This is a great topic to keep track of. Microsoft has announced an innitiative to help train AND certify California residents. Here is a snipit of the page linked to the article for you. California is trending towards the top of all states in unemployment rates, somewhere between 11 and 13%, and residents could use all the added resources they can get. The article has more information, however the vouchers can be found at your local workforce center. Here is a link to the California Employment Development Department for more information.

Westminster, CA 1/7/10- CB Technologies today announced that it has received a 2009 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing Company issues the award annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance. CB Technologies maintained a minimum Silver composite performance rating for each month of the 12-month performance period, from Oct. 1, 2008 to Sept. 30, 2009.

This year, CB Technologies, which supplies Boeing with IT products and Services, is among 358 suppliers to receive the Silver level of recognition. In 2006, CB Technologies was also a recipient of the Boeing Supplier of the Year award.

“This award is a testament to the relationships we build with and the support we provide our clients. Each time we receive referrals or awards like this it solidifies our belief that a commitment to excellence and teamwork is appreciated and rewarded “ commented CB Technologies co-Principal and CFO, Kelly Ireland.

About CB Technologies

CB Technologies is an award winning and leading IT solutions provider and Systems Integrator to the Aerospace, Government, Commercial, and University sectors. In 2009, CB Technologies was named to Inc. 500/5000, Orange County Business of the Year, VAR 500 and was an active participant in FiRe.

For More Information on the Boeing Performance Excellence Award, visit

http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/doingbiz/supplier_portal/bpea.html

For More Information on CB Technologies visit

http://www.cbtechinc.com

I have many interesting newsletters, RSS feeds, and blogs come across my desk in the course of a month. When I get the chance, I like to skim through them and read the most unique or thought provoking. Today, one sparked my interest. A friend of mine, at Growthink, pointed me to an article in the Wall Street Journal about the last decade of investing. As the article states, “Since the end of 1999, stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange have lost an average of 0.5% a year:” That is pretty awful for a person, such as I, that began investing in 2001. Now I am not going to dive into my portfolio, but I will point out that, this is why we diversify our investments. By investments, I don’t just mean our pre-tax retirement funds. Wikipedia states that investments are “the active redirection of resources/assets to creating benefits in the future.” Investments can be in yourself, your education, gold, or your family.  I think this article is really stating that the 10’s, as they are being called, are a great time to start diversifying your investments. I could predict your portfolio will increase 10% on average over the next 10 years, but I can tell you there is another less risky way to get a solid return. Invest in yourself! How can you make yourself a better employee, a better father, or a better person? I am lucky to work with and for great people, and they have given me the opportunity to continue to invest in my education and myself, with a full lab and multiple training courses. However, there is a little known fact, that they have given that opportunity to all of you as well. CB Tech opens its labs and partnerships to clients, both current and potential, to learn about new technologies, take a test drive, or find a training course to help better your business, yourself, or just learn something new. Feel free to reach out to me at chris.kelley (at) cbtechinc.com to learn more about our lab or partnerships. However, on the dawn of a new year, I wish you a safe and wonderful New Year! Remember, the 10’s are a GREAT TIME TO INVEST!

Westminster, CA November 13, 2009.  Carrillo Business Technologies, Inc. (CB Technologies), an award winning IT reseller and solutions provider, has announced the hiring of Colonel Steve Christian (US Army, Ret) as Sr. VP, Business Development. In this role, Steve will work on new business generation and strategic alliances with a strong focus in the government, military, and DOD verticals.

Colonel Christian, a native of Las Vegas, NV, enlisted in the service in 1978 and rose in rank from Private to Colonel.  His distinguished career spans 31 years and includes Battalion Commander at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, a tour of duty in Afghanistan as Battalion Commander and as Legislative Liaison in Washington, DC.  At the time of his retirement Colonel Christian was serving as Garrison Commander of the Ft Monmouth NJ army base.

Colonel Christian received his education in the service including US Army Officers Candidate School and US Army Command and General Staff College.  He was awarded a BS in Social Psychology from Park University where he was a member of the Pinnacle Honor Society.  His MSA degree in Administration was earned at Central Michigan University.  In 2007 he received an MS in National Security Strategy from the National War College and most recently he completed the Six Sigma Executive Project Sponsorship training at the Armed Forces Staff College.

His personal awards and citations include the Legion of Merit, two Bronze Star, Joint Meritorious Service medal, six Army Meritorious Service medals, Humanitarian Service medal and the Global War on Terrorism medal.

Colonel Christian brings 31 years of experience successfully leading and managing organizations of increasing complexity and responsibilities.  His record of applying analytical skills, solving complex problems and strategic planning along with his superior interpersonal skills will make him a valuable addition to CB Technologies’ team.

About CB Technologies:

CB Technologies is a leading IT solutions provider to the Aerospace, Government, Commercial, and University sectors. CB Technologies current growth includes leveraging their High Performance Computing expertise into other verticals such as Web 2.0 and Cloud offerings that are looking to utilize a Scalable Computing Infrastructure. CB Technologies is one of the premier High Performance Computing Solution providers on the West Coast. In 2008, CB Technologies was named to Inc. 500/5000, Orange County Business of the Year, VAR 500 and is an active participant in FiRE. CB Technologies is experienced in Virtualization, UNIX, Linux and Windows environments including Windows HPC server 2008.

CB Technologies was named to the prestigious 2009 Inc. 500/5000 list. The company has seen tremendous growth since 2005, which is why it landed on the list. CB Technologies is an IT services company, which also happened to be the #1 ranked industry on the Inc. list.

The Inc. 500|5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by the first week of 2005, and therefore able to show four full calendar years of sales. Full Article

The Orange County Business Journal published “The List” of the top performing Women-owned companies in Orange County for 2008. CBT was the 7th largest company in Orange County, behind local eatery favorite In-N-Out, which took top honors. You can read the full article and find the list here.

Altair Adds CB Technologies as Channel Partner

TROY, Mich. and WESTMINSTER, Calif., Dec. 22 — Altair announced today it has added another key strategic partner to its network of Channel Partners with CB Technologies, which will be promoting and selling Altair’s PBS Professional, the leading cluster and grid-computing workload management and scheduling software. The agreement illustrates Altair’s commitment to providing unified software solutions to reduce costs and increase value to customers.

As an HP Platinum Business Partner, CB Technologies full story>

SC08 was incredible! This year’s show had over 10,000 attendees with companies and laboratories covering the globe. As Tony Burrous and I moved about the main exhibition hall, It was very easy to get engulfed in the many displays, lectures, and technical overviews of the show. However, some highlights included a gathering of 400 or so devoted Beowulf followers at Pete’s Dueling Piano Bar, an actual Formula One race car, and a multitude of 3D airplane simulations, 3D glasses included.

The show had a resounding theme that HPC is moving into the main stream. Some companies that stick out in this arena are ScaleMP and Interactive SuperComputing. Both companies are leveraging the ability to simplify solutions to gain greater compute ability. ScaleMP has a technology that will make multiple servers act as one SMP computer, thereby maximizing application scalability without having to learn parallel coding. In addition, Interactive SuperComputing’s software Star-P will automatically parallelize Matlab and Python opportunities with a simple file extension. Both companies highlight the push of HPC into the smaller and medium size businesses that don’t have the expertise or budget to learn how to parallelize their applications.

We were also lucky enough to speak to many great people including David Flynn, CTO of the stealth Fusion-IO. This company has a very impressive backing and board, and some even more impressive companies testing out their state of the art Static State Disks (SSD).

Two of the clear winners of the week, were Microsoft and HP with impressive booths sharing partner experiences to leverage complete deliverable solutions. Last week was a geeks dream and a small or medium businesses opportunity to learn how to continue to compete in the ever challenging economy of today.

CB Technologies 5^th Annual Charity Golf Classis was held at the beautiful Tustin Ranch Golf Course. Over 130 golfers enjoyed the new Shamble format that proved to be challenging and fun for all. CB Technologies would like to thank Hewlett-Packard, without whose help this tournament would not be possible, Novell, and Panasas for their sponsorship and support for both CB Technologies and HOLLYGROVE an EMQ Children & Family Services Agency. This years tournament raised over $11,000 for the foundation, and we look forward to next years tournament raising even more. Thank you to all the contestants and congratulations to all of this year’s winners!

Tournament Winners

Chipping Contest Winner: Kevin DeLoach

Longest Drive: Kathy Quock

Closest to the Pin: John Edmunds

3^rd Place: Gary Larsen

Akiko Larsen

Gary Esguerra

Kathy Quock

2^nd Place: John Topolewski

Dan Placencia

Paul Kohls

Mike Walo

1^st Place: Edward Powojski (Defending Champions)

Tim Johnson

George De Blois

Derek Krebs

Carrillo Business Technologies, Inc. (CBT) offers our clients a holistic approach when creating solutions that best fit their needs.  With a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship, CBT provides technology solutions that fit the scope of our clients.  We achieve this by listening to our clients’ goals and objectives, and then leverage our technology supplier relationships to provide the most-effective, cost-efficient technology solutions available.  CB Technologies’ strategic partnerships are an integral component of its true holistic solution. On this blog, you’ll find information about our upcoming events, as well as interesting and pertinent articles about our industry.