"Consumerize the Enterprise" with Leading Sales, Communications, and Productivity Tools
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During the past decade, Apple technologies transformed a floundering tech company into the most valuable tech company in the world. The key was simplifying user interfaces to complex technologies.
Tech simplification, embraced at the consumer level, is making inroads in the enterprise. Apple devices simplify the creation, distribution, and consumption of digital information.
Early iPad adopters including Hyatt , Microstrategy , and ESPN , discovered simplicity that just works. Ten hour battery life and focused apps deliver a business tool that is both a personal information appliance and an effective sales tool with full multimedia power.
The iPad replaces pencil and paper, performs ninety five percent of tech functions for 95 percent of users, AND delivers multimedia presentations unlike anything ever before available.
Big enough for many to view, small enough to pass around, intuitive enough to "just use", the evolution of the smart mobile device in April 2010 tablet form became a revolution that has excited the most staid among business professionals .
our goal is to make a really breakthrough great product. Make the best product in every industry that we compete in And to drive the cost down, while constantly making the products better at the same time. -- Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs October 18, 2010
The Perfect Complement to the iPad
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About twice the size of an iPad, the mini server has exactly what the iPad lacks, enormous digital storage capabilities. 200 DVD's worth of the most flexible Input/Output ever is built into the mini server. Adding storage up to multi-terabyte RAID arrays is as simple as plugging in external firewire.
Beyond archival network storage, a full complement of ports and server technologies simplify delivery of digital assets back out to the network. Windows PC's, Macs, Touches, iPads, iPhones and Android devices can all participate on the same network, at the same time.
Ethernet, bluetooth, wifi, firewire, usb, an SD slot, a Web server, database server, and full complement of developer tools simplify connections with all things digital.
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The iPad Bridge
iPads are a "bridge" device to technology simplification.
"Some have suggested that it might make a good goof-proof computer for technophobes, the aged and the young; they’re absolutely right." -- David Pogue, New York Times
Yet to keep this device as simple as possible, the iPad requires a docking station. Any computer running iTunes software fulfills that function.
Deploying multiple iPads to multiple users, each with distinct needs, requires that each have a unique iTunes account. Multiple accounts are no problem for modern operating systems. But a proliferation of accounts quickly exposes a need for the simplified user administration capacity of a server.
Mini Server Bargain
"Apple gets a lot of criticism for its prices, but that doesn't apply here. " -- Samara Lynn, PCMag.com
"Total (installed) cost? Less than $1500, and that’s including the consultant. And it takes up less room than a stack of CDs. " -- John C. Welch, MacWorld
Snow Leopard Server Bridges Past to Future
"the Mac's attraction may be as a superior launching pad for cloud-based applications " -- Mel Beckman, InfoWorld
The Mini Server runs cloud style services the way everybody has learned to use them, but on a local intranet. The internet will never match the speed and security of serving local. For small groups from two to fifty who need to transfer knowledge in real time, this is the perfect way to bring the cloud down to earth.
Advanced multimedia tools like Podcast producing, quicktime video streaming, and wiki collaboration are included with the mini server because multimedia is the future of information tech in a world where everyone carries a display device with them.
Quicktime Streaming Video to Networked Devices
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