Encino and Sherman Oaks: the Ventura Boulevard corridor
Between the 405 and the 101, Ventura Boulevard through Encino and Sherman Oaks is one of the Valley's densest business corridors: law firms, medical and dental groups, accountants, wealth managers, real estate brokerages and entertainment business managers, many in mid-rise buildings and professional plazas. Most are small firms holding sensitive client data without a full-time IT person.
Encino and its neighbors are also home to one of the largest Persian communities in Los Angeles, and many family-owned firms here prefer to talk through technology decisions in Farsi. GlobeVM supports clients in English and Farsi, and when you call you often reach one of the owners.
For these firms the priorities are confidentiality and fraud prevention: email security against wire and invoice fraud, multi-factor sign-in everywhere, and the safeguards clients and regulators ask about. See our pages for IT support for law firms and financial services. Ventura Boulevard continues west through Tarzana into Woodland Hills, where our Woodland Hills IT support page covers the Warner Center towers and the West Valley.
Van Nuys: aviation, industry and government
Van Nuys mixes very different businesses within a few miles. Van Nuys Airport, one of the busiest general aviation airports in the country, supports charter operators, maintenance shops and aviation services. Industrial and auto businesses line the corridors around it, and the Van Nuys Civic Center houses city and county offices. The 405 runs through it and meets the 101 just to the south in Sherman Oaks.
Hangars and shops often run older equipment, shared computers on the floor, and networks that grew one cable at a time. Clean network management, separate networks for floor equipment and business systems, and backups that are actually tested make the biggest difference here.
Burbank: media and production
Burbank is its own city, with its own utility, Burbank Water and Power, and it is the center of the Valley's media industry: major studios, post-production houses, visual effects and sound shops, and the many small vendors that serve them. Media companies work with very large files, tight delivery deadlines and studio security requirements for unreleased content, so they need fast storage and networks, tested backups of project files and controlled access for freelancers. Our Burbank IT support page covers what that takes, including Trusted Partner Network assessments, and our guide on IT for media and entertainment goes deeper. Neighboring Glendale has its own page too.
Working across a big valley
The Valley is large, and traffic on the 405 and the 101 is a fact of life. That is why most support starts remotely: we can see and fix most problems within minutes of your call, without anyone driving. When something needs hands, such as new equipment, a network failure or a move, an engineer comes to you.
Many Valley businesses run more than one location, for example a front office on Ventura Boulevard and a warehouse in Chatsworth or Sun Valley. We manage them as one setup, with the same security, the same monitoring, secure connections between sites, and one number to call. Businesses further west can see our Woodland Hills and West Valley page.
