Articles by category: Business

CTO OF CIO SOLUTIONS SPEAKS AT JENSEN AUDIO VISUAL TECHNOLOGY EXPO IN SANTA BARBARA   Andrew West, CTO of CIO Solutions, will be teaching a class at a Technology Expo that Santa Barbara based company Jensen Audio Visual is hosting.   Santa Barbara, CA – March 8, 2010 – Andrew West, Chief Technology Officer of CIO Solutions, a Santa Barbara based IT management and consu... read more

CIO SOLUTIONS AND CITRIX CELEBRATE SANTA BARBARA PARTNERSHIP   CIO Solutions and Citrix are hosting an informative happy hour at the beautiful Canary Hotel in Downtown Santa Barbara to celebrate their new partnership.   Santa Barbara, CA, May 5, 2010 --- CIO Solutions, the Tri-County’s leader in IT management and support, is co-hosting with Citrix an informative happy hour f... read more

CIO SOLUTIONS BRINGS ON NEW TALENT: ENGINEERING AND ADMINISTRATIVE CIO Solutions recently increased their engineering team as well as their administrative staff. CIO is excited and looks forward to expertise these new additions will bring to the team. Santa Barbara, CA – March 8, 2010 – CIO Solutions recently hired two engineers and two administrative staff. These additions bring ... read more

JOHN PETOTE NOMINATED AND CONFIRMED AS NEWEST BOARD MEMBER OF THE UC SANTA BARBARA ECONOMIC FORECAST PROJECT                                                 ... read more

5 Reasons Why it is Easy to Do Business with CIO Solutions By: Hannah Rich, Professional Service Coordinator  It has never been easier to do business with CIO Solutions. From the end-user to the CFO we have made it our top priority to make doing business with CIO as enjoyable and cost-effective as possible. Many of these improvements have been implemented in direct response to ... read more

CIO Solutions is now certified and authorized by Microsoft to sell and support Microsoft Online Services in addition to helping clients migrate to these cloud-based services.  CIO Solutions has been implementing Microsoft Solutions in the Santa Barbara and Tri Counties area since 1986 making Microsoft Online Services a natural fit. Microsoft Online Services helps customers c... read more

by Andrew West, CTO Some days at work are definitely more notable than others, and today is one of those exceptional days. We've been providing fully-featured virtualization solutions to our clients for a number of years now, mostly with VMware's ESX (now called vSphere in version 4 of the product line).  Traditionally, these solutions were reserved for organizations with "a lot" of serv... read more

By Gordon Thompson, Remote EngineerThis article discusses the advantages of using an offsite service to host your company's email.  Within the SaaS (Software as a Service) community, email hosting is one of the most popular choices.  This is largely due to the fact of how simple it is to implement and this simplicity is very attractive to small and medium sized business.nbspThe number... read more

By Chase Christian, Engineering Consultant One of the key issues plaguing both PC and Mac users alike is the proliferation of spyware and malware programs on the internet. Spyware, which is designed to capture your information and display advertising/popups, has grown from a rarely seen issue to a daily occurrence for those of us working on the Web. Its malicious brother, malware, is designed ... read more

  CIO Solutions, a Santa Barbara IT company, has been featured in a webinar on Social Marketing. The webinar was presented by channel marketing leader eCoast.   Santa Barbara, CA, July 31, 2009 --- CIO Solutions, the tri-county leader of IT management, consulting and phone systems, was featured in eCoast’s social marketing webinar. This webinar was held on Tuesday, July 28... read more

We became a Juniper Networks Partner when they purchased Netscreen about 5 years ago. Typically we see partner programs go downhill when a big company eats a smaller one. Juniper’s acquisition was different in that the partner program and Netscreen technology became even better. Since that time we have picked up some of Juniper’s other technology products resulting in more... read more

Microsoft is entering a new era of competition. Cloud based apps, like those from Google and Zoho, seem to have the momentum or at least the hype on their side. Combine this with the failure that was Vista and the other viable operating system choices in the market such as Mac or Ubuntu. It all makes for an interesting marketplace and puts the spotlight on Microsoft for the World Partner Confer... read more

How is CIO working towards Greener Computing in Santa Barbara Using Remote Control in place of many on-site visits Concsious about our Paper and Printer Usage Use sleep and other power saving features when computer is not in use Use virtualization to consolidate servers and reduce power usage footprint   How can we help our clients Now.... Print on Both Sides Use Power Manag... read more

Phone Systems in Santa Barbara   We wrote this article as introduction to phone system business requirements for SMB business’s in Santa Barbara looking at new telephones.   The first question an organization needs to ask when reviewing telephony(that’s the fancy way of saying phone systems) solutions is, “what are the viable vendors and technologies choice... read more

By Eric Egolf — May 9th, 2009   CIO Solutions has been installing, configuring, and maintaining ShoreTel since 2002. In that time we have seen the explosive growth of the VoIP industry but more importantly we have seen the benefits that our customers have derived from the ShoreTel Unified Communications System.  Our customer base starts as far south as LA and ex... read more

By RAY ESTRADA — April 7, 2009 What was started in an Isla Vista apartment for $8,000 in 1986 has changed into a multimillion-dollar high-tech company that thrives in today’s crowded computer network industry. In 1983, John Petote came to the South Coast with an associate’s degree in computer management from a Pittsburgh, Pa., college and a desire to earn a living near the b... read more