Overstretched Teams
A two-person IT department trying to cover help desk, ERP, and security support all at once
Windows, Linux, and everything in between, kept patched, monitored,
and running before your team even knows there was a problem.
Good infrastructure is invisible, honestly. Nobody emails IT to say thanks when the network stays up during registration week, they only notice when it goes down. That's the bar we hold ourselves to: infrastructure that just runs quietly in the background, so your team can focus on the stuff that actually needs their attention. We manage the whole environment, not just the easy parts. Windows servers and Linux boxes side by side. Wintel setups that grew organically over a decade of different admins making different calls.
Virtual and physical infrastructure, and yes, someone actually needs to understand both.
Most institutions' infrastructure is really the last five IT directors' worth of decisions, stacked on top of each other, half-documented, mostly working. Nobody on staff right now built half of what's running, and everyone's a little scared to touch it. So we start by mapping what's actually there, not what the 2016 diagram says should be there, so any change we make, we actually know what it's going to affect.
No two institutions need the same slice of IT handed off, and we're not going to force a standard package onto your situation. Here's what holds true across every outsourcing engagement, whether it's the full department or a single function:
A two-person IT department trying to cover help desk, ERP, and security support all at once
Institutional knowledge sitting with one or two staff, undocumented and unprotected if they leave
Help desk response times swinging wildly depending on who happens to be available that week
A patchwork of disconnected point vendors with no single team accountable when something actually breaks
Security and FERPA requirements nobody on staff has real bandwidth to monitor consistently