Staffordshire-based air compressor specialist, Motivair, has upgraded its IT infrastructure to a fully managed suite of cloud-based solutions, to boost business productivity and protect its business from cyber attacks.
With over 60 years’ experience, Motivair is an independent specialist in maintaining, repairing and installing all brands of high and low-pressure compressors, blowers, vacuum pumps, and compressed air equipment and systems.
With four offices across the UK, in Waltham Cross, Gloucester, Walsall and Burntwood in Staffordshire, and engineers nationwide, Motivair serves businesses in all industries but recognised it had outgrown its IT support provider and on-site IT infrastructure. With an eye towards continuing its UK expansion, Motivair needed a proactive, modernised cloud-based IT infrastructure to ensure operational efficiency.
After a competitive tender process, Motivair appointed OGL Computer as its technology partner, thanks to the Kidderminster-based IT services provider’s expertise. OGL Computer’s proposed solutions focus on reducing Motivair’s IT team’s time spent on repetitive IT tasks, so that the IT team could concentrate on more important IT projects.
OGL Computer conducted a detailed IT audit and roadmap detailing how the company could minimise risk and downtime with a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure. Motivair then implemented a secure cloud backup solution from Datto. Ensuring maximum security, accessibility and reliability, Datto’s technology also provides reassurance against ransomware, which was not offered by Motivair’s previous backup. The firm also implemented OGL Computer’s patch management solution to ensure workstations, servers and routers are updated, stable and secure.
Seeking proactive security measures, Motivair has modernised its cyber security by investing in a next-generation anti-virus, Carbon Black Defense, from OGL Computer’s Cyber Security division, CyberGuard Technologies.
Motivair adopted a fully managed Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solution which gives the business cost-effective security protection via 24/7 access to CyberGuard’s SOC (Security Operations Centre) team as a first line of defence.
Although Motivair has always had solid security practices in place, ever-changing cyber security attack methods meant that its IT hardware needed some modernisation to boost overall performance across the network. Jason Morrison, System Administrator at Motivair, explains: “The cyber security threats are changing rapidly. This is why we decided it was time for a more proactive approach to help monitor potential threats more closely.”
CyberGuard’s SOC continually monitors Motivair’s network and endpoints for any potential threats in real-time, to identify serious incidents and inform the company about those, in order to mitigate them before they occur. Motivair is one of a small number of UK SMEs utilising 10GB technology across its entire network, this has led to improved productivity.
Jason continues: The improvements made to our network configuration have allowed more throughput across the network and the updated technology has enabled employees to feel more efficient and not held back by the limitations of the system’s performance.”
Steve Bennett, Enterprise Solutions Architect at OGL Computer, concluded: “Motivair has adopted various solutions which give them access to our IT and cyber security support service teams. A proactive IT infrastructure and cyber security strategy is essential nowadays for companies of all sizes. Instead of the internal IT team having to waste time wading through false positive alerts or managing simple IT problems, we do that on their behalf so they can focus on more important IT project work such as improving its infrastructure for the business’ continued growth.”
About OGL Computer
OGL Computer is the technology partner to over 1,200 UK businesses, including small, growing businesses as well as multi-site enterprise businesses. We are accredited by the world’s leading IT and cyber security vendors, to deliver best-in-class IT, business software and cyber security solutions. We are incredibly proud of our 40-year heritage and our unique proposition whereby our three specialist divisions work closely together to deliver the complete technology package to our customers.
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