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Technologically Savvy Consumers don’t have to be all that Technical

July 27, 2010 – 10:00 am

Not everyone is a techie but thanks to the internet, we all have the ability to be technologically savvy enough to make wise buying decisions. Technology product reviews, spec sheets, social media, blogs and websites, and other tools can all be used to help you figure out which technology tools to buy.  The right technology tools will provide you with a great return on your investment and adequate research can help prevent buyer’s remorse. Much of the info below has been written in terms of our belief in our own abilities with our hosted Kerio Connect solutions  here at GetSync’d.com but really, the info below can apply to making buying decisions for just about any product.

When looking at buying various technology tools, whether you’re looking for a hosted solution to sync your email, a new mobile phone, your next gaming console, or some other piece of technology, consider at least three things:

• Reputation
• Support
• Value added services

Reputation

Good news can spread but bad news tends to spread fast. This works to your advantage as a consumer because reading product reviews could help make your buying decision much easier. If you were looking at GetSync’d versus the Google apps sync tool, for instance, reading some reviews could help you learn about product strengths and weaknesses so you can make the right choice for hosted solutions. Learn which companies are well-regarded by their customers and which companies are not and that can narrow things down for you in terms of a long list of possibilities. Read up on product quality as well as the quality of the company supplying the product. Certifications and preferred partner status with manufacturers and technology companies is another good sign.

Support

When something is touted as user-friendly, that’s something that can be reassuring. But user-friendly and supported is even better. You don’t want to wait for five business days for a response when you log a support ticket for an essential tool. When you need help, you want it instantly, especially when you first get acquainted with software applications, for instance. Look for a company with a reputation for great support to save you frustration factor and help you get to benefit from the tool as soon as possible after you buy it.

Value Added Services

Do the companies you’re looking at offer competitive pricing, upgrades, enhancements, additional free tools, useful information, and advice that can make your life easier? These sorts of things help companies stand apart from their competition. To toot our own horn, GetSync’d, for instance, offers new and existing customers GetSecure services for free. This helps existing Hosted Kerio Connect customers benefit and new customers see that the product offers more than syncing; it offers ant-spam and anti-virus protection as well. When a company demonstrates willingness to continue to provide value to customers, this is a sign you’ve made a wise technology decision.

What do you think? In areas of pricing, support, product reviews, reputation, and quality, what’s most important to you when you decide to buy a technology product?

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Preferred Kerio Partner, GetSync’d, Offers Free GetSecure Hosted AntiVirus and AntiSpam Service

July 18, 2010 – 10:11 am

Preferred Kerio Partner, GetSync’d.Com, adds free security tools to Hosted Kerio Connect Solution
Cary, NC (PRWEB) July 18, 2010 GetSync’d.Com, a leading provider of hosted Kerio Connect email and groupware solutions for Macintosh, PC, and Mobile Smartphones, announced today that both new and existing GetSync’d customers are now eligible to receive GetSecure services at no additional charge.

GetSync’d.Com offers a Cloud-based Microsoft Exchange alternative to companies and individuals who want leading-edge productivity tools that can be sync’d on the go through wireless technology. The GetSecure feature is an add-on to Kerio Connect’s popular syncing solution that offers powerful Anti-Spam and Antivirus features to the offering. It provides several robust functions, including: admin and user-level quarantine management, comprehensive search and reporting, and end user summaries. Decide how aggressive you want to be with fine level control on the user-friendly dashboard.

Free Protection from Spam and Viruses…
When asked why the GetSecure product was being offered free of charge, Kevin Davy, Co-Founder and CEO of GetSync’d and Mike Schaffner, CTO of the company agreed that while GetSync’d was already very competitive, they felt it was important to show their customers the company’s commitment to value. The company’s research found that offering GetSecure free of charge was the best way to save clients money and provide even more value by addressing their concerns about spam and virus attacks.

Kevin, Mike, and the rest of their team recently strategized on the best way to provide even more value to clients and looked for ways to lower their customers’ costs. Kevin says, “While GetSync’d pricing is already very competitive, we feel adding GetSecure puts us head and shoulders above our competitors that are out there hosting email and this move shows our clients we understand their needs for advanced technology tools at very aggressive pricing.”

“User Friendly and Advanced Functionality”
As Chief Technology Officer, one of Mike’ Schaffner’s objectives is to continually supply tools that are as user-friendly and as functional as possible, “When deciding on adding the GetSecure] service, we wanted to make sure that the amount of effort needed to implement the services was as easy as possible for our customers. All the customer needs to do is change their MX records to point to the filtering servers and they’ll know that they are safe from the spammers attacking their mailbox.”

About GetSync’d.Com
GetSync’d.Com is a certified, preferred Kerio partner. GetSync’d was co-founded in 2001 by Kevin Davy, the company’s CEO and Scott Bowen, President and COO. The company, located in North Carolina and with offices in California, serves small and medium-sized businesses on a global basis.

For more information about GetSync’d: click here.
To learn more about GetSecure: click here.
Those interested in a free trial can register here.

For inquiries, contact (888) 447-9623 or marketing(at)getsyncd(dot)com. Follow GetSync’d on Twitter to get GetSync’d and Kerio news and updates.

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Kerio Recognizes New Preferred Hosting Partner

May 18, 2010 – 9:59 am

GetSync’d.Com Offers a Fully Redundant, Cloud Based Hosted Exchange Alternative With Kerio Connect and VMware

SAN JOSE, CA, May 18, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Kerio Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Internet security and messaging solutions, today announced GetSync’d.Com, an email hosting provider based in North Carolina, has achieved Kerio Preferred Partner status in Kerio’s Partner Program. GetSync’d.Com offers a hosted messaging and collaboration solution built on Kerio’s flagship groupware platform, Kerio Connect. Kerio Connect provides businesses with an affordable and effective way to manage emails, contacts, and calendars, synchronized across multiple platforms and smartphone devices.

“Hosting Kerio Connect in a VMware vSphere environment has allowed GetSync’d.Com to provide the best business class email and collaboration solution to small and medium size businesses,” said Mike Schaffner, CTO of GetSync’d.Com, Kerio Preferred Partner based in North Carolina. “As a Preferred Partner of Kerio, GetSync’d.Com is a leader in providing hosted Kerio Connect solutions in the cloud delivering unmatched levels of support to our customers.”

All GetSync’d.Com customers receive Kerio Connect running as a dedicated virtual appliance on VMware’s secure and fully redundant cloud infrastructure. This approach allows GetSync’d.Com to give businesses the freedom to administer their Kerio server in a way that works best for them, with minimal IT maintenance overhead. On top of the base offering, the certified Kerio Connect engineers are available around the clock to support and assist customers with more involved customization tasks.

“After years of hassle and half-baked solutions using hosted Microsoft Exchange and Google Apps Premiere, we’ve finally found the ultimate solution,” said Jeff Nantais, Director, Aphex Imaging Inc., creative design agency based in Sarnia, Ontario. “The GetSync’d.Com hosting service works perfectly with both Mac and Windows clients, has a fantastic webmail interface, and works exceptionally well with the Apple iPhone and Blackberry smartphones. We appreciate the innovative technology GetSync’d.Com and Kerio offer.”

“GetSync’d.Com epitomizes everything that Kerio looks for in a Kerio Preferred Partner,” said Chris Peluso, director of Sales for U.S. and Canada, Kerio Technologies, Inc. “Our partner program is designed to help solution providers like GetSync’d.Com grow their businesses by providing them with valuable tools and resources along with products that are simple, stable, and secure.”

To find out more about GetSync’d.Com’s hosting solution, please visit: www.getsyncd.com.

For information about Kerio Partner Program please visit: www.kerio.com/partners.

About GetSync’d.Com

Providing email hosting since 2004, the key to GetSync’d.Com’s success is the highly skilled team of qualified and experienced Kerio Connect specialists delivering IT implementations and support to small and medium businesses. The company has high standards when recruiting technical consultants to join their team; as well as impeccable credentials, they must also be gifted, innovative and enthusiastic. The GetSync’d.Com family includes Kerio Messaging Certified Professionals, Microsoft Certified Professionals, Certified VMWare Professionals. GetSync’d.Com has a close partnership with Kerio Technologies, which allows them to better support their hosting customers. This in-house knowledge means that their experts are reliable and have proven experience in fixing IT challenges, as well as supporting their network’s performance and dependability. For more information, please visit: www.getsyncd.com.

About Kerio Technologies, Inc.

Innovating in Internet security since 1997, Kerio Technologies, Inc. provides Internet messaging and firewall software for small-to-medium sized businesses and organizations worldwide. Kerio is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has offices in New York, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic and Russia. Kerio is a member of CalConnect, a calendaring and scheduling consortium; a premier member of the Apple Developer Connection; and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Kerio has more than 4,400 business partners in 108 countries. Technology partners include McAfee, Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!mfe/quotes/nls/mfe (MFE 33.42, +0.11, +0.33%) , eSoft, Inc., and Notify Technology Corporation /quotes/comstock/11k!ntfy (NTFY 0.46, 0.00, 0.00%) . For more information, please visit www.kerio.com.

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Kerio unveils new anti-virus partner, Sophos

May 3, 2010 – 1:47 pm

Technology partnerships are key to delivering high quality, competitive products and services, and this is especially true in the information security industry. Expertise in a given area is developed over years at great expense, and it often makes more sense to acquire proven technology rather than try to build it. Such is the case with anti-virus, a critical component of Unified Threat Management solutions.

Kerio has been offering anti-virus as a component of its email and network security software for over 8 years. As we look to evolve our product strategy, we needed to also review our anti-virus technology relationship to ensure that the partner we work with will best complement our future direction. After serious consideration, Kerio has chosen Sophos as its new Anti-virus partner.

In the virus scanning business since 1992, Sophos has a strong technology portfolio and global business model that mirrors Kerio’s own. Their scan engine offers extreme performance and includes the following technologies:

genotype virus detection technology

decision caching

pattern matching

emulation

dynamic code analysis

heuristics

The engine is now available in the latest beta version of Kerio Control 7, our new UTM product, and will also be added to the next version of our email collaboration product, Kerio Connect 7.1

Customers using our McAfee integrated products will automatically be migrated to the new Sophos engine when they install the new version of the product. Those customers that wish to continue using McAfee will be able to do so until the current term of their subscription expires, provided they do not upgrade their software.

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Google Apps sync for Outlook gets poor reviews

April 28, 2010 – 2:18 pm

Some Google Apps administrators have given up on it due to bugs and missing features
By Juan Carlos Perez | IDG News Service

Nine months after Google daringly launched a sync tool to link its hosted Apps collaboration and communication suite with arch-rival Microsoft’s Outlook PC software, results have been poor.

Google states that most organizations using the Outlook sync tool are very satisfied. However, IDG News Service, over the course of several weeks and even after enlisting the help of Google’s public relations department, couldn’t find one Google Apps administrator whose employer isn’t a Google Apps reseller or integrator willing to speak favorably about the Outlook sync tool.

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Google maintains the product has accomplished its goal: to offer a viable option for organizations to continue using Outlook as a user front end after they switch communication servers from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. “Since Google added this plug in, demand for Google Apps has been increasing steadily,” said Jim McNelis, CEO of Google Apps reseller and integrator Dito, which has implemented Google Apps for about 200 clients.

However, the story has played out differently for those unhappy IT managers for whom the Outlook plug-in, introduced with much fanfare in June 2009, has fallen short and caused their end-users to complain loudly……

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