About Us

We are a cloud solution company helping enterprises by migrating them to the Google Apps platform, a simple, low risk, high value, step into the cloud. Google Apps for Business is hands down the best value in technology for the enterprise. Once a company has made this step, we continue to provide value by leveraging the cloud through applications, workflow and integration solutions

Located in Chicago, Illinois, we are a Google Apps Managed Partner serving companies with 50 - 1500 employees based in the Midwest. As one of only a handful of Google Managed Partners, we have a close working relationship with Google; this allows us to advocate on our clients' behalf directly with Google. In addition, we have Certified Google Apps Deployment Specialists on staff. All these factors combine to keep your head in the clouds, your feet on the ground and your hands on the controls while experiencing a smooth and successful deployment.

Why you should work with cloudbakers as your Google partner:

We are local to Chicago and are on-site as required
We are one of only a handful of Google Managed partners and as such, operate as an extension of the Google team as well as being an authorized Google reseller.
We have certified Google Deployment specialists on staff.
Our focus and expertise is on Google Apps and cloud computing.
We will work with you to help solve your technology problems in the most reliable, operationally efficient and cost effective manner possible.
We are client, value, and solution focused. We are not satisfied until you are.
We have decades of experience in operations, product development, training, consulting, and support.
We have staff trained and are available to support you.
cloudbakers has a simple "easy to understand" pricing model.

Customer Reviews

"Cloudbakers partnered with us to ensure our migration to Google Apps was seamless. Due to their efforts our 'go live' and training was a great success. From start to finish they were responsive, transparent, and fun to work with. I highly recommend engaging them as 'your cloud solution partner'."

Danaco Solutions is a produce supply chain procurement and management firm specializing in end-to-end risk management for the food service industry and is a valued cloudbakers customer

Tom MacKenzie
Vice President Of Technology
Danaco Solutions, LLC

"When Mercadito Hospitality was trying to figure out how we, as a growing restaurant company, could improve our communication between our mangers, staff and corporate team we started looking everywhere. We looked at all the cloud and server based options we could find. We ultimately decided to go Google. We began trying to set things up ourselves, which was not too difficult, however it was definitely time-consuming and we weren't sure how to utilize the capabilities of Google to best achieve our goals. Luckily we found cloudbakers. The cloudbakers team were lifesavers. They listened to what our goals for the system were. They explained what was reasonable and what wasn't. For some of the more complex procedures we wanted to do they were able to write custom code for us and integrate it into our Google sites. They are truly a one stop shop. But they didn't stop there. They were with us every step of the way as we launched our Google system. They answered our email and calls usually within an hour, if not the same day. They led our first training session and trained our trainer. Since the transition we have been able to rely on cloudbakers for ongoing support. Still they respond as quickly as ever and are always just a phone call away. We truly consider them to be our Google partners."

Mercadito Hospitality strives to create unique experiences by perfectly detailing every aspect of the hospitality industry from the cuisine, to the atmosphere, to the décor.

Daniel Goodman

Director Of Development

Mercadito Hospitality

As a leading educational non-profit, ASPIRA strives to incorporate the latest technology in transforming our schools so that students and youth may become the leaders of tomorrow. When we contacted Cloudbakers in October of 2011, we had just been approved for the Educational Edition of Google Apps. Cloudbakers, in the person of Joe Pusateri, working with our IT team, contributed greatly to the overall success of the effort. Joe's professionalism, patience and experience in the face of unexpected bumps and obstacles, helped keep all on track for a successful, timely transition, even as we adhered to an accelerated timeline. I would not hesitate in recommending Cloudbakers for those businesses/organizations thinking of migrating to Google Apps.

ASPIRA, Inc. of Illinois is a Puerto Rican not-for-profit organization committed to the self-determination of Latino and other underserved youth through education, leadership development and cultural awareness.

Alejandro Luis Molina

Social Media Coordinator

ASPIRA, Inc. of Illinois

Team

Mitch Greenwald

Founder

Mitch is a business and technology industry leader who is constantly pushing the leading, but not the bleeding edge. Early on, he realized the huge competitive advantage that cloud computing provides small to medium-sized business in reducing costs, improving operational efficiencies and providing a platform for innovation. Cloud computing effectively liberates a company’s resources and capital that are currently being spent on IT infrastructure and staffing - resources that can instead be used for growth and innovation: imperatives in today’s highly competitive environment.

Mitch’s extensive CIO experience and understanding of the CIO role caused him to develop a passion for the consistency, simplicity and value that cloud computing offers. Recently, as the CIO at a $300M Human Resource company, he researched, experimented and implemented numerous cloud models. Unable to find the solutions he was looking for as a CIO, Mitch realized the need for bringing this technology to other businesses. From this imperative, “cloudbakers” was born.

Mitch has been an active participant of the “growing up” of technology programming mini-computers early in his career that transitioned to PC applications (while they were still in their infancy), to client/server systems, then to web-based environments and infrastructure, and now today to The Cloud. Mitch has a diverse background from writing millions of lines of code, to managing and sponsoring many multi-million dollar projects. His balanced perspective includes product development, operations, consulting as well as executive leadership.

Mitch has spoken at many industry events and many of the products and projects he has worked on have won industry awards. He is passionate about applying technology to improve business operations.

On a personal note, Mitch is an outdoor enthusiast, an avid cyclist and a fun photographer. He is a devoted husband and father of three. Mitch majored in Math and Biology at the University of Oregon and has taken numerous post-graduate classes in Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, IIT and UIC.

Direct contact: mitch@cloudbakers.com (312) 869-9680

Joe Pusateri

Technical Director of Google Apps

Joe has been working with information technology from a multitude of perspectives during his career. He is driven by a need to find a way to make technology work for his customers through integration and automation. Joe’s passion to match the right solution to a need, along with a rich array of programming, IT administration, instructional, business and management skills has led him to step out of the traditional developer/architect role and join cloudbakers to enable companies to move into the Google cloud.

Joe made the transition from standalone PC to client/server development and quickly embraced Java. As a developer, trainer and architect, he has worked with a wide array of business needs and technical solutions, his role typically being to find and then create the right combination of tools and technologies to meet the need.

With the advent of cloud-based computing, Joe quickly started working in MapReduce development and with other cloud-based tools. Joe’s experience as a network administrator and an Identity Management expert in several IdM tools, gives him a broad set of skills with back-end systems and methodologies.

Joe is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. He loves to read, study and spend time at home with his wife and kids.

Direct contact: joe@cloudbakers.com (630) 708-0612