In this issue...

On November 2, Vision Solutions and iTera announced the merger of their two companies. The new company is called Vision Solutions and is owned by Thoma Cressey Equity Partners. The combined organization is the world's leading provider of HA solutions for the System i market. read more .. .

On November 7, 8 and 9, Key joined other vendors to exhibit at VMworld 2006 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. On hand were members of Key’s and VMware's professional staffs, discussing how server virtualization can bring big dividends to conference-goers. Visitors to Key’s booth learned about Key’s offer to IT managers of Wintel and mainframe platforms, providing an assessment of the potential for server consolidation and virtualization. read more . . .

October Webinar Report
Server virtualization allows organizations to gain advantages in high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)
 
Neil Tantingco, IBM Alliance Manager at VMware, and David Jiang, Systems Engineer at VMware, presented an online demo in Key's October Webinar. VMware provides software products that allows you to simplify IT so companies leverage their storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and respond faster. The VMware virtual infrastructure approach to IT management creates virtual services out of the physical IT infrastructure, enabling administrators to allocate these virtual resources quickly to the business units that need them most. read more . . .

We spoke to John Joynt, president of GSS Group, Inc. in Markham, Ontario, Canada, about a new Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services-based analytic application called Vigilance Finance that offers impressive interactive analysis and ad hoc reporting of cleansed and validated financial data from JD Edwards World and EnterpriseOne. It is one of several analytic applications for JD Edwards within the Vigilance family. read more . . .

We asked Michael Bilancieri, Director of Products at Marathon Technologies, about his views on high availability today.

Bilancieri told INsights, “High availability is certainly getting a lot of press these days. Unfortunately everyone seems to have their own definitions for the common availability terms to suit their own products' functionality.” read more. . .

We talked to Arthur Coster, Senior Product Specialist at Vision Solutions, about the various components within the Director product described in Key’s September Webinar.
 
Coster started by saying, “Director provides tremendous benefits to clients. It helps improve performance and reduces system management requirements as it provides advanced reporting and job tracking and scheduling.” read more. . .

As October came to a close, Key Director of Marketing Pete Elliot headed to IBM’s offices at 590 Madison Avenue in Manhattan to meet with IBM business planners. He learned what IBM sees ahead for the IBM products base in 2007. Here, Elliot shares a quick summary of some of IBM’s findings based on their worldwide study. read more. . .

Rob Snyder has been a member of Key’s Account Exec staff since January 2005. Based out of Key’s Woodland Hills office, Snyder represents the company’s recent expansion and hiring of highly outstanding professionals to support the rapid growth in its client base. read the interview. . .

Key Offers – VMware Evaluation, OS Director Test Drive

Key just received top honors from the Los Angeles Business Journal and the San Fernando Valley Business Journal for placing among their top 100 "Fastest Growing Private Companies" lists.

Pete Elliot, Director of Marketing, reviews 2006 for Key’s organization.

To our clients and friends,
2006 is shaping up to be a great year for Key. Our client base has grown by over 30 percent and for 2006 we expect stong growth to result in revenues exceeding $65 million for the year. read more. . .