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eTech Newsletter Chair: Bryan Guinn, Prism Technologies Group

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Guinn_BryanAbout the Company: Prism Technologies Group enjoys more than 60 combined years of IT experience. Prism has made a name for itself in South Texas for delivering cost-justified, ROI-steeped IT solutions. Their approach is simple – Prism will not make a single recommendation without first having a firm understanding of the workflow and departmental needs of the environment. In addition, Prism offers clients multiple potential solutions in order to find the intersection of budgetary constraints and IT performance. Prism is focused on reliability, response, and efficient solution delivery. Bryan manages operations, sales and marketing teams.

About the Program: The eTech Newsletter is a valuable member service that provides thought leadership on timely technology issues, products and services.

Personally Speaking: Prism has been a North Chamber member for almost four years. Bryan is involved in the Technology Council and says he has, “established meaningful relationships and received good leads and business from my involvement. The value of the chamber is very high and is a must for any company servicing clients in San Antonio.”

CIO Breakfast Chair: Manish Kapoor, NuStar Energy L.P.

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Kapoor_ManishAbout the Company: NuStar Energy L.P. is one of the largest independent liquids terminal and pipeline operators in the nation. NuStar currently has 8,573 miles of pipeline; 87 terminal and storage facilities that store and distribute crude oil, refined products and specialty liquids. Manish Kapoor is Senior Vice President of Information Systems at NuStar Energy, L.P. He is responsible for providing Technology Infrastructure, Automation Technologies, Business Application Technologies, and Business Process Reengineering, as well as other activities.

About the Program: CIO breakfasts are a knowledge series designed exclusively for and by CIOs and is open to technology and IT executives. At monthly breakfasts, speakers discuss current and relevant technology issues and local IT leaders share experiences and ideas with their peers.

Personally Speaking: Manish says he has enjoyed the CIO Breakfast Series as it, “provides an environment for the local CIOs to share their problems and solutions in a vendor-free environment.” He adds, “The North Chamber plays an important role by helping to build the future technology workforce in the San Antonio area.”

Business Technology Series Chair: Bryan Guinn, Prism Technologies Group

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Guinn BryanAbout the Company: Prism Technologies Group enjoys more than 60 combined years of IT experience. Prism has made a name for itself in South Texas for delivering cost-justified, ROI-steeped IT solutions. Their approach is simple – Prism will not make a single recommendation without first having a firm understanding of the workflow and departmental needs of the environment. In addition, Prism offers clients multiple potential solutions in order to find the intersection of budgetary constraints and IT performance. Prism is focused on reliability, response, and efficient solution delivery. Bryan manages operations, sales and marketing teams.

About the Program: The Business Technology Series provides a great opportunity for business and technology leaders in the San Antonio area to network and learn about technology related topics. This series delivers the local experts and thought leaders who clarify the ever-changing role technology can have in enabling and growing our members’ businesses.

Personally Speaking: Prism has been a North Chamber member for almost four years. Bryan is involved in the Technology Council and says he has, “established meaningful relationships and received good leads and business from my involvement. The value of the chamber is very high and is a must for any company servicing clients in San Antonio.”

Prism Technologies Group Case Study: MigrationWiz eases the adoption of Microsoft Office 365 for the City of Rockport

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Prism Technologies GroupCHALLENGE
Prism Technologies Group was approached by the City of Rockport to find a new messaging system that included in-creased mailbox storage, online collaboration capabilities, and access to the Office 2010 suite. They quickly found that Microsoft Office 365 would give the city’s employees all of these benefits at a cost lower than of the 1GB per mailbox solution it was using.

MIGRATION SOLUTION
The Migration team was looking for a quick and easy way to transition the 76 users to their new messaging system with minimal disruption. “MigrationWiz was chosen be-cause of the simplicity in moving email, calendar items, and contacts over to the new solution without manual intervention,” stated Bryan Guinn, President of Prism Technologies Group.

To ensure that city services and business were not interrupted during the move to a new messaging system, it was imperative for the migration team to find a solution that would preserve message repliabilility, calendar items, and contacts for the end users. “Calendars and contacts where heavily used and losing that information was not an option,” stated Guinn. Using MigrationWiz, Guinn’s team was able to conduct a high-fidelity migration for each user that pre-served emails, calendars, and contacts – including complex items such as recurring calendar items, contact pictures, folder hierarchy. This allowed the end-users to continue with business as usual on the first day after the cutover was completed.

After a seamless transition to Microsoft Office 365, the City of Rockport employees are enjoying the feature-rich capabilities of Office 365, with a financially backed SLA and the unlimited storage capabilities they were looking for. As well as other exciting perks, such as free mobile device access that was an expensive add-on with the previous messaging system.

ABOUT MIGRATIONWIZ
MigrationWiz provides on-demand mailbox migration services through a fully automated, cloud-based solution that can be accessed at any time, from anywhere to con-duct a seamless mailbox migration on demand. Without the inconvenience of additional hardware or software to install, this patent pending technology has met the needs of global Fortune 500 organizations, governments, healthcare providers and individuals in over 50 countries. This soft-ware as a service (Saabs) solution allows the consumer to sign-up, configure and initiate a migration in a matter of minutes with no prior experience.

Since 2003, Prism Technologies Group has provided expert IT support and consulting services to companies near its San Antonio headquarters and beyond. Prism strives to create effective solutions tailored to its cli-ents need. Prism’s deep IT expertise en-sures its clients can benefit from a reliable, IT infrastructure, allowing them to concen-trate on their day-to-day business with con-fidence. For more information on Prism Technologies Group, visit, www.prismtex.com

CyrusOne Inc. Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering

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Cyrus One logoCyrusOne Inc. (NASDAQ:CONE) has closed its previously announced initial public offering of its common stock. CyrusOne sold 18,975,000 shares of its common stock in total in the offering, which included 2,475,000 shares of common stock sold pursuant to the option granted to the underwriters by CyrusOne, which was exercised in full prior to the closing. CyrusOne’s common stock began trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on January 18, 2013 under the symbol “CONE.”

Morgan Stanley, BofA Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities and Barclays acted as joint-bookrunners for the offering. Citigroup, KeyBanc Capital Markets, RBS and UBS Investment Bank acted as co-managers.

A registration statement relating to the securities sold in the offering has been declared effective by the SEC. The offering was made only by means of a prospectus. A copy of the final prospectus relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC and may be obtained by contacting Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014, by telephone at +1 (866) 718-1649 or by email at prospectus@morganstanley.com; BofA Merrill Lynch, Attention: Prospectus Department, 222 Broadway, New York, New York 10038 or by email at dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com; Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Attention: Prospectus Group, 60 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005-2836, by telephone at +1 (800) 503-4611 or by email at prospectus.cpdg@db.com; or Barclays, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, by telephone at +1 (888) 603-5847 or by email at barclaysprospectus@broadridge.com.

This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

About CyrusOne
CyrusOne Inc. (NASDAQ:CONE) specializes in highly reliable enterprise-class, carrier-neutral data center properties. The company provides mission-critical data center facilities that protect and ensure the continued operation of IT infrastructure for approximately 500 customers, including more than nine of the Fortune 20 and over 100 of the Fortune 1000 companies.

CyrusOne’s data center offerings provide the flexibility, reliability and security that enterprise customers require and are delivered through a tailored, customer service-focused platform designed to foster long-term relationships. CyrusOne is committed to full transparency in communication, management and service delivery throughout its 24 data centers worldwide.