IT Services for Engineering and Aerospace Companies

The Inland Empire has a significant and often overlooked engineering and aerospace presence. From defense contractors near March Air Reserve Base to precision engineering firms in Redlands, Ontario, and throughout the San Bernardino corridor, there are companies here doing serious technical work that demands serious IT infrastructure. If you’re designing aircraft components, manufacturing defense systems, or engineering critical infrastructure, your IT can’t be an afterthought.

eTop Technology has been providing managed IT and cybersecurity in the Inland Empire for over 12 years. We work with companies where the stakes go beyond “my email is down.” We’re talking about the security requirements that come with defense-adjacent work and intellectual property that represents millions of dollars in R&D investment. This is IT where getting it wrong has consequences that go well beyond lost productivity.

High-Performance Computing and Large File Workflows

Engineering firms have IT demands that most businesses simply don’t. Running SolidWorks, AutoCAD, CATIA, or Siemens NX on complex assemblies requires workstations with serious compute power and graphics capability. FEA simulations (Finite Element Analysis, the software that tests whether your design will actually hold up under stress) can peg a high-end workstation for hours.

Then there’s the file problem. A single complex assembly in SolidWorks can be hundreds of megabytes. Your team opens and saves these files dozens of times a day. If your network and storage infrastructure isn’t designed for this workload, your engineers spend their $80-per-hour time watching progress bars. That’s money you’re lighting on fire.

We design infrastructure specifically for engineering workflows:

• High-speed internal networks that can handle the sustained throughput engineering files demand
• Storage architecture optimized for large file access patterns, not the small-file workloads that typical office storage is designed for
• Workstation management ensuring your engineering machines have the right specs, drivers, and configurations for your software stack
• GPU-accelerated rendering support for firms that need visualization and rendering capabilities
• Backup systems that can handle terabytes of project data without impacting performance during business hours

Protecting Your Intellectual Property

Your designs, processes, and engineering data represent years of work and millions of dollars in investment. Protecting that IP requires more than a firewall and antivirus.

We implement comprehensive IP protection that addresses both external threats and insider risk:

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies that prevent engineering files from being emailed to personal accounts, uploaded to unauthorized cloud services, or copied to USB drives without authorization. If an engineer tries to email a CAD file to their personal Gmail, the system blocks it and alerts us.

Huntress EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) on every workstation and server, monitored 24/7 by a Security Operations Center. If an attacker gets a foothold on one of your design engineer’s machines, we detect it and respond before they can exfiltrate your data.

Network segmentation that isolates your engineering data from general office systems. Your marketing team’s compromised laptop shouldn’t be a pathway to your controlled file shares.

Access reviews on a regular cadence to make sure that former employees, former contractors, and people who’ve changed roles don’t still have access to data they shouldn’t.

Why IE Engineering Firms Choose eTop

We’re based in Redlands, right in the middle of the IE’s engineering and aerospace corridor. We understand that your IT partner needs to speak the language of compliance frameworks, handle the demands of high-performance computing, and treat your intellectual property with the same seriousness you do.

Engineering IT is a specialty: walking into a firm, identifying the security gaps in its infrastructure, securing file sharing and intellectual property, and building a remediation plan that doesn’t disrupt active projects. That’s what we do. We’ve been doing it for over 12 years, and we’d welcome the chance to show you what that looks like for your firm.