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...

  • Thursday, August 27, 2009

    CMIT Solutions headquartered in Austin, TX, has over 100 national franchises of local computer consultants. 

    Based on my personal experience CMIT's franchise owners are not simply propeller headed geeks, but are truly passionate about ensuring their business clients are successfully using technology to grow their business. 

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  • Tuesday, August 4, 2009

    ESCONDIDO ---- Ken Hamilton used to fly around the country as the technological Mr. Fix-it for big corporate clients. But since he bought his own franchise, he gets to stay within driving distance of home.

    Hamilton's specialty is computer technology. He helps companies buy the right computers, install security and meet the other tasks needed to keep corporate systems running.

    Now president of CMIT Solutions of Inland North County, Hamilton says staying local lets him participate in the community while still doing his job. That's something he said was hard while working for 18 years as part of a Hewlett Packard business-to-business sales team.

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  • Wednesday, July 15, 2009

    Algonquin - Scott Brennan, president of CMIT Solutions of Fox Valley North earned Franchise of the Year honors. Not bad, considering he only joined the information technology franchisor three years ago. In fact, Brennan earned Rookie of the Year honors. The award recognizes franchise owners and their businesses based on sales, performance and leadership within the franchise system.

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  • Thursday, July 9, 2009

    July 07, 2009 // Franchising.com // Austin, Texas - Confusion, frustration and disorganization... these are the symptoms of small to mid-size business (SMB) owners who cannot wrap their arms around the information technology (IT) issues they face. In response to the SMB community's ongoing struggle to identify, report and fix technology-related problems, CMIT Solutions today announced the release of CMIT Service Center, the world's first co-managed service desk -- a simple web-interface for submitting issues and tracking progress. 

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  • Wednesday, July 8, 2009

    Cost-conscious businesses that find their IT departments overwhelmed with technology issues might turn to IT services provider CMIT Solutions, which announced the launch of its co-managed service desk.  

    Information technology professional services and products supplier CMIT Solutions announced the launch of what the company claims is the world's first co-managed service desk, the CMIT Service Center, a simple Web interface for submitting issues and tracking progress.  

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  • Wednesday, July 8, 2009

    AUSTIN, Texas --(Business Wire)-- CMIT Solutions has announced the release of a CMIT Service Center, a service desk product that allows companies with in-house information technology (IT) teams to improve the quality, efficiency, and availability of IT support while eliminating the need for extra headcount or multiple vendors.

    "It's a huge step forward for companies with in-house IT staff," says Jeff Connally, president and CEO of CMIT Solutions. "Instead of informally tracking requests for service or processing service requests on the fly, internal IT teams can now set up automated workflow rules to guide the processing and escalation of requests. 

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  • Wednesday, July 1, 2009

    PROVO, Utah and AUSTIN, Texas, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- eFileCabinet, an innovative global provider of electronic document management systems and CMIT Solutions, a leading provider of IT consulting and support services today announced their strategic reseller partnership. CMIT Solutions has recently added eFileCabinet software to its lineup of service offerings, providing franchise partners the opportunity to offer advanced paperless technology to their customers.

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  • Friday, June 5, 2009

    Your IT staff has been cut in half. You’re in the process of upgrading your server configuration to leverage virtualization and data encryption. You’re comparing proposals from different email management service vendors. And, in the middle of all this action, you get a phone call from someone in payroll who is in a panic because he’s unable to enter his password and can’t access his accounting software. You spend five minutes calming the guy down and another five minutes diagnosing his machine remotely.

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  • Wednesday, June 3, 2009

    Franchisors all over the country are employing IT solutions to maximize profitability and enable their franchisee to operate with greater efficiency. For example,  technology is an essential component to the growing success of Mr. Handyman and Molly Maid franchises, says Todd Recknagel, president and CEO of the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Mr. Handyman International as well as a Service Brand International board member.  Mr Handyman's proprietary software systems Toolbox.net and Molly Maid's CCS.net make it possible for franchisees o stay organized and deliver excellent customer service.

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  • Monday, May 4, 2009

    Looming Social Security and pensions weren't economically stimulating enough at the Everett home of John and Sue Smythe.

    They started looking around for an investment that would supplement their retirement. Both say they found the franchise opportunity of their dreams.

    "I don't think we ever wanted to retire in the traditional sense," Sue Smythe said. "We both enjoy intellectual stimulation. It keeps us feeling young. And it doesn't feel like we're working. We're doing something that feels good and makes us happy."

    And when they do want to slow down, they'll have a manager run CMIT Solutions, offering information technology services to small- and midsize businesses. On Thursday, they received a Leadership Award from CMIT at a national convention for giving back to the organization and mentoring new franchisees.

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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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