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vThere: A Fine Model Mashup

Sentillion saw a business opportunity, talked to its customers, and mashed up a novel solution to a problem that already had a couple of answers. Most big companies still roll their own desktop deployments via homegrown solutions, ghosting, Windows imaging, or some variation of vendor partnering. Maintaining IP security policy compliance for remote user desktops and field locations can be daunting. Many organizations address user desktop delivery via Citrix or other terminal- or presentation-server solutions. Big back-end investment, mildly tricky networking and performance issues for greedy apps, but thin-client Windows solutions work for a range of low-horsepower environments. Anyway you slice it, crafting, deploying, patching and supporting user desktops is a pain. Read More

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Tier1 Research – Daily T1R for 01/30/08

NaviSite disclosed that Arizona Web Services has renewed its contract. Arizona Web Services is a shared hosting reseller customer of Alabanza, which was acquired by NaviSite in Q307. This is an important and necessary disclosure for NaviSite as it wants to show that it is stabilizing the Alabanza acquisition after a nightmarish outage marred the migration process and resulted in customer loss. Read more…

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John C. Havens interviews Joshua D. Rand and James Fanella about NaviSite’s history with a focus on how they’ve been able to scale business and grow so successfully.

“We’ve reduced our monthly costs by 40%, but more importantly, we didn’t have to compromise on anything” – Joshua D. Rand, CEO Sapotek Inc.

NaviSite’s ‘Case Study‘ on Sapotek Inc