About CRC Cloud — Where Security Meets Innovation®
CRC Cloud's story is one of resilience, innovation, and a relentless pursuit of technological excellence. From a private data center in Huntington Beach, California, serving aerospace and offshore enterprises, we've grown into a provider of private cloud infrastructure we own and operate, managed IT, and 24/7 cybersecurity.
Today, CRC Cloud is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA, managing, securing, and hosting business IT across Orange County, Southern California, and — remote-first — nationwide.
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Infrastructure people, since 1983
The name has grown with the work. CRC began in 1983 as the Computer Research Center; today it stands for Cloud Resource Center — a bank for computing power. The way a bank holds and protects your money, CRC Cloud holds and protects your computing: your systems, your data, and your uptime — secured on infrastructure we own, with someone accountable for every bit of it.
Our story began in a private Huntington Beach datacenter running business-critical systems for aerospace, refinery, and offshore enterprises. We were infrastructure people before we were anything else — and four decades later, that foundation is still the difference.
Today that practice is built on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 — Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover — and our free assessment follows it function by function.
Don’t take our word for it — take the paper’s. A 1986 catalog, a 1991 Saddleback Magazine ad, the Los Angeles Times in 1992, and a decade of Irvine Valley College course catalogs are scanned and public on our heritage archive.
From early local-area networks to a private cloud we own, the throughline never changed: own the hard part, and answer for it.
1983 → today
- 1983 — It starts in a datacenter.
Our roots begin in a private data center in Huntington Beach, California, built on Prime 2250 mini-computers and running mission-critical systems for aerospace, refinery, and offshore enterprises. We were infrastructure people before we were anything else.
- 1991 — The networking era.
As personal computers spread, we introduced our clients to Novell — connecting offices that had never shared a file, and laying the groundwork for modern collaboration.
- 1993 — Windows for Workgroups.
A practical alternative to Novell arrives and reshapes small-business computing. We adapt quickly and help clients embrace it.
- 1995 — Into the PC era.
As Intel performance surged, we moved clients off Prime mini-computers and onto versatile, high-performance personal computers.
- 1996 — Windows NT.
We adopt Microsoft’s new platform to strengthen networking and system reliability across our client base.
- 2000 — Proactive support, before it was normal.
We leave the time-and-material model behind for ongoing maintenance and support — years before the industry called it managed services — and guide clients through successive Windows Server migrations.
- 2001 — A multi-server strategy.
Single servers no longer keep up, so we distribute workloads across multiple servers for resilience and consistent performance.
- 2010 — Private cloud emerges.
We establish our own private data center in Lake Forest, California — enterprise storage, multi-server architecture, redundant firewalls, and dual connectivity — for secure, reliable operations.
- 2012 — Virtualization and cloud farms.
We consolidate session hosts, domain controllers, and databases into cloud farms — cutting cost, centralizing security, and strengthening resilience.
- 2019 — Engineered for resilience.
Operations move into a managed, earthquake-resilient California facility built for continuity.
- 2022 — The all-SSD cloud farm.
A full storage generation ahead, for the performance hosted desktops and databases actually need.
- 2023 — automated diagnostics.
Monitoring with machine-assisted anomaly detection begins flagging conditions for our engineers earlier than manual review would.
- 2024 — Security, productized.
Round-the-clock SOC and managed detection & response become packaged, per-user plans any small business can buy.
Securing tomorrow — see us work
The brand film plus an explainer for each service line — and a weekly podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Nothing loads until you press play.
Managed IT, security, and private cloud — one accountable team
Many IT companies do one of these. We built all three, deliberately, because handoffs between vendors are where things fall through:
- MSP — managed service provider. Management of your systems: helpdesk, monitoring, maintenance. That's Core IT — the foundation everything else builds on.
- MSSP — managed security service provider. 24/7 security monitoring, detection, and response. That's the layer Secure IT adds on top.
- CSP — cloud service provider. Private cloud infrastructure we own: hosting, backup, disaster recovery.
The plain version of “since 1983”: the engineer who founded that datacenter, Yousef Alinaghian, still serves as VP of this company — the continuity is a person, not a logo. Same practice, same county, carried forward without interruption. Recent announcements and coverage live in the newsroom.
One partner, one invoice, one phone number — and when something goes wrong, one company that can't point at another.
Security through discretion
You'll notice what's missing from this website: vendor logos, client names, our operations address. That's not an oversight — it's written policy:
"For enhanced security, we do not publicly list our technology partners or disclose our data center locations. This approach minimizes potential vulnerabilities and keeps our systems more secure against adversaries."
Attackers research their targets. A public map of who we protect and what we protect them with would make every client easier to attack. So the map stays private. We share specifics with serious prospects under NDA — and our client reviews are anonymized by design for the same reason.
Fully insured, including professional liability (errors & omissions) and cyber liability coverage. Certificates of insurance available on request.
Partnerships & alliances
We hold current partner status with the security and infrastructure vendors behind our stack, and our engineers hold current certifications on them — we just don't advertise which ones. The standings, the certifications and the direct engineering escalation paths are verifiable under NDA during evaluation; the logo wall is the part we skip.
It's the same policy that keeps our toolset and datacenter location private: a public list of the technologies defending our clients tells attackers exactly what to study before they knock. Vendor badges make marketing easier — and attacks easier to plan. We choose our clients over our marketing.
Serious prospects can verify all of it — partner standings, certifications, and the full architecture — under NDA during evaluation, straight from our leadership. Verification without publication.
Where we work
- Headquarters: Newport Beach, CA — the address on everything we publish.
- Secure operations office in Irvine, CA — location shared with clients only.
- Onsite service: Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, the Inland Empire, and the Coachella Valley and high desert.
- Nationwide: remote-first support wherever your team sits.
A small senior team, on purpose
CRC Cloud is independently owned and operated, led by owner Mike Parker. We've stayed deliberately small: a compact team of senior engineers who know your environment personally — no tier-one script readers, no ticket black hole. When you call, you reach someone who can actually fix it.
We support PCs, Macs, Linux, mobile devices, and custom-built systems, and we manage your internet-provider relationships end to end. Several client relationships now span more than 15 years.
Our name, our marks
CRC Cloud® and Where Security Meets Innovation® are registered trademarks — a tagline we filed because we mean it as a promise, not a slogan. Our TPAIT® brand extends the same model to third-party administrators nationwide.
FAQ
What does CRC Cloud do?
CRC Cloud is a Newport Beach, CA IT company operating as an MSP, MSSP, and cloud service provider: managed IT (Core IT, $125/user/mo), 24/7 security operations (Secure IT, $250/user/mo), and private cloud hosting on infrastructure we own (Cloud Complete, from $175/user/mo, or $300 with the 24/7 SOC).
How long has CRC Cloud been in business?
Our roots go back to 1983, beginning in a private Huntington Beach datacenter serving aerospace and offshore enterprises — more than 40 years of Southern California infrastructure experience.
Where is CRC Cloud located?
Headquarters is Newport Beach, CA, with a secure operations office in Irvine, CA — location shared with clients only. Support is remote-first. On-site by our own engineers is included within 175 miles of Newport Beach; beyond that radius it is billed at $145 an hour plus travel, quoted in advance; Southern California clients simply get the fastest onsite response from our Newport Beach base.
Is CRC Cloud an MSP or an MSSP?
Both, plus a CSP. We manage IT (MSP), run 24/7 security operations (MSSP), and host private cloud infrastructure we own (CSP) — three layers, one accountable partner.
Who owns CRC Cloud?
CRC Cloud is wholly owned by Mike Parker, its CEO — one owner, no outside investors, no private-equity roll-up and no franchise playbook. The owner is in the business, and clients feel it.
What industries does CRC Cloud serve?
Healthcare and dental, manufacturing, real estate and escrow, accounting and payroll, third-party administrators (through our TPAIT® brand), legal, nonprofits, and government — across Southern California and nationwide.
