A couple of months ago I was at the local Lowe’s store and came across a garage organization system in the back that looked interesting, so I decided to find out more. We contacted Garage Works and had them on the show, talked about their products and they gave us this gift certificate to give away.

A quick note about them:

“Organizing your garage for fall & winter storage — golf clubs, bicycles, rollerblades, tennis rackets, lawnmowers all need to be put away and organized so you can find your skis, snowboards, snowblowers etc… Simplify your life and enjoy your activities by making it easy to find all your equipment readily. With Garage Works it is easy to have a place for everything!

“Gladiator® GarageWorks is the leader in garage organization delivering innovative solutions that allow garage owners to organize their space in a way that suits their individual storage needs. It is the only garage organization system to offer coordinated appliances designed for the harsh garage environment.

“Gladiator® GarageWorks offers a Premier pre-assembled line and Ready-to-Assemble line for do-it-yourselfers. Products are available through local garage dealers, retailers including Sears and Lowe’s or via www.GladiatorGW.com.”

Talk with you soon,

Craig.

PS This weekend’s show is a repeat about energy — how to save it and where it’s going to be coming from.

Congratulations to Tucker L. of Manchester NH.  He was the winner of the $100.00 Gift Certificate from Gladiator GarageWorks.  We hope you enjoy it and get your Garage perfectly organized.

Gladiator GarageWorks has a complete line of Garage Organization Modules so that you too can have the perfectly organized garage.  These products are available locally at Sears, Sears Essentials and Lowes.

In today’s mobile society, dads are looking for accessibility everywhere: lunch with a client or their son’s soccer game.   Working dads need to always be available for important, time sensitive things like phone calls and faxes.

MyFax is the fastest growing Internet fax service for individuals, small, medium and large businesses to send and receive faxes using existing email accounts or the web.   MyFax allows dads in a SOHO setting and mobile professionals to send and receive faxes from a computer or laptop no matter their location.  You can also send and receive faxes from wireless devices (blackberry, palm treo).

Faxes can be stored online so those important faxes are always at your fingertips. Dad no longer needs to dig through bankers boxes full of faxes to find what he needs, and spend that time doing important dad things – like mowing the lawn and playing with the kids. Plus dads don’t have to make that extra trip out to purchase toner and paper for the fax machine.

MyFax service is available at $10 per month. You can send 100 faxes and receive 200 pages per month. It’s very cost effective and offers 24×7 quality customer service with live chat facility.

For more details about pricing and features can be accessed at www.myfax.com.  Signing up is fast and simple so you can get your tech savvy dad up and running in no time.

My1voice is a virtual PBX phone service that allows dad to be out of the office and never miss an important client call.  With features like:

• Toll free or local no:   Provide your callers with a dedicated toll free 800 number, vanity number, or local phone number in your calling area. All extensions and voicemail boxes are accessible from this number.
• Initial greeting: Plays an automated initial message for callers to hear when contacting your business.
• Call scheduling:  Schedule a set of actions for each phone number based on the day and time of incoming calls.
• Live call forwarding: Keep callers always connected and forward to an alternate extension.
• Find Me/Follow call forwarding:  Never miss a call.  Customize your preferences to route callers to multiple phone numbers including your mobile, office, and home number. Choose your call forwarding to ring all numbers at the same time or in sequential order.
• auto-attendant, voicemail notifications that stream through e-mail as wav file and, calls will be received no matter of location, phone type or brand and the list of features go on.  Please check more features at http://www.my1voice.com/features.asp

So when dad leaves the office, he can forward his office phone to his cell phone when he’s at Junior’s soccer game. When dad heads home for the night, he can route calls to his home office with the touch of a button. All other features in a normal phone is applicable to this service  You can also access the voice mail from your PDA or your mobile phone.  No technology or software are required for this service.  No other investment is required except a phone line.

My1Voice phone comes with a different pricing. To start with you can opt $10 / month.  You will get 100 free minutes / month to talk.  It’s cost effective and to know more details of pricing, please visit http://www.my1voice.com/pricing.asp

Both MyFax and my1voice are cost-efficient and can be signed up for online by visiting www.myfax.com and www.my1voice.com.

Steve Adams
Vice President of Marketing
Protus

Steve Adams -  A biography

Steve’s role within the company is to distill a keen understanding of market opportunities and customer needs into a highly effective corporate strategy and a practical set of product attributes.

Steve has extensive experience in creating and marketing new products and expanding high-tech organizations. He has over 15 years of experience in the high-tech and software industry, most recently with Ottawa-based Spotwave Wireless, a provider of in-building wireless coverage solutions. While with Spotwave, Steve was instrumental in establishing the company as a leader in the wireless marketplace.

Prior to Spotwave, Steve was with CrossKeys Systems Corporation, a global telecom software solutions provider. During seven years at CrossKeys, Steve held senior leadership positions as the company grew from start-up, underwent a successful IPO and was later acquired. He has also worked at Corel Corporation and Nortel.

In 2002, Steve was recognized as one of Ottawa’s Top 40. Steve is a seasoned industry speaker having spoken at a variety of telecommunication trade shows and conferences. He is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and the Ivey School of Business.

About Protus:

Protus provides the highest quality Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) communication services and solutions to the business market, including:

MyFax, the award-winning and the fastest growing Internet fax service and my1voice, a feature-rich virtual PBX service that connects calls regardless of phone-type or location.

Protus’ commitment to delivering a superior user experience has resulted in a continually growing and loyal customer base, allowing market leadership in industries including finance, insurance, real estate, healthcare, transportation, and government. With over 200,000 subscribers worldwide, Protus now offers service in sixteen countries.

Now you can buy and read your favorite magazines while you are on the move — at a low, digital price.  You can also download these magazines on your desktop, laptop or on your iPhone and keep up to date with the latest happenings.

Zinio gives you the ultimate magzine platform.  I’ve been using it for the past few months and found that it saves time, gives me a better experience than even the paper magazines and saves me money.  For a nominal subscription fee, Zinio allows you to download magazines of your choice onto your computer when they become available from the publisher.  You can also read them at the zinio library.   Zinio uses its own reader that can be accessed online, through web browser—no software installations or downloads required.  You should be subscriber to download the reader.  By bringing the reading experience online, Zinio is recreating the same great reading experience, and providing users the immediacy and convenience of online.

• We love Dads: A good amount of Zinio’s success can be attributed to “dad’s” who are among our most avid readers and loyal customers.  One of Zinio’s strengths is their robust selection of both business titles and entertainment related titles.  Whether it’s BusinessWeek, or Boating magazine, they provide visitors with the ability to customize their digital reading experience.
• Video and High Fidelity images:  The Zinio reading experience actually takes magazine reading to a whole new level.  You know the difference a high definition TV makes – imagine if your magazine images could look that good?  Or even better, with added video!  Each one of Zinio’s digital magazines are given the utmost care and attention to detail whenever imagery is involved.   The technology allows a reader to zoom in, jotting notes, highlight specific words, or sentences on these magazines.  So quality will not suffer since it is using HD technology.  You can jot your notes is a good features.  Some people have the tendency to write notes at the end of the pages or right side of the pages.
• Mobility:  Many Dad’s we all know and love have a long commute every day, or travel quite a bit. For that reason (and many others) Zinio labs has focused on creating a reading experience you can take with you. With our iPhone, iTouch application, you can browse and read on the go, where-ever, whenever.  And even better you can access any Zinio digital magazine when you are on your computer or laptop, but not on the internet using our downloadable reader.
• Archives: Who doesn’t need to reduce clutter?  Zinio makes this necessary task bear-able by holding over 8 years of magazine archives inside our newsstand.  Now, when you are looking for that old article on Lance Armstrong, or that secret barbeque recipe, you don’t need to page through stacks of magazines, you can open your Zinio library and quickly search through editorial articles and ads within seconds.   Contents can be archived with your notes.  Any note or highlighting is preserved in your library.  You can also search for notes or highlighted words at a later date. So, notes won’t vanish.
• Issues or Subscriptions: For Father’s Day digital subscriptions are often times less expensive than their print counterparts or you don’t need to invest in a full year. With Zinio, you can also choose from any single issues. Imagine how happy Dad will be with 3 issues of Men’s Journal, followed by 3 issues of Car and Driver and then 3 issues The Sporting News, with a few Harvard Business Reviews just to make it look good. Zinio lets you build a custom experience that meets your Dad’s needs.  You can access free business magazines too.

Zinio is continuously developing new applications, which can take care of highlighting, annotations, search inside, and additional printing options.  Zinio is moving toward digital creation and advertisements.  Also have plans to incorporate audio and videos on magazines.

Jeanniey Mullen
Global Executive Vice President
Chief Marketing Officer
Zinio

Jeanniey Mullen – A biography

Jeanniey Mullen is the Global Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Zinio Systems and VIV Magazine. In her role at Zinio and VIV, Jeanniey is charged with reinventing the publishing industry as a digital cornerstone of the consumer’s lifestyle.

She is also the founder and Executive Chair of the Email Experience Council (recently purchased by the DMA).

Prior to her role at Zinio and VIV, Jeanniey was the Senior Partner, and Global Executive Director of the Email Marketing and Digital Dialogue Practice at OgilvyOne Worldwide. In her role at Ogilvy, Jeanniey was responsible for leading the worldwide efforts that use digital dialogues and email to create powerful, meaningful and profitable customer communication strategies for Ogilvy clients, including IBM, American Express and Yahoo!
Prior to her role at Zinio and VIV, Jeanniey was the Senior Partner, and Global Executive Director of the Email Marketing and Digital Dialogue Practice at OgilvyOne Worldwide. In her role at Ogilvy, Jeanniey was responsible for leading the worldwide efforts that use digital dialogues and email to create powerful, meaningful and profitable customer communication strategies for Ogilvy clients, including IBM, American Express and Yahoo!

Jeanniey’s experience spans across B2C and B2B initiatives and many verticals including publishing, entertainment and events.

Prior to joining OgilvyOne, Jeanniey founded and ran her own interactive agency, The Lift Network. Before that, she served as the CMO and EVP at Avalon Digital Marketing Systems, where she helped launch one of the first B2B email platforms that incorporated on-demand video into the email message. Prior to Avalon, Jeanniey was the Global GM and VP of the email marketing department. Before entering the advertising agency world, Jeanniey was the Director of Customer Relations and Marketing Experience for JCPenney’s five key businesses, Store, Catalog, Direct, CreditCard and Insurance, Jeanniey is recognized in the industry as pioneering the first global email marketing practice, and was named one of the top 25 media people to watch while at Grey Direct.

Jeanniey’s expertise in the discipline spans both the B2B and B2C industries. In addition to her board position at the eec, Jeanniey is a columnist for ClickZ, has published numerous white papers and best practice guides, has been appeared in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. She is a frequent keynote speaker on the topics of email and digital marketing for organizations like Media Post, ClickZ, DMA, Shop.org and many others.

About Zinio

Zinio is the global leader for digital publishing products and services. Zinio provides publishers with new circulation and revenue growth opportunities through its comprehensive offerings from marketing programs that include customer acquisition, retention and cross-promotion to seamless production services, a robust e-commerce engine and extensive digital delivery, circulation and fulfillment services.

Major publishing partners include, Bonnier, Hearst, IDG, Gruner + Jahr, Hachette Filipacchi, IPC Media, Mariah Media, McGraw-Hill, The National Magazine Company, Playboy Enterprises, Source Interlink, Rogers Publishing and Ziff Davis. Zinio has offices in San Francisco and New York with several franchisees worldwide. For more information, or to purchase any of the digital magazine-specific titles offered by Zinio, please visit http://www.zinio.com.

How do they do it? Cleversafe provides unique technology that allows the distribution and slicing of data across multiple, geographically disparate data centers. [Listen Here to my interview with Russ Kennedy, a Vice President at Cleversafe.]

• International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that the average data growth rate will increase more than 600 percent between now and 2010 ( in next two years).
• Companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe and others are now offering “Storage as a Service” for both consumers and small businesses.
• Cleversafe technology will provide the fundamental underpinning for the storage needs of the future. – with unlimited scalability, longevity, security and reliability and cost-effectiveness.
• Superior technology – Current storage backup and archiving approaches rely on multiple redundant copies, replication and synchronization. That compromises security, adds complexity and increases cost. Instead, Cleversafe is changing data storage from a “copying paradigm” to a “slicing paradigm.” With Cleversafe’s model, data is sliced and dispersed across servers. As a result, there’s no data redundancy. And, data expansion can be reduced from 300 to 500% down to a skimpy—and infinitely more manageable—10 to 50%.
• Reliability and security – Cleversafe’s slice-and-disperse technology delivers significantly higher levels of reliability and security than existing architectures. Since only a pre-defined threshold of slices is needed to retrieve the data, individual servers or entire locations can be down—and data still can be accessed. And because data is sliced and scrambled, the data is inherently private and secure. In fact, access to individual slices doesn’t compromise the original content.
• Limitless scalability – Unlike older storage products, Cleversafe’s dsNet architecture is designed to scale and grow, because it’s built without a central management or system component. So, additional capacity can be added to a dsNet independently—and in quantities to meet specific business requirements.
• Cleversafe is the first and only company to provide the necessary components to build commercial dsNets, laying the groundwork for making dispersed storage the future of data back-up and security.

Russ Kennedy,
Vice President, Product Management and Strategic Alliances
Cleversafe

Russ Kennedy – A biography

Russ has more than 20 years experience in the storage industry, and is responsible for product management, product marketing and establishing key technical and go-to market alliances.

Prior to joining Cleversafe, Russ was the Senior Director for Product Marketing and Strategy at Pillar Data Systems, a San Jose-based storage solutions provider. Russ also spent 19 years at StorageTek. During his career at StorageTek, Russ also led the StorageTek Software Development organization and was responsible for delivering many world class software solutions, including StorageTek’s flagship VSM product.

He also was the Chief Technology Officer for the Information Lifecycle Management Solutions Business Unit in Sun’s Data Management Group. In that position, he was responsible for a portfolio of solutions designed to help customers address their storage and compliance challenges though ILM.

Russ has an MBA from the University of Colorado at Denver and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Colorado State University

Cleversafe.org was formed to build and deploy a better way to secure the world’s data. We are primarily located within the city of Chicago, Illinois, USA. Since the project was initially located within the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology, many of our contributors are students and former students of IIT. We also have former students from a variety of other schools, including MIT, Harvard, RPI and the University of Illinois who are a part of the project.

hris Gladwin developed the concept for the project along with the initial information dispersal algorithms. The initial support for the Cleversafe project came from its founders, including Chris, Matt England, Julie Bellanca, and Don Plaskett.

n 2006, the Cleversafe Open Source Community released an initial test version of its Dispersed Storage software under the GPL2 open source license.

The Dispersed Storage project is now mainly funded by Cleversafe, Inc., a company that will be offering commercial products and services using the technology at Cleversafe.org.
Cleversafe.org welcomes your participation and your insights.

Cleversafe is the leader in dispersed storage technology, the ideal way to store large, growing amounts of digital assets cost effectively. Founded in 2004, the company is backed by world-class investors including NEA, OCA Ventures, Harrison Street Capital and Alsop-Louie Partners. Cleversafe is also the sponsor of an open source community movement to help standardize Dispersed Storage™ technology through its cleversafe.org project. For more information, please visit www.cleversafe.com or www.cleversafe.org.

Carbonite offers unlimited backup space for a flat low price which has revolutionized the market for consumer and small business backup services. So far, they have backed up and protected more than 2.5 billion files and restored more than 160 million lost files for customers in over 100 countries.

Founded in 2005, Carbonite believes that computer users should not have to think about backup. They strive to serve as their customers’ trusted partner in protecting and preserving their irreplaceable data by providing an affordable, reliable, secure and easy-to-use online backup service. Carbonite is available to consumers and small business through numerous channels, including its corporate website, major US retailers and international distributors.

David Friend – A biography
David Friend, Chairman & CEO, Co-founder, has been a successful technology entrepreneur for over 25 years. He previously co-founded five companies: Sonexis, FaxNet, Pilot Software, Computer Pictures Corporation and ARP Instruments. He has been featured in USA Today, Tech Capital, The Boston Globe, Mass HiTech, Fortune, Forbes and Tom Peter’s best-selling management book, The Pursuit of Wow!

David has been a lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and is an active supporter of music and the arts in Boston. He is a trustee (emeritus) of the New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, and the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

David holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Yale University and attended the Princeton University Graduate School of Engineering where he was a David Sarnoff Fellow. He is an avid marathoner, distance cyclist, windsurfer, and hiker.

The solution also offers added control over removable storage devices. In detail, the product can:

• ZENworks Endpoint Security Management provides administrators control over the use of local optical media (CD-R/W, DVD+/-R/W) and all attached storage devices (USB thumb drives, MP3 players, flash memory cards, zip drives, and other removable media types). Administrators can set policy-based restrictions on device access privileges, which protects the integrity and confidentiality of data on the endpoints, while simultaneously protecting the endpoint from the introduction of malware and of any other unauthorized activities.
• ZENworks Endpoint Security Management delivers granular control over which devices are allowed, blocked, or set to “read only.” A separate utility is also available for capturing device names and serial numbers in a master list that can then be imported into a policy.
• ZENworks Endpoint Security Management protects against the introduction of local storage devices that can copy data without leaving an audit trail. These transactions are blocked by either completely disallowing use of such devices everywhere, or by disallowing their use based on an endpoint’s network location. Storage devices can be placed in read-only mode or fully disabled, while the endpoint hard drive and all network drives remain accessible and operational.
• ZENworks Endpoint Security Management includes reports and alerts to notify administrators and security officers of potential threats. Reports can include relevant location information, the names of files transferred to removable storage devices, their sizes, who transferred them, and when the file was transferred and to what device.

Richard Whitehead
Director, Product Marketing at Novell
Richard Whitehead – A biography

Richard Whitehead is director of product marketing for the Systems & Resource Management (ZENworks) business unit within Novell. The business unit is responsible for developing enterprise systems management from the desktop to the data center.

With over 15 years experience in the software industry, Richard has worked for Novell in a variety of roles, including engineering, product management and product marketing. He has also held senior positions in product management and marketing for Citrix, Franklin Covey, and WordPerfect.

Richard is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a BS in Design Engineering Technology and Mathematics.

Novell is a global infrastructure software and services company headquartered in Waltham, Mass. The company provides leadership in Linux and Open Source, Identity Management and Security, Systems Management, and Collaboration, which helps customers with their IT Management to operate and integrate mixed source environments.

• Businesses have many options for storing data, ranging from small computer servers to large data warehouses.
• In most cases, choosing the correct option depends on what the business wants to do with the stored data, for example, simply restore it at a later time or analyze it for competitive advantage.
• If businesses want to be able to access and analyze stored information, they should take a look at data warehouse and analytic appliances, which provide business intelligence software layered onto high-capacity storage devices.
• With data warehouse appliances, such as Netezza’s Netezza Performance Server system, companies are able to store data and then analyze large volumes of information in a matter of seconds.
• Leveraging large volumes of data allows businesses to better serve their customers. For example, retailers can analyze large volumes of data to know which items sell most quickly and where to place them on the shelf. As another example, telecommunications companies can run queries on millions of call detail records to better price their offerings. Also, grocers can analyze the buying patterns of consumers and provide them with coupons at the check out area for items they’ll likely want to buy during a future visit.
• In the coming years, data volumes are poised to continue to grow exponentially, so businesses really need to tackle this problem sooner rather than later. As companies begin to leverage data more effectively, the analysis of such data will become increasingly important in staying ahead of the competition.

Justin Lindsey – A biography

Justin Lindsey is the chief technology officer of Framingham, Mass.-based Netezza. He is responsible for overall product direction and spearheads the Netezza Developer Network. Prior to Netezza, Lindsey served as the Deputy CIO and CTO at the United States Department of Justice, and prior to that was the CTO of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Lindsey holds a Computer Science and Engineering degree from MIT.

Netezza is the global leader in analytic appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics for business users across the extended enterprise. Its product, the Netezza Performance Server (NPS) system, integrates database, server, and storage into a single compact and power-efficient unit. Companies use the NPS appliance to store and quickly analyze terabytes of data so they are able to make the best business decisions possible. Netezza has over 100 enterprise customers, including Amazon.com, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Department of Veterans Affairs, Helzberg Diamonds, Neiman Marcus, The Sherwin-Williams Company, and Virgin Media.

From your local computer hard disk through solid-state USB Disks and terabytes of online disk storage, what are the options for home users and businesses for storing and backing up their documents, photos, music and videos online? What are some of the pros and cons to using the Internet to backup your data? Speed, security, recovery?

I interviewed Richard D. Lee, chief at large at Pillar Consulting who shares his expertise on storage solutions.

• The two best solutions for all your home back-up needs. Typically, if a family only has a few Word files or smaller documents to save, a USB memory drive is the most cost-effective solution. However, if you have a lot of family memories in the form of photos and videos, these larger files can be saved on an external hard drive that can always be stored in a safe place. Of course, you have to remember to back them up.
• Choosing the best Internet back-up options based on your needs and budget, vary in terms of size, speed and cost. You can do this for free by e-mailing info to your own cost-free G-mail account, which offers six gigabytes of memory, or you can use premium services that cost $50 per gigabyte and have better customer service if a recovery is needed. Amazon.com also sells an online back-up service.
• The pros and cons on Internet back-up systems. There are a couple of things to consider before choosing an online back-up system. For instance, if you plan back-up large files, you may need to ensure that your bandwidth is large enough to accommodate your needs. You may also need software to speak to that particular service.

Richard D. Lee – A biography

Richard D. Lee is the chief-at-large at Pillar Consulting Corp., a New York City-based company that provides dedicated, outsourced information technology for small businesses. Lee is also the co-founder of Brains Function Design, a firm that offers Web development with a marketing edge.

Pillar is synonymous with computer support. Since 1995, Pillar have been providing dedicated tech support for small businesses and high tech homes. They provide business-class support for those who require expertise and value the special attention.

Pillar has clients all over the world and can easily support using remote access technology that is secure, easy and free. Whether you are 50 blocks away from Pillar, or on another continent, they can support you.

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