Computer Data Source to expand through Canadian partnerships

Since its expansion into Canada three years ago, Computer Data Source (CDS), a Eatontown, N.J.-based company, with Canadian offices in Markham, Ont. and Montreal, has been focused on the SMB customer and partner space.

The IT services company offers third-party support and service for out-of-warranty OEM hardware for Canadian businesses that span from the 200 to 500-size range. CDS offers support on close to 150 different model numbers across all of the vendors it supports, some of which include: HP, Compaq, Sun, IBM, EMC and NetApp, just to name a few.

In supporting customers in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Calgary, Tom Viasanen, general manager of Canada for CDS, says the company is actively seeking out channel partners to help extend its footprint in the country.

“We're going after the channel,” Viasanen said. “We believe in offering our channel partners a one-stop shop for IT services because we can help them expand their current portfolios and help them bid on contracts they couldn't do before.”

Martin Seto, reseller sales and marketing manager at CDS, says CDS will recruit partners using an active and direct approach. Seto says partners would be interested in working with CDS because there's no capital investment required and most importantly, he says partners can obtain double-digit margins of at least 25 per cent leading up to 50 per cent.

“What's great is that partners can outsource to us and the service can be branded by the reseller,” Seto said. “This is an opportunity that lets resellers go to their clients to help them save money because what if the economy goes into a cost-cutting mode? That would be their biggest value proposition,” he adds.

Albert Poole, vice-president of DigiDyne, a CDS partner for the past three years, says its partnership with them has brought nothing but success for the Montreal-based IT services company.

“Before our partnership, we were strong on the Sun platform,” Poole said. “With CDS, we can now offer support on the higher-end HP systems, storage tech and EMC hardware. This makes us a lot stronger because it helps us complete our service portfolio.”

ASCDI Appoints Graham King VP Maintenance

August 14, 2007 09:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Computer Dealer’s Association Appoints New Vice President of Maintenance

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Association of Service and Computer Dealers International (www.ASCDI.com), an international association of companies who buy, sell, lease and maintain new and used computer equipment, announced today the appointment of Graham King of Computer Data Source (www.cds.net) to the Board of Directors holding the position of Vice President, Maintenance. Mr. King, who works for Computer Data Source, has over 25 years of experience in IT maintenance.

“Mr. King is well known and highly respected in our industry,” said Joe Marion, ASCDI President. “We are excited about the new ideas and focus on maintenance he brings to our association.”

Mr. King will share his vision for the new focus on maintenance at the ASCDI fall conference at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Philadelphia on October 17, 2007. The ASCDI, which provides services to manufacturers, dealers, maintainers and installers of IBM, H/P, DEC, Cisco, Sun and related products expects there to be a few hundred dealers at the conference. The conference will feature sessions on Technology Leasing, and Ethics as well as IBM, SUN, HP and CISCO practices as well as booths from vendors who sell goods and services to technology dealers.

The ASCDI also features an internet based trading network, for computer dealers only called the ATN and publishes an annual Directory of the technology dealers from around the world.

For information on advertising in the ASCDI Directory, attending one of its meetings or participating in the ATN Trading Network, please go to www.ascdi.com.

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New Corporate HQ

Eatontown, NJ - Wednesday, February 7, 2007: Today Computer Data Source, Inc. officially opened its new facility and Corporate Headquarters on Industrial Way in Eatontown, NJ. CDS is a true Monmouth County success story; with owners Joe Massaro and Ron Wollner, both long time local residents and partners for over 26 year; they have grown CDS to one of the most respected and well known companies in the computer service industry. "We originally moved into the facility back in July last year", said Joe Massaro, "but we had a lot of custom design and construction that needed to be done to make this a showcase facility for our partners and customers." "With this new building, CDS is positioned to meet all of our growth needs for many years to come. We are all very excited about our future and what we have become in this industry." said Ron Wollner.

Network Appliance Launch

Eatontown, NJ - Wednesday, December 6, 2006: Computer Data Source launches support on Network Appliance (NetApp) disk products. "As with many of our solutions, we see very limited options for our customers", said John Hlinka, Chief Operating Officer, "This new service offering allows our customers more options and better levels of service".

STK Silo Launch

Eatontown NJ, Monday, December 4, 2006: Computer Data Source launches support of StorageTek Tape Libraries. This is the latest of the many storage platforms CDS has developed in recent years. "The STK platforms add yet another dimension to the CDS portfolio", said Graham King, Executive Vice President of Sales, "Our growing portfolio is a result of the demand from our customers and partners. They see the quality solutions we develop and just keep pushing us for more".

CDS Launches Canadian Division

Oakhurst, NJ - Tuesday, January 18, 2005: Computer Data Source, Inc., today announced the launch of their new Canadian division. CDS Canada Corp. will be headquartered out of Markham, Ontario. "We are very excited to offer the full suite of CDS Services in Canada" said Tom Vaisanen, General Manager for CDS Canada, "Customers in Canada have had limited exposure to the cost benefits of an Independent Service Provider; we hope to fill this gap."

EMC Launch

Oakhurst, NJ - Tuesday, August 24, 2004: Computer Data Source, Inc. today launched their latest service offering on EMC Symmetrix platforms. "Until today, we believe there has not been either a legal or viable alternative to the OEM's service offerings", said Ron Wollner, Chief Technical Officer, "Our solution allows our customers and our partners to deliver the highest quality service on EMC products, at a fraction of the cost". CDS in conjunction with Raytrix, developer of CDS software of tools, have been working on the EMC development for almost two years. "Our solution provides all of the same functionality as EMC", "The time, efforts and financial investments into this project will pay of very quickly".

Computer Data Source awarded $5.5 million FAA contract - Brief Article

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor,  June 23, 2003  

Computer Data Source Inc. (CDS) of Oakhurst, New Jersey, has been awarded a five-year, $5.5 million contract by the Federal Aviation Administration. CDS has also received the Regional II SBA Prime Contractor of the Year Award for 2003, based on the nomination by the Department of Navy.

CDS will provide information technology support services for large, enterprise computer systems for FAA facilities in 30 states.

According to Joseph Massaro, co-owner of CDS, "This is the largest federal contract awarded to us to date. We could not have done it without the dedication of our exceptional staff. We are very grateful to our technicians for the great job they have done maintaining these systems with little or no downtime.

CDS is a high-tech service company providing networking and multi-vendor computer system support including IBM, Non-Stop (Tandem), Sequent, NCR, Pyramid, DEC and HP equipment.

Established in 1990, CDS also provides commercial and federal information technology support services and maintains over 1500 large enterprise systems throughout Canada, Europe, and Asia.