Hi there,

Just a quick introduction,

Born 30 October 1980 (making me 26 yr in 2006). Did all my Training in IT space through the following avenues:

• TAFE
• OTEN
• Traineeship
• UTS
• Plenty of reading text books
• Life Experience!

Started life @ AustSTOR as a Service Engineer in 1998 and am now heading up Business Development.

AustSTOR offers a wide range of Data Storage Solutions, but our 'mantra' is Archiving. We as an organisation have developed a wealth of knowledge in the Archiving space and we have a lot of great partners and vendors to back up what we preach.

A little description of our partners:

Plasmon: Manufacture a wide range of robotic libraries for automated storage. They also manufacture the first Long term (50+ years) True Professional WORM (Write Once Read Many) Technology, called Ultra Density Optical (UDO).

Nexsan Technology: Manufacture a unique series of SATA Storage Arrays. Nexsan are the pioneers of the Disk to Disk Backup Arena and have a unique range of solutions that deliver a real ROI.

QStar Technologies: Develope Storage Management Software that supports 16 different Operating Systems and an extensive array of Media (CD/DVD, Magneto Optical, Ultra Density Optical, BlueRay, Tape, and Content Addressable Storage) Plus Robotic Jukebox/Libraries.

NorthSeas: Manufacture the first Email Archiving Appliance, a Hardware platform that installs in any email environment (Exchange, Lotus Notes, Novell, Unix, POP3) and captures and indexes mail so that users and administrators can search the index for quick and easy retrieval of any email (sent or received), compliance and restore capabilities are available also.

Qualstar Corp: Manufacture the world's most reliable tape libraries supporting the major tape manufactures from LTO, AIT, SAIT to SDLT. They offer many different configurations and can scale from Gigabytes to Petabytes.

Seac Banche: Manufacture Document Scanners, for the Financial and Services industry. They supply a number of Banks throughout the world and locally with cheque scanners to help prevent fraud and to improve the work flow of any business.

I look forward to further opportunities to work with people and organisations in this forum.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require any further information.

1. Don’t compromise – security is too important!
2. Maximise protection – ensure that you have adequate solutions in place as far as:
   • firewall
   • anti-virus
   • spyware protection
   • malware protection
   • rootkits
   • spam
3. Encourage clients to buy a suite of security products that is built to work together, rather than point solutions – it will be less of a drain on memory and processing resources, and will provide unified installation, unified updates and central management and control.
4. Security should be easy for the end user.  Set and forget. – It should update, scan and quarantine without end user intervention.
5. Ensure the solution provides clients with latest program files.  If a new version of the software is released during the year, make sure this is provided as standard and the client is not left stranded with old software.
6. Ensure vendor technical support and backup is excellent both for reseller and for the end user.   Free support is best.   Does the vendor provide priority support for resellers?
7. Choose vendor who respects your client relationships.   You own the client and you as the reseller should be responsible for renewals, new sales etc.
8. Don’t use free solutions.   They only provide base level protection, leave the client stranded when it comes to support and give clients a false sense of security.    
9. Choose vendors who are willing to put back into the reseller channel.  Look for training programs, availability of marketing collateral, reseller locators, reseller portals etc.
10. Security never ends.   It should be an ongoing dialogue between reseller and the client.  It provides you with value added opportunities and a reason to make regular contact.

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