22 JunBlog

What is Juneteenth?

As a certified MBE and MWBE, Compulink Technologies, Inc. is excited to hear the recent news that Juneteenth has been recognized as a National Federal Holiday.

What is Juneteenth?

We’re glad you asked. Juneteenth marks the official end of slavery in the United States.

I thought that was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Yes and no. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed into effect by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, which declared that “all enslaved people in the States, henceforth, would be free forever.” While this signaled the end of slavery in the United States, it did not become official until when a Union General by the name of Gordon Granger travelled south to Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1895 and informed enslaved African-Americans of their freedom and end of the war. General Granger’s announcement put into effect the Emancipation Proclamation and marked the end of slavery in the United States as we know it. The holiday received its name by combining June and 19, the day of Granger’s announcement.

Interesting. How is it celebrated today?

Lots of ways. The holiday was originally celebrated in Texas as a way to commemorate the final domino pieces that toppled that would end slavery in the United States. Since 1979, the holiday has been recognized and slowly gained traction, state-by-state. Today, the bill has been signed into law as a national holiday and there are many cities such as Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Detroit that host city parades and other festivities.

Conclusion:

Today we celebrate this momentous event in American History, where we can catch our breath and see for ourselves the positive changes that have taken into effect throughout our past. We must never forget our history, and we must always strive each day to make our promise to make this nation a place where all people are created equal.

15 JunBlog

The History Of 3-D Printing

This article was originally published on PCGuide.com |

3-D Printing

Despite being around for the better part of 40 years, 3D printing is still a relatively new technology that most home consumers are still yet to learn the benefits of. It’s still thought of as a concept that was cherry-picked out of a science fiction movie without any real merit.

It’s an assumption that couldn’t be more true, as 3D printing has actually undergone a number of exciting developments over the last couple of decades. Even still, there are probably many who are wondering, “what is 3D printing? What can it do for me?”

These questions (and many more) are exactly what we at PC Guide are here to answer. This page is your hub to everything you need to know about the world of 3D printing, its history behind 3D printing, and its uses today.

History Of 3D Printing

Whilst you might assume that 3D printing is still in its infancy, which in some ways it very much is, additive manufacturing technology has actually been around for the last 40 years.

The Financial Times has recently reported it as being “bigger than the internet”, which goes to show how technology can evolve and develop over time into what they are today.

You can date the earliest record of 3D printing back to May 1980, when Dr. Kodama filled out a patent application in Japan, but you can trace it further back to its origins in 1986 when Charles Hull patented his stereolithography apparatus (SLA). He then went on to co-found 3D Systems Corporation, which is now a household name in the 3D printing industry.

It was this company that created one of the first machines to utilize 3D printing technology, and they’ve only gone on to develop their products and make new strides in this field.

However, it might interest you to know that only in the late 1990s was 3D printing truly acknowledged for the potential you see it beginning to touch upon today.

Since then, there have been major efforts to better understand this technology. One example of this was in 2005 when it became apparent that 3D printers had evolved to the point where they could basically build themselves. Who knows where we’ll be with it in another twenty years!

What Is 3D Printing?

3D printing is the production of parts and system components which are typically stronger, better quality, and more lightweight compared to their more traditionally printed counterparts.

What this essentially entails is the creation of a three-dimensional digital design by layering material on top of itself in order to build a physical model that replicates this design exactly.

At its core, additive manufacturing technology provides the basis for 3D printing, which is an entirely new and unique printing process compared to anything else currently on the market.

This is different from subtractive manufacturing, which is the process of cutting out sections of a type of material such as metal or plastic, using a tool like a milling machine, for example.

In order for 3D printing to work, you’ll need to design your digital model.

There is a wide variety of software available that you can use to design your 3D model, each with a number of different tools ranging from industrial level to open source.

We believe the best software to start out with when you’re still learning the ropes of 3D printing is Tinkercad, which is free and can be used in-browser without needing to install it.

There are lessons offered for beginners and once designed, you can export your model as a printable file, like .STL or .OBJ, for example. Once the file is ready, you will need to get it prepped and ready for your 3D printer, which is what’s known as slicing.

In order to be ready for printing, your 3D design needs to undergo a process called slicing, done using special slicing software. This essentially means your 3D model is sliced into thousands of layers, ready for your 3D printer to layer the material as it builds your design.

Your digital design turned printable file will now be ready for printing, and you can transfer the design to the printer via a USB, SD, or Wi-Fi connection.

08 Apr

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17 MarNews

Celebrating Women’s History Month

March is recognized as Women’s History Month in the United States. In Compulink Technologies, our Vice President of Sales is Denise Arboleda. Denise has been with Compulink for more than 25 years and has been a crucial member of the team. Despite the industry being male-dominated, Denise has remained and continues to remain proactive in her ambition to turn Compulink into an effective IT Solutions Provider with premium quality service.

Within Compulink, Denise not only drives the sales efforts of the company, but provides support and guidance to the other departments to ensure the overall operations are running efficiently. Her bigger commitment is to solve problems. Denise fosters collaboration between Compulink and other IT vendors such as manufacturers, distributors, and resellers to promote cooperation in the IT community.

Denise has single-handedly built relationships with the New York City and State Government Agencies, Transit Authority, and Educational Institutions. She has mentored aspiring young professionals in Compulink to become problem solvers for our clients. When asked about how she sums up her career in Compulink, Denise said the following:

“To me, Compulink is more than a business providing IT. We are an IT Resource. Our past, current, and future clients are all human beings with IT problems and it is key that we solve their problems.”

Despite the IT Sector having a majority of male population, there is a growth in women professionals. Denise’s proactive example can serve as one example of diligent business tactics despite what your gender, race, etc. may be.

Compulink Technologies is proud to be a leading advocate for supplier diversity across all sectors. We encourage all organizations to engage with Minority and/or Women-Owned Businesses to diversify our business practices.

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05 JanBlog

A Look Back at 2017 Compulink’s Highlights From Last Year

As 2017 comes to a close, we take a look back on 2017 and its effects on Compulink. Every year has its ups and downs and its highlights. Every person and company will experience these types of things themselves, but here at Compulink it was very good overall. We are happy to end 2017 on a high note and look forward to a strong 2018. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights from 2017.

All the accomplishments we achieved as a company are all due to the outstanding leadership of our CEO. Whether we are riding high or are on the lowest of lows he keeps everyone focused and together. All employees follow his lead and we achieved great things by doing that.

Primarily is our sales, as with any company this is how we keep the lights on. Sales had a great year, but we don’t settle for what we get. We are hoping to increase the numbers next year. Of course our success in sales is due to the driving force of our VP of Sales. She outdid herself as always. She even won a sales contest for HP Inc Printing.

Another highlight was brining on our new Chief Operating Officer. This major addition to our company is to bring big changes going forward. In less than a year he has enabled our Compulink team to be more efficient and better at their jobs.

As we move into the new year we hope to continue our success. Thank you to all our customers and business partners. To learn about our plans for 2018, make sure you read the blog post A Look Compulink’s 2018 plans. There we outline some of the biggest initiatives we plan to undertake as a company. We hope build on all the good moment we have for 2018 and hope you come along for the ride.

20 OctBlog

Compulink Technologies Recognized by Ingram Micro and HP Inc

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Thank you to Ingram Micro and HP Inc as our valued partners who also played a key role in this success. Thank you to all the customers who came to Compulink for their printing needs. A special thank you to the sales team that worked diligently under Denise’s guidance.

HP Inc is a longtime partner for Compulink Technologies. Just as with every partner we do our best to increase their sales through Compulink, regardless of contest. Compulink is dedicated to sharing its success with any and all partners who choose to join us.

25 SepBlog

HPE and Intel Bring You a New-Generation Compute Experience

As more and more businesses adopt the cloud, they are finding that the cloud is lacking in security, compliance, and application performance. Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel are teaming up to tackle these challenges with hybrid IT driven by HPE Gen10 servers.

What is hybrid IT?

It is a mix of both on premises and off premises IT environments. That means you have a data center that handles the most important data and workloads. While also using a cloud solution to handle other data and workloads. It’s scalable and provides a lot of flexibility and on demand capacity to operate across application in data center and cloud environments.

Why do you need hybrid IT?

Well because in today’s world businesses need cost effective ways to improve agility and collaboration. That is what we use the cloud for. To put it into a visual example, imagine a company designing a new product. That company has product designers if offices across the country. Rather than pay for them to all be in one location. They can collaborate from where they are through cloud and collaboration solutions. An hybrid IT environment can allow the accessibility of the cloud with the security, performance handling of a data center.

HPE and Intel Team up

HPE will use Intel-Xeon Processors to power their brand new Gen10 servers. End users can adapt performance to application using the HPE Intelligent System Tuning. HPE says that this creates the world’s most secure industry standard servers. The Intel Xeon Processors in Gen10 Servers allows the performance to handle the most demanding applications such as big data and database workloads. Gen10 Servers play a key role in any IT infrastructure modernization and IT agility. They can accelerate business insights across a hybrid world of traditional IT, public cloud, and private cloud.

Read more about this team up on HPE blog page. Click Here

20 AprBlog

Life as a MBE Certified Business and Why you should become one

Compulink Technologies is a certified Minority Owned Small Business we were recognized for being one of the most successful MBEs in the state of New York. That does not make us a billion dollar conglomerate, but it does make us a very successful and profitable small business. Now what is an MBE certification you may ask? It is a certification given by city states and government agencies, that classify you as a minority owned business. That means if you are African American, Hispanic, Native American, Asian, Indian, or anything non-white, you can be a minority owned business. This certification gives you special access to grants, loans, business opportunities, tax breaks, and other special considerations. There is also certifications for women owned businesses WBEs and veteran owned small businesses as well. If you fall into these categories, you should have the matching certification.

The best things these certifications do, is allow you to do business with the government. So if you are in the business to business world, you may be able to sell your goods and services to the government. Now people don’t think about doing business with the government, because they either think its not profitable, or its too complicated. Well it is definitely a complicated process to do business with the government, and its very hard. However, by no means is it not profitable. Compulink is a multi-million dollar company, just by selling to the government. The public sector is just like any other business market you can think of. They need common goods and services that any business would need such as IT, Marketing, Finance, Accounting, Staffing, Janitorial Services and Supplies. You name it, they need it.

The MBE certification was a foot in the door for Compulink. We used it to fulfill small IT purchases at first, but overtime, we became a preferred vendor. Eventually when we started to compete for the larger contract, we had an advantage. Agencies knew us and knew we were dependable, and the trusted big contracts to us. We are often in a good position to compete for the large contract, and small purchases are always being sent our way.

Now a certification is not going to be the only key to success. You need to be aggressive and chase opportunities down. You also have to start small at first, nobody just gets a million dollar contract out of no where. You have to build relationships and get discretionary purchase that are small in amounts. After you build a reputation for reliability and performance, you can start to compete for larger contracts. This is by no means a way to become a billionaire, but it can help you build ans sustain a successful business.

17 AprNews

Compulink Technologies and CEO Rafael Arboleda Recognized as a MBE Success Story

On April 13th 2017, Compulink Technologies’ CEO and Founder Raphael Arboleda gave a speech at the New York Empire State Development Minority and Woman Owned Business Regional Expo at Lehman College. Mr. Arboleda was asked to speak about using his New York State Minority Owned Business Certification to create a successful company. Compulink Technologies has been in business for 30 years and has become one of the most preferred vendors for the city and state of New York. The New York State Empire State Development agency has recognized both Compulink and Mr. Arboleda as on of the most successful MBE certified businesses within the entire state.

In his speech Mr. Arboleda talked about how tough it is to do business with the government. As Mr Arboleda said ” doing business with the government takes time, patience and determination. You are never going to get every opportunity you compete for, and you will lose more than you win. The key is to keep trying and to keep learning. “

Congratulations to our CEO Rafael Arboleda who’s leadership and determination have made Compulink Technologies a major success today. Thank You to New York Empire State Development for acknowledging Compulink’s and Mr. Arboleda’s success, and for all the tools and resource you provide to help businesses succeed. Thank you to all the agencies that we have done business with, it has been a pleasure to serve you. We look forward to continuing our relationship with you. Lastly thank you to the employees past and present who contributed to Compulink’s success, and who keep the company going everyday.

28 MarBlog

Compulink Meets HPE Executives

Compulink met with executives of Hewlett Packard Enterprise to discuss bring HPE solutions to market in New York State. We met with the SLED executives and directors specifically. SLED stands for State, Local, Education, Division. We discus bring HPE solution to the public sector within New York City and State. HPE has developed programs to enable Compulink and other re-sellers to bring full HPE solutions at low cost competitive pricing. They have put in place a support structure to help us educate customers and achieve a better sales and procurement process. It is an exciting time for both companies and we look forward to delivering great services and solutions with HPE.