February 22, 2010
QCOM Group Strategic Meeting 2010 in Chengdu
If you have wondered who are the faces and partners behind QCOM Group, here you go!
This year, QCOM Group organized their annual strategic meeting at scenic Chengdu. Onward 2010!
February 18, 2010
O&O Software exhibition @ Cebit 2010
O&O Software is a one-Stop solutions for small and medium-sized businesses
O&O Software showcase at CeBIT 2009
The motto this year at CeBIT for O&O Software: “System and data management (SDM): One-Stop solutions for small and medium-sized businesses”
With our solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, we help you to use your IT infrastructure more efficiently and save you money. We do that by providing products at an extraordinary price-performance ratio. Together with our cooperation partner Laplink Software, Inc, we will be presenting these one-stop solutions at Stand A32 in Hall 11 (Security World).
Topics being focused on are:
- O&O Licensing Scheme for SMBs
- O&O Enterprise Management as a central management program
- New O&O products!
The new O&O products will be very interesting as we can assure you. So if you’re thinking of taking a trip to the annual technology fair at Germany, make an appointment today!
If you want to be notified of the new products or would like more information, you can also reach us at marketing@qcomgroup.com
February 12, 2010
O&O DiskImage 5: Security for company data, independent of the hardware
Machine Independent Restore (M.I.R), Universal Restore, Dissimilar Hardware Restore.
O&O DiskImage 5 Server
Same benefit, different names.
Same benefits, different costs.
What M.I.R does is provide you the option to restore your servers to different hardware if it breaks down (i.e Dell to HP).
Often, we look to keep data secure and minimize server downtime by having spare servers and with a backup program.
Now maybe let’s run through a couple of key functions necessary in a backup software for the budding SME.
- Able to backup data
- Able to backup system for restoration
- Able to do differentials/incrementals to save space
- Able to schedule backups for automation
- Imaging without downtime (because administrators have to sleep too!)
- Security of data
- Confidentiality of data
- Virtualization support
- Local, Reliable support
- Affordable Price
Let’s see how O&O matches up.
- Able to backup data – obviously
- Able to backup system for restoration – Yea
- Able to do differentials/incrementals to save space – uh-huh
- Able to schedule backups for automation – Job assistant
- Imaging without downtime (because administrators have to sleep too!) – Live Imaging, Check!
- Network management – Install, manage and reporting. Check! Check! Check!
- Security of data – Checksums and Validation Pre and Post jobs
- Confidentiality of data – Encryption
- Virtualization support – Convert to and from virtual hard disks (VHD) to physical
- Local, Reliable support – That’s us!
- Affordable Price – Definitely!
So, what’s affordable really?
Consider purchasing backup software for a server that comes with M.I.R. from other vendors
Company A: Priced between 40% more(if you’re willing to sacrifice some functions) to more than 400% the price of O&O DiskImage
Company S: Priced between 150% to 250% of O&O price
Sure you say, there are differences between the products, that’s why the price is different.
And of course, as mentioned earlier, if you’re a local SME and looking for a simple backup solution, do you really need all the bells and whistles and also the hefty pricetag?
Not convinced? Need more support? Call us or drop us a line at marketing@qcomgroup.com for further discussion.
For more information, read on at http://www.oo-asia.com/news/idx_news.php?news=20100202.htm and http://www.oo-asia.com/oodiskimage/oodiskimage_svr_ent.php
January 25, 2010
For partners: Making the most of an OS/PC upgrade/migration opportunity
I’m counting two opportunities here.
1) Users who are currently using XP and are looking to upgrade their OS’s due to the drop in support from Microsoft.
2) Maybe your customer has decided to upgrade his hardware which comes together with OEM windows 7 installed.
First off, I’m guessing that most people will not be missing Windows Vista as they look to Windows 7.
As of 2009, PC World stats of the market share of Operating Systems are below.
75% of PC users are still booting up to the familiar sound of Windows XP.
And the complication is here, there is NO direct upgrade (a.k.a in-place upgrade) to Windows 7 from Windows XP.
This means that users who are using Windows XP will have to go through a lot of hassle, not to mention the risk of having to make sure the existing applications on their desktop/servers have to work on the Windows 7. And then, what if something, somewhere goes wrong? The upgrade window for most companies is not that long, and if things screw up, there should be some sort of backup plan to revert back to the original system. All this is cost for both the system integrator and the customers in terms of time and money.
As for the second scenario even with Windows 7 conveniently coming together with the system, it still leaves the programs, user accounts, settings and data migration unsettled.
This can only mean one thing. Massive opportunity.
QCOM Group proposes a solution: Migration Kit for Windows 7. 
This little package is basically 2 parts.
1) Laplink PC Mover is a Migration Software. PC Mover handles the migration of your user accounts, programs etc to the new OS / PC / Harddisk.
2) O&O DiskImage is a disk imaging product. It
- backs up your entire system before making the leap to Windows 7 and enables you to perform a restore should anything unexpected occur
- makes the legacy system and data available for retrievable, mounted as a drive on the new system.
- allows you to continue using it as a backup/imaging product on the new system, driving costs down for a backup software.
We have special packages for partners of course. Simply drop me a line at marketing@qcomgroup.com for more information.
Did I miss something? Comments, suggestions welcome as always.
January 22, 2010
Uses of Disk Imaging – O&O DiskImage
Backup is obviously a common service that our partners provide.
We would also like to see greater use of disk imaging, that ensures not just the data is kept safe but that the system can be brought back up in the shortest amount of time following a system failure.
Here are some common scenarios where Disk Image comes in handy.
http://www.oo-asia.com/downloads/O&Odiskimagepdtscenario.pdf
Please feel free to do drop any other comments, suggestions.
January 21, 2010
HKCCF EXPO August 2009
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- Black and White for BitDefender
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- BitDefender in Black
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- Blacky again
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- BitDefender in White
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- No wonder Windows 7 got off to a flying start
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- Iobit Tower
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- Some green
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- Iobit Counter
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- Some Blue
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- Banner for our beloved Iobit
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- Demonstrating Iobit
January 19, 2010
O&O Agreement Signing in Berlin, Germany
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- Managing Director of O&O Olaf Kehrer and CEO of QCOM Group
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- (From left to Right) Director of Sales International Jim Harrison, QCOM CEO Michael Leong, Partner Manager Rudy Goodman
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- Our No. 2: Chief Financial Officer Mr David Chew with our hosts
Indonesia ICT Expo 2009 (14-16 December)
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- We are from Singapore!
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- Group photo
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- Fantastic 4..
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- Lovely Natalia
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- Watch out Acronis!
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- I have no idea why people buy System Mechanic…
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- Is this the end for Antivirus?
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- XP to Win 7. Look no further!
