR. Read more…

DMC Software demystify Microsoft SharePoint technology with series of Seminars: DMC Software announces that the first in a series of seminars they are hosting on the best ways to utilise Microsoft SharePoint technology has been warmly received by attendees.

The business technology and software specialists devised the seminars to “demystify the enigma that is Microsoft Sharepoint”.

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V-LOCITY RELEASED TO MANUFACTURING

EAST GRINSTEAD, England – Diskeeper Corporation has officially shipped V-locity™, a new virtual platform performance optimizer designed to maximize server speeds on Microsoft’s Hyper-V.

The upward move to develop V-locity was made to create a virtual-specific product that not only performs defragmentation functions, but also synchronizes the complex and ongoing activity between host and multiple guest operating systems.

“The need to go beyond the scope of defragmentation was necessary,“ notes Diskeeper Product Manager, Michael Materie, ”as when multiple systems share resources on a virtual platform, the ‘sharing’ amongst the VMs turns into competition amongst them for resources. This problem with VMs is fully addressed with our virtual optimizer.

“We also employed our well known InvisiTasking® processing technology to ensure zero resource conflict. So those familiar with the Diskeeper product line will appreciate the same seamless real time benefits of V-locity’s operations.”

V-locity also frees up vital storage resources by eliminating VHD “bloat”. This is the wasted disk space that takes place when virtual disks are set to dynamically grow but don’t then shrink when users or applications remove data. V-locity actually compacts the VHD, thereby preventing waste and allowing IT Managers to better allocate their virtual storage resources.

Diskeeper was the first ever defragmenter certified for Hyper-V, garnering notable praise from Microsoft* citing that “After independent testing, we found that Diskeeper’s automatic defragmenter not only exploits Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V capabilities but also is designed to meet mission-critical expectations in a virtualized environment.” Now V-locity has taken that technology to an all new level, bringing the first ever virtual platform performance optimizer to the enterprise.

V-locity consists of two components:

• V-locity Host installed on Windows Server 2008 running Hyper-V
• V-locity Guest installed on Windows virtual machines

Get more information at www.diskeepereurope.com.

Notes:
* Eric Jewett, Product Manager for Windows Server Marketing, Microsoft Corporation

About Diskeeper Corporation—Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies®:
Consumers, small home offices and the largest businesses rely on Diskeeper software to provide unparalleled performance and reliability to their laptops, PCs and servers. Diskeeper Corporation further provides real-time data protection and real-time data recovery™ with Undelete® data recovery software (www.undeleteeurope.com).

© 2009 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Diskeeper, V-locity, Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies, InvisiTasking, Undelete are trademarks owned by Diskeeper Corporation. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

Scandinavia’s leading internet marketing conference and expo to take place in Reykjavik, Iceland this week, on 20th March.

The conference has secured over 15 high profile industry experts from companies including NIKE, Nordic eMerketing, BBC, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Augure, eNewsWire, Yandex, WebCertain, Receptional, SEOmoz, NFL, BeyondINK, Omni Marketing Interactive and more.

The conferences Keynote Speaker is Rand Fiskin, CEO of SEOmoz and world renowned authority on internet marketing. His topic will be the challenges facing marketers in a modern multi-channel environment.

Other topics include such interesting material as Online Youth Marketing, Online Corporate communications and ePR, Client Agency Relationship, Social Marketing and Engagement and Challenges Facing Traditional Media, among others.

The importance of the internet as a communications tool is being tested like never before – and it emerges again and again that companies systematically using the internet to get their message across are the ones standing fast in the storm.

It is, for example, increasingly essential for companies to use the net to protect and strengthen their reputations and trademarks.

Guests of the Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference will have a unique opportunity to combine a trip to this wonderful island in the north and experience a unique twist of raw nature and a unique and pervasive culture – not forgetting the nation’s renowned hospitality and openness.

The natural and cultural surroundings will be a pleasant addition to the high quality of the topics and speakers attending the conference this year.

For more information about the conference, go to www.rimc.is/en/

Search Marketing Expo, also known as SMX, recently announced that Microsoft will be delivering the opening Keynote session at the London event this year.

SMX is the leading global event for cutting-edge SEO and PPC tactics delivered by the finest talent in search marketing – and organised and hosted by renowned search marketing expert Chris Sherman, the Executive Editor of Search Engine Land.

Microsoft’s development leaders on both the paid and organic side of search, Nathan Buggia and Zhao Hui Tang, will lead a forward-thinking keynote conversation on the next big step in search innovation. The session, ‘Empowering Search Marketers: The Next Generation’, will outline Microsoft’s vision of the future of search marketing. The audience will share information on how Microsoft is breaking down barriers and building a powerful new set of tools that move beyond straightforward functionality.

“The past few years have seen the introduction of new features, offering richer search results, personalisation and other tools designed to empower searchers,” Chris Sherman says. “Search engines are now shifting focus, preparing new, highly sophisticated tools designed to take marketers to the next level, enabling them to fine-tune campaigns in ways not previously achievable. I am looking forward to discussing the issues and hearing more about Microsoft’s plans for the next generation of search marketing.”

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The Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) programme has long been the key certification programme in the IT sector. Firebrand Training, the accelerated learning specialists welcome the new qualifications introduced by Microsoft to replace it and offer guidance on the new “techno speak-free” training courses.

The IT world is known for its love of the TLA – three letter acronym – but to outsiders it can make an already confusing sector more difficult to understand. Combine this with geeky technology and techno speak and it’s easy to get lost in the jargon, especially with more acronyms like MCSE, MCP, MCSP and MCSA.

Firebrand Training (www.firebrandtraining.co.uk), specialists in advanced learning courses have long heard the pleas from HR Professionals to guide them towards the right courses and now, help is at hand. Microsoft has revamped its MCP certification programme to make it far more transparent and easier to understand for anyone looking to hire or train staff in the Microsoft world of technology.

What’s the story for the IT world?

Microsoft recently launched the next generation of certifications for IT professionals looking to prove their experience in the technology world, replacing the MCP. They are designed to provide a much simpler framework to validate technical, professional and architectural skills based around Microsoft solutions. The Microsoft qualifications that IT professionals have been focussing on in recent years are the MCSE, MCSP and MCSA courses, all of which are being re-vamped.

Replacing the Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) programme, which had a one size fits all feel when it came to technology specialisms, these new qualifications are designed to be reflect the holder’s specific knowledge and range of expertise. They can cover anything from server and enterprise administration to .NET and Vista.

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