ECHO News & Updates
Columbus, Ohio – 05/06/2010
ECHO Will Attend AFCOM's Data Center World 2010 Trade Show
ECHO announces they will be attending the AFCOM’s Data Center World® 2010 Trade Show, the industry’s premier networking and educational conference, located at the Mirage Hotel and Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, October, 3-6 2010.
Data Center World is the largest global event of its kind and is one of the 50 fastest growing tradeshows. The trade show will consist of virtual training tours, educational and product information sessions, a keynote speaker, and peer connection networking.
“This show gives us a showcase to work directly with our distributor’s customer’s,” said Scott Taylor of ECHO. “We let them know about the exciting changes that are occurring with our company as well as the new products and services they can purchase.”
About ECHO… ECHO is a company dedicated to offering a consistently high quality, reliable solution within the Data Center World marketplace. ECHO is proud to promote the education, understanding and development of certified tape as a viable alternative to new media. It is essential to us at ECHO that every precaution is taken to ensure that only the highest quality product carries the ECHO name. Our goal is to create awareness in this market and to ensure that the ECHO brand allows our customers an opportunity to feel confident considering alternatives to the OEM options that they now have. Our tape product sets the standard for the full line of services we provide, everything from Hard Drive Sanitization, Data and Drive Restoration, copy work, duplication work; (including, microfilm, microfiche or punch cards), Complete Data Destruction as well as Data Center Migrations and Moves. Think of Echo as your entire Data Solution!
About Data Center World Conferences… Data Center World®, operated by AFCOM, the world’s leading 4,500-member data center association, is the industry’s premier networking and educational conference, and occurs bi-annually. Thousands of data center professionals, from many of the largest corporations across all industries, government organizations, and academic institutions in the world attend Data Center World to share, discuss and learn about the latest data center trends, technologies and best practices, as well as products and services by some of the world’s leading data center technology and service providers. Tradeshow Week recognizes Data Center World as one of the 50 fastest growing shows in the U.S. (2006, 2007, 2008). For more information, visit www.datacenterworld.com.
About AFCOM… AFCOM (www.afcom.com) is a leading association supporting the educational and professional development needs of data center professionals around the globe. Established in 1980, AFCOM currently boasts more than 4,500 members and 38 chapters worldwide, and provides data center professionals with unique networking opportunities and educational forums and resources through its annual Data Center World® Conferences, published magazines, regional chapters, research and hotline services, and industry alliances.
Back to TopColumbus, Ohio – 04/15/2010
ECHO Gets WasteWise
ECHO, a provider of 100% Certified media and data eradication services, has partnered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) WasteWise program.
WasteWise is an EPA sponsored organization that is setting the standard for environmental leadership. By eradicating and overwriting data on used media, testing the media to strict standards, certifying it and reentering it into the marketplace as 100% Certified media, ECHO is keeping solid waste in the form of used tapes from entering our nation’s landfills.
“ In the past year, ECHO prevented over 130,000 pounds of media tape that traditionally would have been dumped in landfills, incinerated or shredded,” said Scott Taylor of Echo. “Our green solution enables data media tape to be recycled through a safe, secure and complete data eradication process.”
WasteWise is a free, voluntary, EPA program through which organizations eliminate costly municipal solid waste and select industrial wastes, benefiting their bottom line and the environment. WasteWise is a flexible program that allows partners to design their own waste reduction programs tailored to their needs.
For more information about how you can help the environment, visit WasteWise at http://www.epa.gov/wastewise/
About ECHO… ECHO is a company dedicated to offering a consistently high quality, reliable solution within the Data Center World marketplace. ECHO is proud to promote the education, understanding and development of certified tape as a viable alternative to new media. It is essential to us at ECHO that every precaution is taken to ensure that only the highest quality product carries the ECHO name. Our goal is to create awareness in this market and to ensure that the ECHO brand allows our customers an opportunity to feel confident considering alternatives to the OEM options that they now have. Our tape product sets the standard for the full line of services we provide, everything from Hard Drive Sanitization, Data and Drive Restoration, copy work, duplication work; (including, microfilm, microfiche or punch cards), Complete Data Destruction as well as Data Center Migrations and Moves. Think of Echo as your entire Data Solution!
Back to TopNashville, TN – 03/08/2010
ECHO Attended AFCOM's Data Center World 2010 Trade Show in Nashville
ECHO attended the AFCOM’s Data Center World® 2010 Trade Show, the industry’s premier networking and educational conference, located at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, TN.
The show brought in more than 800 data center management professionals. This year's show featured live data center tours, educational and tutorial sessions encompassing all aspects of the data center, and a keynote session by Equinix CIO Brian Lillie on aligning your business strategies with those of your customers.
"After 30 years in business, we're so proud to remain the premiere educational resource for data center managers the world over," said Jill Eckhaus, CEO, AFCOM. "The industry has changed exponentially since we first started in 1980, and with the advent of new technology and trends, will always be evolving at a rapid pace. AFCOM and Data Center World will continue to offer the tools and peer connections needed for data centers to adjust and thrive for the next 30 years and beyond."
About ECHO… ECHO is a company dedicated to offering a consistently high quality, reliable solution within the Data Center World marketplace. ECHO is proud to promote the education, understanding and development of certified tape as a viable alternative to new media. It is essential to us at ECHO that every precaution is taken to ensure that only the highest quality product carries the ECHO name. Our goal is to create awareness in this market and to ensure that the ECHO brand allows our customers an opportunity to feel confident considering alternatives to the OEM options that they now have. Our tape product sets the standard for the full line of services we provide, everything from Hard Drive Sanitization, Data and Drive Restoration, copy work, duplication work; (including, microfilm, microfiche or punch cards), Complete Data Destruction as well as Data Center Migrations and Moves. Think of Echo as your entire Data Solution!
About Data Center World Conferences… Data Center World®, operated by AFCOM, the world’s leading 4,500-member data center association, is the industry’s premier networking and educational conference, and occurs bi-annually. Thousands of data center professionals, from many of the largest corporations across all industries, government organizations, and academic institutions in the world attend Data Center World to share, discuss and learn about the latest data center trends, technologies and best practices, as well as products and services by some of the world’s leading data center technology and service providers. Tradeshow Week recognizes Data Center World as one of the 50 fastest growing shows in the U.S. (2006, 2007, 2008). For more information, visit www.datacenterworld.com.
About AFCOM… AFCOM (www.afcom.com) is a leading association supporting the educational and professional development needs of data center professionals around the globe. Established in 1980, AFCOM currently boasts more than 4,500 members and 38 chapters worldwide, and provides data center professionals with unique networking opportunities and educational forums and resources through its annual Data Center World® Conferences, published magazines, regional chapters, research and hotline services, and industry alliances.
Back to TopColumbus, Ohio – 01/25/2010
ECHO Partners with Columbus Green Spot program
ECHO, a provider of 100% Certified media and data eradication services, has partnered with the Columbus Green Spot program. Green Spot is designed to inspire, educate and recognize residents and businesses that commit to an environmentally responsible lifestyle.
“We want to commend ECHO for making the decision to use our resources in a responsible way that will conserve and protect them for future generations,” said a Green Spot Representative.
About ECHO… ECHO is a company dedicated to offering a consistently high quality, reliable solution within the Data Center World marketplace. ECHO is proud to promote the education, understanding and development of certified tape as a viable alternative to new media. It is essential to us at Echo that every precaution is taken to ensure that only the highest quality product carries the ECHO name. Our goal is to create awareness in this market and to ensure that the ECHO brand allows our customers an opportunity to feel confident considering alternatives to the OEM options that they now have. Our tape product sets the standard for the full line of services we provide, everything from Hard Drive Sanitization, Data and Drive Restoration, copy work, duplication work; (including, microfilm, microfiche or punch cards), Complete Data Destruction as well as Data Center Migrations and Moves. Think of ECHO as your entire Data Solution!
For more information about how you can help the environment, visit Green Spot at http://www.columbusgreenspot.org
Back to TopColumbus, Ohio – 05/28/2009
Keeping Tapes Out of the Landfills
From January to April 2009, ECHO Tape has saved over 50,000 data storage media tapes from going to a landfill.ECHO Tape will recycle all of your used tapes and also arrange shipping. The ECHO certification process begins with secure and safe transportation of used media to our facility. Tapes then undergo complete and thorough data eradication with overwrite of 100% of every track and byte of media. Every tape is validated with a complete read test to verify eradication of data.
Contact an ECHO representative today to see if you can help keep used data storage media out of the landfills.
PHONE: 1-877-344-ECHO
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Columbus, Ohio – 05/08/2009
ECHO to Sponsor Upcoming AFCOM Meeting May 13 at Tech Columbus
ECHO Tape is proud to be a sponsor of the upcoming AFCOM Central Ohio Chapter Meeting on May 13th at Tech Columbus.Since 1980, AFCOM is the only association dedicated to providing education and resources for data center managers. For more information on AFCOME Central Ohio Chapter click here. Back to Top
Columbus, Ohio – 05/04/2009
ECHO Tape partners with The Sierra Club
ECHO Tape is proud to announce a new partnership with The Sierra Club Ohio Chapter, though which ECHO Tape will contribute financial support for environmental advocacy efforts. Recently ECHO Tape donated $0.25 per ECHO tape sold, in celebration of Earth Day and raised just over $1600 for the Sierra Club Ohio Chapter. We look forward to a continued partnership with the Sierra Club. For more information on the Sierra Club Ohio Chapter visit their website at www.ohio.sierraclub.org
Columbus, Ohio – 04/07/2009
ECHO Tape Nominated For Outstanding Green Innovation Award
ECHO Tape, was recognized as a finalist for the TechColumbus Innovation Award for Green Innovation (less than 50 employees). The event was held on Thursday, February 5th, 2009 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center Grand Ballroom. ECHO was nominated as a company that has developed a GREEN product or service that is commercially available and in production, and is in use with at least one customer client. Also ECHO has applied or implemented a technology or process change that has a net positive impact on the environment, such as decreasing energy comsumption as compared to conventional operations, decreasing regulated air or water emissions, decreasing solid-waste as compared to conventional operations. Back to TopColumbus, Ohio – 03/31/2009
ECHO tape Follows the Guidelines of the EPA Waste Wise Program
ECHO 100% Certified Media is manufactured in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) WasteWise program. Wastewise is an EPA sponsored program that is setting the standard for environmental leadership. Echo’s green solution enables data media tape to be recycled through a safe, secure and complete data eradication process; then tested and certified for resale, rather than dumped in landfills, incinerated or shredded. WasteWise is a free, voluntary, EPA program through which organizations eliminate costly municipal solid waste and select industrial wastes, benefiting their bottom line and the environment. WasteWise is a flexible program that allows partners to design their own waste reduction programs tailored to their needs. For more information about how you can help the environment, visit WasteWise at http://www.epa.gov/wastewise/ Back to Top
