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Case Study: How Momkus McCluskey Virtualized Its IT for Better Security and Productivity 

By Jennifer Friedland
August 01, 2018

 

As a Managing Partner of Momkus McCluskey LLC — a full-service law firm serving Chicagoland and northern Illinois — one of my key initiatives this past year was to evaluate our firm's IT, and identify where and how we could make improvements. I was both thrilled and a little apprehensive to tackle such an important aspect of our business, and dove in headfirst to identify our real needs and pain points, as well as evaluate the best solution to address them.

From my experience working at the firm for over a decade, I was already aware of some software and operating system compatibility issues we experienced across the office. A big challenge was keeping all of our individual computers maintained, backed up, secure, and on the same patch and application versions. Each and every PC, as well as its array of software, had to be manually updated on a device-by-device basis, which isn't easy to accomplish in a uniform manner when you're dealing with a mix of device types and varying specifications.

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