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Keeping Our Eye On Lauren Smith

Stephen McDill — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:31:39 +0000

Lauren Smith spends most days at work with her head in the clouds, the cyber clouds that is. As communication and marketing strategist for Venture Technologies in Ridgeland, Smith carries the water for one of Mississippi’s pioneers in the datacenter and cloud computing industries. Founded in 1986, the company also operates locations in Alabama, Louisiana [...]

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Bomgar reflects on 10 years growth in IT industry

Stephen McDill — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:29:39 +0000

Orange can either be the color of a sunrise or a sunset, depending on the direction you are facing. After a decade in business, orange is still the corporate color at Ridgeland remote support tech company Bomgar Inc., from its office walls to the golf shirts and ties worn by founder and CEO Joel Bomgar. [...]

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Clark named director

MBJ Staff — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:01:03 +0000

The Solutions TEAM has hired Mike Clark as director of Technology Development. A Unix expert with more than 10 years of IT leadership experience in the gaming industry, Clark will be responsible for engineering and integrating customized cloud data protection and disaster recovery solutions for The Solutions TEAM’s clientele, particularly those representing the gaming and [...]

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Q&A: Jim Raines, president and CTO, Synergetics DCS Inc.

Amy McCullough — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:01:24 +0000

Jim Raines is founder, president and chief technical officer of Synergetics DCS, Inc., which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Raines is a Starkville native who earned a degree in management information systems from Mississippi State University. Synergetics which was named one of America’s 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in 2011 and 2009 by Inc. [...]

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Bomgar Corporation makes Inc. 500/5000

MBJ Staff — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:16:31 +0000

JACKSON — Inc. magazine has ranked Bomgar Corporation No. 1895 on its fifth-annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. Bomgar joins retailer ideeli, Spirit Airlines, television maker Vizio, Honest Tea, Dunkin Donuts and Metrokane, makers of the Rabbit corkscrew, among other prominent brands featured on this year’s list. In a [...]

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TekLinks moves up in VAR500 rankings

For the MBJ — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:23:39 +0000

JACKSON — TekLinks has been recognized by Everything Channel as a part of CRN’s 2011 VAR500 list, which ranks the top technology integrators in North America. Featuring the highest producing technology integrators and solution provider organizations in the IT channel, the VAR500 rankings consider earnings from hardware sales, software sales and managed IT services. Birmingham, [...]

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Bomgar lands new client in Smiths Group

For the MBJ — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:29:40 +0000

RIDGELAND — Smiths Group PLC recently consolidated and centralized its IT functions with help from Bomgar. Terms were not disclosed. With 23,000 employees in 400 locations around the globe, Smiths Group delivers products and services that make the world safer, healthier and more productive, including threat and contraband detection, medical devices, energy, communications and engineering [...]

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Bomgar rolls out new IT analytical tool

For the MBJ — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:16:48 +0000

JACKSON — Bomgar has introduced Bomgar Analytics, a brand new dashboard and reporting solution that allows IT organizations to easily view and analyze the valuable IT support data captured by their Bomgar remote support solution. Featuring dashboard views and customizable reports, Bomgar Analytics provides a unique view into the details of an organization’s remote support [...]

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ACS expanding in-state operations, adding jobs

For the MBJ — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:31:17 +0000

RIDGELAND — Affiliated Computer Services Inc. (ACS), A Xerox Company, is expanding its operations in Ridgeland, creating 50 new permanent full-time jobs in the area, which is expected to rise to 200 in the next two years. The jobs will support the Dallas-based company’s many healthcare clients across the country, including the Mississippi Division of [...]

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‘More than a number cruncher’

Stephen McDill — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 06:00:03 +0000

Veteran state IT manager remembers Y2K, looks forward to e-government The daughter of a small town physician and nurse, Wiggins native Cille Litchfield says she first attended the University of Mississippi with hopes of becoming a biologist. She became interested, however, in a newer discipline that was opening up in the Ole Miss engineering department: computer [...]

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