Smart IT Solutions
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In The Sky IT gives startups, small businesses and non-profits access to enterprise-grade technology expertise without hiring an enterprise IT department
Cloud Solutions Architecture
Microsoft, Amazon and Open Source cloud solutions, designed and set up around how your business works.
Does This Sound Familiar?
Files live in three places and nobody is sure which copy is current. Half the team works in email attachments. You are paying for licences nobody uses, and the person who originally set it all up left two years ago.
What Is Cloud Solutions Architecture?
Most small organisations end up with the cloud setup they were sold, not the one they need. Someone bought a handful of licences, someone else added SharePoint, and it grew from there without anyone standing back and asking how the organisation actually works.
We design the environment around your real working patterns, then configure it properly: file structure, permissions, identity, backup and the licensing to match. We work across Microsoft 365 and open source alternatives, and we will tell you honestly where the free or cheaper option is good enough.
What We Deliver
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Environment design: File structure, sharing model and permissions built around how your teams work rather than around the org chart.
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Microsoft 365 configuration: SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive and Exchange, set up so people can find things and the wrong people cannot.
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Migration: Moving from local servers, consumer file sharing or another provider, without losing data or a week of everyone's time.
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Licence review: What you are paying for, what you are actually using, and what can be downgraded or dropped.
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Open source alternatives: Where a self-hosted or open source option genuinely fits better or costs less, we will design and build that instead.
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Backup and recovery: Cloud platforms are not backups. We put a real recovery position in place.
Case Study
Anonymised British Manufacturing Client
The client has a consistent, documented standard for its Microsoft 365 environment and an internal team equipped to apply and maintain it. New workspaces are created deliberately rather than ad hoc, and there is a clear answer to the question of who owns what.