Case Study: State Industrial Products achieves 2x mailbox capacity and reduced IT spend with Hostway Managed Office 365

Hostway Delivers 2X Enhanced Capacity While Decreasing IT Spend For State Industrial

State Industrial Products, a Cleveland-based manufacturer founded in 1911 that supplies cleaning and chemical solutions across government, healthcare, food service and hospitality sectors, struggled with an aging on‑premises IT environment. With 800+ users and a three-person IT team, the company faced rising support costs, reliability and downtime issues, rapidly growing backup/storage needs, and a patchwork of applications that made management and standardization difficult.

Hostway executed a staged migration from on‑premises Exchange to a Hostway‑managed Exchange and then to Managed Office 365, maintaining business‑hour uptime and providing after‑hours support. The move eliminated on‑site servers, cut upfront CAPEX by about $100,000, doubled mailbox capacity, simplified the application stack for the small IT team, and reduced ongoing IT spend while Hostway continues to provide managed support.

State Industrial Products

Jeff Black

Project Manager and Infrastructure Support Specialist