February 2009
   In this issue:

  Note from the President
  IT Case Study
  Storm Season Just Around Corner
  What Our Customers Say. . .
  ProTech Lunch & Learn
  Employee Spotlight

Disaster Recovery
Lunch & Learn
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
11:30am – 1:30pm

You’ll learn:

•   How to save your company from major data loss and downtime
•   How to protect your IT investments
•   How you can write a Disaster Recovery Plan for your company
•   And much more!

Click Here to RSVP now!

The first 10 people to register will receive a complimentary guide to Disaster Recovery!
 



Welcome back to Accent, Luis!

Luis Padilla
Vice President of Sales

 Luis started his career in IT as a network engineer at Accent back in 1994. He later shifted to the mortgage industry and quickly moved up to senior management level as a VP. After becoming a sales recruiter and coach in 2000, Luis developed a passion for coaching sales professionals and helping them achieve higher levels of success. His focus at Accent is to create new sales opportunities and provide value to existing and new territories.
Luis lives in Rancho Cucamonga with his wife Esther and two children, Anthony and Bethany. He is actively involved in his church and enjoys mentoring business professionals and entrepreneurs.”
 

Flying to Phoenix
Busy
New Product

What a busy month! The economic situation seems to have increased my activity related to cost savings and efficiency. Most of my clients are working diligently to save every dollar possible—including trying to save on IT costs. I welcome the opportunity to talk about reducing cost and/or risk of Information Technology.

This month I am very excited about my trip to Phoenix. On the 26th and 27th Derek, my VP and GM, and I will be attending our Service Leadership (SL) meeting. SL is a group of IT Service Provider executives from across the country that get together on a quarterly basis to learn Best Practices and to compare product and service offerings. This group helps me bring cost-effective services to market much quicker than normally possible, and I also take home great ideas to help my clients. The cool part is that I will be flying myself as long as the weather cooperates. Pray for good weather on Wednesday and Friday of this week!

We have a new product that many of you may be interested in looking at. This month we introduce our new Protech Backup Disaster Recovery system. This system can be implemented for a very reasonable fee while providing Disaster Recovery options that were out of almost everyone’s price range in the past. This system provides local backup, versioning of backups, local server virtualization for quick recovery, and off-site storage. Depending on how much needs to be virtualized and stored, this system can be implemented for as little as two-thousand dollars. Give me a call and I will tell you all about it—It’s a great product that we’re excited to offer.

-Marty

Western Municipal Water District Brings Order to
Their IT with Help from Accent Computer Solutions.
Click here to read more

Storm Season Is Just Around the Corner . . .
Are You Protected?

Even though the first day of Spring is not until the 20th of next month, it’s never too early to prepare for those pop-up storms that occur randomly at this time of year often resulting in everything from ice damage to lightening fires. During this time of year the threat of fire, flood, severe storms, water damage, and even theft is very real.

One of the most valuable assets for any company is its data. Hardware and software can easily be replaced, but a company’s data cannot!

As a reminder to all of our clients, here are some simple things you should do to make sure your company is ready for any natural disaster.

1. Back Up Your Data Remotely! Everyone knows that data should be backed up on a daily basis, but many people still use in-house tape drives that will get damaged in a natural disaster or fire, and can easily be stolen. We recommend backing up all data to an off-site location, and we offer this as a service to our clients.

2. Use a Quality Surge Protector With Uninterruptible Power Supply Battery. A high quality surge protector combined with an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) battery backup will go a long way in protecting sensitive electronic equipment from surges and other electronic irregularities that can destroy your computer’s circuitry.

3. Make Sure Your Servers Are Off The Floor. If your office gets flooded, having your equipment off the floor will prevent it from being completely destroyed. Server racks can be purchased and installed very inexpensively.

4. Have A Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan. Every business should have some type of plan in place for continued operation after a disaster. Would people know where to go? Who to call? How to log in and access data remotely? Hopefully you’ll never need it, but having a simple plan will make you sleep a lot easier at night knowing you have a way to continue to operate when disaster strikes.

If you need help in any of these areas, give us a call! We can not only get you prepared, but also back up and running fast in the event of a disaster.
 

What Our Customers Say About Us:                                    

“Since Accent has all of our
equipment documented in their
internal database, all of our calls are
resolved without any delays”

—Tim Plewe, Lobb Cliff & Lester LLP

“We chose to outsource our IT to Accent because they allow us to have a complete set of knowledge and experience to advise and manage us, without having to invest in several different employees”

—Bob Pickham, South Pacific Financial Corporation

Accent Computer Solutions, Inc.
8438 Red Oak Street * Rancho Cucamonga, CA  91730  *  800-481-4369  *  www.teamaccent.com