All Mountain Tech teamed up with Paperwise and Electronics Recycling International to sponsor the Electronics Recycling Event organized and put on by the Eagle Valley Alliance for Sustainability. Thank you Matt Scherr of the Alliance for the opportunity, and a special thanks to Matt McLaughlin of ERI. Also the local green team of Maurie Nottingham and Jerry Chicoine, who put in countless hours at not just this event but at the Minturn Rummage sale to re-gen pc’s for good causes, fund-raisers. We are honored to be a part of this larger team and look forward to years of recycling with this crew.

All Mountain Technologies  is proud to introduce our newest team members!

     Megan Hawkins is our new office manager. Originally from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Megan has a BS in Finance. She has been in the Valley since 2004, and just joined All Mountain Technologies in March. We are excited to bring her administrative background on board here at AMT.

     Our newest Network Engineer is Dustin Morgan. Dustin was born in Denver, CO and is one of the few actual native Coloradans. He has been in the Information Technology field since 2001 and worked in Colorado from Central City to Glenwood Springs. He moved to the mountains in 2008 to work on extensive IT projects at Copper Mountain, then joined the All Mountain Tech team in February of 2010.   The entire staff can be found on the Our Team  page.

     Ask about the improvements to our Always-On offering! We are working harder to make our service better for you with more customization and optimization specifically for your business. We will have more detailed information coming soon but are happy to do a customized audit if you want to get ahead of the curve.

Sincerely,

 The Team at All Mountain Technologies.

Check out All Mountain Tech’s affordable web services.
Hosted Exchange. Gain the functionality of an Exchange Server for only 50 cents per day. Make sure your Calendar’s, Contacts, Tasks and Notes are synchronized to your Iphone, Blackberry, laptop and desktop. (Mac-compatible and fully functional). Never worry about mail function or backups, and synchronization again, all with a easily accessible admin panel for ease of end-user configuration and management.

Find out how we can flatten your IT budget. Flat-Rate IT support.
Spam Filtering
AMT’s Reflexion Spam filter service is an award winning service for those of you overloaded with Spam for less than $.01 per day. Mail is filtered for Spam and viruses, then sent on to your mailbox. Reflexion adds an additional layer of security to your business.
Flat Rate IT Support – Remote service and support available on-demand anywhere, anytime.

Always-On is All Mountain Technologies’ Managed Services Offering. We are proud of our premier service which can meet your needs from managing a 100 person company, to taking advantage of Desktop Assurance for your 3 person company.

Always-On has several coverage plans, and we will discuss server coverage and plans in a later Blog post. For today we’re going to discuss the Always-On Desktop Assurance.

Always-On Desktop Assurance includes:

• Trend/Micro monitored/managed antivirus.
• Weekly, planned installation of tested, vetted Windows Updates.
• Free LogmeIn service for remote connectivity to your pc.
• Free remote support (30 minutes per incidient)
• Always-On Priority status and response
• Discounted rates. ($25.00 off per hour)
• Quarterly reports of hardware, software, and memory use for planning purposes.

Options like this mean that you can experience the care and support anytime, anywhere. Always-On is so efficient in monitoring and supporting your network, that it can give you a premier support experience while saving you money at the same time.

If you’re interested in Always-On, server plans or Desktop Assurance plans, call us at 970-748-8880 and give us the opportunity to help you.

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Secure your Peace of Mind with Always-On Desktop Assurance.

This blog will specifically be aimed toward the AMT Online Vault, and next week we’ll begin an introduction of our premier product, Always-On.  The Online Vault is a secure, online backup program from any pc. Generally this will be ideal for the 1-2 user networks, 2-3 pc’s to backup.  A step up: The Always-On Backup includes a backup server (provided by All Mountain Technologies) and updates a backup image (for up to 3 servers for the base model) every 15 minutes. Every night the image updates are backed up securely online to assure that all data is offsite. Always-On Backup is ideal for 5-50 user networks, and is designed for a server-based installation and backup. The BDR Backup Server’s image backups can also be mounted in 20-30 minutes to “take-over” if there is some catastrophic failure with the server, for complete redundency until the original server is repaired and back online.

The AMT Online Vault is simply an online backup tool which will back up changed files each night. It is a secure, easy to setup, and easy to manage backup services, and you can rest assured that your data is safe and securely offsite and backed up. There are no more USB drives, and no more keychain drives that fail or fill up. Each night, all new data since the last backup is uploaded to the Secure AMT Online Vault. You are emailed logs and updates of the backup status. Your data is truly safe, secure and you can quit worrying about it.

This is the biggest part. Your peace of mind. No more failed backups. No more worry.

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Secure your Peace of Mind with Always-On.

AMT’s Relexion Spam filter is the best available Spam filter you can find. It is very fast, works very well, and uses new technologies like Radar and grey listing.

I’m going to take a minute and describe the difference between a spam filter service and a spam filter program running on your pc. A program on your pc can be effective, but there are two flaws.

It slows down your computer as any running program will, and any spam or virus is not caught until AFTER it’s arrived at your computer. Because a program is on your computer, all the spam get’s to your inbox anyway, then the program has to run from there to decide if the mail is spam or not, so your mail function in general is greatly diminished.

A spam filter is, in general, a third-party site with servers that filter out spam and viruses. We configure all of your mail to go to this new filter site. After viruses and Spam are filtered out, the good mail (and ONLY the good mail) is then sent on to your inbox. You can login to the service so see your held mail, or you can review weekly or daily reports to your email and white-list/release from there. AMT’s Relexion Spam Filter services also inserts a “Control Panel” at the bottom of every email. Between this and the daily reports, you can preform almost every necessary function without daily visits to your Quarantine sight…

So Potential Spam and viruses never hit your computer, your inbox, your office. And using the outbound services as well will secure your mail like no other service, all for less than $3.00 per mailbox per month. Let us know if you’re interested. AMT’s Relexion Spam Filtering service is the fastest most effective spam filter service available.

Intuitive. Effective. Stop the in-SPAM-ity.

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Secure your Peace of Mind with Always On Monitoring and updating.

Microsoft Exchange is a powerful tool. For those of you who are not familiar with it, it offers all kinds of advantages over pop mail. It functions as a web based Mailbox that synchronizes with Outlook or Entourage on the mac.

· No backup of email data is necessary. By nature of the product, your email is saved both offsite and on your pc. The file synchronizes every time you are back online.

· All mail folders and information on all computers and phones/devices are perfectly synchronized.

· Calendar and Outlook information sharing with multiple view/edit rights available. This means an office manager can update multiple calendars which in turn, sync to the user’s IPhone or Blackberry

· Common Public Folders for shared calendars, contacts, tasks and notes.

· SpamLab Spam Filtering included with each Hosted Exchange account.

· Free Aliases

· Ease of management for both the end-users, and the onsite client-administrator

A hosted exchange account is generally between $14 and $20 per month depending if you’ve got additional fee services such as BES for the blackberry. Before a couple of years ago, you HAD to purchase an exchange server, Hardware and Software licenses. Some people still prefer to have their mail server onsite, and paying for 20 or more accounts monthly can get costly. But a server has maintenance and hidden costs as well. Not only is a server expensive to purchase and maintain, but you’ll need a second one if you want a Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES). How many people are you providing mailboxes for?

Hosted Servers are available as well, talk about that later. For now you simply need to ask yourself the following two questions. Is your Exchange Server Aging and have you priced out Exchange Server 2007 licensing, Server Hardware and Warranties?

Do you have 30 or less people with mailboxes in your office?

If the answer is yes to either of those, you should investigate AMT Hosted Exchange over Server replacement.

Happy Holidays all.

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Solutions that Work for YOU!

That indeed is the question?

The next question is: What do you need to host?

Which servers and services do you wish to “webify”?

Hosted Exchange is $15/month. Sharepont hosting is $20

So calculate how many users you’ve got, then calculate how much your exchange server will be to replace.

If you have bulk data that needs to be stored onsite (at least for the next 2 or 3 years until internet lines are as reliable as phone lines), what is your answer?

We’ve had incredible results with AMT Always ON BDR Backup servers on site, as well as an online backup service such as the AMT Online Vault backing up a local storage server or SAN drive.

As long as you’re online and you’re data’s backed up, we’re happy.

There are several advantages to “webifying” your business, and All Mountain Technologies can help you along this path. Almost every piece of your business can be put on the web for a monthly fee.

Whatever your needs, we’ll be diving into all the possibilities and advantages of web services in the next series of blogs.

Good day, all!

Chris Alexander for…

All Mountain Technologies

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