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VODA Wins Bronze in CDN Channel Elite Awards
CDN’s Channel Elite Awards recognizes IT Solution Providers for their innovation, leadership and commitment to creating value for their customers. There are nine categories outlined in this year’s Awards Program.
VODA Computer Systems has been nominated as one of the finalists at the 2009 CDN Channel Elite Awards in the Best Marketing Initiative category that will be taking place September 29th, 2009. The event will be held at the Paramount Conference and Event Conference Centre.
Barracuda Message Archiver
The Barracuda Message Archiver is a complete and affordable email archiving solution, enabling you to effectively index and preserve all emails, enhance operational efficiencies and achieve regulatory compliance. Leveraging standard policies and seamless access to messages, email content is fully indexed and backed up to enable administrators, auditors and end users quick retrieval of any email message stored in an organization’s email archive.
- Comprehensive archiving
- Exchange stubbing
- Search and retrieval
- Policy management
- Intelligent Storage Manager
- Roles-based interface
- Reporting and statistics
Powerful
The Barracuda Message Archiver provides everything an organization needs to comply with government regulations in an easy to install and administer plug-and-play hardware solution. The Barracuda Message Archiver stores and indexes all email for easy search and retrieval by both regular users and third-party auditors. Backed by Energize Updates, delivered by Barracuda Central, the Barracuda Message Archiver receives automatic updates to its extensive library of virus, policy definitions to enable enhanced monitoring of compliance and corporate guidelines, document file format updates needed to decode content within email attachments, as well as security updates for the underlying Barracuda Message Archiver platform to protect against any potential security vulnerabilities.

Easy to Use
The Barracuda Message Archiver features an easy-to-use Web user interface, creating an intuitive and cost-effective administration tool for the integrated hardware and software solution. The Web user interface allows administrators to define, manage and control corporate archiving settings and rules from one central location.
Affordable
Unlike competitive offerings, the Barracuda Message Archiver has no per user licensing fees, no hardware issues to attend to, no database integration headaches and no security holes to patch, making it the most affordable and reliable email archiving solution available today.

Why VODAVault
The Easiest, Fastest and Safest Way to Reliably Backup all of Your Important Information
Never Worry About Losing Critical Data Again.
VODAVault is an automated data backup and restoration system providing powerful tools to protect your organization’s data. Unlike traditional data protection tools, VODAVault does not require any human assistance beyond the initial installation and setup. There is no media to install, remove, protect, or replace. VODAVault is highly secure and only you have access to your information and data. We call it, eSafe, eSimple, and eSecure!
Your valuable data is encrypted and stored at a VODAVault secure data center. Without your password, no one else can read or use your confidential information. Not even the staff at VODA Computer Systems.
How Does VODAVault Work?
Install a small VODAVault client software application on your computer to manage all of your data protection and restoration. After you easily identify what data you want to protect, VODAVault encrypts and compresses this data and then transfers a master copy to a VODAVault data center.
During the 10-minute setup you will be asked to choose a password and a passphrase. The password protects access to your account and the pass phrase protects your data. Your unique passphrase becomes part of your VODAVault encryption algorithm. Each time you change a file, VODAVault detects the change, encrypts and compresses the revision and sends it to a VODAVault data center to be stored with the master copy of your file. Unlike our competition, you determine what files and folders to backup and you can set different backup procedures on a file-by-file basis. VODAVault does not care if the file is located on your computer or somewhere else on your network. You just point and shoot and VODAVault does the rest.
Our easy-to-use system lets you decide how often to backup and how many previous versions of your data to keep. Because only the changes or deltas of your data are stored, very small amounts of storage are used to maintain many versions. You can even ask VODAVault to help you when data is destroyed by mistake. VODAVault will maintain copies of files you have deleted for the period of time you determine preventing accidental deletions. This valuable tool will come in very handy one day, guaranteed.
For more detailed information on VODAVault visit:
http://www.vodagroup.com/whyvodavault.html
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EMC Energy Efficiency Solutions help today’s data centers face critical energy issues: power and cooling limitations, high energy demands and costs, and even outages from overburdened power grids. EMC Energy Efficiency Solutions offer the advanced products, tools, and services you need to optimize energy efficiency in your data center.
Key Benefits
- Efficient storage platforms — EMC storage platforms are designed to consume less energy per terabyte than alternative solutions.
- Virtualization — Optimize EMC virtualization solutions such as VMware to consolidate servers by a 20:1 ratio, increasing capacity utilization and eliminating unnecessary infrastructure.
- Data and file mobility — Use software such as EMC EmailXtender, DatabaseXtender, and DiskXtender to move data seamlessly to the right level of storage, enabling efficient tiered storage that saves power.
- Backup, recovery and archiving — Move data from your production environment to cost-effective, energy efficient archives.
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VODA Tip
In addition to Notebooks overheating, it should be noted that Desktop computers can overheat as well. Some computers have side vent holes in them that allow fresh air to be drawn directly into the processor to cool it. If your computer has these vents and you place it directly beside your desk, you are probably blocking the ventilation holes. Also, don't use your computer as a bookend to hold up files or books. This can lead to premature processor or mainboard failure. Some low end computers are actually insufficiently cooled. The manufacturers leave out additional cooling fans to cut cost. The computer will still work, but over time it will fail. Check to see if the top of your computer is warm. If it is, you might want to add an additional cooling fan.

Quote of the Month
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
--- William Arthur Ward

Product of the Month

Intel® Core™ i7 Processor
The best desktop processor family on the planet¹
Brilliantly fast
With faster, intelligent, multi-core technology that applies processing power where it's needed most, new Intel® Core™ i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in PC performance. They are the best desktop processor family on the planet.¹
You'll multitask applications faster and unleash incredible digital media creation. And you'll experience maximum performance for everything you do, thanks to the combination of Intel® Turbo Boost technology² and Intel® Hyper-Threading technology (Intel® HT technology)³, which maximizes performance to match your workload.
Product information
- 3.06 GHz, 2.93 GHz, and 2.66 GHz core speed
- 8 processing threads with Intel® HT technology
- 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache
- 3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory
Go to the next level of multi-core performance.
Intel Core i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in quad-core performance and feature the latest innovations in processor technologies:
Intel® Turbo Boost technology maximizes speed for demanding applications, dynamically accelerating performance to match your workload—more performance when you need it the most.²
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology enables highly threaded applications to get more work done in parallel. With 8 threads available to the operating system, multi-tasking becomes even easier.³
Intel® Smart Cache provides a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games.
Intel® QuickPath Interconnect is designed for increased bandwidth and low latency. It can achieve data transfer speeds as high as 25.6 GB/sec with the Extreme Edition processor.
Integrated memory controller enables three channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory, resulting in up to 25.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth. This memory controller's lower latency and higher memory bandwidth delivers amazing performance for data-intensive applications.
ntel® HD Boost significantly improves a broad range of multimedia and compute-intensive applications. The 128-bit SSE instructions are issued at a throughput rate of one per clock cycle, allowing a new level of processing efficiency with SSE4 optimized applications.
For more information call a VODA sales representative today.
250.374.8002

Ask the VODA Expert
Q: can I ensure that my PC is capable of running Windows 7 or if my new PC is eligible for a free Windows 7 upgrade?
A: Microsoft has released a beta (test) version of their Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor. This is a software package that you can download from their website and, once installed on your PC, will notify you if your PC is capable of running Windows 7. The link to download the advisor can be found here. Once you run the advisor it will notify you if it found any issues with your systems capabilities to run Microsoft’s newest operating system. A Voda sales specialist can assist you in purchasing the correct version of Windows 7 for your needs once you have determined that your PC is capable of installing the new operating system.
If you purchase or have purchased a new PC between June 26th 2009 and January 31st, 2010 you may be eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 7. You can learn more about your eligibility by visiting the Microsoft web site here , visiting the PC manufacturers’ website or talking to a Voda sales specialist.
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