As the corporate headquarters of a large network of industrial distributors and truck dealerships and one of Minnesota’s Top 100 private companies, Interstate Companies, Inc. is constantly looking for ways to keep costs down and performance at its peak. So when the company needed to completely revamp its internal data center to incorporate new power over Ethernet (PoE), voice over IP (VoiP) and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), John DeRocker, president, at Nexus, A Stratos Company, put the pedal to the metal and offered Interstate a cost-effective, high-performance solution based on Juniper Networks’ technology.

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Gordon “Gordy” Grant isn’t one to cut corners. Grant, the director of technology at River Falls Medical Clinics in River Falls, Wisc., knew his organization’s Cisco Systems infrastructure was quickly approaching end-of-life, and in the fall of 2009 he methodically set out to find a replacement.

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When it came time for longtime client Wenger Corporation to replace and upgrade their existing Cisco Systems data center core networking equipment, Walker recommended a switch to Juniper Networks. The Owatonna, Minn.-based provider of live performance, staging and acoustical equipment had been an exclusive Cisco Systems shop for years, so a switch wasn’t going to come easily.

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Just as soon as Andre Barte assumed his new position of IT Administrator for the City of New Brighton, Minn. he encountered a situation every IT administrator dreads: the Microsoft® Exchange Server crashed, leaving the City’s staff without Outlook e-mail.

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