Vendor Partners

About The Root Group

We Offer On-Prem, Cloud & Hybrid Products

The Root Group has a wide range of reseller relationships with IT product and services companies. We offer on-prem, cloud or hybrid products and we use our deployment experience to help you determine the best architectural or product approach for a given application. The Root Group is consistently recognized by our vendors as having the best team of experts.

Servers & Storage

Servers are the engines that drive IT infrastructure and Storage provides the fuel. The Root Group has managed most all compute and storage platforms over the years, and we understand the balance that must be achieved in these two systems to optimize performance and availability. Let us prove our expertise by talking to us about cloud to cloud latency, highly available architectures and compliance with today’s modern on-prem, hybrid and cloud compute solutions.

Networking

Our networking skills were built back in the 1980s when we provided expertise on physical and logical network deployments. The days of multiple protocols and single vendor platforms are long gone when designing modern network architectures. We have completed many successful design and deployment projects that take advantage of best practices and best products. By the way, we are very highly regarded for troubleshooting difficult network outages and performance issues.

Security

As an early entrant in enterprise cyber security in the 1990s, The Root Group has a longstanding reputation for excellence in understanding and protecting against the many threat vectors that face business today. From security assessments to policy definition to deploying firewalls and end-user protection, we have the training and experience to help you design and deploy a security architecture that meets business requirements without hindering employee productivity.

Data Center Power & Racking

Another core skill within The Root Group is our deep expertise in power distribution and management, air handling, racking, network cabling and move planning. With power and cooling costs rising more quickly than hardware platforms, we can help you minimize your operating costs by evaluating on-prem, co-lo or cloud / hybrid-cloud strategies.

Backup, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

The ability to recover from cyber security attacks make DR and Business Continuity planning, deploying and testing mission critical. The Root Group has significant experience in all phases of DR planning from requirements gathering to interviewing lines of business owners to working with vendors to architect an appropriate DR / BC strategy.  Challenge us to put our expertise to work for you.

Microsoft

Our engineering staff has over 30 years of combined experience in supporting a wide range of Microsoft technologies. We are often proud to say we’ve been there, done that and can help you avoid mistakes going forward.