Life After Corporate Life

Friday, October 3, 2008

Couple joins ranks of small businesses looking to start over.

Emory Simmons lost his information-technology job at Wachovia Corp. So he created a new one. Simmons and his wife, Carolyn, launched CMIT Solutions, an IT consulting firm, in August. The couple joined a group of entrepreneurs facing challenges as they move from corporate castles to the risky realm of small business.

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In Their Words

"CMIT dealt with my local backup needs so that if I just need to get one specific piece of information, they can actually do it remotely from their office and get my people back and going. If I do have a catastrophic disaster that takes my entire building, I have laptops and everything else that I can have up immediately. I can use my web-based information storage and be back up and running...