MANAGED IT SERVICES - AKRON, OHIO
Managed IT Services in Akron, Ohio
Akron's polymer, materials, and engineering firms keep their real value in drawings, formulations, and test data. NHM manages the IT around those files: who can reach them, where copies go, and whether they come back after a bad day.
- Summit County coverage, about 40 minutes up I-77
- Access control for drawings, formulations, and test data
- Offboarding that removes access the same day
- Backups that are restored on a schedule
- No long-term contracts
Delivered by NHM Ohio from East Canton, Ohio. Remote-first support, with onsite work in Akron scheduled by scope.
When the files are the business
Akron grew up as the rubber capital and grew into one of the country's centers for polymers and advanced materials. The University of Akron's polymer science and engineering programs feed a cluster of compounders, testing labs, and engineering firms around the city. In those businesses, the most valuable thing on the network is not a machine. It is a file share.
Formulations, process sheets, CAD drawings, and test results tend to sit on a server or in SharePoint with permissions that grew one request at a time. Former employees still have access. Contractors were given a folder and then the whole drive. Files get synced to personal laptops and personal cloud accounts because that was the easiest way to work from home.
None of that shows up until someone leaves for a competitor or a laptop goes missing. The fix is ordinary and it works: map who can reach what, cut access back to what each role needs, turn on MFA and device management, log who opens what, and make sure the files can be restored if they are encrypted or deleted.
- A shared drive where everyone can open everything
- Former employees and contractors who still have working accounts
- Engineering files synced to personal laptops and cloud accounts
- No record of who opened or copied a sensitive file
- Backups of the file server that nobody has ever restored
Akron, and the drive up
Akron is the Summit County seat, about twenty miles north of Canton on I-77. Downtown runs along South Main Street, with the University of Akron on its east side and Akron Children's Hospital and Summa Health close by. Cleveland Clinic Akron General sits just west of downtown.
From our East Canton base it is roughly 28 miles, about forty minutes. That is close enough for scheduled onsite work to be routine, and far enough that we design the day-to-day service to run remotely and run well.
Where Akron businesses actually sit
- Downtown and the South Main Street corridor
- The University of Akron and the surrounding blocks
- Highland Square along West Market Street
- Fairlawn and Montrose, along OH-18 near I-77
- Chapel Hill on the north side, and Ellet to the east
Covered on the same trip
- Cuyahoga Falls
- Fairlawn
- Barberton
- Tallmadge
- Green
- Copley
The work Akron runs on
IT that fits a fabrication shop does not fit a five-attorney office. These are three of the sectors that employ people around Akron, and what each one actually needs from IT.
Polymer, materials, and specialty manufacturing
Compounders, testing labs, and engineering-heavy manufacturers carry their value in data. They need tight access control on engineering and formulation files, production systems kept apart from the office network, and backups that bring those files back intact.
How we work with polymer, materials, and specialty manufacturing
Healthcare
With three major hospital systems in the city, Akron has a large community of independent practices, therapy offices, and labs that work alongside them. Each one carries its own HIPAA obligations. We handle the technical safeguards, access control, and the documentation auditors and insurers ask for.
Professional services
Law firms, accountants, and agencies downtown and in Fairlawn handle client files and payments. What they need most is MFA, protection against invoice and wire fraud, tested backups, and someone who answers.
About forty minutes, and how we work with that
Akron is about 28 miles from us. Monitoring, patching, Microsoft 365 and identity administration, endpoint response, backup checks, and the help desk are remote, and that is where most of the work lives.
Onsite is scheduled: network and firewall work, cabling, server replacement, office moves, and the first assessment we do before quoting. Scheduled onsite visits are part of our Complete and Advanced plans.
If your business needs someone in the building on short notice as a routine matter, we will say so on the discovery call, and tell you whether we are the right fit.
Onsite visits are scheduled by SLA. The exact response time depends on your contract tier and the urgency of the issue, and critical incidents route to an on-call engineer immediately rather than waiting for business hours. Business hours are Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM Eastern; monitoring and alerting run around the clock.
A wider view of what we cover in this part of the state is on the Akron service area page.
Pricing and contract
Plans run $100-$300 per user per month across three tiers. Every tier includes the security baseline: endpoint protection, email security, MFA, patching, and backups. What changes between tiers is support depth, onsite visits, and how much compliance documentation you need.
Contracts are month-to-month. There is no lock-in discount and no exit penalty. Tier detail is on the pricing page, and a written quote follows a discovery call. Where you land inside a tier's range depends on what your environment looks like.
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