VTG's technology trends

November Newsletter | Toledo Technology | Lima Technology

2010-11-04T07:32:00.000-07:00

VoIP phone system | Toledo Technology | Lima Technology

2010-10-29T08:38:00.000-07:00

The plain old telephone system was a technological marvel — 100 years ago. The modern business climate requires the utmost in flexibility and convenience, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) puts that power in the hands of your people.

At Virtual Technologies Group, we offer:

• VoIP Phone Systems

• Data and Internet

• Broadband Services

• Integrated Solutions

• Wireless

On average, our customers save 15 to 40 perfect when they switch to our VoIP phone system.

Contact VTG today for a FREE consultation.

Lima: 419.991.4694

Toledo: 419.255.9070

sales@vtgus.com

www.vtgus.com

Microsoft Downgrading Information

2010-10-21T12:59:00.000-07:00

Eaton 9170 | Northwest Ohio Computer Company

2010-07-22T06:56:00.000-07:00

Eaton 9170: Versatile, Scalable and Flexible

Did you know that the 9170+ is one of the most versatile uninterruptible power systems available? The Eaton 9170+ modular UPS provides scalability, redundancy and flexibility, and is the ideal protection solution for cloud computing and virtual applications. These features, combined with the High Efficiency operating mode minimize your customers Total Cost of Ownership and make it an ideal solution for today’s economic times.

Lightweight, plug-and-play power, battery and charger modules allow you to pay as you grow

Optional battery cabinets for extended runtimes

N+X redundancy for both power and logic eliminates system-level single point of failure and reduced down time

How swappable modules for enhanced customer serviceability reducing down time and eliminating additional service costs

Support update from Avery Creek

Power & battery modules can be placed in any order, in any slot

Both tower and rackmount configurations

Configurable size, voltage, and input/output connections

For more information, contact Virtual Technologies Group!

VTG Office Supplies

2010-07-19T11:25:00.000-07:00

Did you know that Virtual Technologies Group sells office supplies?
We do and we have over 1,000,000 products and at great prices.

Check out this month's specials

http://217.65.41.4/ussco_smartdealsXtra_level1/enter.html

SMART Table | Virtual Technologies Group | Toledo Technology Company

2010-06-02T08:17:00.000-07:00

The SMART Table provides you with increased flexibility, both in terms of content and teaching style. Thanks to the SMART Table Toolkit, a resource that comes with the SMART Table, you can create an almost limitless supply of activities for your interactive learning center. The toolkit helps you customize ready-made activities and create new ones. As students learn, you can refine and redesign activities to keep them challenged and engaged.

Help students collaborate and learn
Today’s tech-savvy students naturally gravitate to the SMART Table, and its horizontal, 360 degree surface makes it easy and fun for them to collaborate on activities. While working on the interactive learning center, students have the opportunity to build cognitive, social and fine motor skills. Even relatively shy children feel comfortable participating, and show leadership skills when completing group work. With its unique and engaging features, the SMART Table is accessible by all students, including those with special needs.

Make toolkit activities your own
The SMART Table comes with the SMART Table Toolkit, a resource that helps you create a limitless supply of activities on your computer. It is easy to customize ready-made activities to suit your needs. For example, take a multiple choice activity on North American animals and change the images to tigers, elephants, lions and gazelles to create an African animal exercise. Visit the SMART Table Features section for a list of applications included in the SMART Table Toolkit.

Download ready-made activities
You can download ready-made SMART Table activities from our educator resources web page. These activities correspond with the SMART-created SMART Notebook lesson activities and SMART Response question sets. They can be modified to meet your specific lesson needs. New activities and applications are added regularly.

For more information, check out the SMART table page on SMARTtech's website.

Virtual Technologies Group......your IT Business Consultants!

Intel Unveils New Server Chip With 32 Cores | Toledo Computer Company | Lima Computer Company

2010-06-01T06:53:00.000-07:00

Intel announced a new 32-core server chip based on a new high-performance computing server architecture that mixes general x86 cores with specialized cores for faster processing of highly parallel scientific and commercial applications.

The chip, called Knights Ferry, is Intel's fastest processor ever and delivers more than 500 gigaflops of performance, Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel's data center group said Monday in a speech at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, which was also webcast.

The chip's cores run at 1.2GHz. It is the first in a new family of server chips called Knights, which the company describes as being based on a new "many integrated core" architecture.

The 32-core chip will be available in the second half of 2010, for development purposes.

The first commercial product will include more than 50 cores and be called Knights Corner. An Intel spokesman would not say when that chip will be available. However, the chip will be part of the Sandy Bridge chip architecture, manufactured using the 22-nanometer process, and those processors are due to reach laptops and servers in 2011.

The initial 32-core chip is made using the existing 32-nm process.

Knights Ferry includes 32 main Xeon chip cores in the server CPU socket, with corresponding 512-bit vector processing units in the PCI-Express slot. The chip runs four threads per core and includes 8MB of shared cache, and up to 2GB of fast GDDR5 memory.

The company will merge the CPU cores and vector units into a single unit as chip development continues, Skaugen said.

The Knights architecture is the biggest server architecture shift since Intel launched Xeon chips, Skaugen said. The chip includes elements of the Larrabee chip, was characterized as a highly parallel, multicore x86 processor designed for graphics and high-performance computing. However, Intel last week said it had cancelled Larrabee for the short term, but said elements of the chip would first be used in server processors, and and later in laptops.

The new architecture could also fend off competition from Nvidia's Tesla and Advanced Micro Devices' FireStream graphics processors, which pack hundreds of computing cores to boost application performance. The graphics processors are faster at executing certain specialized applications. The second fastest supercomputer in the world, Nebulae in China, combines CPUs with GPUs to boost application performance.

The chip will accelerate highly parallel applications, Skaugen said. It could also standardize software development platforms around the x86 architecture, making it easier to recompile programs, Skaugen said.

Intel has many new server chips in the pipeline. Earlier this month, the chip maker said it would release a successor to its eight-core Nehalem-EX chips next year, with more cores and faster speeds. The new chips, code-named Westmere-EX, will be for servers with four or more sockets. The company is also developing an experimental 48-core x86 chip with a mesh design, but has not announced plans to sell it.

Intel already has a significant lead in the HPC market, but the new chip and surrounding architecture could extend its presence. According to the Top500 list, 408 supercomputers -- more than 80 percent of the list -- use Intel's chips, giving it a significant lead over other chip companies like Advanced Micro Devices and IBM.

Thank you to Yahoo News for this story!

Virtual Technologies Group......your IT Business Consultants!

May newsletter - All business should use VoIP

2010-05-05T13:01:00.001-07:00

Laptop bag

2010-04-30T08:43:00.000-07:00

Need a new laptop bag?

Virtual Technologies Group offers many different types of laptop bags.

www.vtgus.com

2010-04-28T12:44:00.000-07:00

The Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 all-in-one Desktop PC

combines the power of a traditional tower PC

with the style and simplicity of a television.

You can have it all – powerful computing performance,

easy set up, space-saving design and high-definition multimedia.

It's all presented in one very slim, highly attractive

and competitively-priced package.

With a 21.5" Full HD screen, a 640GB hard drive

and an impressive range of digital entertainment features,

it's as much at home in your living room as it is in your home office.

www.vtgus.com

LRITA event

2010-04-21T10:55:00.000-07:00

Join us tomorrow at The Lima Regional IT Alliance.
We are excited about this all day event
with an aggressive AGENDA with
multiple break out sessions
allowing you to learn about the latest technologies.

Check out
http://www.lrita.org/Events/annualmeeting.html
for more information.

Another credit card scam

2010-04-20T12:15:00.000-07:00

There is another person out there trying to get your credit card number. The call will come from 1-817-688-7853. And at the other end there will be an Interactive Voice Response script.

Whatever you do, do not answer this call.
Or if you do, be sure to not enter any of your credit card info.

An example of this type of call would sound like this:
You: "Hello?"
Caller: "Hello. For security purposes, your Visa debit card has been deactivated for debit and ATM use"

Your first reaction will be "oh, great. Somewhere, someone got my details"
There is no option to speak to a live person.
It willjust keep playing a short prompt menu over and over again.
You must choose option 1, to "re-activate" your card, suspecting a ruse. On cue, it will ask you for your 16-digit card number, followed by #. It will ask if that was correct. Then it will ask for the expiration date (0000) and CVV code (000) as well. Then, it says:

Caller: "Thank you. Your Visa card has been re-activated. Goodbye."

Calling the number back will get you some boilerplate error message.
Be careful out there, folks. Banks will de-activate your card if they suspect it has been compromised, but they will never give you the option to re-activate it over the phone like this, especially with an automated IVR system. Typically, they issue you a new card, sometimes with the exact same account number and expiration date, but with a different CVV code.

Virtual Technologies Group wants all our current & future customers to be safe. For more tips, visit our website at www.vtgus.com

Find the right PC - April Newsletter

2010-04-13T12:05:00.000-07:00

Find the right PC for you!

2010-04-12T13:09:00.000-07:00

Ever thought.....how do I know if this PC is right for me?
Well, here is an easy way:
Go to http://dellpcadvisor.com/?src=2070543516
Answer a few questions
And your perfect PC will be chosen for you

Try it today!

www.vtgus.com

March newsletter

2010-03-22T12:31:00.000-07:00

Netbook craze

2010-03-19T08:15:00.001-07:00

Netbooks seem to be taking over the computer world.

Everyone either has a netbook or wants one!

Lucky you, we are having a special on netbooks!Lenovo S10 Asus Eee PC 1000HA Acer Aspire One HP Mini 100 Series Dell Mini 10v

Contact April today for pricing!
agladieux@vtgus.com

Grow & Reinvent

2010-03-16T12:51:00.000-07:00

Be sure to visit us at the
Grow & Reinvent trade show this Thursday in Lima, Ohio!

www.vtgus.com

VoIP

2010-02-24T10:36:00.001-08:00

Did you know that Virtual Technologies Group sells VoIP?

Well, we do & we would love to help you save money on your phone bill.
We can cut your bill by 5% - 10% or even more!

Some of our featured products are:Polycom 330

Polycom 550

IP/PBX

Contact us today to start saving money on your phone bill!
sales@vtgus.com or 800.686.4592

February Newsletter

2010-02-11T07:50:00.000-08:00

Check out our February Newsletter!

e-Tech show in Columbus

2010-02-01T14:56:00.000-08:00

Virtual Technologies Group will be at the e-Tech trade show this week.
Be sure to visit us at booth #624 for great show specials
including education discounts on all netbooks!
You can even register to win a FREE Acer netbook!

Press Release - Virus

2010-01-22T09:19:00.000-08:00

Come visit us at e-Tech

2010-01-21T11:09:00.000-08:00

Virtual Technologies Group will be participating in this year's e-Tech Ohio Educational Technology Conference at the Greater Columbus Convention Center.

We will be there from Monday (Feb. 1) until Wednesday (Feb. 3).

This event is deciated to enhancing learning by developing programs and using best practices to serve learning organizations while acquiring, integrating and sustaining educational technology.

We will be showing off many types of netbooks such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus and Acer.

We will also be demonstrating how the mimio board is the new way to teach.

Our booth number is 624. Come visit us and enter for your chance to win a new Acer netbook!

For a schedule of our events, email April at agladieux@vtgus.com

2010-01-08T06:25:00.000-08:00

CES: Lenovo takes early lead in 2010 Tablet race
Written by Brier Dudley

LAS VEGAS -- One of the most intriguing new computers at CES this year is Lenovo's IdeaPad U1 "hybrid" laptop with a detachable screen that functions by itself as a wireless, touchscreen Web tablet.

In laptop mode, the system runs Windows 7 on an Intel Core 2 processor and weighs 3.8 pounds.

When the 11.8-inch, LED screen is detached and in tablet mode, it runs a customized version of Linux on Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor (the same hardware powering Google's Nexus One "superphone" and the HTC HD2 Windows phone Steve Ballmer showed in his keynote tonight).
Detached, the tablet weighs 1.6 pounds. In either mode, the system has 3G wireless and more than five hours of battery life.

The tablet software has a four- or six-section display for running multiple Web applications at once.

Lenovo plans to begin selling the U1 on June 1 for under $1,000.

Details are still scarce on the Hewlett-Packard tablet that Ballmer revealed. He and HP CTO Phil McKinney both declined to tell me afterward how much it will cost.

It may be a tough sell if it costs much more than the Lenovo system, even if the U1 isn't a full-powered PC in tablet mode.

But Lenovo is going to need more than groovy hardware.

Presales start today!
Be sure to order your's! Email sales@vtgus.com

2009-12-30T11:33:00.000-08:00

Virtual Technologies Group has been selected as a recipient of the Best of Lake Erie West Business recognition program managed by the staff of our Toledo Business Journal. We have been selected for the Computer Dealer category.

During the past several months, nominations have been solicited from readers of each of the business-to-business newspapers and from visitors to the website. Response to the calls for nominations resulted in a strong list of candidates. Votes were cast for companies in 51 separate categories of business. A scoring system was set up to determine the top companies in each category. Two or three companies have been selected for this recognition in each business category. And Virtual Technologies Group is one of them!

Visit us at our Toledo or Lima location!

Merry Christmas

2009-12-23T08:22:00.000-08:00

Virtual Technologies Groups wants to wish

all of our customers and vendors a "Merry Christmas!"

Be sure to think of us next year when you need

a helping hand with your broken computer or need some IT advice!

It's not too late....

2009-12-17T07:46:00.000-08:00

Christmas is 8 days away and you don't have all your shopping done?

Virtual Technologies Group can help! Anything you order, we will deliver to you for FREE!

We have many different types of gifts:

Netbooks

Laptops

Desktops

LCD screens

Office furniture

Accessories

Be sure to place your order today to take advantage of these great gifts and have them delivered to your house or place of business for FREE!

Call 419.255.9070 or email sales@vtgus.com

Here we go!

2009-12-02T11:21:00.000-08:00

Virtual Technologies Group is now blogging! We thought the best way to start off our blogging would be to tell everyone about us.

We are a technology company that sells & services computer equipment, phone systems and networks. We also have an office supply & furniture department that is comparable to Office Max but we have better pricing.

A few of our top brands are:

Dell
HP
Lenovo
Acer
Watchguard
Linksys
Cisco
Microsoft
Mimio
HON
Bic
Sanford
Avery

Everything we sell, we also sell. We offer on-site assistance or we can remote into your computer to help you online.

We have been in business since 1962. We have two locations in Ohio: Toledo & Lima. But we can travel all over the United States.

You can contact us at anytime at sales@vtgus.com or service@vtgus.com

Virtual Technologies Group...your IT business consultants.