astro posted on March 18, 2010 16:30
SYMFORM “ALL IN” AT SMB NATION SPRING 2010!
— Symform sees tremendous value in supporting small and medium business channel partners, technology consultants and resellers at well-respected annual educational conference —
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WA, March 17, 2010 – The major worldwide SMB community organization, SMB Nation, announced today that Symform has committed as a Gold sponsor at its 5th Annual SMB Nation Spring conference in East Brunswick, New Jersey, April 30 – May 2, 2010.
The small and medium business (SMB) channel partner segment that attends this show will learn about Symforms’s offerings over the course of a three-day professional conference. Bona fide takeaways will include how to integrated Symform’s offerings into the existing technology consulting and reseller practices common to all channel partner attendees to drive immediate success, increased sales and profitability. More importantly, the channel partner will be better equipped to serve its existing and new small business customers. Relevant SMB-related technology offerings always been an important target of SMB Nation’s 45,000 member “tribe” composed of a robust consulting and reseller customer base.
The Symform Cooperative Storage CloudTM enables small businesses to implement a backup and disaster recovery solution that is more secure and ten times cheaper than traditional online backup services. The company was founded on the realization that millions of small businesses have computers with an excess of inexpensive storage capacity, power running 24x7, and unlimited Internet bandwidth – especially nights and weekends. The Symform team has developed software that aggregates this relatively unreliable and untrusted capacity over the Internet and transforms it into a secure and reliable global storage system. The heart of Symform’s software is a proprietary technology called RAID-96.TM
“As pioneers of backup and disaster recovery solutions, we are delighted to sponsor the SMB Nation 2010 Spring Conference,” said Kevin Brown, VP, Sales and Marketing of Symform. “MSPs and IT Services VARs are in the sweet spot of our channel business so this conference is a perfect opportunity of us to socialize with new and existing Symform Partners. We also have some new products to demonstrate so we’re especially excited.”
“Right now, there’s an incredible opportunity stemming from the recovering SMB market. If SMB Nation tribal members want to take advantage, they’ll have to show their customers how well they can meet their needs, producing value and adding capabilities,” said Harry Brelsford, CEO at SMB Nation. “An independent VAR/consultant/.channel partner can go into a small business as a consultant, with value-centric solutions. If a VAR has that coveted relationship where he functions as an trusted business IT advisor, he or she is in a good position to profit from SMB technology wave.”
The reseller must be able to tailor and market an overall SMB technology solution around the new wave of technology investments being made by small business customers. That requires knowledge of what products, services and peripherals might best suit his end-users.
“It’s SMB Nation’s vision to have its SMB Nation Spring 2010 conference attendees constantly thinking about how to make the end-customer sale more comprehensive, turning themselves into an essential resource by creating a sophisticated infrastructure,” Brelsford continued. “To do this, they need to know what trends offer the most potential right now, and what products they can combine to fit the bill. If we can identify that for our resellers, we all come out successful. And that journey starts right now with a critical and comprehensive look at Symform’s offerings. ”
To learn more about attending SMB Nation Spring 2010 (East Brunswick NJ, April 30-May 2, 2010) and join hundreds of SMB Nation tribal members, please visit www.smbnation.com or call 1-888-SMB-NAT1.
About Symform
Symform provides enterprise-class disaster recovery and online storage at a price that any business can afford. Symform’s Cooperative Storage CloudTM is a unique flat rate unlimited online storage service. We enable IT service providers and VARs to efficiently utilize existing server resources and extend any onsite backup solution at their customer sites with secure, reliable, and automated disaster recovery. Symform is dedicated to the belief that technology products built on cooperative, decentralized principles like the Internet are inherently more affordable, dependable, scalable, and sustainable when compared to centralized data center based alternatives. Web Site: www.symform.com
About SMB Nation
SMB Nation is a publishing and events company, targeted at the small and medium business (SMB) channel partner/reseller/consulting/VAR community. SMB Nation spreads the knowledge of SMB technology trends through its conferences, books, SMB PC magazine, online services, and world-wide seminars, workshops and accredited Pocket MBA certificate (an academic partnership with Aspen University). As an active participant in the technology community, SMB Nation has a long history of enthusiastic advocacy and evangelism. The SMB Nation tribe exceeds 45,000 followers worldwide.
The company was founded in 1999 as Matthew\Brelsford Associates and became SMB Nation in early 2003, to promote the books and consulting services of Harry Brelsford, the author of a successful series of books written for the global SMB IT consulting and reseller community. Initially the community conversations focused on Microsoft small Business Sever (SBS) but has expanded into SMB infrastructure alternatives, Voice-over-IP (VoIP), cloud computing and business technology consulting best practices Harry Brelsford is a popular conference speaker on SMB technology consulting topics and sits on several advisory boards in the SMB technology industry. He also serves as the Dean of the School of Technology at Aspen University. .
Today, SMB Nation conferences, seminars and workshops bring forward-thinking IT consultants, technologies and vendor sponsors together, sparking new opportunities in the SMB space. Being THE information source for SMB technologists worldwide, SMB Nation delivers complete business solutions to help consultants and resellers better manage their business, technological and marketing needs. Whether it’s delivered in print, online, or in person, everything SMB Nation produces reflects our unshakeable positive belief in the power of information to spur a profitable global community. Visit www.smbnation.com and www.telephonation.com for more information.
Contacts:
Kevin Brown
Symform
kevin@symform.com
(206) 465-1047
Harry Brelsford
SMB Nation
harryb@smbnation.com
+1 206 915 3072
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