Software Development, Company News Posted on 6/21/2011 4:56 AM | Comments (0)

Green Resources, a renewable energy and forestry company utilizes tool developed by rmsource!

rmsource is the development partner responsible for architecting, developing and supporting an application in accordance with guidelines set by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc. (NCASI).  The “Forest Industry Carbon Assessment Tool” or (FICAT™) was built on Microsoft technologies utilizing the .NET platform. Built for the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group, FICAT™ is primarily designed to help characterize the life cycle greenhouse gas impacts of activities associated with producing forest products. Green Resources, a forest-based company operating in East Africa, where they are involved in afforestation activities and production of wood products and renewable energy, recently utilized the tool to calculate the company’s carbon footprints for 2008 and 2009.  The tool helped identify potential liabilities and opportunities, to inform internal and external discussions on environmental sustainability, and to be an active participant in efforts to develop carbon footprint methodology.  More information about the tool is available at www.ficatmodel.org.

Company News, IT Consulting, Managed Solutions Posted on 6/20/2011 9:00 AM | Comments (0)

We have recently completed an audit of our data center operations and standard operating procedures to help one of our enterprise customers meet their CFR Part 11 regulatory compliance for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  CFR Part 11 requirements include a comprehensive checklist/Audit of electronic records and how the IT systems are utilized.  rmsource is pleased to have assisted our client with this process, and look forward to providing these types of services to other data center clients.

Posted on 5/24/2011 4:21 AM | Comments (0)

rmsource is returning to Charlotte to participate as a Silver sponsor for this year’s CIO Forum, the nation’s premier event for mid-market and enterprise CIO and Director-level IT leaders.

Matt Stocking, rmsource’s VP of Sales writes, “The regional CIO Forum & Executive IT Summits are the perfect venue for us. Premier Event Management, who hosts and manages these events, does a fantastic job bringing together IT thought leaders at the executive level, and since our clients fall right in line with the typical attendee at these events, we’re thrilled to have been selected to attend again this year.”

We will be co-sponsoring with VMware, the leader in server and desktop virtualization technology. rmsource is a VMware Premier Partner and VMware Solution Provider. We maintain two partner rankings with VMware, the former for our server and virtualization consulting practice, and the latter for our managed hosting practice, where we can offer VMware licensing on monthly subscription basis for our data center clients.

rmsource provide a wide range of IT consulting services including on-premise IT infrastructure consulting, managed hosting of production and DR systems at our Tier III data center in Durham, NC, custom Microsoft software development and Microsoft SharePoint consulting.

The Charlotte CIO Forum will be held at the Marriott Executive Park, just south of downtown. Registration is open now at http://bit.ly/h3qo8b. We look forward to spending the time engaging with everyone attending the event!

Company News Posted on 11/23/2010 6:56 AM | Comments (0)

Thank you to all the attendees that joined rmsource at the 3^rd annual Internet Summit 10, which wrapped up on Thursday, November 18^th.   The event was a major success with over 1400 attendees.  The two-day conference was sponsored by more than 70 companies, and included a number of industry participants from start-up entrepreneurs to Internet pioneers.

The overall theme of the presentations, sessions and panel discussions were focused around social media, marketing, online advertising, cloud computing, and business analytics.

Our Xbox 360 give-a-way created a massive buzz among the attendees and was a main highlight of the first day!  By leveraging the power of social media the attendees aggregated their badge numbers via Twitter and this guy’s blog:  

Nathan Maxwell’s Blog - http://nathanmaxwell.net/2010/11/internet-summit-2010-win-an-xbox-360/

Internet Summit 2010 also drew market leaders such as Lulu.com's Bob Young, Microsoft's Marty Taylor Collins, Cisco’s Social Media Marketing Director, Jeanette Gibson, Marc Ferrentino, Chief Technical Architect at Salesforce.com, and iContact's Ryan Allis.

Overall, the event positioned the Internet industry as the future of innovation, with many attendees talking about their plans for next year before the conference even ended.

For more information about upcoming rmsource exhibits or trade shows contact us at 877-319-3051.   To see all the Tweets from the show follow us on Twitter @rmsourceinc. 

 XBOX WINNERS

Events Posted on 11/15/2010 10:30 AM | Comments (0)

November 17-18, 2010
The Raleigh Convention Center
Raleigh, NC

Join rmsource this week for the 3rd Annual Internet Summit.  Connect with over 1000 Internet Executives, senior marketers, entrepreneurs and investors for expert content on opportunities and trends created by web innovation. Learn from dozens of industry leaders and innovators on topics such as Social Media, Mobile, Online Video, Cloud Computing, Real-time, Analytics, Online Advertising, Ecommerce and much more.

 For more information and to register please visit - http://www.internetsummit.com

IT Consulting, Events Posted on 10/18/2010 11:08 AM | Comments (0)

October 20 - October 22, 2010

Crowne Plaza Resort

Asheville, NC 

Join us this week for the NCLGISA Fall Conference and enter to win a Nintendo Wii!

Come meet the rmsource sales team and learn how we are helping our clients dramatically improve the efficiency of IT resources and business applications.  As a sponsor of the upcoming event we will be networking with North Carolina area IT professionals who are looking for valuable solutions to real business issues.

Now is the time to shift your focus from maintenance to effectiveness.  Through Virtualization rmsource can free your IT admins from spending so much time and money managing servers and focus on innovation.  Virtualizing your IT infrastructure lets you reduce IT costs while increasing the efficiency, utilization, and flexibility of your existing IT assets. 

If you’re looking to resolve business issues by introducing Microsoft SharePoint to your company or are already using it and need more advanced services rmsource can help.  We will be available to discuss how to extend its functionality and get more out of your existing SharePoint investment.  Benefiting from SharePoint can be made simple, and we will gladly walk you through our various capabilities and wide range of cost effective, fixed price packages specifically designed for your business needs.

Now is the time for your organization to take charge of the challenges faced with managing your IT systems, and we are here to help!   

Make your plans NOW to join us for two exciting days of education, networking and business development.  Again don’t forget to stop by our Booth (#32) to enter in our drawing for a new Nintendo Wii!!

For more information and to register please visit http://nclgisa.org/.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Managed Solutions Posted on 10/14/2010 7:54 AM | Comments (0)

Are you confused about the differences between a public, hybrid, or private cloud?

Let me start by saying you’re not the only one, and this continues to be a hot topic for discussion panels and keynotes at every trade show we attend.  For the past year our company has sponsored numerous events and conferences, and I like many of the attendees read through the course or session overviews to decide which ones are the most interesting while trying to get a seat near the exit, preferably with an electrical outlet for recharging my laptop and/or phone throughout the day.  After listening to speakers, panel discussions, and attendees at the show it seems we have some general confusion on what the differences are between various cloud offerings.  The following are a few helpful tips to clear the confusion.

Private Clouds – A dedicated collection of computing components for a single tenant that wishes to leverage the elasticity and scalability of cloud computing technologies.  Hot-add computing power, Single Sign On (SSO), and Active Directory (AD) integration are just a few features available under these type of offerings.  Organizations leverage the cloud through virtualization technologies while retaining security and control over their data and systems. This enables the implementation of a new Business Service without the costs of building dedicated infrastructure for each new requirement. It also enables organizations to avoid the age old problem of designing and implementing for peak loads on day 1. (VMware vSphere’s Clustering and Dynamic Resource Scheduling features are examples of these types of concepts)

Public Clouds – A collection of computing components that typically enables a single type of Business Service for multiple organizations (multi-tenant services and applications). Service provider such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), IBM’s Blue Cloud, Sun Cloud, Google AppEngine and Windows Azure Platform make these services available to the general public over the Internet.

Hybrid Clouds – A mixture of both the private and public clouds where an organization wishes to maintain control over business critical applications and services while leveraging external public cloud providers for some services.  Think of an organization that uses a Private Cloud for their email system, and a Public Cloud account for email filtering.