CHALLENGE

Sobrinski Painting Inc. is a local home remodeling company that provides painting, flooring, and carpentry services to its consumers. This family owned company has been serving the Lehigh Valley for close to 30 years.

Sobrinski Painting invited Simply IT to perform a network assessment because they had ongoing concerns about the value they were receiving from their current IT company. During the evaluation, Simply IT uncovered several serious risks and performance issues with their systems. These issues included server performance issues, no centralized security solution, an unstable email server, and inconsistent data backups.

SOLUTION

Sobrinski Painting choose to partner with Simply IT to provide proactive monitoring and ongoing support. Armed with powerful enterprise-class tools, Simply IT went to work installing antivirus protection, addressing performance issues, and optimizing the network. Furthermore, Simply IT demonstrated how a cloud based email solution would be more reliable and cost-effective for Sobrinski Painting. As a result, Simply IT was able to upgraded their server and migrated them to Office 365 for less than the cost of their previous server. Finally, Simply IT provided them with a solid backup strategy designed to protect their company’s mission critical data.

RESULTS

Under Simply IT Managed Services, Sobrinski Painting was able to stabilize their networks and improve their overall productivity. They accomplished all this with minimal capital investment and their ongoing costs were still very similar to the previous IT company.

By leveraging cloud technology, they will always have plenty of space and their email will always be available. Additionally, latest spam filtering technologies allow their employees to spend less time sorting through junk mail. Finally, they can rest easy knowing their data is secure and backed up in multiple locations. Best yet, Simply IT accomplished all of this without any downtime to Sobrinski Painting business.