SOMERSET, N.J.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--SHI International Corp. announced today that it has been named to CRN's second annual list of the Tech Elite 250. Companies on the 2012 Tech Elite 250 list represent an elite group of IT Solution Providers that have invested in the training and education needed to earn the most technical certifications in the IT Channel.

In compiling the list, CRN editors worked with the UBM Channel research group and a team of outside experts to define the most customer-beneficial technical certifications in the IT channel. These technical certifications have enabled solution providers to deliver the most premium products, service, and support to their North American customers...more.

SOMERSET, N.J.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--SHI International Corp. today announced that it has been named the Americas recipient of a VMware Partner Network Award in the Partner Executive MVP and Corporate Reseller of the Year categories by VMware. The awards were presented at VMware Partner Exchange 2012, VMware’s annual partner event, on February 14 in Las Vegas.

“We are proud to acknowledge the achievements made in 2011 by members of the VMware partner ecosystem and congratulate SHI on winning a VMware Partner Network Award,” said Doug Smith, vice president, global partner strategy and operations, VMware. “Partners worldwide assemble at VMware Partner Exchange to become equipped with the tools and knowledge needed to further realize the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing – making this the leading global event for partners seeking peer-to-peer training, education and networking to enhance their business strategies and distinguish their position in the marketplace. VMware partners continue to be the foundation of our business and we look forward to the future successes of SHI in 2012, as well as the rest of our partner ecosystem.”...more.

SOMERSET, N.J.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--SHI International Corp., one of North America’s top 20 largest IT solutions providers, today announced revenue of $3.8 billion for the full year of 2011, a 28 percent increase over 2010. In support of this growth, SHI increased its overall headcount by 200 employees. “Our continuous, sustained growth throughout 2011 demonstrates SHI’s ability to deliver next-generation hardware and software solutions that meet the constantly evolving demands of the enterprise” .

In August 2011, SHI Enterprise Solutions (ESS) division launched the SHI Cloud, offering reliable and cost-effective industrial-grade cloud computing platforms. That same division achieved an 82 percent increase in revenue over 2010. ...more.

On Monday, Michael Dell, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), presented SHI President and CEO Thai Lee with The Dell Partner of the Year award for the second consecutive year. The ceremony took place at the third annual SHI Corp. Kickoff Sales Conference, held this week in Austin, Texas.

SHI's Lee was joined by Hal Jagger, Vice President and General Manager of the SHI Corp. Sales Division, and over 350 SHI account executives that gathered at the Hilton in Austin, Texas from 26 SHI offices across the U.S. and Canada...more.

SOMERSET, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE)--New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno and over 200 SHI International employees, architects, and construction contractors were on hand today to officially cut the ribbon on a new 420,000 Sq. Ft. Cloud Computing Campus and global headquarters for one of New Jersey’s largest technology businesses. The new cloud data center and headquarters of SHI International officially opens today to serve clients around the globe with the latest, state-of-the-art cloud computing technology. SHI International, a $3.5 billion woman-owned technology company, which supports the world’s most complex IT organizations, transformed the former AT&T facility into an industrial-grade cloud computing hub to offer advanced security and infrastructure for companies with large, enterprise IT needs...more.

SHI International Corp., one of North America's top 20 largest IT solutions providers, today announced that third quarter 2011 revenues grew 29 percent year-over-year to $869 million for the quarter and $2.6 billion year-to-date. SHI’s revenues for the first nine months of 2011 increased 32 percent in comparison to the same time period one year ago.

The company reported strong domestic and international sales as it recorded tremendous sales growth in its Enterprise and emerging Corporate Sales divisions, which grew 25 percent and 103 percent, respectively....more.

September’s issue of CRN investigated the rise of the cloud provider. In that issue, I took the opportunity to depart from the standard mission of this column, which is to address critical issues from your point of view. I shared the beginning of a contemporary vendor topic instead. Namely, which partner types, as defined by business model, will survive in the long run in the midst of this disrupted ecosystem?...more.

SHI International Corp. has been selected as a Symantec 2011 U.S. Partner Award winner. The 2011 U.S. Partner of the Year Award ($50 million+) was first presented to SHI at Symantec’s annual partner conference, Partner Engage 2011 on October 12-13, 2011. SHI was recognized for its investment in Symantec and demonstrated expertise and success in key solution areas and growth markets.

“We are committed to supporting our partners by helping them grow their businesses, maximize revenue opportunities and maintain competitive edge within the industry. Our 2011 Partner Award winners have shown a high level of dedication to becoming experts in Symantec’s solutions and adding value to our joint customers”

“SHI is extremely honored to win the Symantec 2011 North American Partner Award,” said Diane Buley, SHI Software Partner Manager. “Even though we just completed our 18th year of partnership, the depth and breadth of the Symantec product offering - as well their continued commitment to the channel - allowed us to grow our Symantec year-over-year revenue by 44%. SHI is committed to helping our mutual customers secure and manage their information, and we extend our deepest thanks to the many IT organizations that have chosen SHI as their partner and trusted advisor"...more.

The first generation of cloud computing focused primarily on low-cost personal cloud services along with some capability for application developers and non-mission critical applications. The latest generation of cloud computing is now capable of addressing the needs of enterprise mission crucial applications. Mission-critical applications of the enterprise require computing infrastructure that is secure, optimizes performance and is highly resilient.

In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Henry Fastert, Chief Technologist and Managing Partner at SHI, will highlight how the latest cloud computing designs have evolved in terms of security, availability and overall service quality to meet the needs of mission-critical applications. During the course of the session, many of the key adoption questions in the cloud marketplace...more.

Internet2, the world's most advanced networking consortium, today announced individual partnerships with HP, SHI International and Box to deliver new Internet2 NET+ Services, including cloud computing and infrastructure services, to Internet2 members' faculty, staff and students nationwide. The announcement was made at today's Internet2 Fall Member Meeting.

"These partnerships benefit our members by making secure and very affordable cloud computing services available anywhere, anytime," said Dave Lambert, President and CEO, Internet2. "By leveraging existing community investments, Internet2 provides seamless access to standard and customized offerings from industry leaders for chief information officers in higher education to consider in their technology plans. Internet2 NET+ Services are the next generation of value from Internet2."...more.

SHI is a fixture in N.J. The privately held, woman-run IT solutions provider has been located here for 23 years, growing from a $1 million regional value-added reseller (VAR) to a $3 billion global technology company. SHI has recently begun making investments that will allow it to shift to the lucrative cloud computing business. To make this transition, SHI has renovated and moved into facilities in Somerset that had been vacant for almost 10 years, ever since AT&T left the area. The new complex, which took 15 months to renovate, serves as both a data center and the company's headquarters...more.

SYS-CON Events announced today that SHI International Corp., a $3 billion+ global provider of information technology products and services, has been named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 9th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA....more.

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- At VMworld today, SHI International Corp., a $3 billion+ global provider of information technology products and services, and Cloud Cruiser, the leader in cloud cost management solutions, announced a strategic partnership that will enhance SHI's next generation infrastructure- as-a-service (IaaS) platform with Cloud Cruiser's enterprise suite of cloud cost management and chargeback solutions.

The SHI IaaS cloud platform is designed to support secure, high performance and industrial-grade computing requirements that IT organizations demand to deploy critical workloads from internal production to the cloud. To meet these requirements, SHI's Data Center Infrastructure design offers Managed Private Clouds, Private or Dedicated Clouds and Multi-Tenant Clouds. Now with Cloud Cruiser's cost management solution, enterprises can optimize capex and opex costs in hybrid cloud computing environments across SHI's managed private, private and public clouds...more.

LAS VEGAS & PISCATAWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at VMworld® 2011, SHI International Corp., one of North America’s top 20 largest IT solutions providers, introduced the SHI Cloud, a next generation infrastructure-as-a-service offering solely designed for IT organizations. The SHI Cloud combines best-of-breed technologies to create the most secure, high-performance, and industrial-grade cloud offering with private/dedicated, managed, or multi-tenant options.

“Organizations have been asking for more than the consumer-grade solutions offered by the myriad of vendors in the cloud space,” says Thai Lee, President and CEO of SHI. “The vast majority of IT managers interested in the benefits of cloud computing—cost savings, business agility, disaster recovery, and right-sizing on demand—don’t want to rebuild all of their applications just to take advantage of enterprise-capable solutions. Today, SHI is introducing the first solution that is a logical, transparent extension of an organization’s infrastructure that doesn’t require replacing existing systems. The SHI Cloud can provision servers, storage, and networking bandwidth to create VMs on demand. Working together with technology from partners including VMware, the SHI Cloud is free to utilize the industry’s best available technology in a truly unique cloud offering to our clients."...more.

SHI International Corp., a $3 billion+ global provider of information technology products and services, and Solutionary, Inc., a leading provider of managed security services, today announced a strategic partnership to provide cloud security services for SHI's next generation infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform - the Industrial Grade Cloud.

SHI, a leading IT hardware, software and professional services solution provider, built the Industrial Cloud to help clients benefit from cloud computing quickly and cost-effectively while not sacrificing security and reliability. Solutionary brings over a decade of success in providing managed and cloud security services to clients in financial services, healthcare, retail and other markets. As a managed security service provider, Solutionary has the expertise, proven processes and patented technology required to protect the entire cloud infrastructure including physical and logical IT components for both SHI and its clients.

"A critical differentiator for SHI's Cloud offering is the transparency we offer our customers," stated Henry Fastert, SHI's chief technologist and managing partner. "Solutionary's security monitoring service provides third party notification to our customers in case of any security issue. This service helps customers feel confident that their environments will remain secure"...more.

Despite the buzz, cloud computing has remained more of a concept than a crucial working platform for most IT organizations. While there’s been an explosion of software and services that make use of the basic cloud computing model, nobody, from the largest players to the smallest startups, has produced a cloud computing platform appropriate for industrial-grade computing.

That will all soon change with the upcoming debut of the SHI Cloud, the first cloud platform designed from the ground up to support all the mission-critical, industrial-grade computing requirements that IT organizations have today.

As part of this, SHI International Corp. today introduced the SHI Cloud blog, where experts will help IT leaders understand the benefits, risks, opportunities, challenges, and technologies that go arm-in-arm with cloud computing. The blog will take deep dives into the technology that substantiates SHI’s assertion that it is the first “industrial-grade” cloud computing platform...more.

A former AT&T facility that sat idle for 10 years is being brought back to life as a state-of-the-art cloud computing center by SHI International, a $3 billion woman-owned technology company based in New Jersey.

The new facility will also serve as the IT solution provider’s world headquarters, and will be home to nearly 1,000 employees. The building rehab, currently the largest interior commercial renovation in New Jersey, generated 500 construction jobs during the design and fit-out phase of the work, which has taken 15 months to complete.

SHI’s new headquarters and data center are part of a strategic investment by SHI to capitalize on the fast-growing cloud computing industry, which is projected to reach $9.4 billion by 2015, according to industry analyst International Data Corp. In preparation, SHI has been steadily adding staff despite the recent economic climate. Since 2008, the privately-owned company has created 700 new jobs globally, including over 100 highly technical positions based in New Jersey and over 200 sales and management positions in Austin, Texas to serve an expanding global market.

“We could have located our new industrial-grade cloud computing center anywhere, but we chose New Jersey because of our own history and the quality of the local talent we have enjoyed since our founding in 1989,” says Thai Lee, President and CEO of SHI International. Entering her 23rd year as CEO, Lee has transformed the business from a $1 million regional New Jersey-based VAR into one of the 100 largest privately-owned companies in America, and the largest woman- and minority-owned business in the country...more.

A key accomplishment for Lee was growing SHI's revenue by 25% to finish at $3 billion for 2010. She also hired the talent and deployed the technology that became SHI's Cloud Solutions offering. In addition, SHI opened offices outside London and Paris and explored expansion into additional countries. Lee is continuing SHI's expansion into the midmarket and public sector spaces to complement its legacy Fortune 500 clients as well, and completed year three of SHI's five-year plan to upgrade internal tools and systems with zero disruption to the customers...more.

SHI International Corp., one of North America’s top 20 largest IT solutions providers, today announced revenue of $1.8 billion for the first six months of 2011, a 33% increase compared to the $1.3 billion in revenue recorded in the first half of 2010.

Thai Lee, SHI's President and CEO said, "Our growth clearly demonstrates that SHI is meeting the demanding needs of IT managers who are increasingly looking to their suppliers to add value to their businesses...more

SHI International Corp. has just been named the 19th largest IT solutions provider in North America by Everything Channel, a CRN channel focused research, publishing, and events management organization. SHI climbed 30 slots for the 2010 study, rising from 49th last year to its new position at number 19.

This is the 13th time SHI has earned a place on CRN's annual ranking of leading North American IT companies, the industry's definitive ranking of business advisors, integration experts, and invaluable IT partners. Now in the top 20, SHI appears alongside some the industry's largest players, such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell....more.

Members of the LABVANTAGE Strategic Solutions team spent a couple days with SHI's Enterprise Solution Services team at their cloud data center in Somerset, NJ discussing how LABVANTAGE plans to leverage virtualization & cloud to meet the needs our of laboratory informatics customers. SHI's IaaS cloud has been specifically designed to meet the needs of enterprise-class customers and SaaS application providers, and Managing Partner Henry Fastert tells me how and why in this interview from April 1, 2011.

Each SHI cloud service core can deliver as many as 4,000 virtual servers to their IaaS customers. The permanent cloud facility in Somerset, NJ opens later this year, and can house as many as 100 service cores. That's up to 400,000 virtual servers out of this single data center — they're not April Fooling around! SHI has more data centers planned for the future, throughout the US and abroad. Impressive!...more.

SHI have seen the need to evolve their business to offer cloud services to their customers, including offering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities (which generally means providing virtual machines that their customers can use to build more complex services).

SHI selected network equipment from HP to provide the infrastructure for those cloud services, as a part of a larger HP Converged Infrastructure solution (combining servers, storage and networking). SHI’s Henry Fastert, chief technologist and managing partner said that they selected HP to provide the network thanks to our open standards-based architecture, innovative capabilities, and specifically our Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology...more.