IT built for plants, contracts and storms

The industrial corridor comes first. Petrochemical and refining operations along the Mississippi support an enormous contractor economy: engineering and design firms, scaffolding and insulation contractors, industrial services companies, inspection and testing outfits, safety consultancies and specialty fabricators. Almost none of these companies work only from an office. They have crews at plant sites, project managers moving between locations, and documentation requirements that come from their clients rather than from a regulator. That means encrypted laptops and tablets built to a standard, remote wipe when a device disappears, and cloud file storage that works over a phone hotspot. Our remote support desk can rebuild a project manager's machine without them driving anywhere.

State government is the second. A capital city generates consultancies, associations, nonprofits, engineering firms and legal practices that either contract with agencies or serve people who do. The technical expectations that come with public-sector work are largely about records: knowing where data lives, who touched it, how long you keep it, and being able to produce it. Those are configuration and documentation problems, and we solve them as part of running managed IT rather than as a special project.

The university and the research and startup activity around it are the third. Grant-funded groups and spin-out companies tend to have generous access habits and thin identity controls, plus instrument computers that vendors will not allow to be patched. The remedy is the same one that works in a plant: isolate the instrument on its own network segment, image it, block outbound traffic it does not need, and get every human account behind multi-factor authentication.

Hurricane and flood risk sits over all of it. South Louisiana businesses plan for evacuation the way northern ones plan for snow, and IT is often the weakest link. A backup drive in the same building is not a backup. A VPN concentrator in an office without power is not remote access. Our continuity and security work treats a storm and a ransomware event as the same problem: the building and its data are gone for now, so what happens next. The nationwide list of cities we cover is at remote IT support.

Central time, one or two hours ahead of us

Arizona stays on standard time all year, which puts us one hour behind Baton Rouge in winter and two hours behind from March to November. Our team is online through your entire business day, and because our afternoon runs past your close, we have a natural window for maintenance that would otherwise need someone working at midnight.

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