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A Leading Managed IT Services and Solutions Provider Who Understands Technology

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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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.

A Leading Managed IT Services and Solutions Provider Who Understands Technology

Who is Storcom?

Jeff James – CEO, Storcom

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