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You can’t wait until your company has a major data loss to discover that you are unable to restore your data.According to the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, 60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster.

Join Access Northeast to discuss how to utilize the Cloud to protect your business and make you more recoverable.

DETAILS:

Date: April 18^th, 2012

Time: 2:00PM EST

http://accessnortheastbackuptothecloudwebinar.eventbrite.com

“Xand and Access Northeast both share a strong commitment to providing excellent service and innovative solutions to our customers,” said David Struwas, CEO of Xand. “The synergies between our firms will only serve to reinforce this message to the northeast marketplace.”

The combination of these two providers will be able to offer regional enterprises a multiple data center service across Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York for better implementation of their strategic business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

“A single customer-centric service provider implementing end-to-end replication, backup and recovery solutions is a very powerful proposition,” said Rob Stephenson, Access Northeast’s CEO. “Our team is very excited for the Xand merger and is bullish on the prospect of jointly delivering Internet Infrastructure services to businesses of all sizes.”

Mr. Stephenson will serve as the Chief Marketing Officer and a member of the Board of Directors in the new entity. He joins Bob DeSantis, CFO, and Mr. Struwas, CEO, to form the core of the new company’s management team. Eric Kagan, Access Northeast’s current CTO, will also remain with the company in a technical role and as a Board Observer.

Xand was acquired by ABRY Partners in October of 2011. ABRY Partners, a Boston, Mass. private equity investment firm, has made several significant investments in the data center and communications space.

“We believe the combination of Xand and Access Northeast creates an unrivaled regional service platform company intently focused upon the data center triple play – colocation, cloud and managed services,” said Brian St. Jean of ABRY Partners. “We look forward to backing the newly formed company with additional resources for expansion and acquisitions.”

About Xand

Founded in 1990, Xand is a highly resilient facilities-based provider of data center infrastructure, colocation, private cloud and business continuity services. Xand specializes in fully managed solutions including application and server hosting, data storage, systems engineering, network operations, Internet connectivity, and business continuity workspace. Its pristine, state-of-the-art data center is headquartered in Westchester County, NY, 30 miles north of NYC. Xand supplies and maintains the best-in-class infrastructure, engineering expertise, and customer service needed to deliver superior performance, availability and security for mission-critical business solutions.

About Access Northeast:

Access Northeast is one of the largest privately held data center managed services providers in New England. For more than 13 years, Access Northeast has designed, built and managed IT Infrastructure services which allow enterprises to maximize their critical application performance and availability. These solutions include Parthenon Cloud™, colocation, enterprise hosting, disaster recovery and WAN connectivity.

For more information, please visit www.xand.com or www.accessnortheast.com

Press Contact:

Shana Baroni
508-281-7600
sbaroni@axsne.com

About ABRY Partners

Founded in 1989, ABRY is one of the most experienced and successful media, communications, and business information services sector-focused private equity investment firms in North America. ABRY has completed over $27 billion of transactions, representing investments in more than 450 properties. The firm is currently managing over $3.5 billion of total capital and investing out of a $1.6 billion private equity fund, $750 million senior equity/mezzanine fund and a $1.2 billion senior debt fund. ABRY has extensive data center and communications investing experience through investments such as CyrusOne, Datapipe, e-Shelter, Hosted Solutions, Masergy, Sidera, Sentrum Holdings, Telx, and Q9 Networks.

Access Northeast is proud to announce our sponsorship of the Connecticut Technology Council’s IT Summit 2011, being held at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center in beautiful Uncasville, CT on November 29.

The IT Summit (formerly the CIO Forum) is an annual program designed for the executive information management of mid-sized to large companies. According to the CTC, the goal for the IT Summit is to introduce the state’s IT executives to each other and to present topics and information that will make them more successful. The summit is open to senior IT professionals and CIOs.

Join Access Northeast and a host of top IT professionals November 29 at Mohegan Sun; Register today via the link below:

Full info and register at http://www.etouches.com/ITSummit_2011

Mohegan Sun Convention Center, Uncasville
November 29, 2011
8:30 am – 2:00 pm

*CTC has arranged for a discounted room rate of $222.00 for those preferring to stay overnight on 11/28.
Contact Mke Scricca at mscricca@ct.org for details.

To learn more about the Connecticut Technology Council, view clips from previous IT Summits, and see the agenda for 2011, please visit http://www.ct.org/CIOForum.asp

Application Availability

VMware and Access Northeast Present MirrorCloud

Date:      November3rd, 2011

Time:      11:00 AM EST

Basing your disaster recovery plan on traditional dedicated failover sites and time consuming manual processes is not cost efficient and often unreliable. Access Northeast’s MirrorCloud delivers the simplest and most automated way of keeping your applications available while keeping within the constraints of your budget.

Attend This Webcast To Learn About:

• A simple way to replicate your applications to a secondary site
• How to cost effectively lower your Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
• How to easily automate your site recovery at time of test and disaster

Featured Speaker:
Michael McDonough, Senior Business Development Executive, VMware

John Patrick Holland, Vice President of Sales, Access Northeast

Christian Lappin, Director of Sales Engineering, Access Northeast

Webinar Details:

If you are interested in attending this event, please sign up by clicking on the following link:

http://accessnortheastmirrorcloudwebinar.eventbrite.com

Wednesday, October 12th. ACP Greater Boston Chapter October Meeting
Christine Curren, Membership Director, ACP Greater Boston Chapter
Disaster Psychology: Why Do We Live in Dangerous Places?
Date: Wednesday, October 12 , 2011
Time: 8:15 – 11:00 AM
Location: Access Northeast
34 Saint Martin Drive
Marlborough, MA
***Photo identification is required to enter the building.
Parking Lot is available
Food: Refreshments will be provided
[Please see our website for directions]
http://greaterboston.acp-international.com/acpchapter_events.htm

OVERVIEW
In his lecture he will describe some of the dangers posed by natural hazards, what has been and can be done to help protect at-risk populations, and how various social and psychological factors contribute to how people behave before, during, and in the aftermath of a natural disaster.

SPEAKER
Matthew S. Davis, Ph.D. – Dominican University in San Rafael, California

Originally from Massachusetts, Matt Davis is a Professor of Psychology at Dominican University in San Rafael, California. His research expertise focuses on how people view their risk from natural disasters and ways in which at-risk populations can be motivated to take self-protective measures to better prepare for such events. He has conducted studies of residents living near volcanoes at Italy’s Mt. Vesuvius and Washington’s Mt. Rainier, as well as residents of northern California who are at risk from both earthquakes and tsunami. Most recently he has conducted evaluations of how participation in disaster preparedness training affects people psychologically. He has been an invited speaker at several international conferences, and has been interviewed for the documentary, “Could It Happen Here” which aired on the Discovery Times Channel in 2007 and “When Aliens Attack”, currently airing in Great Britain and Europe on the Discovery Channel. He regularly teaches classes in Social Psychology, Media Psychology, Statistics, Research Methods, and an interdisciplinary course called, “Natural Disasters: Societal and Individual Reactions to Risk”.

RSVP’s are necessary to ensure adequate accommodations:
Please email: Christine.curren@gmail.com
Members attend all Greater Boston Chapter meetings at no charge.
*Guest Policy – $25.00 per meeting for all non-ACP members (cash or check, payable to ACP Greater Boston Chapter, at time of event; no credit cards~sorry!). (Annual ACP membership with the Greater Boston Chapter is $75.00 and allows access to any ACP Chapter meeting or event nationwide. More details available via ACP’s website: https://www.acp-international.com/benefits.html

The buzz around our newly introduced Parthenon™ MirrorCloud continues to grow, with technology news site TMCnet.com putting the VMware-backed rapid disaster recovery solution in the spotlight.

IT news site TMCnet.com featured our Parthenon™ MirrorCloud as a top virtualization story

The Parthenon™ MirrorCloud service utilizes the power of VMware’s vCenter and Site Recovery Manager (SRM) technologies to deliver a simple-to-use, reliable, and fully automated virtual replication solution. MirrorCloud easily integrates with all of Access Northeast’s existing Parthenon™ Cloud Infrastructure Services, providing IT professionals a variety of cost-efficient solutions.

Click Here to Read the Full TMCnet Article!

MirrorCloud is also designed to allow IT, Finance and Business Continuity professionals within the same organization to align their individual mandates with respect to corporate Disaster Recovery planning by dramatically lowering Recovery Time Objectives within existing budgets.

Backed by the latest VMware innovations, the Parthenon™ MirrorCloud is said to assure a solution that works along with the management and future scalability that VMware virtual platforms offer.

Interested in how the Parthenon™ MirrorCloud can help your business meet its Disaster Recovery goals? Click below to speak with our Cloud experts today!

SAVE THE DATE – Access Northeast Golf Outing – On Monday, October 3rd at 11:00AM, Access Northeast will be hosting a golf outing at BlackstoneNational Golf Club in Sutton, MA. Immediately following the tournament, dinner, awards and cocktails will be served at the National Grill.

Click here to download the event brochure!

The MirrorCloud service utilizes the power of VMware’s vCenter and Site Recovery Manager (SRM) technologies to deliver a simple-to-use, reliable, and fully-automated virtual replication solution. MirrorCloud seamlessly integrates with all of Access Northeast’s existing Parthenon Cloud™ Infrastructure Services, providing IT professionals with a variety of cost-efficient solutions to choose from.

“Access Northeast is filling a void in the Northeast datacenter market,” said VMware Business Development Leader Michael J McDonough III. “They are truly a thought leader in offering Disaster Recovery in conjunction with other robust offerings. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity services were only available to the largest enterprise customers just three years ago, but with the advancement of VMware software and Access Northeast’s infrastructure, this very important need is now available to everyone in the market.”

The Parthenon™ MirrorCloud service allows IT, Finance and Business Continuity professionals within the same organization to align their individual mandates with respect to corporate Disaster Recovery planning by dramatically lowering Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) within existing budgets. Backed by the latest VMware innovations, the Parthenon™ MirrorCloud guarantees a solution that works along with the ease-of-use management and future scalability that VMware virtual platforms are famous for.

“Every day we meet with companies who are challenged with high application availability requirements, despite modest budgets,” said Brian Bean, Vice President of Technical Services at Access Northeast. “With MirrorCloud, the cost variance between 24-hour recovery time and 6 hours is almost negligible.”

About VMware
VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere® – customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2010 revenues of $2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

About Access Northeast
Access Northeast is one of the largest privately held data center and managed services providers in New England. For more than 12 years, Access Northeast has worked to design, build and manage highly customized IT infrastructure services that allow Enterprises to maximize their critical application performance and availability. Access Northeast’s suite of managed solutions include the Parthenon Cloud™ platform, Colocation, Enterprise Hosting, and Disaster Recovery alongside WAN Connectivity and 24×7 Network Monitoring and Management.

Press Contact: Shana Baroni – 508-281-7600 – sbaroni@axsne.com

Click Below to Learn More About How the Parthenon™ MirrorCloud Can Help Your Business!

“Access Northeast was able to craft a unique Cloud solution that wasn’t readily available from most of their competitors. Their hybrid design allowed us to take advantage of the technical, operational and financial benefits of their Parthenon Cloud, while still allowing Micronotes to maintain our own physical environment in one of their premium data centers,” said Venkat Rangamani, CTO of Micronotes. “As an emerging company and new startup, the financial and operational benefit of having access to computing power on demand was critical for us to keep focusing upon our rapidly growing digital marketing business.”

Micronotes sought a hybrid Cloud platform capable of connecting their existing physical infrastructure directly to a service provider’s Cloud. Access Northeast was able to produce a solution for Micronotes by providing physical colocation directly connected via local Ethernet to a Parthenon Cloud™ virtual node, within the same state-of-the-art data center facility.

“The Parthenon Cloud™ is the perfect platform for startup companies, especially those working with dynamic applications requiring strong testing and development architecture,” said Access Northeast CEO Rob Stephenson. “Micronotes can now service banking customers more efficiently by outsourcing their infrastructure directly to Access Northeast. With our custom solution, they get the best of both worlds by combining a physical environment with the high performance, cost effective features of the Parthenon Cloud™ — all under a single roof.”

About Access Northeast

Access Northeast is one of the largest privately held data center and managed services providers in New England. For more than 12 years, Access Northeast has worked to design, build and manage highly customized IT infrastructure services that allow Enterprises to maximize their critical application performance and availability. Access Northeast’s suite of managed solutions include the Parthenon Cloud™ platform, Colocation, Enterprise Hosting, and Disaster Recovery alongside WAN Connectivity and 24×7 Network Monitoring and Management.

To learn more about Access Northeast, please visit: http://www.accessnortheast.com.

Press Contact: Shana Baroni - 508-281-7600 - sbaroni@axsne.com

About Micronotes

Micronotes is a digital marketing services company that partners with financial institutions to bring relevant high-value promotions to bank customers using purchase history, matrix marketing, and interaction. Micronotes products include: the KulaMula™ FinApp, which delivers transaction targeted promotions to online banking customers, and KulaX™, a radically productive cross-sell platform for financial institutions that delivers more leads faster. http://www.micronotes.com