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Who is Storcom?

Storcom is a high-touch managed IT services and solutions provider headquartered in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. Storcom’s focus is on the management, movement, and protection of data. Our “high-touch” philosophy means that we invest in the necessary consulting time during the discovery phase to understand our clients’ business challenges and vision.

Storcom comes to understand the business drivers and how they support applications and underlying IT infrastructure. More importantly, we design ways to positively impact those drivers to ultimately improve our clients’ business as a whole. Storcom offers end-to-end solutions in infrastructure, integration, cloud strategy and migration, data protection-as-a-service, data and disaster recovery, IT storage, post-installment support, and managed IT services, just to name just a few.

Storcom is an expert in IT infrastructure and we can architect a server, storage, networking, wireless, or cloud solution of your choosing. We work with the leading technology vendors such as HPE, Dell, VMware, Nutanix, Veeam, Zerto, Pure Storage, Cisco, Fortinet, and many more!

“Storcom was formed 22 years ago with a mission to provide mid-tier clients with expertise, processes, and technologies that are usually only available to top enterprise companies.”

Jeff James – CEO, Storcom

Storcom’s operational headquarters and tier 3 data center is located in Lombard, west of Chicago. Our second data center is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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How We Help


Storcom is a top IT solutions provider. If you want to Evolve to the Cloud™ by adopting a cloud enablement strategy, back up and protect your organization’s data during a natural disaster (disaster recovery), upgrade your IT hardware or infrastructure, or need a virtual CIO, then Storcom has the perfect solution to meet your IT objectives. We also design, implement, and support solutions in order to leverage your investments and reduce risk.

What separates Storcom from our competitors is our “Discovery, Analyze, Roadmap” strategy. We help you from beginning to end with our unique consulting methodology. Our extensive knowledge of data management and all other aspects of today’s information technology landscape enable us to provide much more than just solutions: Storcom provides IT intelligence.

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Jeff James formed Storcom, Inc. in early 2000.

Jeff James was introduced by the founders of Compellent Technologies and began working together on various projects.

Storcom became early adopter of virtualization technologies and promoted its benefits in the market with solutions from VMware and early innovators like Virtual Iron, thus positioning themselves at the forefront of IT virtualization.

Storcom, understanding the importance of the management, movement, and protection of data, leveraged its relationships with virtualization pioneers at XIOtech, and then founders of Compellent Technologies started designing and deploying solutions for customers from this technology.

Storcom teamed up with Commvault and was one of the first solution integrators selling and deploying their software suite, Commvault Galaxy 5.0, at the time. Commvault was an innovator in that fact that they were a single software company providing an entire management for all aspects of data management.

Storcom was an early adopter and partner of Data Domain. Data Domain set the stage for the deduplication technology landscape and Storcom was at the front of this wave. Ripping out tape wherever possible and putting up bumper stickers that said “Tape Sucks.”

Storcom merged with Greenview Technology Group. Jeff recognized that an organization’s quest to stay ahead of the IT curve requires much time to research, and the facilities to do POC testing to avoid risk, and the purchasing power to reduce costs. Unfortunately, many organizations don't have the time or the resources, they lack the subject matter experts to architect the solutions they want, and they don't possess the manpower to support these solution sets. Thus, modern-day Storcom emerged as a full-service technology integrator and solution provider with an entire managed IT services portfolio to fill the gap for these companies and their unique challenges.

Leveraging our relationships with Data Domain’s founders, who then went on to start Nimble Storage which was the first hybrid array vendor using Flash and HDD in the same array of storage as not a tier but as a cache, Storcom became the first reseller in Chicago to partner with Nimble Storage. Storcom still has many of the same customers who bought into this technology nearly 10 years ago.

Storcom became a certified solution provider building our own VMware View Rapid Desktop Appliances on Nimble and Dell hardware which was on the VMware HCI at that time.

As the virtual landscape started to expand rapidly, a better replication technology was needed. For data recovery and backup, Storcom partnered with founders of a technology company called Kasha (who was purchased by EMC and turned into Recover Point then went on to start Zerto). Storcom led the way with virtual replication with the best-in-breed VM replication from Zerto and paved the way for all other VM replication technologies that exist today.

Through its relationships, Storcom starts working closely with HCI innovator, SimpliVity, and becomes an early partner and deploys its first Simplivity solution. Storcom saw the benefits of hyperconverged solutions and worked to promote HCI when it was the right option for client.

Storcom sees a need in the small to medium for a real disaster recovery solution that provides true business continuity (DR/BC) at a cost that mid-tier companies can afford. We created Recover by Storcom™, offering our proprietary data recovery offering and disaster recovery consulting practice.

Stocom officially announced its partnership with SingleHop as its data center provider with the Recover by Storcom solution.

Storcom started its partnership with 360 TCS and moved its primary DR/BC and hosting operations and NOC to their Lombard, IL data center location.

Storcom entered the next stage of its managed services offering and began offering its Enterprise production-grade dedicated private cloud for customers and hosting production workloads out of its tier 3 data center in suburban Chicagoland.

Storcom introduced its Cloud Enablement Roadmap™ solution offering to enable companies to Evolve to the Cloud™. Cloud computing is revolutionizing IT, and it's extremely important to have a solid cloud enablement strategy before embarking on a cloud migration endeavor.

Storcom prides itself on being an early technology adopter and staying ahead of the IT curve. In 2018, Storcom invested significant resources into NSX and VeloCloud divisions which are now a part of VMware.

Storcom introduced its Ransomware Prevention and Recovery Roadmap™ offering to help clients plan and protect their critical data in the event of an attack.

Storcom, like many other IT solutions providers, has been helping clients of all types virtualize their environments to stay competitive during this COVID era. The demand for remote workforces is high, and Storcom takes great pride in enabling businesses to operate safely and securely during these times.

Storcom opened a new data center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Our Western Michigan data center services Kalamazoo, Detroit, Holland, Wyoming, Kentwood, Portage, Muskegon, Georgetown, Plainfield, and more.

Storcom embraces the work-from-home culture by expanding the virtual workforce throughout the country and adding new partners to increase products and services to our clients.

Storcom continues to grow product and service offerings to facilitate Cloud efficiencies with an ever-expanding Evolve to the Cloud offering.

WHAT WE VALUE


We value our client’s trust in us. Trust to keep them up and running, trust to be there at 3 AM when things aren’t going right, and trust to keep them ahead of their competition.

We Promote Integrity

Storcom believes in being straightforward and honest with our clients.

We Create Relationships

Storcom believes in “Clients for Life” and we cultivate relationships that last.

We Have Passion

Storcom’s employees enjoy the work they do and constantly bring energy and innovative ideas to the table.

OUR PARTNERS


Storcom partners with best-in-class and budding technology providers in order to stay ahead of the IT industry curve.

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Storcom’s Vision is to Evolve Your Technology Capabilities

As a high-touch IT solutions provider, Storcom is focused on the movement, management, and protection of data. Storcom offers many services and strategic IT solutions to help you Evolve to the Cloud™, backup and restore your data after a disaster, modernize your data center or IT infrastructure, and much more.

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Who is Storcom? Who we are and how we help.

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Storcom and HPE Nimble Storage Video

What is HPE Nimble? At Storcom, we’re a high-touch IT solutions provider that’s focused on the management, movement, and protection of data for more than twenty years – and over those two decades, we’ve been early adopters of many emerging solutions, including Nimble Storage. Nimble’s game-changing solutions combine predictive analytics from HPE InfoSight with a multi-cloud flash fabric to create an all-flash storage platform that’s incredibly efficient, reliably fast, radically simple, and ready for everything you need to do in the cloud. InfoSight uses AI and global intelligence to not only simplify storage management, but also create a self-improving and self-healing infrastructure that transforms the support experience into one you’ll actually like since many problems are resolved before you even realize there’s an issue. And with Nimble’s multi-cloud flash fabric, you can deliver fast and reliable flash storage to all your applications under a single, scalable architecture – whether they’re on-premises or in the cloud. As the first Nimble partner in the Midwest, Storcom has unparalleled experience with Nimble technology and can help you take advantage of it to simplify data storage and infrastructure support both now, and in the future. Contact us today to schedule a demo to learn how Nimble Storage can help you create better business and IT outcomes. www.storcom.net

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Storcom and VMware Tanzu Portfolio

Learn more about how Kubernetes and VMware’s Tanzu portfolio can help with the adoption of containers. Simplify your infrastructure Extend an …

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HPE SimpliVity Technical Deep Dive and Demo

Please join Dave Kluger of Storcom, and Lance Hagert and James Kohlbeck of HPE, for a replay of our technical deep dive and demo of HPE SimpliVity webinar …

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How Storcom can help you Evolve to the Cloud™ with our cloud migration practice.

Storcom’s Cloud Enablement Roadmap® will help you Evolve to the Cloud™ efficiently and cost-effectively. Storcom offers an array of products and services to fill gaps in your IT environment. We strive to offer white-glove service and work as your trusted advisor in the IT space. Visit https://www.storcom.net to learn more!

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Remote Work Readiness Part 1: VDI and Remote Desktop Services (RDS)

Storcom has created this series because we are seeing, just like you, a ton of emails in our inbox on the topic of virtual workspace and remote work options. We felt that it was time to put on a series that was coming from a vendor-agnostic standpoint and really was designed to provide information that you really need to make informed decisions. We hope that we can help cut through the clutter and marketing hype in this series and dig into some of the real questions you need to be asking around any of the topics we are planning to discuss in this series. These seven questions are: 1) How much customization will each employee require? 2) How many applications do my remote users need to have access to? 3) What kind of device will your end-user be utilizing? 4) What do my users need as far as performance to get their work done effectively?5) Why not choose RDS (remote desktop services)?6) How are you going to deal with security challenges today? 7) Which financial model do you want to use?

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Recover By Storcom Infographic

Learn how our Recover by Storcom solution can help you backup and protect your data in case of a disaster. 

Introduction to HCI: HPE SimpliVity Overview

https://www.storcom.net/contact-us/ Storcom and HPE SimpliVity have teamed up to create this fantastic video on hyper-converged infrastructure and how HPE …

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VMware Carbon Black Infographic

Learn more about VMware Carbon Black with Storcom’s new infographic! 

Storcom and Carbon Black’s Tips For Securing Remote Workers

Read Storcom and VMware’s Carbon Black’s tips on how to secure your organization’s remote workforce. 

Evolve to the Cloud with Storcom

Learn how to Evolve to the Cloud with Storcom. We can help you migrate your data to a public, private, or hybrid cloud safely and securely. 

Recover By Storcom Powered By: 360 TCS

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Ransomware Recovery and Prevention Roadmap

Learn how to protect your data from ransomware with Storcom’s Ransomware Recovery and Prevention Roadmap solution. 

Remote Work Readiness Part 1: VDI and Remote Desktop Services (RDS)

Storcom has created this series of webinars because we are seeing, just like you, a ton of emails in our inbox on the topic of virtual workspace and remote work …

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Remote Work Readiness Part 2: Virtual Collaboration – Cloud File-Sharing

Storcom is hosting a 4-part series on Remote Work Readiness. In today’s world amidst the current pandemic, working from home has become the new norm. Storcom’s second installation is focusing on Cloud File-Sharing solutions, from Microsoft Azure Files, OneDrive, and Storcom’s own CloudFilez™ solution. 

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Storcom’s Desktop-as-a-Service Example Diagram

This diagram shows the logical flow of users connecting to the external portal via HTML5 browser and over SSL. The users gained access to the DaaS sessions in the Storcom Secure Private Cloud.  It also shows how users can also access data from the Storcom FileCloud local shares for low latency and high bandwidth connections to data. 

Storcom DaaS Solution White Paper

Physical desktop computers with locally installed operating systems and apps no longer make sense for the modern business world. They’re expensive, maintenance intensive, not secure, and they lack sufficient support for an ever-changing business landscape. Learn more about Storcom’s managed VDI and DaaS solutions. 

Storcom and HPE SimpliVity Webinar- 4/29/2020

Please join Dave Kluger, CTO of Storcom, and Jose Cornejo, Hybrid IT Sales Specialist at HPE, for a brief introductory webinar on HPE SimpliVity. SimpliVity is the HCI innovation that’s changing the game by combining IT infrastructure and advanced data services into a single, integrated, all-flash solution at a fraction of the cost of traditional and public cloud offerings. During this event you will get answers to your questions about how this fast, simple, and scalable hyperconverged platform can streamline your IT operations and facilitate your transition to Hybrid IT.

Storcom and Nutanix Xi Frame Webinar

Please join Dave Kluger, CTO of Storcom, and Huzu Saifee, Xi Frame Specialist at Nutanix, for an introduction to Xi Frame! Compared to 10 years ago, today’s IT …

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Storcom: Enabling Clients to “Evolve to the Cloud”

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VDI and Desktop as-a-Service Blog Post

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Data Protection in Storage and Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Today’s topic is on data protection in storage and hyperconverged infrastructure. Specifically, “backup software” and its ability to be replaced by what capabilities storage arrays (SAN) or hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution vendors claim they can provide.This is a multi-part blog series. I want to dispel some of the myths and mysteries about certain topics in the information technology field where I think IT vendors’ claims can be very misleading.  I am not affiliated with any ve…

Cloud Migration Questionnaire

My name is Dave Kluger, and I am the CTO for Storcom, an information technology solution provider located outside of Chicago in Lombard, Illinois.  I have compiled this list of questions to help you make informed decisions when considering a cloud migration project.  Cloud computing is an extremely complex endeavor, and if done incorrectly then it can be a costly nightmare. Use this cloud migration questionnaire as a checklist to ensure a smooth transition to cloud computing. Te…

Colocation Service Solution Provider

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Top 10 Cloud Based Planning Solution Companies – 2020

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Planning for Cloud Adoption is Not Easy

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Legacy Home Directories and User Directory Data Migration

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