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SAM IT Solutions Provides Services To Ensure Success

The SAM IT Solutions team does its best to keep client IT networks up and running – so they can focus on what they do best: Serving their customers.

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“Keeping our clients productive and efficient is our mission,” said Samudra Vijay, President and CEO of the 10-year-old company based in Durham. “One of our clients, Dr. Juneja of Cary Internal Medicine – a Cary-based primary care practice –told me…‘Sam, I want you to keep this machine humming; do whatever you need to do!’ We took this to heart.”

Vijay, who is from a small town in the state of Rajasthan in India, trained as a mechanical engineer and did his Masters in Nuclear Engineering. After teaching engineering for several years, he moved to Cambridge, MA, to do his PhD in Engineering Systems. He later became a research fellow at the Environmental Protection Agency doing mathematical modeling – but when at home in the 919, he would often help his wife (Dr. Lalita Sidana, who is a physician with a Doctors Making Housecalls) with her IT needs.

Samudra Vijay, President and CEO SAM IT Solutions

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“I started helping her physician friends, and then slowly a business idea to provide IT services to physician offices took shape,” Vijay explained. “We saw that our creative solutions could be used to improve workflows and increase productivity. Digitalization was just beginning to take roots, and we helped accelerate that process for our clients,” Vijay explained. “We have now expanded our scope to help small and medium size businesses in various verticals, such as health care, manufacturing, law offices, retail, pharmaceuticals and biotech, etc.”

SAM IT provides traditional IT help desk service, website design and development, custom software application development, and cloud services. “We are also a Microsoft and Google partner and provide Office 365 and Google Business Suite to our clients,” Vijay noted, while crediting the company’s success to his dynamic and very diverse team.

SAM IT SOLUTIONS

YEAR OPENED: 2009

OWNER: Samudra Vijay

KEY PERSONNEL: Jamie Pleasants, Yashpal, Caroline High

ADDRESS: 2511 E NC Highway 54, Durham BUSINESS HOURS: 9 am-5 pm (M-F) WEBSITE: samitsolutions.com PHONE: 919-800-0044

POSITION: President and CEO SAM IT Solutions

YEARS IN POSITION: 10 PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND: Nuclear and Environmental Engineering EDUCATION BACKGROUND: PhD from MIT RESIDENCE: Raleigh FAMILY: Spouse, Dr Lalita Sidana, MD, MPH (Harvard), works for Doctors Making Housecalls.; two children (Soumya, 25; works at Rex Hospital; Pari, 13 yr, Pine Hollow Middle)

The SAM IT Solutions Team at their new RTP Headquarters

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“Our professionals are led by Jamie Pleasants, a native of North Carolina who is Chief Operations Officer,” Vijay said. “Jamie is also responsible for leading and managing growth in the software development and cloud infrastructure area, while Caroline High is lead tech in the managed IT services. Yashpal leads the software development team; Balu leads cyber security initiatives; and Uma manages the Industrial Automation division.

SAM IT also supports several local non-profit organizations, most notably NCIAP People’s Medical Care, which is based in Raleigh and provides primary health care to individuals and families who don’t have health insurance. “SAM IT was one of the founding board members of this organization,” Vijay said. “Giving back to the community is our mantra.”

The company recently moved to a new 4,000 sq. ft. facility in the heart of Research Triangle Park, just off TW Alexander Drive and Highway 54 – which includes a server lab, a training facility, a large meeting and collaboration area and two conference rooms.

According to Vijay, the new resources, combined with SAM IT’s wide range of services; its productivity-focused, innovation-based approach to customers; and its experienced, knowledgeable team, ensures that clients will have success. “Working with SAM IT, they know that however complex problem they throw at us – it will be solved,” he stressed.

For more information, call 919-800-0044 or visit samitsolutions.com.

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