CMIT Solutions of SW Rockland

CMIT Solutions of SW Rockland is the small business IT support and IT services company for Suffern, Nanuet, Pearl River, Chestnut Ridge, Spring Valley, and Rockland County.

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Jim McGraw

Jim McGraw, the president of CMIT Solutions of SW Rockland has over 25 years experience in corporate IT services.  Working for a major IT service provider and outsourcer, he has designed, developed and delivered IT solutions and IT support to Fortune 500 clients in the consumer electronics, telecommunications and automotive industries.    He is a certified Project Management Professional.

CMIT Solutions of SW Rockland is located in Sloatsburg NY and targets small businesses in the southern and western part of Rockland County, including Suffern, Spring Valley, Nanuet, Pearl River, Monsey and Chestnut Ridge.  We supply proactive solutions to the most common problems these businesses face.  Often the owners and managers of these businesses have often been frustrated with their inability to get what they need from their technology solutions.  This can result in lost revenue, poor customer satisfaction, reduced productivity and lost data.  CMIT Solutions can help prepare a plan that addresses these problems and avoids the high cost of emergency fixes for resolving outages.    

CMIT Solutions is a nationwide provider of information technology (IT) services and solutions for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). With more than 800 consultants and technicians, CMIT has expertise in nearly all technologies and industries Founded in 1996 in Austin, TX, CMIT Solutions, Inc. has grown into the leading IT solution provider for SMBs. With over 10 years of experience and strong industry partnerships, CMIT Solutions is capable of providing enterprise-level services and products that were previously unavailable to the SMB market. We are a local company with the support of a national network behind us. We focus on making your business run better by understanding your business and technology needs.

Does your current data backup and recovery solution protect you against all types of data loss?

Causes of Data Loss by frequency

  • Hardware – 44%
    • Hard drive failure – most common
    • Power surge from lightning storm
  • Human Error – 32%
    • Accidental deletion of data
    • Disgruntled employee / salesperson moving to a new company
    • Hardware theft/Data theft
  • Software – 14%
    • Data corruption due to program crash
    • Security patches causes software to stop functioning correctly
  • Disaster – 3%
    • Natural disasters – fire, flood, earthquake, tornado


US businesses lose over $12 billion annually due to data loss!

National Archives & Records, Washington D.C

       Questions you need to ask yourself:

  1. How often do we back up our data and where?
  2. Are our data backups secure?
  3. For each potential cause, how long will it take to recover the data if we need it?
  4. What’s our plan to keep the business running in the meantime?
  5. When was the last time we tested our plan?

        You might need:

  • Continuous Backups - As often as every 15 min, on-site and off-site
  • Encrypted backups in multiple remote locations
  • Fast Recovery - Full restore in less than 24 hours.
  • Virtualization Capability - continue doing business, even if your server is down
  • Monthly or quarterly disaster recovery tests

7 out of 10 small firms go out of business within a year if they experience a major data loss!                                              

                                                                                                        (Information Security Breaches Survey, DTI/PriceWaterhouse Coopers)

Based on the latest projections, Hurricane Irene is headed for Rockland County. Here are a few tips that might save you from technology headaches if the storm stays on its current path: 1. Consider what documents and data that you might need if you are unable to access your workplace because of a power outage. Copy your files to a USB key or a laptop and take it home. Even if these files are available from an online disk, you may not have internet access. 2. Make a printed copy of your contact list with email addresses and cell phone numbers. Make a printed copy of your calendar for next week. You may need to reschedule appointments on the fly. If your business makes deliveries to customers or receives deliveries from suppliers, you may need to reschedule those deliveries. 3. Before you leave on Friday, agree on an emergency communication plan with your firm’s staff. How will they know if the office will be open on Monday morning? How will they know when the office will be open if not the usual time? Agree on multiple ways to communicate since phone lines may be done for some and email inaccessible for others. 4. Shut down all non-essential equipment before the storm. Hopefully you have a UPS installed for computers that run unattended, that will shut them down gracefully in the event of a power outage. However, there is no need to test this under fire. Unprotected computers may be subject to repeated power outages and voltage fluctuations that could damage them. 5. If you only back up your data to a local USB drive or NAS device, you might consider disconnecting it and taking it home or to another location. Extreme weather is one of the leading causes of site-wide equipment and data loss. Do not leave your only data backup sitting next to your server. They will likely be destroyed at the same time. Before the next big storm, investigate online data backup. It’s inexpensive and secure. 6. Parts of Rockland are prone to flooding. If you are in one of these areas, don’t leave expensive computer equipment sitting on the floor. Raise it up to reduce the likelihood of water damage. Computers really don’t like water. 7. Resolve to spend more time thinking about your business continuity plan. This is not something that you pull together in the 24 hours before a storm hits. It requires planning and careful thought, and it addresses more than just technology. It is a plan for how you will conduct your business in a variety of disaster scenarios. If you want something to provoke your thought process, check out the following link from JP Morgan Chase: https://www.chase.com/online/commercial-bank/document/Perspective_Disast...

  • Monday, October 25, 2010

    Reno businesses in need of a technological makeover can nominate themselves throughout September and October to win a technology makeover from CMIT Solutions of Reno, Microsoft and Dell.

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  • Friday, October 22, 2010

    CMIT Solutions is one of the leading small business IT franchise companies and it has expanded at a rate of 50 percent during this recent economic downturn. Now that’s something to celebrate! "Plain and simple, it’s a winning business model," said Jeff Connally, president and CEO of Austin, Texas-based CMIT Solutions. "We hit home hard on two key differentiators: First, we give downsized corporate America professionals or those seeking to make a career change a successful business model that fills a critical need today; second, small business owners can’t find the type of IT solutions we provide with tremendous affordability anywhere else."

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  • Saturday, October 16, 2010

    With the small business aid package signed into law in late September, many are interested to know how it will impact the sluggish U.S. economy. For instance, will employment increase? Will loans become readily available to small business owners?

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  • Wednesday, October 13, 2010

    Tom Burtzlaff is today’s guest under the “Our Heroes” series. Tom, a 30 year veteran executive who worked for multiple cosmetic companies in various capacities from manufacturing to general management finally took the plunge in the entrepreneurial waters in late 2009 when his last employer shut down his facility. Now, a proud entrepreneur, he is the President of CMIT Solutions of Columbia  – a nationwide provider of IT services and solutions for small business. Tom shares his journey from being an employee for three decades to an entrepreneur now. Let’s talk to Tom…

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  • Wednesday, October 6, 2010

    From home improvement to food to retail, a number of franchises actually rely on other franchises for various services and products.  For example, Valpak, the brand behind the ubiquitous Blue Envelope that arrived in consumers' mailboxes each month, reaches approximately 42 million households throughout the United States and Canada and annually distributes approximately 20 billion offers inserted in more that 480 million envelopes

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  • Thursday, September 23, 2010

    CMIT Solutions  Aliso Viejo-Laguna  Beach will take care of your computers  so you don't have to. They work with small businesses who  are frustrated  with the technology they  use to run their business. They partner  with  small  business  owners  to leverage  technology  in ways that provides them more  time, increased  revenue  and gives  them peace of mind.

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  • Friday, September 10, 2010

    For experienced IT professionals, the management of complex environments often boils down to a science that draws upon theories and processes designed to boost efficiency and effectiveness. An increasingly popular example that ties IT to the goals and strategies of the business is the IT-CMF (IT Capability Maturity Framework), which can go a long way toward extracting value from IT investments.

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  • Tuesday, August 24, 2010

    NEW JERSEY (August 23, 2010) - CMIT Solutions, the information technology partner to local small businesses with nine offices throughout North Jersey and three in Central Jersey, invites owners and management at area small businesses to participate in an enlightening discovery on Thursday, August 26, 2010 at noon CT.

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  • Sunday, August 8, 2010

    Small businesses in the greater Pontiac area that have struggled to find quality IT support now have an option that gives them the benefits of a full-time information technology staff at a lower cost.

    Gary Churchill recently launched CMIT Solutions of Greater Pontiac to provide enterprise IT support to the small business communities in Birmingham, Bloomfield, Bloomfield Hills, Pontiac, Auburn Hills and Waterford.

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  • Friday, July 30, 2010

    Cloud computing offers processing power and speed to market that make it beneficial for many small and mediumsized enterprises, but there are also instances when cloud computing isn’t the best strategy. 

    “The cloud enables consumption based on what is required at the time of subscription, without a lot of upfront investment. It thereby enables a pay-as-you-grow model, bringing down the TCO dramatically and making it affordable for SMEs to adopt the service,” says Anupam Sahai, president of eGestalt. 

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"For our [clinical research facility], it was better to have a preventive plan in place so that if something did break, we would be ahead of it, and it wouldn’t break instead of waiting for something to happen and then fix it. So, now CMIT is monitoring everything, and we haven’t had any issues so they can catch the problem before it even happens. "
"CMIT is all about peace of mind, and literally, it doesn't cost you anything because you are saving the money on me working on the computer when I'm losing business. In today's economy, you don't want to be late sending bills out, you've got to be out there because if you start falling behind you're going to see the amount of income drop dramatically. So, Greg and CMIT make us look more...
"Whereas our systems were originally only getting backed up on a monthly basis, CMIT was able to come in and now they are automatically backed up to the server. We had a center in the DFW area that did lose everything. They made a phone call to CMIT, and CMIT was able to restore their data within a couple of hours. We’re monitored on a 24/7 basis, so even if there was something that were to...
"The way CMIT does business is just much more suitable for our type of business environment. We have deadlines and critical schedules to meet, and we need to be moving forward at all times. CMIT provides data on a monthly basis, which allows us to look at trends and be proactive with our decisions and our methods for improving our system. Every time my system improves, that means my efficiency...
"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...
"We pride ourselves that we are the company that gives instant customer service. We were getting to a point where it was extremely difficult, and we didn't want to lose our customer base. We wanted to also expand. I said, 'I need somebody to do something to allow us to be the company that we started out to be and to continue and to grow.' CMIT has helped us to do just that.   "
"Since partnering with CMIT, I can now not worry about whether or not my computers are working. I've got backups, monitoring, I can get reports, and I know where I'm having risks and threats. I now can rely on my IT people (CMIT) to take care of my IT problems and to keep that IT system up and running in an appropriate manner. That is something before I couldn't rely on. I now have a system!...
"We didn’t initiate offsite backups in the beginning, but with the start of the hurricane season we said, 'OK guys, we now have this wonderful system, but it's not really complete yet.' We're now able to back up our data, it's safely transported and stored offsite, and it’s all HIPAA compliant. And the NAS device can actually work as our server so we can continue to use our systems and do...
"With other IT service providers, we felt that we only got assistance when we requested it, and we normally came up with any ideas for improvements on our system rather than them. I was not impressed with the service, the communication or the end product at that point. Our experience has really set CMIT and Sue and John who run the show for them here apart from the others. They are more...
"We use large aerial imagery that can sometimes be 30 or 40 GB in size. There would be times that I would wait 30 seconds to a minute and a half for an image to appear. CMIT Solutions helped us rehabilitate the computers on hand, put in a network infrastructure, and put in faster switches. Now, it can be instantaneous to 15 seconds for a map to load. I kind of feel like I'm spoiled!   "

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