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Trends in Data Centers - Impacts of the Recession By Scott Fogle, While attending the Hosting Transformation Summit in Las Vegas last month, I had the opportunity to listen to a wide range of industry participants (data center operators, vendors, consultants, industry analysts, bankers and venture capitalists) and compare their experiences with my own in the data center industry. • Clearly, the recession of 2008-2009 dramatically slowed or completely stopped many enterprises' plans to expand data center infrastructure. Conversely, data center operators experienced strong growth in collocation services sales - a 5-percent increase in the second quarter of 2009. Most attendees agreed: as data center infrastructure needs grow, enterprises are turning to collocation providers instead of building or expanding their own data center space. The Pathway to Strategic Cost Savings in 2010 By Gerry Carson, Managing Consultant, Advocate Networks, LLC Does your company have a step-by-step plan to save on telecommunications costs in 2010? Advocate Networks has the process, the expertise and the track record to help clients accelerate their telecommunications savings results. Savings can be generated through procurement, disconnects, billing recoveries, and/or technology optimizations. The strategic savings roadmap Advocate Networks prepares for its clients will classify all savings opportunities by type, degree of difficulty and timeline to achievement. This timeline and action plan serves as the basis for implementing savings results and achieving maximum in-year impact. The Pathway to Strategic Cost Savings Event Recap: 2009 CTAM Summit By Tim Wise, Co-President and Co-Founder, Advocate Networks, LLC Advocate Networks attended the 2009 Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Summit held in Denver, Colorado October 23-25. This year's event what somewhat unique due to the CTAM content focusing on services and applications for MSOs. Thomas Howe (www.thomashowe.com), an industry guru on voice applications, provided an interesting and thought-provoking discussion on the "future of voice." More specifically, Howe discussed future applications such as voice-enabled scheduling and innovative services leveraging voice instead of test-based communications. He referenced a company that utilizes voice services to alert recipients of catalogs, telling them that the catalog will be received in the mail the following day. The company increased catalog orders to those prospects by a significant amount, showing the value of a voice-based message.
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Advocate Networks Announcing New CIO-in-Residence By Scott Fogle, Co-President & Co-Founder,
Ongoing Community Service: Mountain Top Boys Home Each year, on September 11, the Advocate Networks team supports the mission of the Mountain Top Boys Home, a foster home for teenage boys in Calhoun, Georgia. This year we had another successful service day at the home with enthusiastic leadership from our 15 Advocate volunteers and Richard Bayersdorfer, a former customer. Our team completed a wide range of projects, including trimming hedges across the property, spreading several hundred bales of pine straw, distributing gravel over the driveway and walkways to control soil erosion, creating a rock creek bed, cleaning up and planting shrubs around a memorial for two volunteers, and pouring a new footer for a basketball post. The landscaping and clean-up work made a significant difference in the property's appearance. We also hope it showed the boys that people care about them and their home. Walter Jeske We lost a valuable member of the Advocate Networks family in October. Walter Jeske passed away on October 12, 2009. Walter served as a Senior Consultant in our Communications and Data Center Infrastructure practice. Walter's relationship with Advocate Networks began in 2002 during his service to Sage Software and continued during his assignment with CDC Software. Walter joined Advocate Networks in 2009. He was a high-energy contributor, always ready to tackle new and challenging assignments. Walter was an excellent technical problem solver and always found a creative and cost-effective solution. We will miss him greatly. Look For Us! PTC 2010: Embracing the Cloud Channel Partners Conference & Expo 2010 COMPTEL Plus Spring 2010 CTIA Wireless |
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I am very pleased to announce that Nick Grecco is joining Advocate Networks as CIO-in-Residence effective November 9, 2009. Most recently Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure Services, Nick will serve in his new capacity and operate out of our Norcross, Georgia location. As CIO-in-Residence, Nick will advise Advocate Networks clients on IT Strategy and Governance, Global IT Planning and Sourcing and Global Data Center Planning. Initially, Nick is working on the "Atlanta Community Data Center" project - an early stage business that will provide purpose-built data center infrastructure for healthcare systems in Georgia.