The Bell Curve--Where do you see yourself?

NU list defined

The burning question: What is the NU list, how do you get on it and how do you move up? Well, picture your standard bell curve, it represents the distribution of parties as measured by some qualitative or quantitative value. Our company takes a more subjective stance in the field of new technologies in the messaging, security, compliance, storage management, and esdiscovery markets and looks at who is leading in innovation, marketing, management, flexibility, relevance etc.

We take these factors into account and place companies along this curve, to the extreme left are companies whose technology just has not found its stride in the marketplace, there is not a large enough need, management is struggling to find direction, the story is not defined and a myriad other reasons why they are in the early stages of "hotness" Then there is the incline of the bell, the hottest zone to be in. These are the technologies that are out there seeing the big names in the industry, making meetings, getting their products in for evaluation, closing deals, supporting their partners, training new people on their technology, wowing conference attendees. These are the technologies we ride with. We help bring new technologies to the mainstream community.

Then either through merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or shear success, companies reach the top of the bell curve, and then begin to trickle into the downward slope. Unfortunately this is when we need to say "adieu." For whatever reason, it does not work out. The market becomes saturated, management loses the start-up mentality, the partner community is flooded, Costco starts selling the product...whatever happens, it happens, we wish you the best, it was a great ride but this is business and there are 20 other technologies that are on the upswing.

So that is how we define the list, or that is my take on it at least. We love being in this position, we maintain contacts with the big corporations, the forward thinking corporations, the progressives, and we bring them dependable technologies that are doing new things but work and are trustworthy and won't cut bait at the first sign on trouble.

We have fun, we are motivated by new ideas, new technology, and most of all, new leads...

Informative article about File Virtualization

This article is a good overview of file virtualization. I have been working with Acopia who is mentioned and has a great product.



http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/12/07FEvirtualstor_1.html



www.acopia.com

Technologies I cover

Monitoring and Surveillance
File Virtualization
Email Policy Management
Email Archiving and Journaling
WORM Storage
Content Filtering for IM, Web, Email
BackFile Conversion
Data Life Cycle Management
Business Continuity/D R
Email Migration
Messaging Hierarchical Storage Mgmt
File, & Record Archiving
Integrated Fax Archiving
Anti Spam
Anti Virus
Blackberry Management and Security
Email Back-up and Restore
Fax Servers
Server Consolidation
Instant Messaging Management
Anything else I find relevant...

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