• 1st Place - Director of Marketing and ConvergeSecure® Project Manager, Kim Kiefer as "Billy" the puppet from Saw
• 2nd Place - Customer Care Representative, Jasmine Saldana as Medusa
• 3rd Place - Customer Care Supervisor, Jazmine Rodriguez as Chong (Juan Rodriguez was Cheech)
• 4th Place - Customer Care Representative, Tim Blevons as a slick "City Wolf" 
• 5th Place - Support Dispatcher, Michael Wilkerson as an Egyptian Pharaoh 
•  6th Place - Customer Care Representative, Scott Maciejewski as Robin Thicke

We're starting to think Kim takes this WAY too seriously. She rode that tricycle around the office all day

Cutest Medusa ever!

That's Jazmine as Chong - Looking good Cheech!!!

Looking slick City Wolf...

Thank God he didn't bring Miley

Mark Di Benedetto and Danny Poull teach us that sharing IS caring.

Yes, you trust us with your most critical business applications

One of the best pot luck lunches to date. Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Mitutoyo America 50th Anniversary Celebration Open House

CCC Technologies was honored and excited to be invited to attend the Mitutoyo Grand Opening/Ribbon Cutting ceremony for their new US Headquarters facility located in Aurora, IL.  Mitutoyo has been a long time CCC client and when their IT team was tasked with moving and updating existing technology infrastructure they reached out for our guidance and recommendations to best accommodate the transition to the new building.  As a team, CCC and Mitutoyo worked together to map out a plan for moving and collapsing the telephony environment into the new Aurora core as well as deploying new IP based telephones to all users.  The transition was a non-event for users and the new IP based phones not only compliment the new state-of-art facility but position Mitutoyo for the future.

The two-day "Building the Foundation for the Next Fifty" celebration included a ribbon cutting ceremonies, M3 Solution Center, and facility tours, product introductions and seminars, and a 50th Anniversary gala celebration for Mitutoyo customers, distributors and distinguished guests.

"We are so excited that the grand opening of our new facility could occur simultaneously with our 50th anniversary milestone. Our new advanced facility will provide Mitutoyo America with all the essential resources necessary so we are able to hold true to our #1 commitment -- To prevail as the leader in the metrology market achieved through a culture which recognizes lasting relationships are only built on a solid foundation which embraces trust and honor"; said Shigeyuki Sasaki, president of Mitutoyo America Corporation.  

Mitutoyo's nationwide network of Metrology Centers and support operations provides application, calibration, service, repair and educational programs to ensure that our 6,000+ metrology products will deliver measurement solutions for our customers throughout their lifetime.

We were so honored to be a part of the move to the new facility. We value our partnership with Mitutoyo America and look forward to a very long relationship

Some companies drive away loads of customers with one big move. Like that department store chain that got rid of coupons and sales promotions. Its base of cost-sensitive mom shoppers quickly fled to other stores.  

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These days, IT complexity is a way of life - and something that most have come to accept as normal.

Let's face it, it's well established that the typical enterprise user utilizes a multitude of devices at any given time throughout the work day. These devices are continuously exchanging information from numerous locations while using application data across hybrid cloud infrastructures. As a result, organizations are in the process of perfecting a precarious balancing act that both provides seamless unified access while simultaneously dodging the headaches associated with duplicated and contradictory security policies.

And that's no small challenge. So much so that Fortinet researchers maintain that the exponential rise of security rules and policies accumulated by organizations is also preventing them from effectively responding to a maelstrom of new and sophisticated new threats on the security landscape.

Here's why: organizations add security rules on a regular basis, but seldom remove them, creating a myriad of disparate and often contradictory security policies later on. Subsequently, security administrators face more difficulties in understanding the security rules that they are implementing, opening up unintended holes down the road and leaving organizations vulnerable to attack.

Mark Campbell, Unitrends | Modern Backup 2 Blog 

Unitrends is being purchased by a VC.  Is this the end of Unitrends?  Will Unitrends lose its customer obsessed focus (and thus I'll have to rename this blog?)

Mike Coney, the CEO of Unitrends, recently was responsible for a blog that talked about the History of Unitrends.  Pretty interesting reading.  This post is inspired by both it and another post - over at Spiceworks - called The end of Unitrends?

Everyone views history through the lens of their own experience - thus history is incredibly subjective.  I thought that the "History of Unitrends" blog post did a good job.  But when I talked to a few customers last night and this morning about the Insight Ventures Partners acquisition of Unitrends, I thought that it was worth revisiting.

When I think of Unitrends, I think of it in three distinct phases. I'm going to briefly describe the first two phases and spend more time on the third.

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