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Every week there are more than 350 online sources that contain articles of interest to IT Professionals at all levels. Every week the IT Weekly Newsletter compiles 12-20 of the best technical articles with no company or product reviews.

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Everyone in the IT industry faces an impossible problem; how to sort through the myriad of on-line sources to find the truly technical articles in order to stay abreast of the latest technical tips, insights, and articles to keep current.

There are several alternatives to subscribing to the IT Weekly Newsletter. You could spend hours each week reading all the on line sources looking for articles - possible but not practical. You could train any number of clipping services to ferret out articles; but who does the ferreting to sort the marketing articles from the truly technical articles - again possible but not practical and expensive.

The IT Weekly Newsletter is the ideal solution to staying current. For the last seven years we have produced the IT Weekly Newsletter to keep busy IT Professionals informed with quality technical articles on a wide range of subjects. In addition to the sources you recognize (Computerworld, Information Week, Search Storage, Network World, InfoWorld, etc.) we have garnered sources that are off the beaten path and from around the world.

48 times a year you are provided a technical IT Weekly Newsletter. The 12-20 articles each week are gleaned from over 400 of the previous week's on-line sources.

Each article in the IT Weekly Newsletter is read for two key reasons: first for technical content and secondly to insure that these articles are not product reviews, company reviews or marketing press releases. These articles fall into 44 distinct areas of technical interest (listed below) - aimed at reducing risk; increasing productivity or adding to the bottom line.

The IT Weekly Newsletter contains no product reviews, no company reviews, press or marketing releases. To maintain our independence and impartiality the IT Weekly IT Weekly Newsletter is 100% subscription (individual and corporate) based. We accept no advertising and have no agenda other than providing technical articles for the IT Professional free from the pressure of advertisers.

Benefits of the IT Weekly Newsletter:

1. 1. The IT Weekly Newsletter consists of web links to articles, gathered weekly from 400+ on-line sources, which address everyday issues about moving, sharing, storing, protecting, accessing, justifying, measuring and securing a company's most important asset - DATA.
2. 2. The IT Weekly Newsletter is not a marketing document - no sponsors, no company reviews, no product reviews, no white papers, no 'smaller, faster, better, cheaper, look what we have done' press releases.
3. 3. The IT Weekly Newsletter is always current with 12-20 articles from the previous week's online publications (there are occasional oldies but goodies from past dates).
4. 4. All URLs appearing in the IT Weekly Newsletter have been given permission by the publishers for the use of their URLs.
5. 5. This is a technical IT Weekly Newsletter.
6. 6. The IT Weekly Newsletter increases the knowledge base without wasting time perusing hundreds on sources weekly.
7. 7. The IT Weekly Newsletters article selections are based on expertise garnered over 35 years in selling enterprise computers and storage (EMC, HDS, STK, Overland Storage, ADIC, Spectra Logic, Legato, Veritas, Net Apps, SAN, NAS, IP Storage, etc.) providing credibility as to the articles applicability.

Here is one reason why you should subscribe to the IT Weekly Newsletter:

IT's Seven Deadly Career Sins

#4 - Falling behind on emerging technologies. Staying current can prevent embarrassment at the very least. One good example is the emergence of virtualization as a means of server consolidation to save on hardware and power costs and to increase overall server utilization. Being unaware of new technologies is more of a missed opportunity than a pitfall, Wells Fargo's Gauchat says. The pitfall is ignorance of technologies that upper management is getting the buzz on.

Take a look at the Sample IT Weekly Newsletters from the last four weeks and notice the diversity of subjects covered each week. Only the first three URLs are active in each sample IT Weekly Newsletter. Imagine having the IT Weekly IT Weekly Newsletter at your desk every Monday morning providing hyperlinks to current technical articles, keeping you informed on the latest IT techniques, tips, trends, insights and technology from 44 distinct areas. No longer do you have to scan the myriad of on-line sources each week looking for those technical articles of interest; the IT Weekly Newsletter is your dedicated clipping service.

The question isn't Why should I subscribe to the IT Weekly Newsletter, the question you should be asking yourself is What am I missing by not subscribing to the IT Weekly Newsletter?

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Subjects considered for inclusion in the IT Weekly Newsletter

Acquisition, Availability and Reliability, BackUp (BU, Restore & , Archiving), Business Continuity (BC), CIO - CTO - CSO, Compliance, Databases, Disk Technology, Disk to Disk to Tape (D2D & D2D2T), Disaster Recovery (DR), E-Mail, Encryption, Fibre Channel (FC), Grid Computing/Storage, HSM, InfiniBand, Integration, Interoperability, Information Life Cycle Management (ILM), IP Storage & Networks, iSCSI, IT Financials, Migration, NAS, Networks & IP Storage, Operations, Outsourcing, Rabbit Sense, RAID, Replication, SAN, SCSI, Security, Servers, SMI-S, Standards, Storage Management, Storage Resource Management (SRM), Tape, Technology, Trends, Troubleshooting, Virtualization, Viruses, Worms & Trojans Horse

What gives me the ability to select articles?
My 25 years of experience in storage includes:
Disk (i.e. EMC, HDS, STK,)
Tape (i.e. STK, ADIC, Overland Storage, Spectra Logic),
Virtualization (i.e. Data Core, Falcon Store, StorAge, TekTools),
SSD (i.e. Imperial Tech, Platypus)
Management/Replication (i.e. OTG, CommVault, NuView)
Backup Software (i.e. Veritas, Legato, BakBone, Comm Vault, SyncSort),
SAN (i.e. McData, Brocade),
NAS (i.e. NetApps, Left Hand Networks, Procom)

Every week there are more than 350 online sources that contain articles of interest to IT Professionals at all levels. Every week the IT Weekly Newsletter compiles 12-20 of the best technical articles with no company or product reviews.

If you are a Corporation call me or send me an email to discuss how this newsletter can increase your company's mind share or provide a weekly message to your technical staff.
wavery@itweeklyNewsletter.com

Thanks,

Warren Avery
[P] 602-463-6558
[F] 480-777-7901
wavery@PrometheanDataSolutions.com

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