First stop: OCE Discovery 12 – a showcase of leading-edge technologies, best practices and research from sectors such as health, manufacturing, digital media and clean-tech.

All year, the Ontario Centre of Excellence searches for new discoveries and opportunities to connect innovators, industry and entrepreneurs. The OCE Discovery 12 will bring thousands together to explore the innovative advancements and ideas Canadians are bringing to their industries this year.

We are going to meet some industry leading companies and leading edge entrepreneurs displaying their work on the grand stage. We are also extremely excited to be in the company of so many innovators, as we exhibit the latest in Virtualization technology and the Atum Managed Cloud Solution. ‘The Cloud’ is a hot topic in every sector, and Atum is making it easy to recognize and harness the true potential of Virtualization for businesses and ideas in any stage of development.

The team is thrilled to present the Atum Managed Cloud at OCE Discovery 12. We are eager to initiate new relationships, have great conversation about Cloud technology and establish connections with Canada’s elite innovators.

Stop by our Booth #1322 – we’d love to hear about the strides your business is making and talk about how ‘The Cloud’ could give you a competitive edge!

Trade Show Team at DX3

Next stop: iTech Summit Toronto – Canada’s Largest IT Conference.

iTech is Canada’s largest IT conference because it literally tours the country, making stops in Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton and Vancouver!

Atum Corporation will be at the Toronto stopover to exhibit the new Virtualization technology developed by our company this year. As more and more businesses see the need for cost effective Virtual IT solutions, Atum delivers the Managed Cloud Solution – a completely dedicated and secure infrastructure with the benefit of expert managed services.

Atum will be at Booth #33 – If you are at the show, plan to stop and say hello!

Visit http://www.itechsummit.ca/ for details about the upcoming show.

Hot Links:

• OCE Discovery 12
• iTech Summit
• Atum Managed Cloud Solution
• Why Outsource IT?

You’re not the only one.

Some of the biggest, most successful companies in the world are undergoing a huge reinvention in order to keep up with the changing market landscape. Think RIM. That’s probably the most obvious and news worthy example this week. Next week it’ll be someone else, and the week after etc.

Every company, from the BIG guys, to the small business, have to go through periods of reinvention to be successful long term.

Be proactive.

Think of ways to start cutting costs, becoming more effective, and embracing new methods & technology. You have to keep up with ‘the times’. Go paperless, go wireless, adapt to new technology that will help you streamline your business and cut costs.

Your mother, father, and grandparents can tell you about when they hired secretaries to ‘take dictation’, or when computers were ‘room sized’, or when file cabinets held every company’s most classified information.

Business has changed (heck, it has probably changed in the past hour!) – what are you doing to keep up?

Here’s a suggestion: Virtualization

It’s the simple transition from a physical server environment, to a totally virtual solution. It cuts IT costs, it streamlines your business, it maximizes performance, it guarantees security and backup plans… it will give you a competitive edge instantly.

Ask us how to get started!  Reinvention is a phone call away, and the conversation is free.

Need some more Information? Check out these links…

• What is VPS Hosting?

• Managed vs Unmanaged VPS

• About Atum

…and ‘Test Drive’ the performance, speed and ease of Atum VPS with a 15 Day FREE Trial!

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First of all…You don’t ‘Share’ anything.

When you host your business on a Dedicated Virtual Private Server, you are given your own virtual dedicated storage space to control, custom build and scale to fit your needs. Like your own house on the block, or apartment in the building. Use any Panel, and totally customize your VPS to host any and all of your important data without worrying about other users hogging or clogging the space.

The SPACE is DEDICATED. It’s Yours.

Not only that, Your SECURITY is DEDICATED.

When you purchase a Managed plan, you are automatically placed behind a dedicated firewall policy and Private LAN. You control what comes in and what goes out, and our team will monitor your space for full protection. Each managed VPS is secured and controlled independently, so there is no risk of attacks or threats from other users.

You get Dedicated SPACE, Dedicated SECURITY and also, Dedicated SERVICES.

Tailor our service options to support your growing business. Don’t have an IT team? We do. And we’ll dedicate our resources virtually, so you don’t have to fill a desk. Need backups? No problem. Regular backups are included in a managed package. Firewalls, monitoring, patching, upgrades… hand it over. If you don’t have to think about it, you can focus on your core business.

At Atum, Dedicated VPS means Dedicated…everything.

For example, you can go onto forums and ask peers about how ‘Product A’ compares to ‘Product B’ and you’ll get instant consumer reviews before taking the plunge! It’s a phenomenon that the internet and the emergence of social media has created.

There are sites dedicated to providing reviews, editorials, directory services and industry resources that will help to guide consumers with objective advice and keep them well informed.

The hosting industry has a few very large sites where you can read customer reviews before buying the product, read editorial from the industry experts, even assess the quality through ranking and reporting systems.

We are proud to announce that Atum has been approved as a guaranteed host on the Find My Host Network, and has received straight A’s in the hosting report card for Support, Sales, Plan/Features and Usability. 

The report card reviews metrics in these categories and determines a grade value based on an industry expert assessment.

Atum received A’s in every category! Now THAT’S a report card worth putting on the fridge!

If you’d like to see the online report card and read through the entire Atum review,  Click Here.

You can interact and participate in the evaluation of our service, support and features by adding your OWN customer review! Go ahead, say a few words about your experience with our company – no report card is complete without a comments section.

If you’re still considering your hosting options, use the resources at FindMyHost.com and contact our ‘Straight A’ sales team to discuss a VPS plan that’s perfectly customized to fit your requirements!

But pretty soon, you’re going to get more traffic, use more resources or add new functionality onto your site. As your business grows, your needs grow. Maybe you’ve started online marketing, and your website traffic has doubled. Or perhaps, your business needs an ecommerce or shopping cart function to capitalize on the online buying market.

You will run into a resource issue if you are using a shared hosting solution. There’s nowhere to ‘grow’. The shared host has split the server and shared the CPUs among their many clients, giving an equal percentage of the distribution to each.

For the average blogger, or small website owner – the minimal space allocated will be enough. But not everyone requires the SAME amount of resources. If there are 100 clients on a server, and 10 of them are fighting for the bulk of the resources, the performance will suffer.

The price jump between Shared Hosting and Dedicated Servers is quite large, and that can be scary for the average user and/or business. The cost is justified because you are not ‘splitting’ or ‘going dutch’ on the cost of the server with other clients.

Another solution? Dedicated Virtual Private Server Hosting (or VPS). VPS allows you to allocate dedicated virtual resources (CPU/Memory) without sharing. It also offers the ability to scale your resources as you grow – adding on more space or managed services at your own pace. It’s a more customizable and cost-effective solution because you don’t have to buy the WHOLE server, just the room you need.

Compare our prices today:
Unmanaged and Managed VPS Packages

We don’t want to be just a ‘hosting company’. There are plenty of those. There’s a line up to the moon of hosting companies who will give you a “one size fits all” package, let you pay your bill  every month but never provide or offer any ‘add on’ services.

Atum wants you to customize your plan with add-on services tailored to your needs as your website, business or infrastructure requirements evolve. Maybe you need help migrating to a virtual environment, maybe you require backups and upgrades to be performed, maybe the success of your business relies on 24/7 monitoring and a Tier 3 security guarantee. These features come with our Managed packages, and can be modified and ‘made to order’ to fit your specifications to a tee!

Our office is full of technology experts and qualified IT professionals dedicated to providing the best services available. If we were just a hosting company we wouldn’t bother hiring these guys! Our Pros will not only find and advise on the best solution, they will get the work done too! Everything from Windows or Linux administration, Citrix assistance, Staff training or an Exchange deployment – our team is qualified to take on any IT requirement.

If hosting is what you’re after – take advantage of our premium VPS options and enhanced managed features. If you’re looking to go one step further, explore the innovative ways you can work with Atum and profit from our custom IT solutions.

Get more from your hosting company; ask us for a different kind of solution today.

How do you test the infallibility of your business and infrastructure?

If suddenly impacted… how would your business fare? Would you crack, or do you have the structure in place to remain stable through any ‘drop test’.

For many businesses, a drop test would reveal that any disruption could mean huge consequences to their business. In a data-reliant environment, a natural disaster or hardware glitch could bring an entire company down irreparably. Trusting your infrastructure to out of date hardware, incapable IT, or an unreliable host might mean the difference between passing and failing.

What do you have in place to prepare your business for a drop test?

Here are some of the unique services Atum offers that will support your sensitive and all-important infrastructure … in any situation.

Uptime guarantees
24/7 expert support
Datacentre security (with Tier 3 Certification)
Backups and Upgrades
Firewall protection
Premium equipment
Managed Services and Monitoring

Take a good look at your infrastructure and ask yourself, how would you survive a drop test?

Find out more about VPS hosting and Managed services today!

We thought so.

The decision can be tough, it’s not like we’re the ONLY company offering VPS solutions… It can be difficult to find the ‘right fit’.

That’s why there are change rooms in every clothing store, and you test drive any car before you buy it. You need hands on reassurance that the product is right for you.

Atum wants to give you a chance to take our VPS for a spin! We give potential clients a 15 day totally FREE VPS Trial, allowing you the opportunity to experience the performance, speed, and functionality of the product before you sign a contract. Even once you’ve signed up for the service, we offer a full 30 day money back guarantee… no questions asked.

We WANT you to see exactly what you can expect from our VPS service. We’re proud of it. We also know that just like you would never buy a car without driving it, or buy shoes without trying them on… you shouldn’t be expected to buy a service sight unseen.

Let us prove that our guaranteed uptime, lightning fast speeds, high quality performance, premium hardware and Tier 3 level security makes a DIFFERENCE!

Want to take a test drive of our Award Winning VPS? Sign up today!

…. Here are your keys!

What does this acceptance and embrace of the ‘Start up’ culture say about the times we live in, and the business landscape of the future?

Everyone loves a good Startup story. An App developed in a college dorm room, an online company reaching a million users in a day, a social media tool that connects the dots in a totally new way rivaling the ‘Big Guys’.

We celebrate the stories by holding competitions, awarding ‘Best New Start ups’, dedicating blogs and articles to Start up success stories, holding conferences and events to network with other Startups and showcasing Startup experts as inspiration for the ‘next best’ thing.

I come across countless articles everyday reporting on The Top Startups, highlighting the winners at IT World fairs/summits, or promoting a new Startup program.

 Is it a tribute to our economy or our generation?

In an economic flat line, are entrepreneurs deciding their own fate by following a dream on a dime? Or in these harsh economic climates, do the true innovators come out of the woodworks… like Edison, or the Wright brothers. Our society is rewarding this new wave of innovation by fostering and supporting this ‘Startup generation’ with government and private programs, community support, forums and conferences to better prepare new Startups before they hit the market.

So is this a product of a totally new generation, or does every generation experience a ripe year of innovation? We had the Renaissance, The Space Age, perhaps THIS is our generations mark on the future. The value and cultivation of a ‘good idea’ is extremely high these days…

It’s prime time for Startups worldwide. The tools are available, the climate is perfect and the market is always ready to hear about the latest and greatest idea du jour!

Atum offers great advice and virtual services for any company looking for a secure and cost effective method of growing their business. Are you a Startup or emerging company? Ask us how to maximize your performance and scalability using VPS!

You don’t have the teams of marketing geniuses making a splash or buying Superbowl Ad slots. You don’t have offices in every corner of the country or a share of the market in Japan. You don’t even have a staff large enough to fill a baseball roster.

Where can you make up ground? How can you possibly gain traction and build your business from the ground up?

Entrepreneurs and small business owners are making it work by getting a competitive edge where they can in this environment.

Atum offers ANY business the opportunity to play with the ‘Big Guys’. Use the same high performance and industry leading equipment, exclusive 24/7 access to IT professionals for support and consultation and hosting in a Tier 3 level datacentre at a fixed cost.

The hardware costs, energy costs, staff expenses and infrastructure investment required for comparable value would be astronomical and out of reach for most small businesses. Virtualization and VPS solutions are making all of this possible at a low cost and high return.

Eliminate the costs of hiring more staff to manage your IT, throw away your out of date servers in your broom closet and enjoy the freedom to grow as your data is hosted in a bombproof, 100% uptime guaranteed, state of the art datacentre and equipment.

Size doesn’t matter… become a big fish faster by exploring how a VPS solution can give you a fighting chance!