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Technology Feature of the Month - Getting serious about Business Continuity |
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| CPR is your HP Authorized Warranty Provider | |
| CPR Learning Center News | |
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ITMA February Meeting - Network Access Control |
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Technology
Feature of the Month —
Getting
serious about Business Continuity
Many valuable lessons and improved best practices have evolved since 9/11.
However, for the vast majority of IT organizations (ITOs), they have gone
back to business as usual when challenged with limited budget dollars.
EMC has provided a white paper to explore these issues. The main purpose
of this whitepaper is not only to instill a sense of urgency in IT to
more adequately address the lingering frailties within our infrastructures,
but also to identify reasonable and achievable goals that allow the organization
to begin the process for real improvement. You need to know what to do,
know how to do it, and be able to accomplish it and measure results. Business
continuity is as much as (or more so) an operational and cultural challenge
as a technology challenge.
To
attend the CPR sponsored EMC Business Continuity and Virtualization
Best Practices Seminar, click
here |
To
read the complete whitepaper, click here. |
CPR’s Parent Company Corporate Technologies Continues to Grow – Expanding Reach to Boise, ID and Fairfield, NJ
As part of Corporate Technologies' aggressive expansion plan, the company announced two new acquisitions. The company now holds offices in California, Michigan, North Dakota, Minnesota, and most recently in New Jersey and Idaho.
This past November, Corporate Technologies acquired InfoTech USA, a New Jersey based IT Solutions Provider.
Jim Griffith, CEO of Corporate Technologies stated, “The team at InfoTech has built a solid business and has developed excellent customer relationships with many important businesses in the New Jersey and New York markets. This acquisition will only enhance InfoTech’s position in New Jersey as a leader in technology services. We look forward to providing these customers with the additional resources and expertise that will allow them to grow their business with Corporate Technologies in the future. In addition, Corporate Technologies remains committed to being one of the largest providers of managed services in the country.”
Late December, Corporate Technologies acquired Idaho technology services company ITG (Intermountain Technology Group).
“Corporate Technologies is committed to providing our customers with the best technology managed support and services available to small to medium sized businesses,” said Jim Griffith, CEO of Corporate Technologies. “ITG has established itself as a leader in project-focused technology services in the Idaho market as well as the seven additional states that they serve. We see this acquisition as an opportunity to both enhance our services and provide ITG’s existing customers with the additional resources and expertise that Corporate Technologies provides.”
Corporate Technologies has leveraged its 26 years of industry experience to gain many valuable certifications with leading manufacturers of technology hardware and software. The company offers custom Technology Advantage™ support, VoIP and PBX telephone systems, computer networking solutions, repair and warranty services and systems integration and consulting. With a breadth of managed IT business solutions, multiple locations, and over 200 employees strong, Corporate Technologies is able to support their customers on a national level.
“This acquisition is good for our clients and employees,” said John and Alistair MacMillan, Owners of ITG. “Corporate Technologies provides a broad range of technology services and national coverage. In addition, our employees will have an opportunity to join a company that is growing, investing in their employees, and a leader in delivering managed services.
| “We are confident that we provide unparalleled IT business solutions and services,” said Griffith. “As we continue to expand our reach with strategic acquisitions such as ITG, it is our goal to become known as the national leader in our industry.” |
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For more information on Corporate Technologies, CPR's parent company,
visit their website at www.gocorptech.com. |
CPR is your HP Authorized Warranty Provider
HP recently required all of their Authorized Service providers to become “re-authorized”. As an Authorized Service Warranty Provider for HP, CPR is able to provide our customers with HP in and out of warranty work on their laptops, workstations, servers and printers.
In addition to being an HP Gold Business Partner CPR is an Authorized Service Delivery Partner and an Authorized Warranty Delivery Partner.
CPR
encourages all of our customers to included HP Care Pack Services
on all of their HP purchases. There area variety of service levels
based on your business needs: |
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| • | 24x7, 4-hour on-site hardware support | |
| • | 13x5, 4-hour on-site hardware support | |
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Accidental
Damage Protection |
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| • | Hard Drive Retention | |
HP Care Pack Service helps protect your ability to reach your business goals by providing the level of IT support that’s right for you. We would also like to remind our customers that may use HP Direct Services that instead you can come directly to CPR keeping your service local while maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction.
To learn more about HP Care Pack Services, or if you have any HP service needs contact the CPR customer support center at 616.575.8500 option”0”.
Special Training Offers
CPR
& EMC Host
Business Continuity and Virtualization Best Practices Seminar
Thursday,
January 31, 2008
8:30am – 11:00am
Location: CPR
– Grand Rapids Office
Don't let prolonged business interruptions jeopardize your organization's
core mission or long-term health. Join CPR, and EMC to learn how
to ensure your disaster recovery plan is bulletproof. Tad Rogers,
CPR Senior Engineer and Virtualization Specialist, will explore
how companies are leveraging virtualization and site recovery
into their business continuity planning. Site Recovery Manager
leverages VMware Infrastructure 3 to make disaster recovery rapid,
reliable, affordable, and manageable by making it possible to
build, automate and test disaster recovery plans for your datacenter.
To
learn more about the Business Continuity Seminar,
click here. |
To
RSVP for the Business Continuity Seminar, click
here. |
ITMA February Meeting - Network Access Control
CPR hosts The Information Technology Management Association meetings at our facility every month. This month's topic is Network Access Control and features Scott Montgomery, CPR's Director of Security.
The meeting will review:
• Top 10 things to Worry About
• Approaches to addressing Network Access Control
• Implementation Approaches
• Maintenance
The monthly meeting is offered both in Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo. The Kalamazoo meeting is at BlueGranite on Tuesday, February 12 and the Grand Rapids meeting is at CPR on Thursday, February 14. Both meetings are from 8:00am to 12:00pm.
For
more information on ITMA or becoming a member, visit their website
at www.itma.net. |
To
join the February meeting as a guest, click
here. |
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