DX3 Canada is the first and largest expo focused on the Canadian online and mobile, digital marketing, digital advertising and digital retailing industries. DX3 Canada enables unmatched networking, buying and selling opportunities, practical education and a range of interactive show floor features for thousands of digital professionals over the course of 2 days.

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We are happy to announce that the team will be available LIVE and IN PERSON on the Expo floor March 6th and 7th all day located at BOOTH #615. We encourage you to stop by and be our guests… Meet with the Team face-to-face, pick up some free swag, and enter for your chance to win a Tablet! The Expo will be a-buzz with on-floor demos and a full schedule of sessions featuring speakers from Canada’s most innovative and successful digital companies.

Atum Corporation will be exhibiting Award-winning lines of Virtual Business Solutions such as Cloud/VPS hosting and Virtual IT services for the second year at DX3 Canada. This year, Atum will exhibit a brand new service offering of Microsoft Dynamics Partner Solutions for Microsoft Dynamics CRM and GP (ERP).

DX3 is an event that connects us with the digital industry drivers – from Start-up to Enterprise, innovation in technology is extremely well represented year after year.

Big News!

Atum Corporation is included among  the distinguished company of presenters at Dx3 2013! Our very own Cloud Expert and Director of Business Development, John Posan, will be leading a discussion entitled, “Taking Your Business from 0-60 in the Cloud” designed to introduce brand new Cloud features and capabilities that will help small-business benefit by leveling the playing field.

“The Cloud continues to be a hot topic, particularly in digital media and technology industries that often experience rapid overnight growth, ” Says John Posan in the official media release. “Use the Cloud for smart acceleration and it levels the playing field for any sized business.”

FREE Presentation: Taking Your Business from 0-60 in the Cloud
Time: March 6th,  3:45pm
Where? AdParlor Spotlight Theatre

Join the conversation!

Meet with us at BOOTH 615, entrance to the show is FREE!
or follow us as we Tweet from the show LIVE on Twitter: @AtumIT #DX32013

Need more Info? Check out these HOT Links:

• Check out DX3 Canada!
• Be an Audience Member for “Taking your Business from 0-60 in the Cloud”
• Read the official Media Release
• Find out more a bout the Atum Cloud

We’ll find out if these prophetic mathematicians were right… tomorrow. 12/21/2012 used to be a date far into the future… easy to put off. Some have been ‘prepping’ for months, even years.Heck, the movie ’2012′ came out in 2009! I suppose if the prediction turns out to be right, those ‘preppers’ will have their “I told you so” Noah and the Arc moment.

At the very least, this epic world-ending prediction teaches us to be prepared for any disaster. Whether it hits us with a 2000 year old Mayan wrath tomorrow, or on any old unassuming Monday morning. How prepared are YOU for a disaster, big or small?

This list should help you evaluate your preparation:

Server Backup -We have properly backed up all network devices and stored data, and have ensured that the network inventory data is up to date available to anyone in case of… sudden planet alignment signaling the end of the world.

Safe house/bunker – We are satisfied with the level of protection our infrastructure and/or host is using to store our critical data. The data center is weather-proof, bomb-proof, and Mayan-disaster proof with redundancy measures in place and a total security and up-time guarantee.

Tested – We have recently tested our plan for data recovery and backup in case of outage… or world-ending black hole situations.

Disaster Recovery plan – We have a recovery process that can restore any network device in seconds, using a unified and reliable recovery process. This will be extra handy if you find yourself the last surviving human being on the planet… with a computer or smartphone.

… See? Nothing to worry about. But you’re not scared…are you?

How can Atum help you feel safe, rather than sorry?

• Managed VPS and 24/7 Support
• Virtual IT Solutions
• Guaranteed equipment, certifications and Partners
• 10 Reasons to Choose Atum

To be nominated and considered in this category brings our team great pride in the work that was accomplished this year for our clients. Our team dedicates hours of 24/7 service, careful execution/deployment, cutting edge innovation and an investment in top tier technology to keep us (and our customers) ahead of the curve!

If you’re looking for a complete Managed Service solution – Atum has the team, with the expertise, to make it a success.

Here are just some of our Award-Winning Managed Service Solutions:

• Disaster Recovery and Backup Strategy
• 24/7 Tech Support/Help Desk
• Network Security and Monitoring
• Server Migration and Maintenance
• Virtualization and Cloud Services
• Professional IT Consultation
• Infrastructure Architecture
• CRM/ERP Consultation, Implementation and Training

…and more!

Managed Services go above and beyond… We are not just a VPS host, we are a team of Virtualization experts that help our customers realize their full potential by offering innovative and effective Virtual solutions.

Tell us what you need, Ask us how we can help!

Check out the “Unmanaged vs Managed” chart for a visual breakdown of each Atum service.

Still unsure? Ask youself these questions:

“Who will manage my VPS?” – If you opt to buy unmanaged hosting, that’s all you’re getting. You are buying space on our top-notch VPS equipment in our Tier 3 datacentre. But do you have someone on staff or the knowledge yourself to handle the everyday VPS management? Our experts will take care of the upgrades, updates and even monitor your server 24/7. Who do you have in place that can manage those requirements, and at what cost?

“Who is taking care of my data/infrastructure?”- is it you? Is it your IT staff of one? Maybe it’s a good idea to look into paying the extra $50 per month (Atum Managed Plan) to ‘hire’ experts to monitor, patch, run backups and fully secure your data. A Managed plan is SO popular with our clients because many small businesses are concerned with setting themselves up for scalable growth and need to make sure their infrastructure is secure and always ‘up’. A managed package eliminates the need for you or your IT team to lift a finger.

“Should I be responsible for this stuff?”- You manage your business; you need the peace of mind to focus on the core aspects of growing and accelerating into the future. If you do not have a dedicated IT team in place, or people with experience managing servers and infrastructure – hire a virtual team to look after it for you. Don’t sweat the stuff you don’t need to sweat over. Let us help you by putting your data behind our high security firewall, performing all the necessary backups upgrades, updates and patches, monitoring your performance 24/7, and instantly providing you scalable solutions as you grow!

Maybe, you just need the hosting. Or maybe, you need a professional all-in-one solution. Atum has both, so make sure you ask the right questions and find the solution that fits!

Good Question.

An Atum Unmanaged VPS plan allows you to take full control, while benefiting from top of the line virtual technology. If you’ve got an IT Wizard or a full IT department that knows their way around a server and is comfortable with performing upgrades, patches and installations… we give you the keys, and you drive the car. Or server.  We give you the guarantee of premium performance, 100% SLA uptime, a 24/7 Support line, Top notch IBM machines and a certified Tier 3 Datacentre to host your VPS. Get rid of your server closet, and embrace ‘the cloud’, it will save you money and give you instant scalability as you expand. All of those features come with every unmanaged package, from Basic to Platinum.

An Atum Managed VPS plan offers you the same guarantee of equipment, performance, uptime and security… but adds an expert team to manage it all for you. If you don’t want to lift a finger, or hire more IT guys, Atum will completely manage your server, data, security, upgrades, repairs, and installations etc for you. A Managed Package includes the full security of our firewall, regular backups, 24/7 monitoring of your VPS, expert support and easy migrations. Our team of VPS pros will become YOUR team and keep your business running smoothly and securely with no worries.

So you and your team can purchase VPS hosting and continue to manage your own data with all the added benefits of virtualization technology. Or, you can hand over your IT worries to us to manage for you, freeing you from performance issues, security risks and expensive IT costs.

Managed or Unmanaged… choose what’s right for you!

Atum’s Resolution
At Atum, we want to continue expanding as a leader in delivering premium virtual dedicated hosting for our valuable clients. We hope to increase our clientele and of course, make more wonderful friends such as yourself! The past year has presented us with amazing opportunities and we have a feeling 2011 will only be more prosperous.

We have exciting upgrades and partnerships that will be announced soon so stay tuned! You will not be disappointed.

Have a very happy new year!
Atum

The event will be an evening of speakers and networking incorporating themes of project management, business and the environment.

When:  October 14th, 2010  From 6 to 9 pm.
Where:  Rivoli Hotel, Upstairs.  334 Queen St. W., Toronto, Ontario
For more information: http://greenenterprise.net/events.php?id=6934

All funds will be donated to Green Enterprise Ontario to support its vision of an economically sustainable Ontario. 

The event is meant to server as an educating session and expand participants’ knowledge of how environmental decision making can be added to their businesses and projects. The event will also discuss some of the biggest hurdles project managers are facing in implementing more efficiency to their organizations.

John Posan is excited to share the many benefits of outsourcing IT, specifically virtual private server hosting (VPS) that result in cutting costs and energy use for business owners.

We hope to see you there!

We’re happy to announce that Atum reinforces itself yet again as a leader in small business server hosting solutions! We are proud to announce that we have received Silver in the Best Small Business Solution (IT Business) CDN’s Channel Elite Awards sponsored by Dell, Tech Data and D-Link.

As previously mentioned, the winners were announced at the CDN’s Channel Elite Awards Gala on September 16, 2010 in Toronto, Canada made to recognize IT solution providers for their leadership, innovation and commitment to creating value to their customers.  The gala is designed to promote the business advantages that technology solutions can create and to recognize achievement in the channel.

The Best Small Business Solution Provider awards were given to companies that created the most innovative and problem solving solution for an organization or department with up to 100 seats. Atum’s solution is dedicated virtual server hosting that comes with managed hosting and unmanaged hosting options.  

Atum is a small business itself and understands that other small businesses need help in competing among large corporations (we know how tough it is). Atum helps small businesses virtualize their IT infrastructures leveling their IT performance with enterprise giants, giving small businesses that competitive advantage.

A small business often finds it hard to perform on the same level as large enterprise but Atum’s fully managed dedicated server hosting solutions are able to provide them with the same resources. Our solution is based on hardware and software manufactured by our partners IBM, Microsoft, Citrix, RedHat, Hewlett Packard, Cisco, Symantec and Lenovo to deliver premium results for companies that may not afford to host in house. It’s very unlikely that a small business will be able to afford hardware and software by our partners if they do it inhouse and Atum’s plans start as low as $39/mo providing for that opportunity.

To better put cost cutting for a small business into perspective, it all comes down to price. Comparing this to a competitor’s pricing, to outsource a traditional physical server costs $420/month for a minimum package. This adds up to $5, 040 annual for small business managed dedicated server hosting.

Atum is able to offer the same managed server hosting solution for $89/month, adding up to $1, 068 for a managed server hosting solution. For an unmanaged hosting solution, we are able to offer packages as low as $390 annual!  Even our highest managed server hosting solution plan adds up to $3, 108 annual making it $1, 932 cheaper than the minimum physical dedicated server solution from our competitor.

We don’t only provide small business hosting solutions that are able to cut costs while increasing performance but we are also small business focused and personal. We offer a variety of small business programs, incentives, discounts and open source solutions. Specifically, one of our main involvements in a small business start is the Microsoft BizSpark program. We were once a startup ourselves and know how essential it is to have the right support from well established industry leaders. Since we’re an exclusive Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, we’re pleased to offer a Microsoft BizSpark program designed specifically for startups. Today’s most promising start ups are tomorrow’s future and we help them get a head start in the business by providing them with the right visibility, support and software.

Our small business clients have improved the ability to server their own clients because we are a trusty virtual dedicated server hosting backbone. Our SMB clients rely on technology and can’t afford a hosting failure. This allows small businesses to make the most out of their budgets by focusing on their core business. These resources can now be focused on strategic aims, increasing revenue and profitability in areas like business development.

So there you go Toronto, Canada, and everyone else in the world! This is proof once again that if your small business chooses to go with an Atum virtual dedicated server hosting solution, you will be taken great care of by our fantastic team.

Go Atum!

Thanks everyone!

We’re ecstatic to announce that Atum is yet again a leader in green IT & green server hosting solutions! We are proud to announce that we received bronze in the Greenest Solution Provider (IT Business) CDN’s Channel Elite Awards sponsored by Dell, Tech Data and D-Link.

CDN Channel Elite Awards recognizes IT Solution Providers for their innovation, leadership and commitment to creating value for their customers. The winners were announced at the CDN’s Channel Elite Awards Gala on September 16, 2010 in Toronto, Canada.  The gala designed to promote the business advantages that technology solutions can create and to recognize achievement in the channel.

The Greenest Solution Award went to solutions that most effectively served to reduce the environmental impact. The winning solutions had effective ways of reducing energy consumption, the carbon footprint or the ecological impact of any business activity by demonstrating a less negative impact on the environment than alternative solutions.

This past year, Atum has been very active in Green IT and green dedicated server hosting by providing virtual private server (VPS) hosting, educating businesses on the many benefits of virtual server hosting and helping them engage in going green and green IT. Atum helps primarily small to medium sized businesses virtualize their IT infrastructures through server consolidation. Virtualization is simple – it means doing more with less. Less resources used accompanied by more powerful hosting performance and security results in a win-win situation with benefiting not only the environment but also the small business. With a managed dedicated server hosting the business experiences all the advantages of a physical dedicated server hosting (plus more!) for a fraction of the cost and produces a significantly smaller environmental footprint. Atum creates awareness around server hosting green and that Green IT is no longer just good for the environment; it’s also good for business.

As you already know if you browsed around our website, John Posan of Atum was a proud speaker at the 2010 annual Canadian Pollution Prevention Roundtable representing the IT industry and discussing the environmentally friendly way of business hosting.  We were also one of the four finalists from hundreds of national applications in the Quest for Canada’s Greenest IT that included searching for companies with a sustainability objectives, overall green IT corporate strategy, and personal passion for all things green.

To get a better understanding of the IT and server hosting impact on the environment, let’s take the following into consideration. A small business is usually required to host on average 10 applications. Industry Canada reports that in 2001, there were 2, 190 278 small business in Canada. This means that if everyone followed a traditional IT infrastructure, there would have to be roughly 21, 902, 780 single physical servers just for the small business market segment.  Not to mention, the medium sized businesses and large corporations would each more than triple the final number!  It’s scary to even think about. It has also been stated that most servers are idle running at highest at or below 3% peak average utilization resulting in IT equipment accounting for 4% of global carbon emissions. Sure, 4% may not seem like much but if businesses continue to use traditional IT infrastructures reports show that by 2011, IT equipment would overtake air travel as a polluter.  Atum is able to offer a DEDICATED virtual server hosting solution that consolidates servers without disadvantages leading to increased performance, cost cutting and a decreased environmental footprint.

Atum doesn’t just talk the Green IT virtualization talk and makes sure to engage in a variety of environmental incentives internally and with our clients. The greatest financial benefit Atum’s customers receive with Atum is the cost saving from virtualizing their IT infrastructures and engaging in dedicated virtual server hosting. The money saved can now be distributed to integral departments and allow the business to focus on core areas. As Atum takes care of the business IT needs, the customer has now more money and time dedicated to growing and flourishing.

Atum also isn’t strictly a hosting provider and are a Microsoft and Citrix certified IT consultants. All of Atum’s VPS clients receive 20% off on their IT consulting requirements such as migration, system analysis, application troubleshooting, data recovery, and support. We like to develop relationships with clients that benefit their needs and remind them that server hosting with us benefits the environmental as well as their business.

Another way Atum increases financial benefits for clients so that converting to green IT is easier is through our recycling program that purchases client’s hardware. If a client wants to switch to a virtual infrastructure but doesn’t know what to do with their physical servers, Atum will buy the servers either recycling them properly or reusing them in an effort to assist the client and the environment. Similarly, if a client is hesitant to switch to a dedicated VPS box, unlike many other hosting companies Atum will provide a 30 day no obligation trial to help make the change for the client easier.

We truly believe virtualization is the future of server hosting that is able to benefit the environment greatly.

Being green is a personal passion for us and we are proud to deliver these solutions. As a matter of fact we’re so green, our dress code for work is green only! Come check us out at 5255 Yonge St, Toronto

Go Atum!

Thanks everyone!

Welcome to Atum’s first blog post! I’m Marina Arnaout and will be taking on the role of Atum’s blogger making sure to bring you the latest & greatest IT industry news. We’ll make sure you receive the most up to date technology trends and let you know what’s happening in the Atum world and how you can join us!

We thought we’d start out with an IT industry report that’s been on the quick recent rise:

IN: VIRTUALIZATION  

OUT: INFINITE RACKS OF SMALL SERVERS

It crept up on our industry in the last few years and is booming more than ever in 2010. Without a doubt -the latest trend in the IT world is virtualization. We knew it was bound to happen in this fast paced digital race so we at Atum have been preparing to provide businesses with top notch server hosting solutions.

Virtualization is simple – it means doing more with less.  Atum offers dedicated virtual private server (VPS) hosting specifically for business server hosting. VPS refers to multiple dedicated virtual servers in a single powerful physical server. Once the physical server is divided, each logical server can run an operating system and applications independently with advantages over traditional physical environments. Less resources used accompanied by more powerful hosting performance and security results in a win-win situation with benefiting not only the business but also the environment for a fraction of the cost.

So what’s the point in outsourcing business hosting? Businesses constantly try to keep their costs down. Outsourcing IT cuts the many unnecessary costs and problems because your IT is in our hands of expertise. Atum’s solution is also based on hardware and software manufactured by our partners IBM, Microsoft, Citrix, RedHat, Hewlett Packard, Cisco, Symantec and Lenovo to deliver premium results for business server hosting. Our clients experience the same IT performance as a large enterprise providing them with premium server hosting resources.

We help small businesses virtualize their IT infrastructures leveling their IT performance with enterprise giants. Hosting your business with a VPS increases performance, cuts cost while at the same time helping the environment!

We’re happy to be part of this trend…. and same goes for our happy clients.

There you have it. Our first post and an industry report trend. We also of course love getting your feedback — and what you want to see discussed (and showcased) in the future so leave a comment!

Until next time,

Your friends at Atum.