Ridgeland, Mississippi - March 28, 2005
Venture Technologies CEO Gerard Gibert announced today that the Company has expanded into Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "Expansion was accomplished through the addition of sales and technical staff currently serving the Baton Rouge marketplace. These individuals were serving numerous private and public sector accounts in South Louisiana with a focus on servers, storage and desktop systems, implementation and remediation services.
By joining Venture, we can now offer our clients a solid lineup of advanced IT solutions including IP Telephony, Security, Network Infrastructure and Managed Services such as Disaster Recovery and Application Hosting", said Kim McCarty, former VP of Sales for ComputerLand of Baton Rouge and Venture's Manager of Baton Rouge operations. "As part of the Venture organization, we truly are a 'one-stop-shop' for IT products and advanced services for Enterprise, government entities and SMB's" said McCarty.
By expanding into Baton Rouge, Venture establishes a footprint that is unmatched by any Systems Integrator and Managed Services Provider. "Each time we grow, we never lose site of the fundamental business practices of integrity, attention to detail and treating our customers as we would like to be treated", remarked Gibert. "Adherence to these principles has enabled us to deliver IT solutions to our clients that solve business and information handling problems – for nearly 20 years".
Venture Technologies is an IT services company founded in 1985 by Gerard Gibert, CDP, and Norman Katool, CPA. Headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi, the company provides a variety of IT solutions including Network Design and Integration, Network Security, IP Telephony, Storage Solutions, Document Management, Network Enhancement Solutions and Managed Services.
Originating from its Data Center, Venture provides a variety of managed services including NetWatch Remote Network Monitoring and Management, NetArmor Managed Security Solutions, NetHost Application Service Provisioning (ASP), hosting services, and NetAssure customized co-location and Business Continuance services. Venture serves private and public sector clients across the Southeast with locations in Memphis, Birmingham, Nashville, Dallas, Mobile and Baton Rouge.
Venture's Data Center is located in the 180,000 sq. ft. Jackson State University E-Center located in Jackson, Mississippi. The facility features 5,000 sq. ft. of environmentally conditioned, raised floor area; 7/24/365 management and monitoring; dual, redundant high-speed Internet connectivity; sophisticated network security; intrusion detection and virus scanning systems; Inergen fire suppression; continuous natural gas backup power and advanced physical security. The entire facility is designed to ensure continuous delivery of managed services.
For more information, contact Mark Frye, VP Sales and Marketing - AL/MS/FL or email jmfrye@ventech.com or Tom Cormany, VP Sales and Marketing - TN 901-937- 7101 or e-mail wtcormany@ventech.com or Kim McCarty, Senior Account Manager, Lousiana or kmccarty@ventech.com.