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As natural born perfectionists, we're our own toughest critics. Sometimes, however, it’s good to hear what folks around the industry water cooler are saying about St. Croix Solutions. Plus it's an ideal opportunity to tell you what events are on our calendar. Dig in. Take notes. Catch the buzz.

About the Company
St. Croix Solutions is a premier Midwest-based IT solutions company, producing extraordinary results for Fortune 1000 companies by delivering innovative, cost-effective and manageable IT solutions. Success is achieved by balancing requirements, technology, cost and risk.

Recent News

June 2010

St Croix partners with Red Hat.

St Croix Solutions is excited to announce our strategic partnership with Red Hat, the World's Open Source Leader, offering affordable and attractive solutions. Red Hat complements St Croix's extensive server, application, desktop and virtualization offerings.

January, 2010

Jon Knutson joins St Croix Solutions.

Jon Knutson has joined the team as a Senior Systems Engineer. Jon brings extensive client-side experience as an IT professional and Storage Administrator. Having worked in complex storage environments that exceed 10 Petabytes in size, we're excited to have Jon on as a valuable member of our staff.

January, 2010

Oracle Acquires Sun Microsystems

St Croix has been an Oracle and Sun reseller for years and continues to offer servers, storage and software products from the Sun product line, which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle Corporation.

August, 2009

EMC Acquires DataDomain

St. Croix Solutions is ideally positioned to assist our clients with this transition as both a leading midwest reseller of Data Domain and EMC... St. Croix will continue to offer both EMC (Avamar) and DataDomain's DeDuplication solutions.

April, 2009

Compellent names St. Croix a Channel Partner

St. Croix Solutions has become a Compellent channel partner. Compellent offers enterprise-class network storage solutions which are highly scalable, feature rich and easy to use which fits perfectly with our solution set and will benefit our clients.

January, 2009

St. Croix announces 5K Run/Walk for the IT Community

St. Croix has secured Lake Harriet for the morning of Saturday May 2nd, 2009 to host a run/walk for the IT community. The first annual Autism 5K will be a signature event within the Minneapolis/St. Paul IT community and proceeds go to support families affected by Autism.

December 2008

"Beyond IT" Program is launched to support causes in need

St. Croix has been active in the community since our inception, donating time and capital to worthy causes, but this holiday season we've kicked off a formal internal program to make giving a dedicated focus. View Page

May, 2008

Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) offers a Partner Solutions Brief on St. Croix Solutions

A complete offering of products, ranging from servers to information management software and professional services, has propelled St. Croix Solutions into becoming a key solution provider in the Midwest. View Brief

March, 2008

Kurt Ostrowski joins the St. Croix Sales Team

St. Croix Solutions welcomes Kurt Ostrowski to our sales team this month. Kurt brings over 6 years of IT solution sales experience having worked with education clients that trust him for his ability to unite partners and solutions to meet their unique needs...

March, 2008

St. Croix Solutions is a Dell Registered Partner

St. Croix Solutions has stayed on board during the Dell EqualLogic aquisition. St. Croix is a Minneapolis-based leading Dell Registered Partner offering you the latest solutions offered by Dell EqualLogic including iSCSI Networked Storage for IP SAN environments..

February, 2008

Systems Engineer Shannon Ryks achieves HDS Certified Professional Enterprise certification

After being successful with the HH0-110 exam offered by Hitachi, St. Croix Solutions is pleased to announce Systems Engineer Shannon Ryks is awarded as both a Modular and Enterprise HDS Certified Professional. Shannon has over 15 years of IT experience, and adds becoming an HDS Certified Professional to his already expansive list of other industry-leading certifications: VMware (VCP), EMCIEe CLARiion, EMCIE Specialist NAS, RHCE, IBM AIX CATE amoung many additional certifications.

February, 2008

St. Croix Solutions Systems Engineers are VMware Certified Professionals

St. Croix Solutions is pleased to announce all Systems Engineers have been awarded VMware Certified Professionals. This is an industry-leading certification offered by VMware instructing Virtual Infrastructure.

We are very proud of the hard work and effort our Systems Engineers put forth each day - Congratulations!

December, 2007

St. Croix Solutions donates to Courage Center

Each holiday season the team at St. Croix Solutions makes a donation to a charity of choice. For the 2007 holiday season, St. Croix chose to donate to the Courage Center St. Croix, located in Stillwater, MN.

A Minneapolis-based nonprofit organization, Courage Center focuses it's efforts on advancing the lives for people of all ages experiencing barriers with health and independence. They specialize in pain management, brain injury, spinal cord injury and congenital disabilities.

September 7, 2007

Sun StorageTek Elite

St. Croix Solutions is honored to achieve the Sun StorageTek Elite specialty.

December, 2007

Systems Engineer Bill Oyler awarded CommVault Certified Administrator and CommVault Certified Engineer

St. Croix Solutions is pleased to announce Systems Engineer Bill Oyler is awarded as CommVault Certified Administrator and CommVault Certified Engineer. Bill has over 10 years of IT experience, and adds becoming CommVault Certified to his already expansive list of other industry-leading certifications from EMC, Cisco, VMWare, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.

November 5, 2007

Dell is in agreement to purchase EqualLogic

Dell, Inc. agreed to purchase EqualLogic, becoming the fastest-growing storage market. EqualLogic links storage computers so they operate as a single device, creating a more efficient workspace. "Our customers will be dealing with the largest increase in data we have seen in our history over the next few years," said Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell. "Leading the iSCSI revolution will help Dell accelerate IT simplification and virtualization and will drive the Dell value proposition into more areas of the enterprise storage business."
Visit EqualLogic for futher information.

September, 2007

St. Croix Solutions to host VMware Seminar

Join St. Croix Solutions for a complimentary technical luncheon held at Woody's Grille in Eden Prairie on October 22^nd, 2007. The seminar will provide valuable information regarding how virtualization technologies can reduce the cost and complexity of your IT environment.
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June 13, 2007

St. Croix Solutions Sponsors Dino to Raise Autism Awareness

St. Croix Solutions sponsored a dinosaur sculpture in conjunction with center-based autism clinic Holland Center to raise Autism Awareness in honor of the Science Museum of Minnesota's 100th anniversary. The Diggin' Dinos summer celebration statues began appearing in the streets of Saint Paul and the parks of Minneapolis on May 28, and will remain in place through Labor Day weekend. Local artist Shane Anderson has personal experience with autism spectrum disorder, and was selected to design and create the Dino.

February 15, 2007

Systems Engineer Bill Oyler obtains EMC Proven Professional certification

St. Croix Solutions is pleased to announce Systems Engineer Bill Oyler has officially obtained his EMC Proven Professional- Technology Architect, Specialist Level - Network Storage certification, enabling NAS implementation. This certification is vital step in supporting St. Croix's EMC Premier ASN partnership. Bill has over 10 years of IT experience, and adds this EMC Proven Professional certification to his already expansive list of other industry-leading certifications from EMC, Cisco, VMWare, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.

February 8, 2007

Systems Engineer Jeff Buckley obtains EMC Proven Professional certification

St. Croix Solutions is delighted to announce Systems Engineer Jeff Buckley has officially obtained the EMC Proven Professional - Implementation Engineer, Specialist Level - CLARiiON certification. In addition to this new certification, Jeff is also a McData Certified Storage Network Designer and a Red Hat Certified Engineer. Jeff has extensive industry experience, having led the installation and ongoing support for a variety of different platforms over the years. St. Croix Solutions is confident this new certification will contribute to the success of St. Croix Solutions and its clients and partners.

January 29, 2007

Brocade Announces Completion of McData Acquisition

Brocade, the leader in networked storage solutions that help enterprises connect and manage their information, announced that it has completed the acquisition of McDATA Corporation. The combination of the two companies creates the world's leading storage networking company, and will be beneficial to customers, partners, and shareholders. St. Croix Solutions has been a Brocade/McDATA partner since 2003, and is sure the acquisition will bring about valuable opportunities for all parties involved.

October 16, 2006

Veteran Systems Engineer Joins St. Croix Solutions

St. Croix Solutions is pleased to announce the addition of Jeff Buckley as Systems Engineer. With over nine years of experience, Buckley has led the installation and ongoing support for a variety of platform, storage and operating systems, including IBM pSeries, Netfinity and RS/6000; and a variety of software applications including Tivoli Storage Manager & Netview, Veritas and EMC storage management applications. Buckley brings much experience to the SCS solutions team.

About the Company
St. Croix Solutions is a premier Midwest-based IT solutions company, producing extraordinary results for Fortune 1000 companies by delivering innovative, cost-effective and manageable IT solutions. Success is achieved by balancing requirements, technology, cost and risk.