Rock-Solid Security, Constant Uptime Helps Law Firm Work All Day, Sleep Soundly All Night

Rock-Solid Security, Constant Uptime Helps Law Firm Work All Day, Sleep Soundly All Night

Tyler Cooper & Alcorn, one of Connecticut’s oldest and most successful law firms, reduced its IT costs by 45 percent by choosing IBM over a Microsoft solution to consolidate its sprawling servers, secure its email system and install a highly reliable on demand IT infrastructure.

With 70 lawyers spread across four Connecticut towns, Tyler Cooper provides a full range of legal services and boasts nine partners on the National Attorneys Directory of “The Best Lawyers in America.” Challenged to maintain its success and adhere to its centuries-old practice of using experienced law partners to personally perform clients’ legal work, the firm switched from a Microsoft solution that frequently crashed. As such, Tyler Cooper has increased its attorney productivity and is one of a handful of law firms with a true fail-over, disaster recovery and virus-free IT environment.

“I can now sleep soundly at night,” said Barry Winnick, attorney and IT director, Tyler Cooper & Alcorn. “We used Microsoft Outlook on Windows NT clients and a Microsoft Exchange server. With Microsoft, every time you turn around, you need another server — seven for document management, three more for e-mail, and another three to five for financial systems, and then they’d crash. Our iSeries system has not gone down, and I don’t have to worry about managing a farm of separate servers. It’s all in one, highly reliable small platform.”

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