10 Cincinnati IT Service Firms to Watch in 2016 (Revealed)

LEAD Magazine‘s Spring issue has hit the streets featuring 10 Cincinnati IT Service Firms to Watch in 2016.

Check out the PDF here.

As previously noted, ATC is a proud sponsor of this feature in which LEAD Magazine set out to identify leading “Queen City” technology firms offering outsourced IT services to small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Check out the article’s introductory comments written by ATC Director of Marketing, Louie Hollmeyer, here.

Here is a snapshot of the 10 spotlights:

1. Brent Cooper, President, C-Forward – “We consider ourselves to be the IT department for companies that either don’t need, or can’t afford, a full-time IT staff,” says Cooper.
2. Chris Philpott, Vice President, CenterGrid – “CenterGrid has the cloud computing knowledge and infrastructure that organizations need so they can focus on their business, not on the infrastructure on which their business runs,” says Philpott.
3. Rick Maxwell, President and CEO, Full Service Networking – “No two client requirements are exactly the same when it comes to achieving their business objectives. In some cases, we are their outsourced IT partner, including us physically having people onsite,” says Maxwell.
4. Gaby Batshoun, President, Global Business Solutions – “We don’t do cookie cutter and we put business before IT. We understand what it takes to truly excel in the professional world and how IT contributes to that success,” says Batshoun.
5. Tim Rettig, President & CEO, InTrust IT – “Instead of having a single IT person, Intrust provides a whole team of IT professionals with a wealth of knowledge and experience to allow companies to better leverage the best technology available,” says Rettig.
6. Nathan Golden, Owner, Managecast – “After being in business for many years we realized a lot of customers don’t monitor and manage their backups as they should,” says Golden. “Let’s face it, doing backups is like going to the dentist.”
7. Jon Salisbury, CTO, Nexigen – “Nexigen was the first cloud provider in Cincinnati with a utility computing solution offering in 2013,” says Salisbury.
8. Jeffrey Loeb, Vice President of Operations, ProSource Technologies – “We analyze, stabilize and optimize our customer’s IT environment to help them use technology to achieve their business goals and provide a strategic advantage,” says Loeb.
9. Erin Arnold, Owner, NextStep Networking – “NSmanageIT is our core outsourced IT product,” says Arnold. “It centers around the 3P’s: people, process and protection.
10. R. Jonathan Bristow, Partner, Orchestrate Technologies – “We are the sole contact for all IT needs. Everything from ‘my email is not working’ all the way to network issues, server problems or firewall reconfiguration,” says Bristow.

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(Preview Published March 8, 2016)

Soon LEAD Magazine‘s Spring issue will hit the streets listing 10 of Cincinnati’s Top IT Service Firms to Watch in 2016. Here’s a sneak peak at 6.

ATC is a proud sponsor of this feature in which LEAD Magazine set out to identify leading “Queen City” technology firms offering outsourced IT services to small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). SMBs face unique challenges in a technology-driven business. These local IT service firms are providing big-time impact to the SMB through versatility, expertise and IP/cloud-based solutions, giving them enterprise-level, workforce-enabling technologies.

Pictured above (left to right, top to bottom) with snippets from the feature article:

1. Jonathan Bristow, Partner, Orchestrate Technologies – “We are the sole contact for all IT needs. Everything from ‘my email is not working’ all the way to network issues, server problems or firewall reconfiguration,” says Bristow.
2. Brent Cooper, President, C-Forward – “We consider ourselves to be the IT department for companies that either don’t need, or can’t afford, a full-time IT staff,” says Cooper.R.
3. Nathan Golden, Owner, Managecast – “After being in business for many years we realized a lot of customers don’t monitor and manage their backups as they should,” says Golden. “Let’s face it, doing backups is like going to the dentist.”
4. Tim Rettig, President & CEO, InTrust IT – “Instead of having a single IT person, Intrust provides a whole team of IT professionals with a wealth of knowledge and experience to allow companies to better leverage the best technology available,” says Rettig.
5. Erin Arnold, Owner, NextStep Networking – “NSmanageIT is our core outsourced IT product,” says Arnold. “It centers around the 3P’s: people, process and protection.
6. Gaby Batshoun, President, Global Business Solutions – “We don’t do cookie cutter and we put business before IT. We understand what it takes to truly excel in the professional world and how IT contributes to that success,” says Batshoun.

Four more to come when the Spring issue hits this week.