About R2

We don't do “good enough.”

We do what's right.

R2 Unified Technologies is an engineering-led IT infrastructure and managed services company. We help enterprise and public-sector organizations design, build, secure, modernize, and manage the technology their business depends on — networking and security, data center and private cloud, software-defined infrastructure, and managed IT services.

But the technology is only half the job. Most companies aren't short on technology. They're short on clarity — tools they aren't fully using, infrastructure that's gotten complicated over time, and new demands coming from every direction.

The real gap

Our job is to understand what you have, figure out what actually needs to change, and engineer the right way forward.

No unnecessary rip-and-replace. No technology for technology's sake. Just better decisions and infrastructure you can actually run.

Who is R2 Unified Technologies

Engineering-led, founded on a simple idea.

R2 is an engineering-led, customer-first technology company founded on a pretty simple idea: the people designing the solution should understand how it's actually going to work.

For nearly two decades, we've helped organizations solve complex infrastructure problems across the network, data center, cloud, security, and managed services. We're not here to hand you a product list and call it a strategy.

We ask questions. We get into the architecture. We look at what you're already paying for. We figure out where the environment is creating cost, risk, complexity, or operational pain. Then we fix what matters. That's what engineering-led means to us.

What we do

We make complicated
IT manageable.

Your infrastructure didn't become complicated because somebody woke up and decided to make a mess. It happened one reasonable decision at a time — a migration here, an acquisition there, another "temporary" workaround that celebrated its fifth birthday. We get it. R2 helps bring that environment back under control across four core areas.

01
Network + Security

We design and modernize enterprise networks with security built into the architecture — from campus and wireless to SD-WAN, segmentation, Zero Trust, Cisco SDA, TrustSec, and ISE.

02
Data Center + Private Cloud

We modernize compute, storage, virtualization, and software-defined infrastructure, including VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX, and vSAN — knowing why every workload lives where it lives.

03
Managed Services

We monitor, manage, maintain, and improve critical infrastructure so internal IT teams don't have to spend their lives chasing alerts and babysitting technology.

04
AI-Ready Infrastructure

The business wants AI. We help customers think through the network, compute, data, security, and operational requirements behind it — without pretending anybody knows exactly what's next.

Our approach

We don't start with the product. We start with the problem.

Technology vendors are very good at explaining why you need their next thing. We'd rather understand the environment first: what are you trying to accomplish, what's already working, what's costing too much, where are you carrying technical debt — and what is your team realistically going to be able to manage after everybody leaves the room?

Those questions matter because the "best" architecture on a whiteboard isn't very useful if nobody can operate it. We design around cost, control, performance, security, compliance, and manageability. Then we make the technology fit the requirement — not the other way around.
Technology decisions carry consequences.

Reliability, security, performance, budgets, staffing, and user experience can all depend on getting the details right. Our technical teams assess requirements, identify risks, challenge assumptions, and determine what needs to happen before technology is implemented or managed.

We believe expertise should make decisions clearer, not more complicated. You get people who can explain what they recommend, why they recommend it, and what the expected outcome should be.

Experts without ego.

Hybrid where it makes sense

Cloud isn't wrong. On-prem isn't right. Put the workload where it makes sense.

A lot of companies went to cloud for good reasons: speed, flexibility, consumption economics, and less infrastructure to manage. Those reasons didn't suddenly become stupid. The economics changed, the technology changed, and for some workloads, cost, control, compliance, performance, or predictability now point somewhere else.

Keep cloud where it makes sense. Use private infrastructure where it makes sense. Build a hybrid operating model when you need both — marrying the reasons you went to cloud with the budget consciousness and control you need today.

Our philosophy

Partners, not vendors.

A vendor sells you what they have. A partner should be willing to tell you when you don't need it. That's a meaningful difference. We want to understand your environment well enough to challenge the requirement when it needs challenging, defend the architecture when it needs defending, and tell you when the technology you already own can do the job.

Trust isn't built by agreeing with everything. It's built by being useful.

We don't cut cookies. Your architecture should reflect your business, your users, your risk, your budget, and your team — not somebody else's reference architecture with your logo pasted on top.

We use proven technology and proven engineering principles. Then we configure them around the reality of your environment.

Buying technology is only one part of running IT well. That can mean helping your team evaluate an infrastructure decision, providing engineering expertise you don't have internally, or taking responsibility for ongoing IT operations through managed services. Whatever the engagement, our role is the same: understand the problem, do the work well, communicate clearly, and be accountable for the outcome.

No cookie-cutter playbooks. No unnecessary complexity. No selling technology simply because it is available.

How we work

Find. Fix. Finish strong.

Good technology outcomes start with understanding where you are today. It's a structured approach designed to deliver results without surprises.
01
Find

We assess your environment to understand what is working, what is creating risk, and where technology or processes are getting in your team's way.

02
Fix

We establish priorities, define responsibilities, align on expectations, and execute the work with the right engineering expertise.

03
Finish Strong

We measure results, provide visibility, and keep optimizing — clear reporting, defined SLAs, regular reviews, and accountability your team can see.

Our values

What we stand for.

Innovation

Be dynamic, challenge yourself for better solutions each day.

Service

Strive for superior service with our customers and partners.

Fairness

Achieve positive and acceptable results for all parties in conflict.

Respect

Treat others as you wish to be treated, in and out of the workplace.

Who we serve

Complex environments. Real consequences.

R2 works with enterprise, healthcare, financial services, state and local government, education, and other organizations where infrastructure has to do more than simply turn on. These environments have real requirements around uptime, security, segmentation, compliance, performance, cost, and operational control.

Different organizations have different regulatory requirements, technology investments, internal capabilities, risk profiles, and business priorities — R2 accounts for those differences instead of forcing every customer into the same model. Our job is not to replace the knowledge inside your organization. It is to add the expertise and capacity your team needs to make better decisions and execute them.

When the environment is complicated, buying another product is easy. Knowing what should happen next is the hard part.

Explore Our Partner Ecosystem 

Partnerships give our engineers access to platforms + resources.  They don't determine the recommendation; your environment does.

 

01
Innovation

Be dynamic, challenge yourself for better solutions each day.

02
Service

Strive for superior service with our customers and partners.

03
Fairness

Achieve positive and acceptable results for all parties in conflict.

04
Respect

Treat others as you wish to be treated, in and out of the workplace.

Who we are

Exceptional service
is in our DNA.

The end result: a team of IT professionals that understands the value of a personal touch, and is always personally invested in your success.

R2 DNA Illustration
Our philosophy

Words we live by.

Who We Are

R2 is an engineering-led, customer-first company that helps organizations balancing growth and governance run smarter, scale faster, and solve IT problems others can't. Simply put, our engineers go deeper so you can get more.

What we believe

Expertise is earned. Trust is built. And ego has no place in real partnership. This mindset has guided us for nearly two decades and counting.

What we do

With deep technical skill, humility, and a relentless commitment to showing up and solving what matters to you, we consult, configure, and customize advanced technology to run effortlessly and feel simple. Because at R2, better isn't a bonus—it's the baseline.

Our Team

Working together
is success.

Technology partnerships are ultimately relationships between people. R2 was built by engineers, service professionals, business leaders, and specialists who actually like this stuff — hired for technical depth, curiosity, accountability, and the ability to explain complicated things without making them more complicated. We're not trying to be the biggest technology company in the room — we want to be the team you call when the problem gets difficult.

Jason Doherty
Jason Doherty

VP of Sales | Co-Founder

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Jamie Doherty
Jamie Doherty

President & CTO | Co-Founder

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Ryan Rippo
Ryan Rippo

Service Delivery Manager | Co-Founder

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Rory Case
Rory Case

Chief Operating Officer

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Michael Rhyce
Michael Rhyce

Chief Financial Officer

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Cauley Sutton
Cauley Sutton

Director of SLED Sales

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What does R2 Unified Technologies do?

R2 helps organizations assess, implement, secure, manage, and optimize their IT environments. Our capabilities include managed IT services, cybersecurity, cloud, networking, data center infrastructure, and professional services.

Is R2 Unified Technologies a managed services provider?

Managed services are an important part of R2's capabilities, but they do not define the entire company. R2 is an engineering-led technology partner that provides consulting, professional services, technology implementation, and ongoing managed services based on each customer's requirements.

How is R2 different from a traditional IT vendor?

R2 leads with engineering and customer requirements rather than products. We assess the environment first, align technology to the problem, provide clear expectations, and remain accountable for execution and results.

What types of organizations does R2 work with?

R2 works with organizations that need deeper technical expertise, additional IT capacity, or a more accountable approach to managing technology — particularly highly regulated, growth-oriented organizations balancing performance, security, governance, and change.

Does R2 replace an internal IT team?

Not necessarily. R2 can work alongside internal IT teams to add specialized expertise, extend capacity, support projects, or take responsibility for defined operational functions. The engagement is built around what your team needs.

How does R2 approach managed services?

R2 uses a structured Find, Fix, Finish Strong approach. We assess the environment, align responsibilities and SLAs, implement support, and use reporting and ongoing reviews to measure and improve performance.

Which technology companies does R2 work with?

R2's technology partners include Microsoft, Cisco, Cisco Meraki, Palo Alto Networks, Arctic Wolf, VMware, Dell EMC, Rubrik, KnowBe4, Pure Storage, Huntress, and Fortinet.

Our service approach — F3EAD

A better approach to technology service.

R2 utilizes a six-step services approach inspired by the U.S. military's special operations forces: "Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, Analyze, and Disseminate" (F3EAD) methodology. Partnering with you on your technology journey, we'll advise, design, implement, and manage your entire IT environment.
recommendations that are right for you — even if they aren't our own
F
Find

A readiness assessment of the data center you have — hardware, applications, dependencies, and what's near end-of-life.

F
Fix

The target hybrid design, the multi-cloud mix behind it, and the success criteria we'll be measured against.

F
Finish

Migration, cutover, and validation — executed on schedule, with rollback planned before we start.

E
Exploit

Turn on what the new architecture makes possible: automation, analytics, and policy-based security.

A
Analyze

Measure uptime, capacity, and cost against the benchmarks we agreed to — and report them plainly

D
Disseminate

Full documentation, from requirements to as-built. We always deliver what others don't.

bring us your hardest problem ↓

Let's Whiteboard IT.

Bring us the environment. Bring us the requirements. Bring us the thing everybody has been arguing about for six months. We’ll get it on the whiteboard and figure out what makes sense.