NetSys vs. CMIT Solutions
CMIT Solutions is everywhere, which is the point of a franchise. It is also the thing to understand before signing: the name on the truck is national, and the business behind it is a local owner. That can be excellent. It depends on the owner.
The short answer
CMIT Solutions is a national IT franchise: your provider is a local owner using a national brand's systems. NetSys is one firm, the same team since 1998, with security, AI, PAM, PIM and DR planning in one month to month agreement. The question with a franchise is which owner you get; the question with NetSys is whether you want a boutique at all.
What CMIT Solutions is
CMIT Solutions started in Austin, Texas in 1994 and began franchising in 1998. Today the network runs to roughly 250 to 275 franchise locations across North America with around nine hundred technology practitioners, each location owned and run by a local franchisee working from the brand's shared systems, vendors and playbooks. The model gives a small local shop national tooling, and it gives the buyer a familiar name in almost every town.
A franchise owner versus a firm
With a franchise, the quality of your service is the quality of the owner who holds your territory: their staff, their tenure, their judgment. Two CMIT offices can be very different businesses. NetSys has one owner group, one engineering team and one standard, since 1998. When you call, the people who built your environment are the ones who answer for it.
What the monthly fee carries
Franchise plans are built to be repeatable across hundreds of owners, which usually means a base package and a menu. Our agreement is deliberately not a menu: cybersecurity as the core, an engineer-answered helpdesk, privileged access and privileged identity management, disaster recovery planning with restores performed and timed, and an in-house AI practice. One agreement, month to month.
Terms and pressure
The industry standard is a one to three year agreement that renews itself. Ask any franchise office for its term and exit cost before you compare price. Every NetSys agreement is month to month, which keeps the pressure where it belongs, on us, every thirty days. Retention runs 98 percent anyway.
What each of us publishes
Their column is quoted from pages on their site and links to each one. Ours states what we commit to elsewhere on this site. Nothing below is our opinion of their work.
| The NetSys Group | CMIT Solutions | |
|---|---|---|
| Agreement | Month to month. Leave any time, no early-exit penalty. | The CMIT Solutions of Las Vegas office publishes an FAQ page stating 12-month standard agreements with month-to-month renewal, no multi-year lock-in, and 30 days' written notice to terminate. (cmitsolutions.com) |
| What the monthly fee covers | One agreement: AI services, cybersecurity, managed IT with help desk, PAM, PIM and disaster recovery planning. | The corporate IT services index page lists fourteen service lines: Managed AI, Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Cybersecurity, IT Support, Managed Services, Productivity Applications, Cloud Services, IT Network Support Services, Compliance, CMMC Compliance, Data Backup and Recovery Services, Unified Communications, IT Guidance, and IT Procurement. (cmitsolutions.com) |
| Privileged access and credentials | PAM and PIM in the base agreement, each with a published service page describing the work. | Privileged access management is described on the domain within an educational blog article's table of cybersecurity solution categories, in the Access Control and Authentication section. (cmitsolutions.com) |
| AI and automation | In-house practice led by Jamie Baum: readiness assessments, Copilot rollouts, custom agents and workflow automation. | The corporate Managed AI Solutions page describes an AI practice covering shadow-AI discovery, selection of business-grade AI tools, acceptable use policy development, access controls for sensitive data, logging of AI tool usage for compliance visibility, and integration with applications including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Slack; the page attributes delivery to a nationwide network of 900+ IT and cybersecurity professionals. (cmitsolutions.com) |
| Disaster recovery | A written plan plus restores that are performed and timed. More than 30 ransomware incidents handled in three years, every one recovered. | The corporate data backup page distinguishes data backup from disaster recovery services, describes backup frequency as based on Recovery Point Objective (RPO), includes a monthly backup testing service description, and describes cloud failover environments that allow employees to work while primary systems are restored. (cmitsolutions.com) |
| Who answers | A NetSys engineer, plus a named account manager who gives you a real cell number. | The corporate IT support page states support is available 24/7 through online chat, phone, email and text, that most issues are resolved remotely with on-site support when required, and that the customer selects the response time period. (cmitsolutions.com) |
| Response commitments | Written into the agreement rather than implied on the website. | The corporate service-packages page describes three support tiers: time-and-materials hourly fees for remote and on-site support; unlimited remote support with time-and-materials on-site; and unlimited 24/7/365 live help desk with priority on-site support. (cmitsolutions.com) |
| Proof before you commit | The free assessment is a remote external penetration test, limited to the information available to NetSys and the external scope we agree with you. | The Nassau office Manhasset page publishes an AI Readiness Self-Assessment described as free and taking five minutes, scored across Productivity, Security, Tools & Integration, Automation, and Team Culture, followed by a free 30-minute AI strategy call. (cmitsolutions.com) |
| Where they are | One office, in Brooklyn. On-site across New York City, Long Island, Westchester, the Hudson Valley, North Jersey and Fairfield County, CT, with remote managed IT nationwide. | The Nassau, NY office page describes the local office as part of a North American network of more than 250 locations, lists a local address at 640 Broadway, Massapequa, NY 11758, and lists service areas including Albertson, Great Neck, Jericho, Manhasset, Port Washington, Syosset, and Woodbury. (cmitsolutions.com) |
CMIT Solutions appears here because it ranked on the first page of search results for IT services in Nassau County, NY when we checked in September 2026. Everything in their column is drawn from pages published on https://cmitsolutions.com/ and links to the source. Where we could not find something published we say so, which means we did not find it, not that it does not exist. We make no claim about the quality of their service. All trademarks belong to their owners and no affiliation or endorsement is implied.
Four more things worth knowing about CMIT Solutions
Size and history
- The corporate About page lists a headquarters address at 9433 Bee Cave Rd, Bldg 3, Ste 210, Austin, TX 78733, names five executives (CEO Roger Lewis, COO Tara Osborn, Service Delivery Director Stuart Hentschel, Franchise Development Director Lisa Montanio, Controller Stormy Fluitt), and references recognition on Entrepreneur Magazine's Franchise 500 list. (cmitsolutions.com)
- The Nassau office "Why CMIT" page states the company has worked with businesses since 1996 and describes a network of over 900 IT experts. (cmitsolutions.com)
NetSys: Independent since 1998. One office, in Brooklyn, and no private equity owner behind the name.
Industries they name
- The Nassau office page lists fourteen industry categories: accounting, construction, education, engineering, finance and insurance, franchise/multi-location, healthcare, hospitality, legal, manufacturing, non-profit, professional services, real estate, and retail. (cmitsolutions.com)
NetSys: Twenty six industries with a page each, from healthcare and legal to hedge funds, auto dealers and government contractors.
Compliance work published
- The corporate compliance page names HIPAA, CMMC, NIST, FINRA, PCI and GDPR as frameworks it addresses (ISO appears in a listed set of acronyms), and states that compliance engagements begin with a risk assessment; the corporate cybersecurity page separately references PCI, HIPAA, GDPR and NIST. (cmitsolutions.com)
- The CMIT Solutions of Las Vegas FAQ page states the office supports SOC 2 Type I and Type II readiness, including Trust Services Criteria control implementation, evidence collection, vendor risk management, and audit coordination. (cmitsolutions.com)
NetSys: Nine frameworks with a service page each: HIPAA, CMMC 2.0, SOC 2, NIST CSF 2.0, NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500, NY SHIELD, FTC Safeguards, PCI DSS and GLBA.
Rates on the website
- The CMIT Solutions of Las Vegas FAQ page publishes a flat per-user-per-month model, states managed IT in Las Vegas typically ranges from $50 to $150 per user per month, and offers pre-purchased block hours at a discounted rate as an alternative to a monthly engagement. (cmitsolutions.com)
NetSys: We do not publish rates. We price per user per month and quote each business after a call, because a thirty person firm with two servers and a thirty person firm with a regulator are not the same job.
The honest fit: is NetSys the right CMIT Solutions alternative?
When CMIT Solutions is the better choice
Choose CMIT Solutions if you want a local owner operator in your own town, you have met the owner and the team, and a national brand's playbook behind a small office reassures you.
When NetSys is the better choice
Choose NetSys if you want one accountable senior team rather than a territory, a complete security first stack in the base agreement, and the freedom to leave any month if we stop earning it.
NetSys and CMIT Solutions: FAQs
Is NetSys an alternative to CMIT Solutions?
Yes. Both provide managed IT, cybersecurity, cloud and backup to small and mid sized businesses. The difference is structure: CMIT is a franchise of independently owned local offices sharing a brand; NetSys is a single firm with one team and one standard, and our agreement includes PAM, PIM, AI services and DR planning on month to month terms.
What should we ask a franchise IT office before signing?
How long the current owner has held the territory, who the engineers are and how long they have been there, what happens to your account if the territory changes hands, the contract term and the cost of leaving, and what sits outside the base plan. Put the same questions to us. Our answers are on this page.
Can NetSys take over from a CMIT office cleanly?
Yes, through the same documented transition we run for every takeover: credential and documentation handover, backup verification before cutover, and parallel monitoring until nothing is dark. Franchise offices typically use standard tooling, which makes the inventory straightforward.
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Facts about CMIT Solutions on this page come from their published materials and press coverage, checked September 2026. CMIT Solutions is a trademark of its owner; no affiliation or endorsement is implied. If anything here is out of date, tell us at info@netsysgroup.com and we will correct it.
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