Overstretched Teams
A two- or three-person IT team responsible for everything from Wi-Fi to the help desk to nightly backups
Infrastructure, help desk, and cloud, handled together instead of pieced out
across three vendors who don't talk to each other.
Here's what actually happens at most colleges: IT support gets stitched together over time. One vendor handles the network, another covers the help desk, a third shows up whenever something needs to move to the cloud. None of them see the whole picture. And when something breaks at 2am during finals week, you spend more time figuring out whose problem it is than actually fixing it. So we put all three under one roof, infrastructure, help desk, SaaS and cloud, run by a single team that already knows your environment end to end. One point of contact. One escalation path. Nobody pointing fingers at somebody else's system.
And it doesn't have to be all or nothing. Some institutions hand off the whole department. Others just want one piece covered and keep the rest in-house, that works too. Check out IT Outsourcing Services if you want to see how we scope the partial version.
Retirements happen mid-semester, budget freezes hit right when a server needs replacing, and every so often the one systems administrator who's been holding the network together for a decade gives notice, and suddenly nobody knows the password rotation schedule or which switch feeds which building. We've watched this play out over and over. And honestly, the fix isn't hiring one more person. It's not needing to depend on any single person in the first place.
Handing off IT shouldn't feel like a leap of faith. We run every transition as a phased process, so nothing drops during the handoff and you know exactly what's happening at each stage.
A two- or three-person IT team responsible for everything from Wi-Fi to the help desk to nightly backups
Aging infrastructure nobody has the bandwidth to modernize because they're too busy keeping it running
Weekend and after-hours outages with no one to call until Monday morning
A slow, half-finished move to the cloud that stalled because internal IT couldn't dedicate the hours