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America’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies Revealed

IT Partners Named to the 2008 Inc. 5,000 List
With Three-Year Sales Growth of 146.7%

August 2008
(Phoenix, AZ)- Inc. recently ranked IT Partners at No. 2,487 on its annual ranking of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the country, with a three-year sales growth of 146.7%. The list is the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy – America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Taken as a whole, these companies represent the backbone of the U.S. economy.

“ Our second annual Inc. 5000 continues the most ambitious project in business journalism,” said Inc. 5000 Project Manager Jim Melloan. “The Inc. 5000 gives an unrivalled portrait of young, underreported companies across all industries doing fascinating things with cutting-edge business models, as well as older companies that are still showing impressive growth.”

“ Recognition by Inc. Magazine as one of Arizona and the Country’s fastest-growing, privately-held companies is a remarkable achievement for us.” said Gary Johnston, company president. “We believe passionately in customer relationships and the importance of partnering with them to meet their specific business needs. The success we've experienced is a reflection of the trust that our customers place in IT Partners. We are proud of our team members for their dedication and commitment to excellence and growth."

IT Partners is a data center solution provider specializing in industry-leading virtualization, server, storage and network offerings. They leverage strategic technology partnerships to optimize the virtualized data center through consolidation, operationalization and automation solutions. IT Partners takes a holistic, consultative approach to addressing its customer’s needs and objectives. The firm teams with its mid-market, enterprise, education and public-sector clients to create innovative solutions to business challenges, lower IT costs, improve systems availability and maximize the value of their technology investments. IT Partners was founded in 2003 by six IT industry veterans and celebrated its 5th anniversary in business earlier this year.

Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and a list of the fastest-growing companies that can be sorted by industry and region can be found at www.inc5000.com.

IT Partners and HP Recognized as Microchip Supplier of the Year

August 2008
IT Partners, a leading Phoenix-based technology consulting firm, received the Microchip Technology Inc. “2007 Supplier of the Year” award in association with HP. Each year, Microchip nominates suppliers who best reflect the company’s guiding values. Through IT Partners, HP supplies Microchip with enterprise-class hardware, software and services to ensure the highest levels of quality, reliability and service for its critical technology and business needs.
The award was developed to recognize those suppliers that have exhibited excellence through their quality and customer service efforts. All suppliers were evaluated on the critical nature and impact of their materials and/or services on Microchip's products, including quality, competitive pricing, and on-time delivery.
"Members of our team were surveyed and requested to nominate suppliers that represented the highest standards in service, responsiveness and meeting customer needs. We applaud IT Partners and HP for their dedication to bringing the highest level of quality to our industry," said Ed Lindstrom, manager of Supplier Management at Microchip.
"We appreciate working with Microchip’s dedicated team and value our relationship," said Gary Johnston, president of IT Partners. "This recognition reaffirms our commitment to deliver superior products and services that help our customers like Microchip maintain their market leadership."
"The IT Partners and HP teams worked together seamlessly to deliver outstanding customer support," said Frank Rauch, vice president, Technology Solutions Group sales, Solution Providers Organization – Americas, HP. “The result was a consistent, strong and trusted relationship that leveraged our collective strengths to deliver world-class products, services and support to Microchip."

An Award Winning Solution
August 2008
Congratulations to The City of Phoenix Aviation Department for winning the Public Technology Institute’s 2007-2008 Solutions Award in the Technology & Information Technology category for Disaster Recovery!
IT Partners appreciated working with the city’s staff to implement virtualization and Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions within the Aviation Department data center and SAN replication at the City of Phoenix IT Operations Center.

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IT Partners Celebrates Milestone!
May 2008
This year marks IT Partners 5th Anniversary of bringing business and technology together! It has been an exciting five years of corporate growth, including the expansion of IT Partners solution offerings to the Las Vegas market. IT Partners remains committed to providing our customers the highest level of technology solutions and consulting services.
The IT Partners organization humbly shares this achievement with our customers, industry partners and our exceptional team members. We look forward to participating in their continued success in the years to come.

Chandler-Gilbert Community College Honors IT Partners
May 2008
The Chandler-Gilbert Community College recently presented IT Partners with the Teal & Silver Award as their 2008 Technology Partner. IT Partners was recognized for delivering a transformative technology solution that supports the College’s technology initiatives. The College created the Awards Program to recognize the contributions of individuals and businesses who support the students, employees, programs, services and the college community as a whole. It has been a pleasure working with the College and their IT staff. We appreciate and support their commitment to higher learning.

IT Partners Rounds Out Solution Offerings

February 2008
IT Partners is building an expanded partnership with Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in networking technology, IT Partners solutions will integrate Cisco’s datacenter infrastructure products with server, storage and virtualization offerings from HP, EMC, VMware and others. Combined with IT Partners’ extensive consulting and services capabilities, this will enable us to deliver comprehensive end-to-end solutions to our mid-market and enterprise customers.

New Partnership Increases Storage Options
February 2008
IT Partners has recently become a member of EMC's Velocity2 partner program. EMC Corporation is a market leader in enterprise storage systems and information management solutions. As an EMC Velocity2 solution provider, IT Partners will now be able to offer our customers storage and data management choices from EMC’s award-winning portfolio.

IT Partners Goes Platinum !
January 2008
IT Partners was recently promoted to the level of an HP Platinum Business Partner, the only one headquartered in Arizona. Platinum is the highest level an HP partner can achieve, and the fact that this designation came a year or so earlier than expected is evidence of the strength of the IT Partners team and our focus on HP technologies and solutions.

What's New On YouTube!
January 2008
The IT Partners Virtualization Best Practices video is now available on YouTube! VMware Inc., global virtualization software leader, created a short video featuring IT Partners, their top partner in the Southwest! The video highlights IT Partners successes with server consolidation and other VMware virtualization projects. To view the video, click on the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/ITPartnersVideos

 

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