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Redcage Partners with Nasuni

Redcage Solutions is proud to announce that we have Partnered with Nasuni. Nasuni is the next-generation of cloud-integrated storage for the enterprise. We combine on-premises cloud gateways with cloud storage to deliver an enterprise-class storage solution that never needs to be backed up, scales from TBs to PBs and is available from every office and device.

Nasuni is Storage Infrastructure as a Service (SIaaS) a complete storage solution leveraging the cloud as a primary storage component built-in to a unified storage system. 

With Nasuni, enterprise organizations can expect to:

• Increase day-to-day productivity of distributed teams.
• Upload photos and videos from the field using Nasuni Mobile.
• Limit the capital investment necessary to support new offices and teams.
• Simplify the challenges of managing infrastructure in remote locations.
• Reduce the cost and complexity of data storage, backups, and replication.
• Securely share and control data access with third-party collaboration teams; entirely managed with your own encryption.

If you wish to contact us or to find out more on how we can help solve your storage challenges please visit our Nasuni page.

Whoa!! I have been away for a couple years

Wow I can't believe it. I have been away from my blog for a couple of years now. A lot has happened in the past few years. Life became extremely busy with work, family and fun.

I now have two amazing boys and a new career. I am still a BIM Solutions Consultant with an Autodesk Solutions Partner. However I have taken on a lot more responsibility and with that I feel everyday is a whole lot more rewarding. 

I have been working in the reseller channel for almost 8 years now specializing in BIM Solutions & Software. It was almost a year ago now when I left my former reseller to join a new Autodesk Reseller named Redcage Solutions. www.redcage.ca. My first year as flown, I have met a ton of great people and have taught myself more than I ever thought was possible.

Some amazing news this past week. Autodesk names Redcage Solutions as best new Reseller of the year. ow.ly/3iHaMu. The award recognizes Redcage Solutions for its outstanding achievements in delivering world-class service and technical expertise to their customers. This is a huge honor for our team we are extremely grateful and have work hard this past year. We hope to even do greater things this year. At Redcage we pride ourselves in always putting our clients first. We feel the true difference is in our people. 

Over my years within the reseller channel I have help many firms successfully implement Revit and as I grow with Redcage I am branching out and successfully implementing Revit within many more firms that I may never of had the opportunity to work with in the past. I look forward to working with even more AECOO firms this coming year and help them find the BIM Solution that fits their needs. 

I am even more committed than ever to keep my blog rolling, I apologize to my followers for dropping off the blog world for awhile. My blog has taken a backseat to my life and career, however moving forward I plan to bring some bigger news, ideas, tips and tricks. I hope to become more of a resource than I have in the past.

cheers

Bill Wright

SugarSync Thank you

I would like to thank all the people who used my Sugar Sync referral link and signed up. I now have 10GB of storage space. I could always use more but why be greedy lol. Yet again why not, so if you still have not signed up here check out this post.

SugarSync Blog Post Here

SugarSync

This post is a bit off topic then usual. But if you are looking for an online storage account that can monitor windows or mac folders and keep them in sync with the cloud. Similar to that of DropBox then you should look into SugarSync.

SugarSync gives you 5GB of free storage compared too DropBox that is 3GB more and has plenty more features like streaming music photos videos right from SugarSync cloud to any mobile device way better than Dropbox.

I will post my referral link here if you all sign up for an account through my link you will receive an extra 500mb of storage and I will too.

If you are like me, most of my music resides on my laptop at home not my work PC. I listen too my music at work using SugarSync. So take a look at the website and if you like use my referral link https://www.sugarsync.com/referral?rf=ct4jxs3qa0cd9 we both receive more storage space.

https://www.sugarsync.com/ watch the videos cool stuff.

See how Sugar Sync compares to the competition https://www.sugarsync.com/sync_comparison.html

cheers

AU 2009 - Location Picked

Wow we just finish this AU 2008 and they have posted the location for the next years Autodesk University 2009.

Save the Dates
18th Annual Autodesk University
December 1-5, 2009
The Mandalay Bay Hotel Las Vegas, NV
Registration opens mid August, 2009

here is the link to website information on AU 2009

I also want to mention that Autodesk is relaunching AU online here some of you may have not been aware classes were taped and now can be viewed online starting Monday December 8th.

Not to mention AU Dailys weblink here

Autodesk University 2008 - Las Vegas

Well once again it's been awhile since I have posted. I was busy over the past 7 months with helping my wife plan our wedding. I have been recently married as of November 4th, 2008. We had 36 guests join us in Cuba at the Occidental Royal Hideaway Ensenachos Resort where we exchanged vows drank a lot and had a great time.

Been back in Canada for a few weeks and then gone to Vegas for AU 2008. I just returned yesterday and I have to say AU is well worth attending if you have never been. I went with a few co-workers specializing in the AEC and MSD world of Autodesk and each of them had great things to say. Seeing some of the software that Autodesk is working on for the future was really neat. I took mostly the Revit MEP content creation classes, although a couple of the classes lack advance knowledge which I was looking for I still got a better understanding of even the basic knowledge and quicker ways of doing things.

But overall most classes were great and the most important thing I find with Autodesk University if meeting new people and seeing how they are doing things in the real world. As a reseller I get to see the user use the programs but it's great to hear in person from users all over the world.

Look forward to next year maybe then I can make some money back from the tables :)

Google Chrome - Web Browser

For this post I have decided to put the industry aside for a day and tell you about some geek news on a different level. A great new web browser has been launched this past week by Google and they call it CHROME.

Google has taken a different approach on a web browser and have decided to create a browser for today's web based user requirements, such as watching and uploading videos, chatting over the Internet and playing web-based games.

Other web browsers like IE, firefox, maxthon and safari all were designed many many years ago based on the IE architecture when people just used the web for browsing the internet. Google has taken a fresh approach to the web browser and I think you are going to like it.

You can download the Google Chrome from here, after install you will be presented with a streamlined web browser with two tabs. What I like most about the browser is how Google created quick easy to watch videos on some of the features of Chrome and also a comic book explaining the story about Chrome being development and the theory being the browser.

I tested Chrome this past weekend and I must say I am very impressed. I used Maxthon for the past 4 years I felt Maxthon was a great browser far better than firefox and IE. however Google has now made web browsing smoother and faster. I have now officially made Chrome my default browser.

Below I will list some of the features:

Crash Control

- Every tab you're using is run independently in the browser, so if one app crashes it won't take anything else down. Basically each tab runs as a separate process.

Application Shortcuts

- Use web applications without opening your browser. Application shortcuts can directly load your favorite online app.

Incognito Mode

- Don't want pages you visit to show up in your web history? Choose incognito mode for private browsing

Simpler Downloads

- No intrusive download manager; you see your download's status at the bottom of your current window.

Those are just a few of the features available. So what are you waiting for? This browser is a must download and try. I am sure within a week you will be making Google Chrome your default web browser.