Archives 2015

We organized a free seminar titled Cloud for Business on November 26th, 2015, at the Aristos Hotel in Zagreb. The main goal was to inform the audience about novelties related to cloud computing business solutions, and to show examples on how 3 PRO can help improve businesses and increase user productivity.

At the beginning, Marko Kuntic, the 3 PRO CEO, welcomed all the participants and gave a short introduction.

Tomislav Tipuric, the Microsoft Croatia Partner Technology Strategist, talked about Cloud computing – from Server Halls to Services. He compared companies that operate their businesses using the cloud with those that don’t, explained the main difference between private and public cloud environments, and described the segmentation of the Microsoft Cloud offering (infrastructure, platform and apps).

„Cloud computing, also known as on-demand computing, is a kind of Internet-based computing, where shared resources, data and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources.“ – Wikipedia

Hrvoje Kusulja, the 3 PRO COO, spoke about Cloud services and how to utilize them effectively. He elaborated on security measures that are in place for Microsoft Cloud services, data protection, central device management (PCs, tablets, mobile phones) and the advantages of Cloud technologies.

The next topic was Cloud Business Applications, with a focus on customized business solutions and applications that 3 PRO develops for the Dynamics CRM and SharePoint platforms.

The seminar ended with a presentation on how to increase productivity and efficiency, how to be more flexible at work and under what circumstances are Cloud services usually more cost-effective than their classic On-Premises counterparts.

Dear Attendees, thank you all for coming and see you next time on one of our future events!

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If your storage requirements are growing too fast, IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software can help you with that! It is designed to enhance the benefits of server virtualization by reducing complexities, improving availability, and lowering the cost of storage management.

„A flexible, responsive, available, scalable, and efficient storage environment“

The IBM Spectrum Virtualize software is compatible with various platforms: SAN Volume Controller (SVC), Storwize V7000, Storwize V5000, Storwize V3700, and FlashSystem V9000. Those products are suitable for storage virtualization and advanced storage capabilities in environments such as large enterprises to small and midsize companies.

Spectrum Virtualize includes the following features:

• virtualize block storage arrays to centralize storage management
• improve utilization of storage capacity
• avoid downtime for backups, maintenance, and upgrades
• support data migration without disruption to applications
• enable virtualized storage volumes to be managed as a single pool of storage
• enable advanced functionalities to be used across multiple virtualized storage array
• enable a high-availability storage infrastructure through Stretched Cluster or HyperSwap®
• improve the efficiency of the virtualized block storage infrastructure with advanced technologies such as Real-time Compression™
• move the most accessed dana automatically to higher performance tiers through EasyTier®

New functionalities in 7.6:

• Encryption: improves data security and confidentiality. It is available for both internal capacities of SVC, Storwize V7000 and FlashSystems V9000 and externally virtualized capacities of Storwize V7000, SVC, and FlashSystems V9000
• Distributed RAID: now available for internal capacities, enables up to 10 times faster RAID array rebuild times.
• IP quorum base support: enables the use of a lower cost IP network-attached host as a quorum disk for simplified implementation and operation
• HyperSwap GUI support: offers a new command-line interface which simplifies the setup process to a handful commands, and also enables configuration and management of local HyperSwap through the GUI
• VMWare VVol integration
• Increase maximum quantity of iSCSI hosts: increases the maximum number of iSCSI host sessions from 256 to 1024 per node
• Integrated Comprestimator: analyzes the patterns of the actual customer data, and estimate the compressibility of data per volume
• Improvement in the worldwide support processes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week

We are proud to announce that we’ve achieved the Microsoft Partner Silver Devices and Deployment competency. This means that we are certified experts in designing, deploying and supporting desktop solutions based on the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office productivity software.

Our team has proven their expertise by passing rigorous exams, which culminated with Microsoft certifications. Beside that, Microsoft requires customer references of successful implementations and proof of customer satisfaction.

By achieving a silver competency, organizations prove their expertise in specific technology areas, placing them among the top 5 percent of Microsoft partners worldwide,” said Phil Sorgen, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft Corp.

We would like to invite you to the 11th traditional Microsoft conference – Advanced Technology Days – where our COO Hrvoje Kusulja will talk about novelties inside the Office 365 Admin Menu.

Presentations on this two-day conference will be delivered by some of the most recognized domestic and foreign Microsoft experts.

The conference topics are based on the Mobile-first, Cloud-first strategy, so the presentations will be focused on Cloud computing and Mobility. The conference also presents an opportunity for exchanging experiences with IT professionals with different areas of expertise and scope – from developers and system engineers to project managers.

When?

Date: November, 19th 2015
Time: 10AM

Where?

Cinestar, Arena Centar
Hall 5

Edit: Schedule updated

The new version of Office 2016 for Windows desktops is available today. It is the full-featured set of Office apps, best suited for PC’s with a keyboard and mouse.

For Office 365 Personal and Home users, Office 2016 apps are available via the Office.com portal. Customers with Volume Licensing agreements will be able to download the new version of Office starting from October 1 via the Volume Licensing Servcice Center (VLSC).

New Features

These are just a few new features in Office 2016:

• Real Time Presence in Word
• Simplified File Sharing
• Insights (powered by Bing)
• Version History improvements
• Improved grammar checker
• Power Pivot improvements

With this release comes the Data Loss Prevention, additional document coauthoring capabilities, new navigation support, files syncing to OneDrive, integration with Power BI, and more.

Updates

The updating scheme is similiar to the one available for Windows 10. Office 365 ProPlus customers will recieve the Current Branch scheme with new feature releases and security updates on a monthly basis. The other model is called Current Branch for Business which will offer updates every four months, with monthly security updates.