Join us for the next Chug and Hug September 15!
We enjoyed the first 5Nines Chug and Hug held in June so much that we've decided to host them regularly!
Join us for another late afternoon gathering at the downtown Madison entertainment venue, The Frequency. Network with other great businesses, meet some of our new staff and enjoy a cold beer or soda.
The next Chug and Hug is planned for Tuesday, Sept 15 from 4:30 to 7:00 PM. Both on-street and ramp parking are available!
5Nines supports local non-profit organizations
by Ankur Malhotra
We at 5Nines take great pride in our community and actively participate in making Madison the best city to live and work. That's probably because many of us were born here, grew up here, or came during college and never left.
What excites us most is when we get the opportunity to use our technology know-how to help non-profit organizations achieve their business and outreach objectives.
Here at 5Nines, we have a team that is quite passionate about music and the arts and have volunteered/worked with several local businesses and community organizations in helping them deliver customized technology solutions ranging from provisioning hardware to high quality streaming media solutions. Here are few examples of what we have been up to recently:
Goodman Community Center, The Media Works Program – The goal of this program is to introduce school children to the communications professions through mentoring and process immersion. 5Nines has been involved with the program since its inception earlier this year and has donated equipment, provides on-going technology support, and volunteer as teachers and mentors at the Center.
WYOU Community Television – When WYOU Director Barbara Bolan called 5Nines Data, she was two weeks away from a big station fund-raiser, a deadline to get the station’s live broadcast online, and uncertain whether a solution could be pieced together at all. Other data centers and service providers in the area had not been encouraging. But with the “can-do” attitude at 5Nines, we were able to work with the station and their internet provider to provision a live web-stream of the WYOU on-air video broadcast. Using a combination of hardware, software and some good old gray matter, the station relays the live broadcast signal to a server at the data center from where the web-friendly stream goes out to the world.
WORT 89.9 FM – We are also proud to provide Internet service, web-streaming and archiving solutions to Madison’s community radio station WORT 89.9 FM. A wireless Internet link connects the radio station to the data center, from where the live radio feed is rebroadcast online. The online broadcasts (and archived shows) are multi-streamed, i.e. users have the option to choose the quality or their listening experience based upon the speed of their internet connection. This is a point that is much appreciated by the listeners and fans of the radio station - here in town, around Wisconsin and the world.
We would be remiss not to mention the other wonderful organizations we also help support by volunteering both technical services and expertise: Willy Street Co-op, North-side Business Association, WSUM 91.7 FM, Wil-Mar Neighborhood Association, Madison Music Review, Madison Squash Association, German Shepherd Rescue Alliance of Wisconsin, MAMA (Madison Area Music Awards) and Capital City Soccer
Need a better internet connection?
With 11 different internet providers, customers in 5Nines' Madison data center have a wide choice of providers.
5Nines' data center in Madison is located within the Network222 building. This building is known as the carrier hotel for Madison. A carrier hotel is the location where several Internet providers maintain a point of presence to facilitate provision of service and connectivity with other clients and carriers.
It is a very strategic location for a company to occupy as it allows 5Nines to further provide best of industry service to its clients.
Additionally, 5Nines recently completed a buildout in the Wells Building in downtown Milwaukee. The Wells Building is the carrier hotel for that city. With a 100 Mbps connect between the two facilities, 5Nines is now able to offer very high availability services, as well as remote and real-time data recovery and back-up services.
Learn new ways to improve your technology investment
Businesses are definitely feeling the bite of the global downturn in the economy. We'd love to help you develop a strategic approach that will get the most from your current IT investment. Over the next month, 5Nines is hosting a couple of seminars you may find of value.
Steak and Storage Learn how using SAN technology and a VMWare virtual infrastructure can provide seamless data protection and disaster recovery (DR) management. 5Nines Data and Dell/Equallogic will be hosting this informative lunch on Wednesday, September 30 at the Ruth's Chris Steak House in Middleton.
Oracle Application Express Webinar With tight budgets, limited resources and decentralized or desktop-oriented IT practices, meeting your applications needs without overspending can be a real challenge. Oracle APEX or Application Express, is a declarative web-based application development & deployment environment. Using only a web browser and limited programming experience, you can develop and deploy professional-looking applications that are both fast and secure. Join 5Nines Data and Oracle for a webcast event to discuss Oracle Application Express on Thursday, September 24 at 2pm.
Contact Jorel Digman at 608.512.1028 or jdigman(at)5ninesdata.com for more information on these events.
New Faces at 5Nines Data:
Sandra Swenson
Sandra Swenson's focus is working with businesses to accomplish their technology goals. By meeting with clients and discussing their current configuration in regards to what works and what doesn’t, Sandra, along with the 5Nines technical team, will offer recommendations to achieve their goals. She addresses critical network needs and helps establish a secure and effective infrastructure. She agrees with and follows the 5Nines philosophy of customer focus by going above and beyond to meet the client’s needs.
Sandra comes to 5Nines with 8 years in the telecommunications industry with a regional data solutions provider. She worked closely with clients developing their network needs, including Wide Area Networks, Voice Over IP, and Video Conferencing. Another focus was partnering with the involved vendors to ensure a fully managed solution.
In her free time, Sandra loves cheering on her 12 year old son in football and baseball. She also enjoys hiking, camping and being outside as much as possible.
Bill Dermody
Bill Dermody recently joined the 5Nines sales team in a Business Development role. Bill will be focusing his efforts on selling the full suite of 5Nines support offerings to the Madison business community: Infrastructure Solutions, Business Communications, Business Enablement, and Technology Support. In addition, he will be leading the company’s Go-to-Market plan for 5Nines Total Care- a fully-outsourced Managed Services for the SMB space. For clients, this will mean a flat-fee, per-user service that guarantees service levels, proactively monitors and upgrades their networks, and delivers unlimited support from a team of experts.
Bill comes to 5Nines from AAS Consulting, which specializes in sales for as-a-service companies. Bill has been involved in sales and marketing of IT and voice technologies for more than 15 years, including work with M5 Networks, TDS, ScheduleSoft, Stevens Communications, and Norlight. In these roles he has taken new products to market, created marketing campaigns, and sold both directly and through channel partners. Bill brings a wide range of experience in how businesses leverage new technologies to operate Better, Smarter, Cheaper.
Bill is a graduate of Cornell University and the Kellogg MBA program at Northwestern. He and his family have lived in Madison for 20 years. His hobbies include playing league tennis while volunteer activities include Luke House and Meals-on-Wheels
Anderson & Mansfield Capture the 5Nines Canoe Cup
Larry Anderson and Eric Mansfield won the first annual 5Nines Data Canoe Race during the company picnic held at Wingra Park in Madison, WI. The race was close at the beginning and the team of Ankur Malhorta & Jorel Digman had a great start and got a jump on the field. But the power duo of Eric Gullickson & Justin McGuire showed their strength and quickly challenged for the lead. Meanwhile the team of Bill Dermody & Todd Streicher had a poor start, but they had great form and hit full speed to take over first place. But then it was disaster for the Dermody & Streicher boat as they made contact with both the Malhorta & Digman and Gullickson & McGuire crafts and all 3 lost speed. That left the smooth paddling team of Anderson & Mansfield out in front and they glided to a victory by a nose to capture the 5Nines Canoe Cup.