IT Security is not optional.
This idea drives what we do
and how we think.
IT is complex.
We manage this complexity with ease so you can focus on your business.
IT doesn't stand still.
Neither do we. We make it our priority to stay ahead of the IT curve.
Atomic Data serves 600+ clients across 50 countries, spanning industries like: Healthcare, Sports & Entertainment, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Legal Services, Insurance, Non-Profits, Creative Services, and many more. 
Every organization is unique—so why accept a one-size-fits-all solution for your network?
Our architects will design custom infrastructure that works for your business model. We’re here to help you uncover your needs and diagram both logical and physical elements of your infrastructure to ensure your network is safe, robust, and scalable.
Navigating the clouds is a challenge. Our engineers will show you the way.
Whether you’re planning a cloud move or are already there and need some guidance—we’ll define your cloud objectives, outline your current situation, and provide next steps to reach your hybrid, private, or public cloud goals.
Everyone needs a guiding hand
once in a while.
From skunkworks projects to on-demand consulting, our vCIO services are designed to give you honest, unfiltered IT advice. Regardless of team size or issue complexity, we will carefully navigate your technology needs and align them with your business.
The safety and security of client data is Atomic Data’s highest priority. No longer can things like security awareness, configuration hardening, intrusion detection, and proper password practices be taken for granted.
Over the last 20 years we've mastered our own internal security and compliance standards (see SOC report) and now we offer the same proven approaches and tools to you.
PDF: SOC 3 Report
Our security experts will develop policies and train your staff on security best practices for:
Mobile device & emailing handling
Credential & password management
Social engineering identification
Phishing simulation & education
An educated workforce is your first line of defense against breaches and attacks.
QUICK GUIDE: IT Security for the C-Suite
QUICK GUIDE: Phishing Awareness
Let us handle disaster recovery for you.
When an event strikes, replicated virtual servers with your most current data are rapidly made available within our private cloud infrastructure. Employees and clients get back to work faster, limiting the total business cost.
Sooner or later your business will experience
a disaster, natural or man-made.
What do you do then? You need a plan—our architects and engineers will create custom, step-by-step recovery plans for your business to follow in the event of a disaster. They’ll provide you with a way forward when you need it most.
PDF: Sample DR Playbook
Modernize your data protection with Atomic Data’s Backup as a Service (BaaS) solution. Server BaaS is your private cloud bucket in the sky, securely backing up SaaS, virtual, and physical workloads offsite.
PDF: Server Backup as a Service
Secure your mobile workforce, cut down on user error, and prevent failure-related data loss with Endpoint Backup as a Service (BaaS). The secure and encrypted solution enables users to back up from anywhere and restore their own files, mitigating risk in a work-from-anywhere world.
Can’t find the right software solution for your business?
Or maybe you already have a home-baked solution that needs some love. Our skilled software developers will create web-based or full client applications to suit your unique needs. They leverage .NET and PHP frameworks to create new custom software, or rewrite and support existing software that you already have in place.
Your front door to the world.
Using the latest and most popular content management systems like WordPress, Drupal, and Umbraco, our developers can build new, custom web sites and web services, or support existing sites. With a custom back-end developed by our software team, we can incorporate your design, or work with designers to bring your vision to life.
LINK: AtomicData.com Built on WordPress
SQL expertise where you need it most.
Where and how you store and retrieve your business critical data is crucial to the success of your applications. Our services provide you with custom database designs, optimization, and care and feeding. Our SQL experts can also write custom reports, migrate aging databases, and mentor your database administrators.
SOC Technicians are up 24x7 reviewing your logs, scans, network traffic, and more - performing digital forensics on a variety of potential precursors to past and future attacks or even breaches. We'll dig into:
Intrusion attempts
Unauthorized traffic
Malware/virus infections
Vulnerability scan reports
Plus much more
INFO SHEET: SOC as a Service
Proactive visibility to keep you up and humming.
From simple up/down checks for less critical devices to advanced synthetic checks for your client-facing web applications, Atomic Monitoring provides the uptime (and sleep) you deserve. Designed to meet every use case and budget, Atomic Monitoring offers complete infrastructure insight paired with always-on incident response.
INFO SHEET: Atomic Monitoring
Our 24x7x365, Minnesota-based NSOC is your ticket to more restful nights. We'll customize an incident response plan, ranging from ticketing, escalation to your resources or ours, all the way to truck-roll and issue resolution. Plus it's all backed by robust SLAs, a deep bench of subject matter expertise, and the best possible tools.
Some of what we monitor:
Servers
Workstations
Storage
Network hardware
Applications
eCommerce & synthetic checks
INFO SHEET: NSOC Monitoring
Keep your users productive with live and local support.
Bolster internal resources, add after-hours support, or get out of the support business entirely with our MN-based 24x7 Service Desk. Available via phone, portal, email, or ITSM integration, our techs can remotely support almost anything your end users can throw at us. Plus you only pay for what you use with by-the-minute billing.
ADD-ONS
Custom greetings & toll-free number
Custom training & KB creation
Ticketing system integration
Project work, scheduled visits, break-fix, and on-premises management.
Our experienced On-Site engineers get to know your business to become an expert extension of your staff. We'll come to your office for scheduled & emergency visits, project work, planned maintenance, software & hardware upgrades, repairs and deployments, and more. We'll work with you to determine the best frequency depending on your environment.
INFO SHEET: Service Desk & On-Site
Cut your ransomware risk and maintain productivity.
Our lightweight antivirus clients can be deployed onto servers and workstations remotely and run silently in the background. This gives our engineers the ability to manage a vast network worth of devices with a few mouse clicks. Definitions and software updates are pushed automatically to ensure the latest threats are always in our crosshairs.
Unpatched systems are a massive vulnerability.
Bugs, vulnerabilities, and backdoors are constantly being discovered and patched. Though daunting, keeping up is a basic compliance requirement. Atomic Data Patch Management is an automated, lightweight client-based service that ensures your servers and workstations are always running the latest and most secure versions.
INFO SHEET: Patch Management
Maximize your IT investments without sacrificing performance or security.
With Atomic Data’s Workstation Lifecycle Management Services, you’ll get inventory management, deployment, patching, remote maintenance, and more. We use industry best-practices to determine what hardware you need, and when—then we’ll procure, image, deploy, maintain, and when required, securely dispose of your hardware.
We've been implementing and supporting Microsoft solutions since before it was cool. To this day we remain unrivaled in our wide breadth of Microsoft services, meant to fill in when you're short handed and standby when you're not.
Atomic Data was built with VMware bricks. Our VMware Certified Pros lead the region with their experience and our infrastructure solutions ride the cutting edge of virtualization.
Plus many more.
The end-to-end solution for any size network.
We’ll design, build, manage, monitor, and operate large and medium scale public-facing networks. Your patrons, vendors, and employees will stay connected with powerful, secure networks. Plus we'll provide boots on the ground for events, 24x7x365 remote support, and our Game Day Dashboard™.
LINK: Small Firm Delivers Big Wi-Fi for Allianz Field
LINK: GameDayTechnologies.com
INFO SHEET: Networking for Venues and Public Spaces
We make connectivity simple.
Our Private Connectivity services take away your need to deal with Internet Service Providers, while keeping you connected and maintaining the availability and security of your internal networks.
COMMON SERVICES:
| Metro Ethernet |
Direct Internet Access |
| Private MPLS |
WAN Architecture |
| Traditional TDM |
Quality of Service |
| Wave Division Multiplexing |
BGP Peering |
Everybody needs a hand when
they’re moving.
But when you’re moving offices along with hundreds of people, switches, circuits, and workstations, the task gets even trickier. Let our engineers design, plan, and execute your office move or expansion.
The entire network, from routers to mouses, servers to workstations, all moved and setup in a smooth, pre-planned manner to minimize disruption and cut down on day one support.
DATA SHEET: Office Moves & Additions
Geographically redundant, carrier neutral data centers.
Utilize our SOC 3® attested data centers for colocation services, managed firewall, load balancing, VPN, and more. With locations around the globe and plentiful power and network capacity, we can provide:
Shared and full rack/cage colocation
Virtual next-gen firewall services (VPN, IPS)
Virtual load balancing (F5-VIPRION)
Peering and cross connects
DATA SHEET: Data Center Facility Specs
Your equipment is mission critical.
Don’t trust its procurement to
non-authorized sellers.
Unauthorized sales channels are not guaranteed by manufacturers and may include second-hand, third-party, or even counterfeit products. We’ll make sure you get the quality appliances you need, and work with vendors to maintain and manage your warranty and support renewals.
QUICK GUIDE: Purchasing Authentic Hardware
Exactly what IT needs and nothing they don't. Scalable, elastic, and hosted right here in Minnesota.
With private, dedicated, and hybrid flavors, you can secure, scale, and manage your infrastructure servers in a custom-tailored, SOC 3 attested, enterprise-grade environment.
INFO SHEET: Cloud Overview
Solving problems unique to each workload and business unit.
There's a reason why so many businesses categorize their cloud strategy as 'multi-cloud'. Avoiding vendor lock-in, reducing latency, varying resource costs, compliance requirements, redundancy, or even shadow-IT drive enterprise toward a variety of private, public, colocated, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS providers.
Strategy, management, security, and optimization become increasingly complex in the multi-cloud world. We'll help you:
Comply with regulations and governance
Plan for growth, consolidation, disruption
Migrate and optimize your cloud workloads
Modernize applications and infrastructure
Understand, rightsize, and manage your cloud spend
Create the best of both worlds with a
hybrid Atomic Cloud solution.
Combining the secure, local, controllable nature of the private Azure Stack Hub-powered Atomic Cloud with the scalability, administration, and consistent services of the public Azure cloud.
A true hybrid solution with native interconnectivity, The Atomic Hybrid Cloud is a combination of and connection between private Azure Stack and public Azure cloud resources. It's built on the Cisco Integrated System for Azure Stack, a pre-built hardware and software appliance.
Info Sheet: Atomic Cloud powered by Azure Stack
Our enterprise-grade data centers meet your critical need for customized configurations, robust & redundant power capacity, loads of connectivity & peering options, plus 24x7x365 access.
MSP CENTRAL SPECS:
4,000 raised square feet ready to use
Former Federal Reserve Vault
SOC 2 Type II attested facility
Carrier neutral with Meet-Me-Room
10+ fiber points of presence
Redundant 10 Gbps links
1.5 MVA electrical capacity
100 point facility inspections twice daily
PDF: Data Center Specs
Data security is our highest priority.
We invest heavily in audits and attestations like SOC 2® Type II and SOC 3® to show our clients that we can keep secure and available any data set or infrastructure stack.
Whether it's PCI DSS for your eCommerce applications, HIPAA for your databases, sensitive legal documentation, or trade secrets, our facilities are designed to safe guard it from every angle.
Because technology does not run itself.
We've spent 20 years wrapping advanced services around data center technology. Services like:
SOC MONITORING: Watching your infrastructure for security-related concerns
NOC MONITORING: Watching for and resolving issues that impact your uptime and availability
ENGINEERING SUPPORT: Remote hands, advanced systems and networking help, project work, and much more
BOLT-ON SERVICES: Load balancing, next-gen firewalls, switching and routing support, Infrastructure as a Service, compliance support, day-to-day management, and much more
Where milliseconds matter.
Our data centers are at the heart of everything we do and our services wouldn't operate without them. Nor would our clients'. That's why we spare no expense on the necessary infrastructure to maintain 99.999% uptime.
Dual UPS fed racks
Redundant grid entrances with auto transfer switch
Generators with on-site fuel for 20 days run time
N+1 HVAC system with dedicated chilled water loop
Physically redundant 10 Gbps infrastructure
Multi-homed BGP internet via 8 ISPs & MICE
We have to earn your trust on the daily. One way we do that is through the rigorous SOC 2 Type II Audit. An independent auditor performs an annual evaluation of the effectiveness of our controls to provide assurance that we met certain criteria for:
Security
Availability
Confidentiality
The end result of the audit is a very detailed SOC 2 report, viewable in person only, and a less detailed, publicly accessible SOC 3 report.
PDF: SOC 3 Report
Locations and configurations to meet your needs.
CUSTOM CAGE: Built to suit your needs and security requirements.
FULL RACK: 42U locking cabinet, with top unit for cross connects
HALF RACK: 20U usable space, designed for those with expansion in mind
10U SECURE KENNEL: 4 compartment rack with 7-8 usable units
SHARED: Multi-tenant rack space sold in 1U increments
MANAGED SHARED: Fully managed, multi-tenant rack space sold in 1U increments
Choose from facilities in Minneapolis Central, Minneapolis East, Edina, & Dallas.
LINK: Security, Availability, & Power
Our SOC 2 Type II attested facilities are built to the highest security standards. 24x7 monitoring with door alarms, multi-factor authentication, recorded and logged access, on-premises 24x7 security, annual background checks, and much more make our facilities one of the safest places to keep your mission-critical infrastructure.
Our data centers are interconnected with 10 Gbps fiber links providing a redundant, enterprise service provider network between all facilities. We leverage BGP peering via four locations, eight ISPs, and the Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange (MICE), providing direct low-latency connectivity to providers like Google®, Akamai®, UMN, and many more.
Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy! Our Minneapolis Central facility lays on the Minneapolis Central Business District power grid, and features a 1,200 horsepower Caterpillar® generator with fuel reserves that can keep us powered for 20 days before refill. Advanced power supplies provide backup to each of the data center rooms. Rest assured we’ll keep the lights on.
Looking for a colocated DR server stack, geographically isolated from your production gear? Perhaps you have specialized hardware appliances that cannot be virtualized. Or maybe you've got most of your workload in Azure®, but you need a local instance on an Azure Stack® node. We've got you covered no matter your unique needs.
Atomic Data only partners with the finest technology companies that meet our high expectations for quality. These well-known businesses provide us with enterprise-grade and cutting edge technologies. We integrate their hardware, software, and platforms into our infrastructure to give you the best service possible.
Dakota Child and Family Clinic is a non-profit pediatric and family primary care clinic offering full range of primary care services in a warm and friendly environment for low income, uninsured, and underinsured patients. Everyone that walks through their doors is treated in the same way. Recently Atomic Data financed the creation of a drive-through COVID testing site at the Clinic.
Start Reading Now hosts and funds book fairs to help close the achievement gap for low-income kids in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade. Their book fairs help kids create their very own library of 30 books, built over three summers. Atomic Data is proud to assist with book distribution and has financed the purchase of more than 40,000 books.
Through services that provide choice and foster community – as well as through partnerships with over 400 businesses – Lifeworks serves more than 2,700 Minnesotans with disabilities and their families. Atomic Data is a long time supporter of and IT provider to Lifeworks, supporting their mission financially and in-kind since 2008.
Alight, formerly the American Refugee Committee, is the 40-year-old Minneapolis-based refugee assistance and development agency that was started to assist those fleeing war-torn Southeast Asia. Atomic Data recently worked with Alight in Uganda to build, stock, and staff a brand new library facility to serve one of the world's largest refugee settlements.
To combat the racial wealth gap and lack of skilled workers in the Twin Cities, Summit Academy OIC and Atomic Data partnered to provide classroom-based learning, real world career preparation, and hands-on experience to mold inexperienced, passionate students into IT professionals. All at no cost to the student.
Not only do students receive IT training, they receive training in workplace in tangibles, like:
Resume building
Business etiquette
Time management
Stress management
Networking
Self worth/efficacy
Leadership
Supporting 30+ local and global nonprofits through longstanding giving.
CEO & Co-Owner
612.466.2100
Jim is a 30 year veteran of the tech industry, founding four successful companies and employing more than 300 people in the Twin Cities.
He is passionate about helping others and working with business leaders to modernize and grow their IT operations.
“Working with Atomic Data has been like having the exact tool for the job ready at a moment’s notice. We get exactly the assistance we need.”
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“They’ve got the network guys I don’t. I rest easier knowing my team has a deep bench of experts to call on when something is out of their wheelhouse.”
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“Atomic Data has been a great partner in supporting our technology initiatives. They help us navigate through whatever technical opportunity presents itself.”
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“Atomic Data has been a key partner in our humanitarian work — which includes addressing technology challenges in humanitarian emergencies and in some of the most insecure parts of the world.”
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“It’s refreshing to have a vendor who actually delivers the value they sell; first by understanding our mission and then by providing the right technology.”
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“By partnering with Atomic Data, we have been able to rapidly adopt technologies and business practices to meet our needs.”
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“I take security for granted when I work with Atomic Data. It’s not something I feel like I have to second guess.”
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“The relationship and the trust is there with Atomic Data. Our teams now communicate with Atomic Data about everything.”
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“In the era of work from home, Atomic Data enabled greater performance for our business-critical terminal servers and in turn a more efficient workforce.”
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“Atomic Data's service offerings and responsive customer service model have enabled us to take our IT functions to the next level.”
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“Atomic Data is my entire scaling plan. I know that whatever I throw at them, they will handle it."
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“Atomic Data is helping us modernize critical business software and infrastructure without compromising security or process.”
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“Working with Atomic Data has afforded us the ability to not have to make massive investments in infrastructure that’s going to become obsolete.”
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“We switched our websites to Atomic Data’s cloud and have not experienced outages or downtime. Customers often comment about how fast our website is.”
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“Atomic keeps our systems right-sized, operational, and secure. The solutions we have implemented have helped us retain clients and win new business.”
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