New Horizons Computer Learning Center – Opens May 9th!

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  Corporate Overview Over the past 25 years New Horizons Computer Learning Centers have grown to become the largest independent IT training company worldwide. We offer more courses, at more times and in more locations than any other computer and business training company. Businesses and individuals can choose from hundreds of course offerings, delivered by [...]

Tech Tip: Laptops, Notebooks, and Tablets. OH, MY!

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In the middle of the ’90s, something amazing happened.  After years of having provided myself with hardware on which to configure and use as UNIX servers, my employer decided to provide my colleagues and I with a “computer” for use on an in-house network which was hosted on a Novell file server with Microsoft Windows [...]

VMware announces New Volume Licensing Purchase Program

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VMware has announced a new volume purchase program.  In the past to qualify for VMware’s volume purchase program, all licenses had to be ordered at the same time with enough points to qualify for the initial volume purchase and associated discount.  Now VMware has changed the program so purchases are cumulative.  The new accumulative VMware [...]

Save the Date, TechFest 2011!

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Sovran’s 9th Annual TechFest is going to be here before you know it! The event is being held on Thursday, June 16th, at our facility from 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm. Sovran is going to take you on a trip through all the latest and greatest in technology. Grab your technology passport and we’ll guide [...]

Tech Tip: System Backups are Redundant!

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At the dawn of the Digital Age, a man by the name of Hollerith invented the punched card (and the first hanging chads) for the U.S. Census Bureau as a storage medium which was eventually named after him (even though everyone called them IBM cards, See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card).  If you’ve ever seen a punched card, you [...]

The Citrix story – Citrix XenDesktop Part 4 – “Putting It All Together”

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   Over the past few months, we’ve been looking into Citrix technologies, and we are back at it once again to look further into XenDesktop as well as utilizing XenApp in combination with XenDesktop.  For a review, see part three of our series here:  http://www.sovran.com/thecitrixstorypart3/. As mentioned in our previous article, we’ll take a quick [...]

Sovran has Expanded Its Service Offerings

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Sovran has expanded its business by creating a Healthcare Service Division.  This division will call on physician offices with 1-5 doctors. We feel at Sovran, that this is a great opportunity to assist small physician offices in taking advantage of the Stimulus Plan monies available in the HITECH law and justify the purchase of an [...]

Sovran Achieves Microsoft Gold Competency Status

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Sovran is very excited to announce that we have successfully completed engineering, marketing, and sales certifications to achieve multiple Microsoft Gold Competencies. Sovran is now one of the few Gold Competency Microsoft Partners in the Midwest and currently hold the Gold Server and Desktop competencies. Many of you reading this might ask, isn’t Sovran already [...]