Three steps that tend to follow one another: see what you have, clear whatever holds work back, then let people work away from the office without putting data at risk.
A register of hardware, licences and cloud services, a dependency map and risks ranked worst first. You keep the report, whether or not we work together afterwards.
We find what truly drags down your ERP, shared drives or web shop: storage, memory, the line, or one heavy database query. A new server is rarely the answer.
Windows runs in Azure Virtual Desktop or on a hosted server, and the laptop only shows the picture. Losing a computer stops being a data leak, and staff at home skip the VPN juggling.
Remote data gathering, a single online meeting and hardly any disruption for your team. At the end you hold a document solid enough to plan the coming year's spending around.
A small scanner on the network, plus read-only rights in your Microsoft 365 tenant, lists every PC, server, switch and subscription. What you pay for but nobody uses shows up straight away.
We chart what relies on what. Quite often invoicing, printing and Wi-Fi all turn out to hang off one elderly PC in a corner of the office.
Every issue gets two marks, how probable it is and how much it would hurt, so you can tell what needs doing this month and what may wait for the new budget.
Map, risk register and a costed to-do list, talked through on a Teams call. The document belongs to you even if we part ways.
VDI does not suit everyone. Below is an honest comparison, so you decide on evidence and not on what is currently trendy.
Option 1
Local computers
The traditional way: software and files live on the laptop or workstation disk.
Option 2
VDI
All processing happens centrally; the device is just a screen and keyboard.
Verdict
Which to pick
The two complement each other well: part of the team moves to virtual desktops while the rest keep their own machines.
Undocumented IT lives only inside one person's head. That goes unnoticed right up to the fortnight they spend hiking in the Tatras, which is exactly when a thunderstorm leaves the server unable to start.
No. The report and map are yours regardless of what you decide. You get the scope and price of the review up front, depending on the number of sites and the size of the server room.
Often not. An accountancy practice or law firm of up to about 20 people usually comes out cheaper on Microsoft 365 with SharePoint plus cloud accounting software, or a hosted machine in an EU data centre. A server on the premises makes sense when the software demands one, the connection is poor or the data must not leave the building.
Yes, with the digital side. We produce a network plan and equipment list, then remotely configure Microsoft 365, accounts, Intune, the router and access points. Cabling and mounting are handled by your electrician or installer following our diagram.
No, and it rarely makes sense. The usual candidates are people handling patient or customer data, seasonal workers and branches without IT staff of their own. Designers, graphic artists and engineers running heavy software stay on powerful workstations.
We build the full picture remotely and send you a map of the estate plus a risk list. You choose what gets attention first.
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