Seasoned leaders know: a serious IT issue can bring an organization to its knees – crashing mission critical applications, jeopardizing sensitive data, driving up costs, and alienating partners and customers.
To avoid those damaging outcomes, however, requires an extensive set of skills, capabilities, and resources. Just consider this short list of “IT assurance” table-stakes requirements.
- Reliable IT starts with aggressive monitoring and expert, ongoing maintenance of networks, applications, and related systems. Given the complexity of many company IT systems, monitoring and maintenance can be daunting challenges.
- Next, an organization must have the business and technical skills and resources needed to deliver day-to-day IT services … AND to respond to potential interruptions, attacks, or other problems. That kind of infrastructure is vital, but expensive.
- As data becomes more important (and more sensitive), many organizations struggle to find practical, scalable, and secure ways to manage and store information. Great data storage solutions are available, but again, they can be difficult to deploy and manage.
- Many companies now look to IT as a source of innovation, particularly when it comes to advanced capabilities like cloud computing, virtualization, applications transformation, information optimization, and enterprise security.
If you’re a gigantic corporation, you have the people and the money to tackle these challenges. So how can smaller and growing organizations avoid a major IT breakdown, and better yet, leverage technology to drive innovation and growth?
For many, the answer may lie in what some people call the “partner ecology.” Small- and medium-sized businesses and public organizations can gain “big company” advantages by forging cost-effective alliances with the world’s leading technology organizations.
We’ve done precisely that at Corporate Technologies; let me tell you how.
Our own portfolio of skilled technicians, remote monitoring and maintenance, and managed services can meet many IT requirements. And when needed, we also leverage the power of our partnerships with world-class providers of hardware, software, and other IT solutions. We ally with strong technology partners like HP, TrendMicro, and Microsoft. Just take a peek at our business partners to get a feel for the depth and breadth of that ecosystem.
Together with those partners and the technical skills and certifications held by our engineers, Corporate Technologies is able to provide top-of-the-line solutions for organizations of all sizes, including: managed services, voice and data networking, data storage, and infrastructure design, implementation and support.
But don’t just take our word for it. As one Corporate Technologies customer, Gary Bos, who manages operations at Grand Rapids Gravel, says: “Employees at Grand Rapids Gravel are used to coming to the office, turning on the faucet and having the water run. Now when they come to the office, they turn on the computers and expect them to run too, and they do.”
The bottom-line is: small and growing companies don’t have to “go it alone” to achieve IT security, reliability and performance. A strong partner ecology, featuring the best names in technology, can be a logical and affordable solution.
Matt Clarin, Director of Operations, Grand Rapids, MI
