CHALLENGE
George "Junior" Atkinson's official title with his company is Vice President. However, as many do that
work for small, but growing contracting firms, he wears multiple hats. He heads Atkinson & Associate's IT
operations and strategy, produces detailed reports and business intelligence and manages relationships
with project owners, architects, engineers and more. For Atkinson, technology is a vital part of his day-
to-day work. That's why when his company came to a critical fork in the road over whether to replace
expensive servers and other hardware or move operations to where many other businesses were heading
— the cloud — the choice was relatively simple. Atkinson knew he needed a cloud solution that provided
productivity, profitability and peace of mind.
"I would always have weekly backups, but I would also do a daily backup just to make sure everything
was there. The problem with me is that I'm more than just the IT guy. We don't have a dedicated IT guy
because we're not a large enough company," Atkinson said. "Not always having time to focus on IT, my
hard drives were filling up with data backups. When it wouldn't back up, maybe I didn't catch that for a
month or two months."
Time is money – for me not to have to worry about
constant maintenance of the servers and software
updates internally, it's much less time and less
stress for me.
— George "Junior" Atkinson, Vice President, Atkinson & Associates
