PernixData – A review of the performance gains using HP Blades in 10Gbs Hybrid SAN environment

If you had a storage bottleneck and wanted to resolve it with software in less than 2 hours ….or…. If you wanted to have a Swiss army knife of performance enhancing techniques at your disposal enabling you to leverage the most cost effective and constantly evolving(think moore’s law) components of the commodity hardware industry ….then…. PernixData was… Read more »

TekTegrity Named to Managed Service Provider 500 List by CRN

Company Recognized for Exemplary Approach to Delivery of Managed IT Services San Luis Obispo, CA, March 10 2015 – TekTegrity today announced it has earned recognition on The Channel Company’s 2015 CRN Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list as one of the MSP Pioneer 250. This annual list distinguishes the top technology providers and consultants… Read more »

Client Spotlight: PRP Companies

The Cornerstone principles of PRP Companies include quality, sustainability, as shown through their Green Award, and trustworthiness, as indicated by their HIPPA compliance. They pride themselves on being active and generous in our community, having donated a great deal of printing services to non-profit organizations in San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara Counties. PRP Companies has… Read more »

TekTegrity Named One of Ingram Micro’s Fastest-Growing SMB Channel Partners in the U.S.

World’s Largest Technology Distributor Recognizes TekTegrity’s Achievements and Success in Annual Ingram Micro SMB 500 List at Inaugural IMOne Event in New Orleans #IMOne2014 San Luis Obispo, CA June 20, 2014 – TekTegrity, an IT managed services provider based in San Luis Obispo, today announced it was named to the Ingram Micro 2014 SMB 500…. Read more »

Security Advisory Regarding Internet Explorer Vulnerability

News outlets are reporting a significant new vulnerability in all versions of Internet Explorer.  There have been only very limited reports of this vulnerability being exploited by hackers… so far. At the end of yesterday, Microsoft released a workaround solution for this vulnerability.  After testing it, TekTegrity began deploying to all of our clients starting… Read more »

SilverPeak Optimizing Nimble Storage Replication – Real World Results from a Private Cloud Environment

Disclaimer: We are a Nimble Storage partner. At the time of this writing we are not a Silver Peak partner. Summary – Our environment received a 60% data reduction when using Silver Peak to Optimize a Nimble Storage to Nimble Storage replication traffic. In addition our low latency(10ms) 100Mbs WAN could not push more than… Read more »

CIO Security Update – Cryptolocker Virus

Cryptolocker is a computer virus that originated last year and wreaked havoc on millions of computer users. A new variant was detected today. The virus is spread when a computer user clicks an infected file from a link, email attachment or USB drive. The user then runs it on their computer and it begins to… Read more »

CIO Continues to Support Locally Owned Businesses and Non-Profits

CIO Solutions, Santa Barbara’s premier IT firm celebrates its 28th year. CIO continues to provide excellent customer service to our existing base while exploring partnerships across versatile industries in the Tri-County area. We’ve recently partnered with City of Arroyo Grande, AutoVitals, Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District, Santa Barbara Scholarship Foundation, and Ergomotion. In May… Read more »

TekTegrity + Digital Foundation

San Luis Obispo, CA — Local IT solutions company TekTegrity, Inc. announced Friday, December 20, 2013 that it has acquired Digital Foundation, Inc. TekTegrity, the largest IT provider in the region, now has 42 employees and serves nearly 250 businesses from their Central Coast and Central Valley locations. Russ Levanway, CEO of TekTegrity says the… Read more »

Nimble Storage Snapshot and Thin Provisioning Efficiency – Is your SAN sufficiently efficient

The absence of real data, which is typically shielded by the spinsters in the manufacturer’s marketing department and their grasp on the blogosphere, compels me to provide this information so that a prospective buyer has more than just one dimensional posts from spiceworks and vmware forums to help them in their quest to make the… Read more »