PAWTUCKET – Atrion Networking Corp. of Warwick and RhodeOne Technology Solutions of Pawtucket have formed a joint venture, Atrion Networking SMB LLC, to provide full-service tech support to small and medium-sized businesses.
The new venture, which was incorporated last December, was announced by Atrion last week. Its offices are in Pawtucket’s Hope Artiste Village.
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Atrion Networking SMB will focus on networking, servers, operating systems, wireless, security, and voice and unified communications, as well as support for third-party services such as Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and CRM, and BlackBerry smart phones.
Atrion said it decided to start the joint venture after it conducted 18 months of research, including more than 200 in-person interviews with business owners, that found small and mid-sized firms were suffering from a lack of resources to deal with their IT needs.
“With Atrion SMB, we will be able to better meet the needs of small and mid-sized businesses across New England through providing them the high-level technical knowledge and business acumen that until recently has only been afforded to Fortune 1000 companies,” Atrion CEO Tim Hebert said in a statement. “And we will offer it at an affordable price point.”
Industry veteran Rick Norberg, who co-founded RhodeOne in 2002 as Maximum Messaging Inc., will be president of both Atrion Networking SMB and RhodeOne. He called the joint venture “a one-of-a-kind opportunity.”
Atrion has two other divisions, Atrion Carrier Services and Shazamm.
Additional information is available at atrion.net and rhodeone.com.
