Private Cloud in Your Back Yard

Published In: Shelby & Miami County Industry Guide

What is the “Cloud” and what does it mean to your business? Cloud computing comes into focus when you think about what business IT needs; a way to increase capacity and add new functions and capabilities as needed without overhauling or investing in new infrastructure. The ability for area business to turn to SMS proTECH for cloud-based services provides cutting-edge technologies, right in our own back yard. “We’ve recently invested in a complete data center utilizing best of breed technologies,” states Dave Rees, Chief Technology Officer of SMS proTECH, “and we’re using our relationships with EMC, VMWare, FortiNet and Dell along with our long-term partnerships with Cisco, Microsoft, Citrix, HP and Emerson Power to provide a data center that matches any across the country.” “And,” added Jon Dankworth, Director of Business Development, “our customers can rest assured that their data is being securely stored here at our facility with replication to the Lima Perry facility, not at some unknown Internet-hosted location.”

The economics of cloud computing will be a great benefit economically to area business. According to Bill Hemmelgarn, Director of Managed Services, “The benefits of moving to the cloud are potentially unlimited. You avoid capital expenditure on hardware, software and service and instead pay for what you use. We’re set up privately so each client has a tailor-made solution. It might include data transfer, storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, load balancing, infrastructure or application services, email and web defense or our complete Customer Care services. In addition to expenditure savings, businesses will have state-of-the-art technology available through us for increased quality of service that will have a positive effect on their day to day business.”

SMS proTECH understands that cloud computing may not fit everyone and we will always offer core infrastructure solutions and services. According to Jeff Boate, company President, “Our plans for 2011 include an increase to our employee roster from our inside sales team to our technical engineers so that we provide progressively better service to our clients.” In addition to Cloud offerings, SMS proTECH will continue to train and certify on our core business model that includes IP telephony, video conferencing, wireless, storage, virtualization, network security and monitoring.

Our tradition of offering free educational seminars and web casts on trends and developments in technology to area business will not change either. Our goal and mission in the years ahead is to be a better partner and to help local business focus on their own growth and profitability. We thank all of our clients for their continued support and look forward to providing even greater customer service and top-of-the-line technology services in the coming years.