Sponsoring Minnesota’s Legal Administrators

Sovran and New Horizons Computer Learning Centers Twin Cities were active participants in the 22nd Annual Educational Conference and Exposition of ALAMN, the Minnesota Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators, which took place at the Minneapolis Convention Center on Tuesday, February 14, 2012. The goal of the event is to provide an opportunity for [...]

Nimble Storage Makes VMware’s vSphere Hardware Compatibility List

In past articles, we have introduced Nimble Storage, SAN appliances built to eliminate the compromise among performance, capacity, ease of use, and price.    As IT infrastructures evolve to include more centralized services such as mobility, terminal services/RDS or virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), the need for higher input / output performance (IOPS) has increased.   With legacy [...]

Bogo-Bring a Friend

Students consistently remark about the value they receive from the classes at New Horizons. They are pleased with how quickly they can put their newly acquired skills to use.  At New Horizons, we are always excited to hear from students who enjoy their experience with us. We believe there are many more people who would [...]

Adding Security and Redundancy to Exchange

As email continues to be a business critical application in today’s marketplace, the desire for a business to have a secure and reliable platform for email has never been more important. Since the introduction of Exchange 2007, and more recently of Exchange 2010, this goal can be accomplished with significantly less complexity and cost. While [...]

Tech Tips- The “Need for Speed” or “Bigger is Better”

As I began High School, I discovered an interest in reading, which was naturally spurred on by my English teacher (I think he had a vested interest).  In addition to the limited number of volumes in the school library, we had access to a national mail-order paper-pack bookseller called the “TeenAge Book Club” (Obviously the [...]

Microsoft Office 365, The Game Changer Part 5

Over the past 4 articles on Office 365 we have focused on the products, pricing, functionality, and the path to the cloud. In this the final of 5 articles, we will focus on another product that although right now is a separate part of the suite, it is equally important for our customers to consider [...]

InterCall Launches Audio Integration with Microsoft Lync Online

InterCall has partnered with Sovran and Microsoft to deliver Microsoft Office 365 with integrated audio conferencing as part of Lync Online, improving meeting experiences with enhanced call controls and increased flexibility….More Why InterCall for Office 365 & Lync Online? Enhanced Features Enable external participants to join meetings Connect on Multiple devices Call scheduling via Outlook [...]

90 Day Get Out of Jail Offer

Managed Services – 90 Day Trial Trial Offer for 90 Days to Ensure Satisfaction in Our Service At Sovran, we make the decision to choose a new technology services provider an easy one. We are so confident that we would like to offer you a 90 day period to evaluate our service without any obligation [...]

Introducing Cisco Cius

The Cisco Cius is a new tablet developed by Cisco to streamline workplace productivity in a borderless network. The features of the Cius allows one to fully harness the power of both their public and private clouds with full office phone integration, thin client capabilities and all the power of Google’s Android operating system. The [...]

Tech Tip- Hardly Any Hard Drives

By now mostly everyone has heard about the side effects ofJapan’s earthquake/tsunami disaster.  That is to say, some car manufacturers were affected.  While a trashed nuclear plant is a big deal, I can’t say that there was much of an impact on the car market.  It seems that the economy played a larger part in [...]