Newsletter -New Year 2011

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Your Riverbed Solutions Partner                                                                                    Feb, 2011 

In This Issue

Steelhead Rental Program

Riverbed Trade Up Program

Riverbed and the Cloud

 

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Revit Model Sharing ROI whitepaper


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Greetings!

 

There is hope.  Pitchers and catchers report for spring training in a couple weeks !  In the meantime, technology abounds.

CSG is announcing a new program that will allow two companies without Steelhead appliances to rent an appliance from us for a Revit Model Sharing project.  This program has a very limited number of Steelhead appliances available, so don't wait !  We need your feedback on programs like this !!!!!

We also wanted to provide an update on the new offerings from Riverbed on their Cloud acceleration technology.  Join us Feb 21st for an informational webinar.

The Riverbed trade up program has been quite successful.  This program remains available and provides you with a credit on your old xx10 and xx20 series appliances, when moving to the current platform, the 50 series.

Lastly, CSG's new "retail store" provides a means of securing your consumable products at low prices.  Please view the coupon below for this week's specials !

As I write, we are bracing for another huge snowstorm.  Spring can't get here fast enough !

 

Steelhead-Project Rental Program

 

CSG is pleased to announce a new program to assist our A/E/C firms to take advantage of Riverbed's WAN optimization without having to purchase your own Steelheads up front.  The Steelhead rental program provides your company, and your Partner firm, with a Steelhead appliance that can optimize the sharing of your Revit model between your two firms.  Hardware for this program is very limited.  During the hard economic times, more partnering between firms is occuring, to maximize the expertise of the two firms to complete the project.  CSG's new program provides your two firms with a monthly rental charge for the Steelhead you'll need.  When your project is done, simply return it.  This program will allow you a manageable monthly cost associated with your project, and serve as a catalyst in procuring your own Riverbed hardware, once you have built up some success with sharing Revit models.  Steelhead Mobile clients can also be utilizied with the Steelhead Rental Program.

Click HERE for more information

Riverbed Trade Up Program

 

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The Riverbed trade up program is now in full steam.  With the xx20 series devices all reaching end of life status (including the Steelhead 100 and 200 devices), now is the time to refresh your Riverbed hardware with the new, xx50 series and get a trade in credit for your old hardware.

Riverbed has partnered with M-Cubed, to collect and recycle your old hardware.  Once your old hardware is received back by M-Cubed, a credit for any unused maintenance you may have on the old hardware will be credited to you.

Previously retired hardware, the xx10 series devices, are also eligible for this Trade Up Program.

The end of life schedule includes:

Steelhead 100, 200:
End of New Version support of RiOS:  March 2, 2011
End of Hardware support:  March 2, 2014

 

Steelhead 520, 1020, 1520, 2020:

End of New Version support of RiOS:  February 6, 2011

End of Hardware support:  February 6, 2014 

 

Click HERE for more information on the Riverbed Trade Up program.

 

Riverbed and the Cloud

 

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If you are considering "the Cloud" for your storage needs, you may be interested in learning about Riverbed's solutions for Cloud storage.  From simply accelerating traffic with your private or public cloud to utilizing Riverbed's new Whitewater product for offsite Disaster Recovery, Riverbed has released a specific solution set for the Cloud.

Join CSG on Feb 21 at 11am EST to learn more.

REGISTER  for this webinar !

 

Our Revit Model Hosting Service is a viable option for small companies who need to work together on a Revit project.  CSG utilizes Steelhead Mobile on your workstations, with a large Steelhead appliance in front of our server.  Click HERE for our newest offering, the Small Business Bundle !!



As always, we appreciate your continued support.

 

Sincerely,

 

Mark Schlicher
Collaboration Systems Group, LLC
734-316-2725
Mark.Schlicher@cs-grp.net

 

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