Blizzards as usual
WHEN THE SNOW FELL ON CHRISTMAS, ITONCOMMAND
HELPED CIMCO’S EMPLOYEES STAY UP AND RUNNING
By Hailey Lynne McKeefry
IN 2004, THE PEOPLE OF DENVER HAD Desktop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft
a white Christmas. The first blizzard Exchange Server, remote access, security,
pelted the area right before the holiday, business continuity and disaster recovery.
while a second came right on its heels to The service, for which CIMCO pays per-seat
bury the city in several more feet of snow. monthly fees, supports integration with
The huge snowstorms left many business- Windows Mobile and includes a private,
people in the area completely frozen out of centralized network.
their offices and unable to work. “Over Christmas, we had the biggest
For the financial advisers of Capital Invest- storm we’d had in over 30 years, and a lot
ment Management Company, though, it of employees had four or five days that they
was almost business as usual, thanks to couldn’t come into the office,” said Chad
ITonCommand, an IT services provider in Williams, CIMCO’s chief operations offi-
Denver offering hosted solutions. cer. “At CIMCO, though, we all worked in
“At a lot of companies, employees simply between shoveling out our driveways.”
couldn’t get to work,” said Annette Nueske, CIMCO’s relationship with ITonCommand
marketing manager at ITonCommand, a illustrates how companies can reallocate
division of CCD Corporation. resources and derive benefits by hand-
What saved CIMCO was its decision ing over their IT environments to service
earlier in the year to outsource its IT needs providers through managed services or
to ITonCommand, including Windows [CONTINUED ON PAGE 16]
