HARBOUR IT RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS HP AWARD!

We are proud to announce that we were the 2009 recipients of the Australian Fastest Revenue Growth achievement award at the HP Premier Partner Principal Awards Night.

This National Award is hotly contested by many resellers, and we believe our maturity and growth history was a huge asset in winning the award. We thank our clients for their contribution to our continuing success as a business.

(Belinda Ross of HP congratulates Sean Bishop of Harbour IT)

HARBOUR IT GOES GREEN

Harbour IT is proud to announce that we have recently invested in REDD Carbon Credits.

A REDD Carbon Credit (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) is a carbon market mechanism created to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries. By investing in these credits, Harbour IT is doing their bit to save the planet from climate change, save the rainforests, protect the earth's rich biodiversity and empower some of the most impoverished communities in the world.
Just some of the things that REDD Carbon Credits assists with are as follows:

Rainforest20% of the world's Green House Gas emissions come from the destruction or our rainforests. We have already destroyed over 78% of our world's forests. If we are to be successful in stopping climate change we must save the world's rainforests. REDD Carbon Projects (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) are the vital key to saving these unique resources.

Biodiversity
The irreversible loss of Biodiversity through rainforest destruction is threatening our earth's ecology. The extinction of species is accelerating at a rate 1000 times anything seen before on this planet. We are losing 137 plant and animal species every single day. As the rainforests disappear, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases.

PeopleForests are essential to the well-being of the world's poorest societies. As our rainforests disappear at an alarming rate, so do the homes, sources of livelihood and the rich cultures of millions of the poorest people on earth. Funds from BR REDD credits must be invested to achieve positive social equity outcomes for these rainforest communities.

Harbour IT is rewarded with the knowledge that we are helping to reduce our carbon footprint in a way that is not only environmentally responsible, but which provides assistance to the poorest people of the world.

Techie Brekky November 2009

Introducing Windows 7. Your PC, Simplified. Cutting Costs and Driving Efficiencies.

Yes it has some great new and improved features, but how will implementing Windows 7 impact your organisation and what should your IT staff consider before making any recommendations to switch? We'll also show you how you can reduce costs by streamlining PC management, manage risks through enhanced security and control and make your users productive anywhere.

Our Techie Brekky series is strictly fluff-free -- facts and demonstrations for technical people, given by technical people.

In this session:

• Learn and understand how a Windows Optimized Desktop can help you address the challenges and needs of each worker type in your organisation
• Find out how Windows 7 overall can help you access information from anywhere, enhance security and streamline PC management.
• Find out how desktop virtualisation can help you address the challenges and needs of IT and end-users in your organisation.

Techie Brekky August 2009

NetApp: Storage Strategies for Virtualised Environments

Storage Strategies for Virtualised Environments with NetApp, which continues the virtualisation theme by looking at the implications of your storage choices in a virtualised environment.

Too many organisations think of storage in a separate context to their overall virtualisation strategy. By doing this, you could be missing out on some of the more advanced features of VMware – potentially foregoing additional cost savings and provisioning flexibility that underpinned your business case for virtualising in the first place.

By incorporating a unified storage architecture, traditionally difficult areas such as backup and Disaster Recovery can be included as components of your virtualisation solution – without incurring huge additional costs.

So join Harbour IT and NetApp at this strictly fluff-free Techie Brekky… facts and demonstrations for technical people, given by technical people.

Gain an understanding of the issues and considerations around a unified storage architecture within a virtualised environment and find out how you can:

• Automate some of the most labour-intensive data management tasks

• Slash 50-90% off VMware storage requirements through deduplication technology

• Accelerate time-to-deployment by instantly provisioning servers and storage together

• Setup instantaneous backup and recovery processes.

ITIL Executive Briefing

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) continues to gain momentum in the Australian IT workplace as the preferred framework for best practice IT services. Once thought to be the domain of big business, ITIL is now finding strong support from all segments of Australian business.

During this Executive Briefing Session you will learn:

• The key elements that make up ITIL
• The differences between ITIL versions 2 and 3
• The benefits to your business of using the ITIL framework
• How to cost effectively implement ITIL in your organisation

Your presenter, Marcus Binet, has over 15 years experience working in, managing, training and consulting in IT. In the late 90s, Marcus commenced working with one of the first IT Service Management organisations in Australia. In this role, he managed teams of IT professionals delivering IT services using the ITIL process model as a framework. Marcus is considered one of the most experienced ITIL practitioners in the Australia.