Events
4/28/11
Open House/ Wine Tasting to Benefit Casa de los Niño’s
Silverado held an Open House/Wine Tasting to benefit the Casa de los Niño’s annual Night for Children campaign. The event was supported by Pastiche and a full complement of wines from the Silverado Vineyard in Napa Valley were served. We had a wonderful time raising money for a worthy cause while getting to visit with our customers and friends. Tim Barry with Salpointe Catholic High School won the door prize for the 2 night stay at the Radisson, Congratulations Tim!
6/29/10
Microsoft Office 2010 and Exchange 2010
The Phoenix office of New Horizons Computer Learning Center was host today to dozens of guests who came to learn about improvements in the 2010 release of Microsoft Office. In addition, Silverado Technologies gave a presentation of the benefits of Exchange 2010. “There are tremendous improvements in remote communications, security, and the manageability of this product” said Silverado’s president.
03/16/10
Exchange 2010 and Windows 7
Silverado Technologies and New Horizons Computer Learning Centers today held the first of 2 events scheduled this month to introduce users to these powerful new programs from Microsoft. Exchange 2010 offers business users a substantial increase in functionality particularly for those users still on Exchange 2003. Of course much has already been written about the tremendous improvements Microsoft has made over Vista with the release of Windows 7.
9/29/09
VMWare vSphere4 Showcase
Silverado Technologies today hosted a presentation on VMWare’s latest release of it’s virtualization software.
Combining VMware’s industry leading virtualization technology and experience, vSphere delivers uncompromising control, with greater efficiency, while preserving customer choice. Some of the new functions presented were:
Fault Tolerance, vNetwork Distributed Switch, Host Profiles, and vStorage Thin Provisioning.
As the virtualization market continues to gain momentum, VMWare has demonstrated once again that it has invested heavily to bring greater value to its end user customers.
5/14/09
VMWare View3 and Hewlett-Packard Thin Clients
The next wave of money saving virtualization technologies was presented today at the Doubletree Inn. Silverado Technologies today hosted presentations by VMWare and HP product specialists. VMWare focused on its new desk top virtualization product called View3. It includes a number of new powerful features that help IT departments save thousands of dollars on routine maintenance while improving service levels. HP’s new line of thin clients are a great complement to this new software by significantly reducing capital costs as well as assisting with the reduction of operational expenses.
1/22/09
Enabling Virtual IT Infrastructure
Today New Horizons Computer Learning Centers and Silverado Technologies were hosts of an event entitled Enabling Virtual IT Infrastructure. Greg Schulz, founder of StorageIO, came to Tucson to deliver the keynote address. Greg’s latest book, The Green and Virtual Data Center has just been released. His presentation addressed issues around storage and networking trends, and techniques to support and enable a virtual datacenter. Supporting presentations were made by Hewlett-Packard’s Enterprise Storage team, a VMWare Systems Engineer, and New Horizon’s security instructor.
9/15/08
The contest is a collaboration among New Horizons Learning Centers, Silverado Technologies, and Go Web Solutions, three technology services firms based in Tucson, Arizona. The purpose of the contest is to promote the latest technologies for business in a fun, exciting way that will get business owners to think of how technology can attract new business and help their existing business be more efficient. The winner of the contest will be drawn by Jack Camper, President of the Metropolitan Tucson Chamber of Commerce at noon on Wednesday, September 25th. There is a full schedule of activities planned that day, including several seminars by local experts that showcase the latest technologies by local experts. All seminars are open to the public. RSVP’s are being taken at www.tucsontechmakeover.com.
1/15/08
Silverado Technologies and New Horizons Computer Learning Center are bringing the Microsoft Across America Truck to Tucson at the Doubletree Hotel on Alvernon. This 40 foot truck will have all of Microsoft's newest technologies on board. Come see these products and learn what they can do for you and your business. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 features expanded communications services, advanced security, and simplified deployment. Exchange 2007 provides the foundation for unified communications, enhanced Outlook web access, high availability through standby continuous replication and more. Microsoft Windows Server 2008 delivers new value to organizations by ensuring all users, regardless of location, are able to get the full complement of services from the network. Windows Server 2008 also provides deep insight into the operating system and diagnostic capabilities to allow administrators to spend less time managing the network.
10/05/06
Join Us For Microsoft-Across-America
Tucson professionals can now benefit from a technology showcase previously offered only in larger metropolitan areas. Microsoft partners supporting the Tucson area are teaming up to coordinate a Microsoft-Across-America event, which includes a 42 foot truck filled with the latest technology for Small and Mid-size businesses, as well as smaller divisions of large enterprises. At this event, you can meet with local experts and experience practical, integrated software and hardware solutions in a hands-on, interactive environment.
