IT Partners builds Virtual Office on the CentOS operating system

TAMPA, Fla. - May 23, 2013 - PRLog -- IT Partners builds Virtual Office on the CentOS http://centos.org (Linux)operating system. CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendor's redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible.   Thomas Bedell, Principal Partner for IT Partners, Inc. notes “Our desire to maintain a product built using open source software made this 'no brainer'.  While other Linux variants do exist, we have tested and scaled our products on this platform.  Reliability and stability were our goals when working with business data.  CentOS fits the bill perfectly.”  

IT Partners markets Virtual Office to small and medium businesses. Smaller and Medium business should consider reducing cost by reducing overhead and costly technology infrastructure.  CentOS is currently the 2nd most used Linux operating system for web servers in the world.  Thomas Bedell adds “Building a Virtual Office platform for a client is a 3 step process.  We begin with CentOS as a base platform for our Virtual Office systems.  Then we customize the platform with additional open source applications and finally, we brand those applications to fit the client.”

Virtual Office reduces those costs by eliminating the need for expensive hardware and software.  Businesses realize additional savings because an IT staffing is not required to keep the system running.  Virtual Office is completely outsourced in the cloud.  We developed our platform on the RackSpace cloud computing platform.  Rackspace is known for their "fanatical support".  By utilizing Rackspace, we are able to offer a superior product.

Virtual Office is built using the latest open source applications including, asterisk, Drupal, FreePBX, Joomla, Magento, OpenERP, osCommerce, ownCloud, OpenERP, OpenMeetings,VTiger and Wordpress.  These great open source applications are customized and optimized to meet the needs of the business.  


Virtual Office is best positioned for micro business.  Micro Businesses are classified as having 1 to 10 employees. Micro Businesses often have little or no technology support.  Virtual Office helps micro businesses compete by creating a unified communications platform.  A simple PBX with assigned phone number(s) and extensions for each employee.  The PBX can handle all aspects of communications including IVR, Voice mail, Call forwarding, extensions, call queue, call parking, music on hold and more.  These features are mostly found in expensive hardware solutions.  Virtual Office provides a "data vault", online cloud storage.  Cloud Storage provides "Drop Box" type utility.  Business data is securely stored and shared with employees anywhere, anytime.

Virtual Office provides content management using a variety of open source (CMS) Content Management Systems such as Drupal, Joomla or Wordpress and gives total control over the business "brand".  Businesses can now focus on automated sales and marketing by creating sales and marketing campaigns.  Automated sales and marketing campaigns increase sales by "triggering" events as customers and employees interact with products and services; Online, Anywhere, Anytime.

Virtual Office uses reflexive technology that allows it to adapt to any device, anytime, anywhere.  Virtual Office requires no hardware to buy, no software to license.  Virtual Office is only available from IT Partners by monthly subscription.  For complete details about Virtual Office or IT Partners please visit: http://www.itpartners.us.com