Meraki Systems Manager Rides Again!

Three years ago, I had co-workers who didn't understand who Meraki was, and why I thought their product was so amazing.  A year ago at this time, most were starting to get it...and now, they come up in conversation even on the lips of senior salespeople who started in this business while I was graduating high school.  Top of Gartner's innovators in the LAN/WAN quadrant, these guys have always known their stuff...not to mention they have some of the best people working in the business.  (My territory's area manager, Erin Hipp, is a great person and runs an awesome team.  Hi Erin! :) )

Why do I mention their free Systems Manager Asset and Mobile Device Management tool?  Because today they released some major upgrades to that already great tool.  Now they have full support for Android devices, along with a great content manager called Backpack (available for iOS in Q4) that will securely deliver files and maintain updates.  The Backpack piece is a killer deal.  Through it you can deliver specific files to all devices under your management in a bundle or singularly.

People pay for this stuff?  Really?

Jump over here...to see what this is all about.

I've said this a lot in the past year...if you use Systems Manager, and if you do the webinar for the free product you'll be sold.  If that doesn't do it for ya...you can do a free 14 day demo of the products to just see how they work for you.

Tell us what you think!

 

Symantec Smackdown

Tonight on Symantec Smackdown...in the red corner, weighing in at 150 lbs of dusty old server equipment...YOUR BACKUP SYSTEM!  And...in the Gold corner...weighing in at a sleek 29 lbs....the Symantec BE6300!

All kidding aside, I had a chance to learn a bit more about this new appliance from Symantec the other day.  What?  You didn't know that Symantec actually has a hardware solution for backup?  The BE 6300 is designed to take all that is good about your Symantec Backup System (easy to use software, quick backup process, etc) and sell it to you all in a box with the hardware to store it and manage it.  We all want something simple, and this is most assuredly that.

We all know the issues with backup really relate to the hardware that's available.  You have to add drives for more storage, you have to make sure your system is up to date and able to run it, and of course you have to buy agents to replicate & deduplicate.  Not so here.  Take a look at this list of what comes on the box, and what's optional...and all of those licenses are unlimited in scope.  AND...the box has a total of 5.5TB of storage for your backups.  That'll keep you not worrying for awhile right?

Want more information?  Let's get on the phone with my Symantec BDM expert, Walaa Al-Saadi, today! :)