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OneNeck IT Services Corp. has acquired a Tempe company's data center business and plans to expand its hosting services.

AZCentral.com

Focusing on further geographic expansion of core IT consulting, staffing business, Ensynch, Inc., announced the sale of its outsourced managed hosting business to OneNeck IT Services Corporation.

TMC.net

OneNeck IT Services Corp., a Scottsdale-based provider of outsourced information technology services, said Monday it has acquired the data center business unit of Ensynch, a Tempe-based IT consulting company.

East Valley Tribune

IT consulting and staffing services provider Ensynch announced on Monday it has sold its outsourced managed hosting business to ERP outsourcing services provider OneNeck IT Services.

theWHIR.com

Ensynch Inc. announced Monday the sale of one its business units to a Scottsdale firm as well as the acquisition a California company.

Phoenix Business Journal

An Arizona manufacturer of car audio equipment, such as speakers and subwoofers, cuts costs and helps mobile workers stay connected by switching to a unified communications platform

EWeek Strategic Partner magazine highlights Ensynch as a professional services consulting firm that derives value and competitiveness from leveraging staffing.

Gene Holmquest, Ensynch CEO, profiled in Phoenix Business Journal.

Nearly three decades later, Holmquist still is the engaging and outgoing spark plug people say he was then.....

Does it still have a place in your SME's long-term storage strategy? The future, strengths, chanllenges and drawbacks of tapes as backup for data centers.

One of the main strengths of tape is its portability, notes Hunter Bennett, CTO at Ensynch.

Advancements Seek To Tackle Power-Hungry Componenets

Hunter Bennett, CTO at Ensynch, notes that separate hot and cold aisles can help to remove the strain put on data centers by new server technologies such as blades, but it comes at a cost.

Highly skilled professionals are in huge demand, jobs are plentiful and compensation...

“Security IT professionals and those trained in the core components of the IT world such as application development, database management and systems engineers are in extreme demand. The need for talent is at an all time high,” says Todd Bankofier, vice president and general manager for Ensynch.

The rising cost of energy consumption by computing equipment in general, and those found in data centers in particular, has become a tremendous concern to everyone—not just people in the computer industry.

Hunter Bennett, Ensynch CTO, preforms regular scheduled maintenance to keep Ensynch in the Green.

A healthy employee is a happy employee.

That prevailing thought has driven at least three Valley technology firms to adopt employee fitness and health programs in recent months.

Gene Holmquist, Ensynch's CEO, got the idea to start the program after he decided he needed to evaluate his own health.

Local industry leaders have debated just where Phoenix stands in the high-tech world. But if the thermometer is based on data centers, the Valley of the Sun is burning up.

"Phoenix is really becoming a major player," said Gene Holmquist, chief executive of Ensynch. "You can't beat the safety or the weather."

Article on how businesses are using social networking including sites like MySpace.com as part of their new marketing strategies .

OC Metro Magazine

Ensynch, a Tempe-based provider of information technology consulting and services, is expanding for the first time outside of Arizona, opening a branch office in Southern California...

Stephen Inocencio was staring at a very expensive move to the next level of IT. His employer, IPS-Sendero, started with seven employees developing software to help banks and credit unions with their planning, accounting and risk management. Rapid growth swelled the staff in Scottsdale to more than 100, along with 50 servers and an 11-person technical team...

Unsolicited correspondence, or spam, can be a problem for e-mail users, but software filters have eased the situation and for some users, spam isn't the plague it once was.

"People get used to problems they can't solve," said Hunter Bennett, director of operations for Ensynch Inc...

"Riding the rebounding demand for information-technology services, a Tempe company has received funding to expand into other states. Ensynch Inc. wants to expand through growth and acquisitions into between five and 10 more markets within the next five years, President Gene Holmquist said."

The Arizona Republic

"Tempe-based Ensynch took the 159th spot, with a nearly 668 percent three-year growth rate and year-ago revenues of $18.6 million."

Business Journal

"Information technology specialist Ensynch Inc. hosted a clever event last week that coupled a seminar on identity management with a murder mystery."

Business Journal

"The response we got from TPTS directly led to significant new business for Ensynch," says Scott Johnson, Vice President and Alliances for Ensynch Inc....

"About a year ago, Mutual Insurance Co. of Arizona, which insures more than 60 percent of the physicans in the state, switched to document imaging so all of its records were electronic, not paper."

Business Journal

A local firm that specializes in placing information technology workers has seen a dramatic spike in hires, signaling a recovery across the industry. Phoenix Staff Inc. placed an unprecedented number of IT workers in July. Company President Allen Plunkett said July hiring of full-time IT workers was up 157 percent over July of last year.

Business continuity is not just an IT thing. It’s a company-wide concern. Unplanned outages of any type: power outage, electrical malfunction, human error, or a communications outage—can have disastrous consequences for your business and your customers.

bizAZ Technology Resource Guide - Jul/Aug 2005

Arizona Technology Council President Todd Bankofier is leaving his post with the state’s largest tech trade group to work for one of the state’s fast-growing tech firms.

Business Journal

Ensynch's Hunter Bennett was interviewed on Phoenix's Channel 12 morning news show about vulnerabilities that users are exposed to through phishing and pharming schemes. ** Video

Some of the most dangerous threats to a business' network aren't the shadowy figures trying to hack in from the outside, but the ones allowed to march in the front door every morning -- the employees.

Business Journal

As an entrepreneur, and someone who makes a definitive choice to live and build a technology business in Arizona, I ask that all reading this editorial support bills SB1335 and HB2364 for passage in the upcoming legislative budget process for fiscal ‘06.

Business Journal

Achieving fast growth in an economy still under pressure is no easy task. But CRN's Fast Growth 100 solution providers demonstrate that success can be had even under difficult conditions--and it can emerge from a diversity of business models. Ensynch ranks No. 35 on the list.

CRN Magazine

So, what does it take to be on the list? Our descision came after reviewing the multitude of submissions we received from companies all over the state.

bizAZ Magazine

... Gene Holmquist, president of Ensynch, a Tempe-based computer network integrator, has experienced the rebound first-hand. He said his company of about 200 could grow to about 300 by the end of 2005.

Business Journal

Tempe IT firm expanding, hiring more employees - Growing at more than 100 percent per year in revenue and work force, the company now has about 200 employees and $20 million in annual revenue.

East Valley Tribune

... "Even though my company is private, options are a big reason I have the quality people I do," said Gene Holmquist, president of Tempe-based Ensynch Inc., a 200-person information technology firm.

Business Journal