Memphis, TN – August 31, 2010 – Memphis-based IT company, NexTek, is celebrating its fifth year in business. The firm has experienced explosive growth, despite being founded in the most economically challenging decade since the Depression. NexTek is now the largest provider of cloud computing services in the MidSouth.

Founder Wayne Randall, Jr. started working in the IT industry when he was 18, providing technical support for companies like Gateway and Dell. At 21, he made the move into IT management for businesses. It was while he was maintaining several hundred computers at over fifty different offices that he realized that there had to be a better way to implement and manage IT resources. This necessity was the beginning of NexTek.

As the sole caretaker of so many vital systems, Wayne saw that existing IT infrastructures were work-intensive and often wasteful, simply because a one-size-fits-all approach had been used when purchasing computers, software, servers and other office equipment. No one had taken the time to evaluate each company’s needs, and to tailor technology to fit them. Wayne also realized that he wasn’t alone – that thousands of businesses and their IT managers had to be experiencing the same problems.

In 2005, Wayne founded NexTek with one simple purpose: to provide customized, cost-effective IT services that support and enhance clients’ essential business functions. To that end, the company has consistently reinvested 40-50% of its profits in the research, development and procurement of equipment and software for future service offerings – most significantly, in the area of cloud computing. In 2007, the company acquired the data center servers that have allowed NexTek to become the largest provider of cloud computing services in the MidSouth.

Since then, cloud computing has propelled NexTek’s rapid growth. In 2009, during the worst economic recession the country has faced in decades, NexTek doubled in size, and is on track to double again in 2010. The company has acquired clients in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Washington, DC, and five other states and has opened an office to serve the Nashville area.

NexTek is a Memphis area IT solutions provider that offers a full range of services, including, Cloud Computing, computer and networking support, off-site data backup, Virtual Servers, SPAM filtering, and e-mail hosting. Clients include The Bankruptcy Group of Florida, Liszt and Associates, Zebra Marketing, Gould’s Day Spa and Salons, MacMannes Inc., Southern Eye Associates, Thunder Road Brandworks, and many more. For more information about NexTek, visit gonextek.com.