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An Expert System that Has Stood the Test of Time

 

The process detailed below comes from decades of engineering and consulting and has been tested countless times in the trenches with consistent results. 

However, we do not believe in artificial bundling and packaging. We will customize our process – or start in the middle if you’re farther ahead. We will make it fit your org chart and your flow chart. 

 

Find the Signal in the Noise.
Get Results.

Over 90% of CIOs rely on a technology advisor for IT, cloud, and telecom decisions.
What do you look for in yours? 

Get your own team of insiders to source, manage and support best-fit IT, cloud and telecom services. Here is how we work:

Discovery & Assessment

1

We explore your technology, business reality, objectives and priorities. We uncover
risks and determine options. Above all, we listen.

Definition & RFP Management

2

We define requirements, identify a short list of best-fit vendors and manage the proposal process. You tell your story once. We tell it many times.

Design & Recommendation

3

We explore your technology, business reality, objectives and priorities. We uncover
risks and determine options. Above all, we listen.

Negotiation & Purchasing

4

We tenaciously work on your behalf and get you the best business terms and pricing in the industry. All vendor selection services are free to you.

Implementation & Testing

5

We explore your technology, business reality, objectives and priorities. We uncover
risks and determine options. Above all, we listen.

Support & Management

6

We provide full lifecycle support. We supervise vendors, escalate tickets, stalk improvements and offer unique managed services.

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Find the Signal in the Noise.

Over 90% of CIOs rely on a technology advisor for IT, cloud, and telecom decisions. What do you look for in yours?

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Iaas - Infrastructure as a Service

The Nerve Center of Your Business

Cloud-based infrastructures have already transformed not just IT but much of the way all business is done. IaaS’ benefits of agility, cost reduction, speed-to-market, key competitive advantage, scalability & flexibility, continuity & security, and future-proofing against business risk have only become more compelling – and the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) remains unbeatable.
We get it. Every company is fast becoming a technology company. And your IT infrastructure is the nerve center of your business. We put on CFO/CTO/COO hats and act as both technology and business advisors. We go well beyond features and benefits and provide customized risk and TCO analyses. We do not “default” to anything because in IaaS, the players change especially frequently. And we bring in vetted partners to solve any ancillary problem standing in the way of your implementation.
There is no “one size fits most” in IaaS – and the devil is often in the details. The only path to creating “raving fan” customers goes through a willingness to dive into the complexity, to remove weak links in the chain, and to ensure full lifecycle support.With 25+ years in IT including 15 years’ running a national MSP (IT Managed Service Provider), inside access, encyclopedic knowledge, and both consulting and engineering pedigrees, we’ve been advising companies on IaaS since inception.

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We step into the gap between your aspirations and service provider reality.

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Get your own team of insiders to source, manage and support best-fit IT, cloud and telecom services. Here is how we work: