ITP, in a joint effort with our partner, Converged, is holding an event on February 11th at the Chophouse in Madison that will display two of today’s most valuable technologies for business. If you want to understand more about how you can guarantee network availability for your business; or how unified communications are changing the way businesses communicate with their customers, then you should attend this event. Featuring live demonstrations of Stratus Avance high availability software and Shoretel VOIP phone systems, you will see how you can drive business through innovative, always available communications.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., January 1, 2011 – Information Technology Professionals (ITP), a computer services consultancy serving the IT needs of the greater Milwaukee and Madison community, announced today the addition of software and services expressly designed to protect clients’ most important applications against downtime and data loss. ITP is now a channel partner of Stratus Technologies, a global leader of hardware, software and services that ensure the highest levels of uptime to critical applications.
“Reliable computer operations is critical to the success of nearly every small and medium businesses today, but typically difficult and costly to achieve” said Joe Ulm, President of Information Technology Professionals. “Guaranteeing 99.999% network uptime, complete with an enterprise-level disaster recovery solution, all for a price that’s affordable to small and medium-sized businesses is unheard of today. The ability to provide that will fundamentally change the way small and medium sized businesses deploy and manage their technology. ITP is proud to be the only firm in the Madison and Milwaukee markets capable of delivering this revolutionary technology to its clients.”
Stratus offers software and hardware approaches to availability, both with extensive built-in technology for service and system management to protect against downtime – planned and unplanned – and data loss. The Stratus Avance software now offered by ITP provides simple, affordable high availability to ordinary Intel-based servers. The Stratus ftServer system is a single server that delivers the industry’s highest levels of uptime. Both Avance and ftServer products support Windows and Linux applications, as well as virtualization technology.
“ITP has developed an excellent reputation for technical knowledge and quality of service, and we are pleased to be affiliated with the team,” said Eric Dougherty, Stratus vice president, channel sales. “ITP’s clients can now have essentially the same availability technology developed over three decades that many of the world’s largest financial institutions and manufacturing companies use to protect their critical systems from downtime. We expect this will be a very successful partnership for both companies.”
About Stratus Technologies
Stratus Technologies delivers uptime for the applications its customers depend on most for their success. With its ultra-reliable servers, software and services, Stratus helps to save lives and to protect the business and reputations of companies, institutions, and governments the world over. To learn more about worry-free computing, visit www.stratus.com.
What’s new at ITP
The new year brings us new challenges, new opportunities, and of course, new technologies for us all to review and consider. For many businesses this constant expansion of technology is both a blessing and a curse. Technology can be a great tool in fostering greater efficiency, productivity, and competitive advantage for businesses, but it can also be incredibly time consuming to navigate through, deploy, and maintain. As strange as it may sound, it’s no different here at ITP. Certain technologies like Microsoft are staples within the business world, but most others require rigorous investigation and testing before we can recommend them to our customers. As 2011 begins, ITP has added to our portfolio one of the most exciting technologies we’ve come across.
ITP is proud to announce its partnership (link to press release) with Stratus Technologies. Stratus Technologies’ Avance product guarantees 99.999% network availability. Yep, that’s 99.999%. With today’s need for businesses to be instantly responsive and “always available” to customers, this is great news for small and medium-sized businesses. See more about our partnership here www.itprosusa.com.
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From time to time we like to take a break and recognize our clients and their online work. One client we are particularly proud of his continued investment into his online marketing through blogging is Attorney Tristan Pettit of Petrie & Stocking. Tristan is both knowledgeable and personable and you can see by his large online blog following a clear expert in the field of landlord tenant law and eviction in the Milwaukee, WI area. Whether you are a property owner, know someone who is a landlord or just interested in good writing- do yourself a favor and read through a quality, informative blog. Wisconsin Landlord Tenant Law blog by Tristan Pettit
Watch the first episode of the Social Media Forum discussion on social media issues. The first episode covers why businesses engage in social media and what some of the challeneges and drawbacks people face. Watch for more episodes as we cover the issues facing your social media campaigns.
http://smf.bz/ep1
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ITP is proud to announce our newly formed relationship with “The Credit Man”, Michael Mack. Attorney Mack and his staff provide quality debt consolidation and bankruptcy services for their clients. ITP will be providing Attorney Mack and his staff with comprehensive IT consulting including network support, legal-specific application support, and a range of Internet & website services. You can find out more about Attorney Michael Mack and his practice here.
Please join me in welcoming Attorney Mack and his staff into our “ITP Family.”
ITP is proud to introduce Paul Hager who joined the firm officially as a partner on August 1st. Paul comes to ITP with the unique blend of networking experience and an expertise in website design, Internet development and Internet marketing. Currently, Paul manages our Madison office, but can be found in our Milwaukee office fairly frequently. Many of you have already had the opportunity to work with Paul, but in case you haven’t you can find out more about Paul here.
Another successful year at revamped and renamed Wisconsin Small Firm, Solo and Technology Conference. I had the honor to present on the subject of email with Art Saffran and Rick Borstein. Art discussed organizing and searching email as well as spam prevention. Rick discussed email archiving in the new Adobe Acrobat 8.0. I spoke on a grab bag of email subjects including hosting and blacklist as well as organizing email in case management systems and document mangement systems. More on our presentation.
There was lots of traffic at the ITP booth with many old friends dropping by. If I had to name a few areas that people were particularly interested in, I would say remote access and billing systems – especially PCLaw. Over the next few days I will post some thoughts on both of these subjects.
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