Each year, thousands of organizations nationwide suffer from cyber-attacks in a variety of forms and as Santa Barbara extends its global reach, organizations here are ripe targets.
Cox Business, the commercial division of Cox Communications, continues to expand its range of services to meet these challenges head on.
This includes enabling organizations to move to the public and private cloud, and leveraging managed IT services, which allows IT staff to focus on organizational priorities, all while employing a robust cyber security prevention strategy keeping critical data and information safe.
Cox Business’ Managed IT services help organizations along their modernization journey. Whether virtual machines, scalable infrastructure as a service, or migrating to a private or public cloud, Cox Business has the expertise and resources to support and enable any organization’s technology goals – expertise that was accelerated by the acquisition of RapidScale in 2018.
Jodi Duva is Vice President of Cox Business, overseeing the company’s commercial business sales, technology solutions and operations in California.
She manages some 100 California employees focused on commercial services, including business discovery, technical design, and wrap-around account team support.
According to Duva, Santa Barbara has a diverse and powerful economy that is hyper focused on technology, in addition to healthcare, tourism and entertainment.
“Cox Business handles clients’ IT infrastructure on a managed basis, as well as cloud services, both private and public,” explained Duva. “We offer solutions and help our customers navigate when they want to use AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, which helps them reduce costs and leverage processing power they never could before.”
“We also have a sister company that we acquired called Segra, which is focused on expanding our fiber network across our nationwide footprint, while Cox Private Networks and Hospitality Network provide Wi-Fi services to large stadiums and arenas, including Frontwave Arena in San Diego, the Honda Center in Anaheim, and has been named as the Master Technology Partner for Anaheim’s newly announced OCV!BE entertainment district that will begin welcoming guests in 2026.”
Cox Business is also expanding into AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning practices to drive efficiencies in business operations freeing up valuable resources to focus on the core objectives.
The company represents small and large businesses in the healthcare and educational sectors and is developing a long-term plan to ensure these organizations have the technology available to meet their evolving needs.
“It is important to me, especially for our 1,600 employees in California who live, work and raise their families here, that we continue to focus on core sectors including healthcare and education, as both are vital to the overall success of our community,” said Duva.
Santa Barbara remains a prime location for major businesses to expand and relocate, which is essential for organizations as well as elected officials and community leaders who are committed to diversifying the region’s economy.
“From a Cox Business perspective, it’s a tremendous opportunity to offer our elevated services and support new businesses. We’re excited to be a part of this great community for startups and businesses at all stages and sizes,” said Duva.
Cox Communications is the largest private broadband company in America and the largest division of Cox Enterprises, a family-owned business founded in 1898 by Ohio Governor James M. Cox.
As the commercial division of Cox Communications, Cox Business, provides a broad commercial solutions portfolio, including advanced managed IT and fiber-based network solutions that support connected environments, unique hospitality experiences and diverse applications for over 400,000 businesses nationwide. For more information, visit www.coxbusiness.com.