GFI MAX RemoteManagement will soon monitor, report and alert on all important aspects of Linux servers via the dashboard. Coming soon, the beta agent will cover Red Hat, Cent OS and FC. Following the beta launch, we’ll develop SUSE, OpenSUSE, Debian and Ubuntu monitoring.

So, if you’ve got a number of different server systems you will soon be able to keep your eye on ALL of them from one dashboard. GFI MAX RemoteManagement’s 24×7 monitoring will alert you to problems with your customers’ servers. You’ll always know about an issue before they do, so you can fix problems fast and minimize their business disruption. What’s more, using the Daily Safety Check you will gain an excellent understanding of your clients’ servers. This means, when it comes to pricing a full-fledged Managed Services contract, you have all the information needed to make an accurate assessment.

The Linux 24 x 7 and Daily Safety Checks will allow you to monitor:

• Partition Space
• Performance
• Log Files
• MySQL
• Daemons and processes
• Anything that can be scripted.

Find out more by watching our short video:

Learn more about GFI MAX RemoteManagement.

“We’re very grateful to the Group for this award and we look forward to continuing to work closely with the Network Group in the years ahead to add further value to their MSP offerings through GFI MAX.” said, Jim Harrower, UK & Ireland Sales Manager for GFI MAX.

All the details from the awards ceremony can be found on the Network Group site here: http://www.nbg.co.uk/latest-news/

See what David Hay, Partner Development Manager for the GFI MAX product line, has to say about the award in this short video.

Webinar: Riders on the Storm: Adding Value to Your MSP with Cloud Services

Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM BST

Registration link: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/581169358

This informative webinar will focus on the steps you need to take to add value to your MSP by becoming a Cloud Solutions Provider.  Learn how you can add cloud services to your overall provider package and some of the major pitfalls to avoid, while growing your business and increasing profits.

Join us with special guest Paul Byrne, from ChannelCloud, and Seth Oxhandler, CEO of Cool Cat Inc., as they guide you through these “Strange Days” of cloudy weather.

Paul has been in the IT industry for almost 20 years and is in a unique position in running both an MSP business as well as being CEO of ChannelCloud UK/Ireland. This experience brings with it exceptional insight into why MSP’s need to embrace cloud instead of feeling threatened by it.

Founded in 1990, Coolcat, Inc. operates an internationally recognized security practice specializing in forensics, ethical hacking, application, perimeter and penetration security testing. Coolcat, Inc. currently serves over 850 customers in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Registration link: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/581169358

Feel free to browse our library of previous webinars: http://www.mspbusinessmanagement.com/webinars at our resource site for MSPs, MSP Business Management: http://www.mspbusinessmanagement.com/webinars.

Register today and add value to your business with cloud services!

Special Guest: MSP Marketing Expert Stuart Crawford

Want to get 2012 off to a rousing start and be well informed on the top areas where you should be focusing your marketing strategy this year?

We’ve got you covered this January with our FREE webinar.

Webinar:  The Top 5 Must Focus Areas of Your MSP Marketing Strategy in 2012

Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM GMT

Our special guests in this webinar include MSP Marketing expert Stuart Crawford from Ulistic and MSP Development Coach Richard Tubb.

Stuart Crawford is a leader in the Information Technology community. In his role as senior advisor and partner at Ulistic he focuses on bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience as it relates how IT companies can grow their business through a unique marriage of online and traditional marketing strategies combined with common sense business tactics designed to produce stratospheric success.

Richard Tubb has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years and his CV includes work at Ernst & Young, G.E. Capital and the NHS. He is the former owner of an award winning Midlands IT Managed Service Provider. Well respected within the global small and mid-sized business (SMB) IT community as someone who passionately believes in sharing knowledge with his peers and raising the bar of professionalism within the IT industry, Tubb was in 2010 nominated to both the MSP Mentor 250 and SMB Nation 150 lists.

Join us this January to hear Stuart and Richard share insights (and maybe a few secrets) to put your MSP or IT support company at the head of the pack in 2012.

Registration link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/900742658

Feel free to browse our library of previous webinars: http://www.mspbusinessmanagement.com/webinars at our resource site for MSPs, MSP Business Management: http://www.mspbusinessmanagement.com/webinars.

Seats fill up fast, so be sure to register today!

Bob Godgart, Former CEO Autotask/Now CEO ChannelEyes.com

Looking to learn the latest tips and tricks for making the most of your revenue streams with GFI MAX? Or are you an MSP trying to figure out how to plan for the months ahead? In either case, we’ve got you covered this November with our series of FREE webinars.

Webinar: Managing Workstations with GFI MAX

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 2PM GMT

In the webinar, hosted by GFI’s Jim Harrower, UK & Ireland Sales Manager, you will hear about the additional revenue streams that you can gain from workstation management and how to structure your business to make it profitable. You will also learn about how to use automation as a valuable tool to increase profit margins and reduce costs. Also covered in this webinar will be the GFI MAX Building Blocks Program that provides the business support tools that you need to make managing workstations a success.

Registration link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/374936482

Our second webinar focuses on how you can prepare your MSP for both the immediate and long term future.

Webinar:  MSP Trends for 2012 and Beyond

Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 4PM GMT

In this webinar, MSP Industry Visionaries Bib Godgart and Jay McBain will report on the trends that will shape MSP landscape over the next three years.  Hear where the money is, what the secret game software vendors are playing and how you can position yourself to win.

Bob Godgart and Jay McBain are the founders of ChannelEyes, the world’s first Channel specific social network. You can register and find out more information at http://www.channeleyes.com.

Registration Link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/592127602

Feel free to browse our library of previous webinars: http://www.mspbusinessmanagement.com/webinars at our resource site for MSPs, MSP Business Management http://www.mspbusinessmanagement.com.

Seats fill up fast, so be sure to register today!

How do I know this? Because most of the spam I get has subjects that end with an exclamation mark. To me, that spells excitement! (See?)

Here’s just a small sampling of some of the subject lines from the last messages to wind up in my spam folder:

“Boost Your Immune Health! Wherever you go!”

A portable immune health booster? We really are in the future! But where’s my flying car?

“Free Auto Insurance Quotes!”

If any subject line deserved an exclamation point, it definitely should be one that talks about auto insurance.

“Hello! I have found useful info about you…”

The exclamation mark gets my attention, like it’s from an old friend. But it’s really the “…” at the end that makes this one intriguing. What type of adventure and intrigue lies in wait for me if I respond to THIS email?

Opportunities like those above weren’t extended to you in a daily basis this way back in the early days of the Internet. Back in those pre-historic days, (1978, to be exact) most messages passed back and forth had to do with routing protocols and system upgrades. That’s because the Internet of the time (at least the part in the United States) was called the ARPANET and was set up as part of a U.S. Department of Defense project involving distributed networking.

No, the type of spam you were most likely to see back in 1978 was….well, actually, you weren’t going to be seeing any spam back because it didn’t exist yet. At least until one day in May, when a gung-ho marketer from Digital Electronics Corporation (DEC) got the bright idea to advertise their latest computer model to a captive audience on the ARPANET.

That historic day in May, Gary Thuerk, a marketing employee at DEC, was responsible for sending the first commercial spam. Unwanted system wide messages had been sent before on the Arpanet, but this was the first message that advertised a product.

Thanks to the Internet, nothing can ever be forgotten again, so we still have a copy of that ground breaking piece of electronic communication:

Mail-from: DEC-MARLBORO rcvd at 3-May-78 0955-PDT
Date: 1 May 1978 1233-EDT
From: THUERK at DEC-MARLBORO

DIGITAL WILL BE GIVING A PRODUCT PRESENTATION OF THE NEWEST MEMBERS OF THE DECSYSTEM-20 FAMILY; THE DECSYSTEM-2020, 2020T, 2060, AND 2060T. THE DECSYSTEM-20 FAMILY OF COMPUTERS HAS EVOLVED FROM THE TENEX OPERATING SYSTEM AND THE DECSYSTEM-10
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE.

And that was it. No tales of fabulous riches to be made for free, no secret Nigerian bank accounts, and certainly no way to increase your sex drive or manliness was included in this first spam. There wasn’t even an exclamation point in the subject line!

As a matter of fact, there WAS no subject line. That’s because Thuerk and the DEC engineer he was working with to compose the mail made a mistake and simply continued putting in the intended recipients email addresses in the subject fields.

So, instead of the first spam subject line being a great bargain or other unbelievable offer enticing the recipient to read the email, it read like this:

Subject: ADRIAN@SRI-KL
To: DDAY at SRI-KL, DAY at SRI-KL, DEBOER at UCLA-CCN,
To: WASHDC at SRI-KL, LOGICON at USC-ISI, SDAC at USC-ISI,
To: DELDO at USC-ISI, DELEOT at USC-ISI, DELFINO at USC-ISI,

But, like all good marketers, and the many spam marketers that would come after him, Thurerk knew that he had to have some kind of hook in his message. Something to entice people to come and look at the product he was selling.

How did he provide the sizzle to sell the steak?

Thurerk didn’t use any exclamation marks in his subject line (maybe they weren’t invented yet in 1978), but Thurerk still knew how to inject plenty of buzz into the final sentence of this historic spam:

IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT THE NEAREST DEC OFFICE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXCITING DECSYSTEM-20 FAMILY.

That’s right. If Thurerk couldn’t convince you how exciting the subject of his spam with his copywriting skills, he was just going to come right out and say it. The DECSYSTEM-20 family was “exciting”.

It just doesn’t feel as exciting without the exclamation mark.

Want to see what all the excitement was about for yourself? You can request login access to a real live DEC-20 and other systems at the Living Computer Museum.

If you’re still having problems getting rid of spam or your customers’ spam, you can try GFI products such as GFI Mail Protection to help keep your customers spam excitement to a minimum.

SOURCE:
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html