At a great many companies nobody can say from memory how many servers are running, where the latest backup sits or who holds the router password. The IT grew with the business: a server bought in a hurry before an accounting change, a NAS set up by somebody's brother-in-law, three subscriptions paying for the same thing. We help you see the whole of it, remove whatever slows work down and give your people safe access from anywhere, without ever setting foot in your building.
Three steps that follow one another naturally: see what you own, lift whatever holds work back, then let people work away from the office without exposing data.
An inventory of hardware, licences and cloud services, a dependency map and risks sorted from the gravest downwards. The report stays with you whatever comes next.
We look for what genuinely slows your business software, your file shares or your shop: storage, memory, the line, or one query that is far too heavy. A new server is seldom the answer.
Windows runs in a European data centre and the laptop only paints the picture. A lost computer stops being a data breach, and working from home no longer means wrestling with a VPN.
Remote collection, a single online meeting and almost no disturbance for your teams. At the end you hold a document firm enough to build next year's budget on.
A light agent on the network plus read-only rights in Microsoft 365 list endpoints, servers, network gear and subscriptions. Whatever you pay for and nobody opens shows up in the first days.
We draw what rests on what. It is far from rare to find invoicing, printing and Wi-Fi all hanging off the same elderly machine in a corner.
Each finding gets two marks, likelihood and impact, so you can separate what must be handled this month from what can wait for the next budget.
Map, risk register and a costed action plan, talked through on a Teams call. The document is yours even if our paths stop there.
VDI does not suit everybody. Here is an honest comparison, so the decision rests on facts rather than on passing fashion.
Option 1
Local machines
The classic arrangement: software and files live on the disk of the laptop or workstation.
Option 2
VDI
All the computing happens centrally; the device serves as a screen and a keyboard.
Conclusion
Which to choose
The two models sit together well: part of the team moves to virtual desktops, the rest keep machines of their own.
Undocumented IT exists only inside one person's head. Nobody notices until that person takes a fortnight off, which will of course be the week the server refuses to come back after a power cut.
No. The report and the map are yours whatever you decide. Scope and a range of hours are quoted before we start, according to the number of sites and the size of your server room.
Often not. An accountancy practice or a law firm under twenty people usually does better on Microsoft 365 with SharePoint plus a line-of-business tool online, or on a machine rented from a European host. An on-site server keeps its place when the software demands one, when the line is weak, or when data must not leave the building.
Yes, on the digital side. We prepare the network plan and the equipment list, then configure Microsoft 365, accounts, Intune, the firewall and the access points remotely. Cabling and mounting are carried out by your electrician or an installer, following our diagram.
No, and it rarely makes sense. Those who move are usually the people handling patient or client records, seasonal cover and sites with no engineer of their own. Designers and engineers running heavy software stay on powerful workstations.
We rebuild the full picture remotely and send you a map of your estate with the list of risks. You choose what to tackle first.
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An answer follows inside one working day. Report an outage that is stopping people working and it moves ahead of everything else.
Nothing here under that name. Check the spelling, or simply choose the nearest large city instead. Since every engagement runs remotely, whichever you pick changes nothing about what we do for you.
