LMJ Forte – Leveraging Cisco Solutions for Small Businesses and Medium Enterprises for More Than 30 Years

The Silicon Review

Information Technology is the backbone of nearly every industry, and IT support services are your unseen business partners. Like any partner, they can be instrumental to your achievements or cost you dearly. Service Providers are constantly challenged to correctly configure increasingly complex network/data center infrastructure, manage the rising concerns and potential vulnerabilities around data breaches, cope with increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, and maintain network availability to limit potential business impact from any network downtime. Developing and maintaining the technical expertise in-house to keep up with the fast-changing technical terrain is just one of the pain points for Service Providers. Given these challenges, a paradigm shift is needed. Your IT must be resilient, adaptive, and transformative to address the unprecedented changes and evolving business priorities in today’s market. That’s why it’s important to proactively optimize and transform your IT to maintain availability, security, and performance while at the same time driving innovation and growth. Cisco Business Critical service providers give you access to trusted experts powered by proprietary analytics, insights, and automation to help organizations create resilient, highly adaptive, and transformative IT.

LMJ Forte is one such Cisco service provider, started 30 years ago to help businesses succeed. When IT is done right you can do more with fewer resources and gain a competitive advantage. With their relationship with LMJ of Anchorage Alaska, they gained additional capability to provide fantastic customer support and help desk operations. They have worked hard to develop long, trusted relationships with their clients. Many have been with them for more than 20 years. During that time they’ve grown from small businesses to national leaders in their industries. Technology gives companies a great opportunity to provide immediacy, personalization and convenience. LMJ Forte wants to help their clients provide a better customer experience to their clients by leveraging the power of information. Whether your business is just a few folks or a few thousand, they have the experience, expertise, and demonstrated ability to be your trusted advisor.

Cisco Premier Certified Partner

LMJ Forte Systems is a Cisco Premier Certified Partner delivering Cisco infrastructure solutions to San Francisco Bay Area companies for over 28 years. Forte was recognized as one of the Top Cisco Partners in the United States as a member of the Cisco Winner’s Circle. To achieve the Premier Certification, they must maintain Cisco Certified engineers on staff and meet annual customer satisfaction targets so you are assured of their ability to deliver Cisco solutions.

LMJ Forte has earned the Express Collaboration Specialization by demonstrating expertise in the configuration and deployment of the Business Edition 6000 unified communications platform for up to 1,000 users. Their years of experience with the ISR based CallManager Express and UC500 solutions give them a unique level of expertise supporting the Cisco collaboration solutions. LMJ Forte enjoys an especially close partnership with Cisco. The company was selected as one of a handful of partners nationwide to serve on the Cisco Small and Medium Business Advisory Board, a panel that advises Cisco on the development of new products for the small and medium business market.

Cisco Data Center Architecture

The Advanced Unified Computing Technology (UCT) Specialization demonstrates the ability to design, deploy, and support integrated Data Center solutions built around the Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) platform that includes both B-Series and C-Series servers and Nexus switching. Combined with their close partnerships with NetApp and EMC they have delivered cross vendor FlexPod and VSPEX solutions for elastic computing and storage. Their Cisco certified engineers have implemented, optimized, and supported complex LAN and WAN architectures integrating core, distribution, and access layer switching, controller based WiFi, high availability ASA edge security and VPN/AnyConnect, MPLS networks, and advanced routing and carrier interfacing applications.

Converged infrastructure unifies server, storage, networking, and virtualization into an integrated solution that is managed as a whole. Complexity, management effort, and maintenance costs are reduced while adding flexibility and scalability. Once deployed, all resources are managed from a common interface via orchestration software provided by vendors. For example, the FlexPod solution combines Cisco UCS computing, Cisco Nexus switching, and NetApp storage with unified management and optional unified support. Since 2010, FlexPod has been adopted by more than 2,400 companies. It is one example of multi-vendor solution with integrated management and support.

Lauchie Johnston | Founder and CEO

As founder and CEO of LMJ Forte, Lauchie develops business strategies that ensure LMJ vision and core values are delivered to clients. Lauchie worked for over 8 years for the State of Alaska Oil and Gas division before launching LMJ. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.