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Helpdesk Devices & Endpoints Servers & Cloud Backup & Recovery Monitoring Documentation
What usually goes wrong

IT Rarely Fails Suddenly. It Fails Slowly, Then All at Once.

Most businesses asking about managed IT are not asking because something broke this morning. They are asking because they have realised nobody can answer a simple question about their own systems. These are the specific patterns behind that.

Nobody actually owns it

The person who set everything up left, or moved on to a different job inside the business. Things still work, but nobody is responsible for them, and nobody has been for a while.

IT only gets attention when it breaks

Every hour spent on IT is spent under pressure, on the worst possible day, by whoever is nearest. Nothing ever gets improved, because there is never a calm moment to improve it in.

Backups run, but nobody has restored one

A backup nobody has ever restored from is a belief, not a plan. The day it matters is a bad day to find out which of the two you had.

Access is never taken away

People join and get added to everything. People leave and get removed from the things somebody remembered. Nobody can produce a list of who can currently reach what.

Updates happen when somebody remembers

Patching is not a schedule, it is a mood. The machines used least — which are often the ones quietly running something important — are the ones that get updated least.

No inventory, so no answers

What hardware do you own, what is it running, what subscriptions are you paying for, and which of them is nobody using? A surprising number of businesses cannot answer any of the four.

None of these are dramatic on their own. Together they are the reason an ordinary Tuesday problem turns into two days of lost work.
What changes

What Changes When Someone Is Actually Responsible

  • One place your team reports a problem to, instead of asking whoever looks least busy
  • A written record of what you own, what it runs, and who can reach it
  • Updates, access changes and backups happening on a schedule rather than on a reminder
  • Restores that have actually been tested before the day you need one
  • Problems noticed by monitoring before they are reported by a frustrated employee
  • A predictable monthly cost in place of an unpredictable emergency one
What we manage

The Systems Your Business Runs On, Looked After Properly

One distinction before the list, because it decides whether this is even the right page. This service looks after the IT estate — the people, the devices, the accounts, the infrastructure. Looking after an application we or somebody else built is maintenance & support, and the difference is spelled out in full further down.

IT Helpdesk & User Support

One route for "I can't log in", "this won't print", "my laptop is crawling" and the hundred other small things that quietly cost a team hours a week. Requests get logged, tracked and closed rather than remembered.

Device & Endpoint Management

Laptops and desktops set up consistently, kept patched, and configured the same way for everyone — so a new starter is a routine job rather than an afternoon of improvisation.

Server & Infrastructure Management

The servers and systems everything else depends on: capacity, updates, configuration, health, and the unglamorous housekeeping that keeps them from becoming an incident.

Cloud Infrastructure Management

Running what you already have in the cloud — resources, access, configuration, availability and the cost of it. Deciding what should move there in the first place is technology consulting.

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Backups that run to a schedule, and restores that get tested to one. This is the service our homepage has listed since long before this page existed, and it has a section of its own below.

Network & Connectivity

The connectivity your office and your remote staff depend on — firewalls, remote access, and the network configuration that decides whether working from home is fine or a daily argument.

Email, Accounts & Access

Business email and productivity accounts, joiners and leavers, permissions and multi-factor authentication. We work with the platforms you already run rather than telling you which one you should have picked.

Monitoring & Alerting

Watching the things that give warning before they fail — disk space, backup jobs, service availability, certificate expiry — so the first person to know is us rather than your customer.

Documentation & Asset Inventory

A maintained record of what you own, what it runs, what it costs and who has access. The least exciting item on this list, and the one clients notice most when they have never had it.

Coverage and response

Why There Is No Response Time Printed on This Page

Most managed IT pages open with a round-the-clock promise and a number in minutes. We are not going to put one here, because a support commitment that was written before we knew anything about your business is marketing, not a commitment. What we will do is agree all of this with you in writing before the engagement starts — the same way an IT audit scope is agreed before the audit begins — and then be held to it.

The hours we cover

Set against how your business actually operates. A single-shift office and a business running a late shift six days a week do not need the same cover, and should not pay for the same cover.

What counts as urgent

Priority levels defined and agreed before there is an incident, so nobody is negotiating the severity of a problem while it is happening.

How your team reaches us

The channels agreed at the start, and who in your business is authorised to raise what. Vague reporting routes are the reason issues sit unreported for days.

What happens when it escalates

Where a problem goes when the first response has not resolved it, and at what point you get told rather than finding out.

What is included, and what is billed

The line between the retainer and separately quoted work, written down. Hardware purchases, projects and migrations are usually the other side of it, and you should know that on day one.

Who you actually deal with

A named point of contact who knows your setup, rather than a fresh explanation of your business to whoever picks up.

If a provider quotes you a response time before asking any of the six questions above, they have quoted you a sentence rather than a service.
The free assessment

What We Look At Before Quoting Anything

This is the actual scope of the free IT assessment — enough to understand your estate and quote honestly against it, and enough for you to act on the findings yourself if you would rather. It is a scoping review, not a formal audit: where something needs testing, evidence and a written report you can hand to a board or an insurer, that is our paid IT audit, and we will say so rather than doing half of it for free and calling it thorough.
  • What you actually have — devices, servers, cloud services and the subscriptions attached to them
  • Who currently looks after it, and what happens when that person is unavailable
  • Backups: whether they run, what they cover, and whether a restore has ever been tested
  • Access and accounts, including anyone who has left and can still reach something
  • Patching and update status across the machines and systems in use
  • What is monitored today, and what would fail silently until somebody noticed
  • The single points of failure — one machine, one login, one person — that a business rarely sees from inside
  • What documentation exists, and how much of your setup lives only in somebody's head
Where this fits

Managed IT, Maintenance, Audit and Consulting Are Four Different Things

We sell all four, which makes it our job to tell you which one you are actually asking for. The shortest version: "the accounts team can't log in" is managed IT; "the booking system is throwing an error" is maintenance and support. One looks after the estate your business runs on, the other looks after a piece of software.

Maintenance & Support is the software

Applications, websites, the code and the database behind them, deployments, integrations and new features. Our maintenance & support service covers that, including the server an application runs on and the backups of its data. This page covers the estate around it — the people, devices, accounts and infrastructure your staff use to do their jobs.

An IT audit is a point in time

An IT audit establishes what shape your infrastructure, security, cloud and operations are in right now, and produces a written report with findings and priorities. It is the right starting point when you are taking something over, or when somebody needs evidence rather than reassurance. Managed IT is who then acts on those findings, every month, instead of the report going in a drawer.

Consulting decides what the estate should be

Technology consulting is the strategy layer: the roadmap, what to move to the cloud and when, security and compliance direction, and where the technology should be in three years. Managed IT is what runs it in the meantime. Where an engagement with us is already setting that direction, this service executes against it rather than quietly writing a second strategy you pay for twice.

Security, honestly scoped

The Security Work That Actually Belongs in Day-to-Day IT

Most breaches at this end of the market are not sophisticated. They are an unpatched machine, a shared password, or an account belonging to somebody who left eight months ago. That is operational security, and it is what a managed IT service is for.

Patching on a schedule

Operating systems and the software actually in use, updated to a rhythm instead of when a machine nags somebody enough times.

Access that matches who works here

Joiners get what they need, leavers lose it the same week, and permissions get reviewed rather than accumulating for years.

Multi-factor authentication, properly rolled out

Enabled everywhere it can be, including the accounts people forget — the shared mailbox, the domain registrar, the billing login.

Endpoint protection that is actually running

Installed, updated and reporting on every machine — rather than licensed for forty devices and running on twenty-eight of them.

What this is not

This is not penetration testing, a security operations centre, or compliance certification. We do not offer those and will not imply we do — the honest version is that this closes the ordinary doors, and a specialist tests the walls.

Where compliance belongs

If you need to meet a standard or satisfy a client's security questionnaire, that direction sits with technology consulting and the evidence with an IT audit. Managed IT keeps the day-to-day in a state where those conversations are shorter.

Backup and recovery

A Backup Is Only Real Once Someone Has Restored From It

Backup & Recovery has been one of the four services on our own about page for years, so it is worth setting out plainly what it means here rather than leaving it as a reassuring phrase. Almost every business we assess has backups. Far fewer have ever tested one.
  • Agreeing what actually has to survive — and what does not, because backing up everything equally is how the important things get lost in the noise
  • Automated, scheduled backups rather than a job somebody runs when they remember
  • More than one copy, and not all of them in the same place as the thing they are protecting
  • Monitoring the backup jobs themselves, because a backup that silently stopped six weeks ago is worse than none, having also removed the worry
  • Scheduled restore tests, with the result reported to you — the item almost everybody skips
  • A written recovery plan naming who does what, in what order, and who gets told
  • Agreeing up front how much data you can afford to lose and how long you can afford to be down — the two questions that decide what the rest of this costs
Monitoring and reporting

You Should Be Able to See What You Are Paying For

The failure mode of a managed IT retainer is that it becomes invisible: the invoice arrives, nothing appears to happen, and nobody can tell whether that is because it is working or because nobody is doing anything. These are what we report, and how honestly each one can be read.

What was raised and what was resolved

The requests that came in, what happened to them, and which ones are still open. The open list matters more than the closed one.

The problems that keep coming back

Recurring issues named as recurring, because five tickets about the same laptop is not five incidents — it is one unsolved problem being billed five times.

Patch and update status

What is current, what is behind, and what is behind for a reason — some machine that cannot be updated without breaking something you depend on.

Backup and restore-test results

Not just whether jobs ran, but when a restore was last actually tested and what came back. This is the one nobody asks for until the week they need it.

Capacity and what is running out

Disk, licences, ageing hardware and anything approaching a limit — flagged in the month there is still time to plan, not the month it stops.

The risks we have not fixed

Including the ones you decided not to spend on. Leaving them off the report would make the report look better and be worth less.

Plain-language reporting on a regular cycle, written to be read by whoever runs the business rather than by another IT person.
Who this fits

The Businesses This Is Usually Right For

This is less about your industry than about the shape your IT has grown into. Most enquiries look like one of these.

You have staff, but no IT person

Enough people that IT problems cost real money, not enough to justify hiring someone whose whole job is looking after them.

You have outgrown the one person who knows everything

It worked when there were twelve of you. It is now a risk with a face, and everyone including them knows it.

Multiple locations, or fully remote

The moment IT stops being something you can walk over to and look at, informal arrangements stop working almost immediately.

You hold data you cannot afford to lose or leak

Client records, financial data, health information. The consequences of a bad week are not measured in inconvenience.

Something is changing

A new office, a move, a merger, or an IT provider who has just given notice. These are the enquiries that arrive with a deadline attached, and they are worth having early.

Not sure which of these you are

Then the assessment is the right first step rather than a proposal. What your IT actually needs is a finding, not an assumption.

Our process

From Nobody Owning It to Somebody Owning It

1

Assess

Review the estate against the checklist above and agree what is in scope, what is not, and what the coverage looks like.

Output: findings and an agreed scope.
2

Document

Build the inventory and the access map, so what you own and who can reach it stops living in one person's memory.

Output: an asset and access record.
3

Stabilise

Fix what is actively broken or actively risky first, before improving anything that merely could be better.

Output: the urgent list cleared.
4

Secure

Patching brought up to date, access corrected to match who actually works there, multi-factor authentication rolled out.

Output: the ordinary doors closed.
5

Protect

Backups configured to the agreed scope, and a restore tested rather than assumed.

Output: a tested recovery path.
6

Monitor

Alerting put on the things that give warning before they fail, so the first sign is not an employee complaining.

Output: early warning in place.
7

Support

The helpdesk runs against the agreed coverage, with requests logged, tracked and closed.

Output: day-to-day support running.
8

Review

Regular review of what broke, what is ageing, what is costing more than it should, and what to plan for next.

Output: a maintained improvement plan.
What you get

What a Managed IT Engagement Delivers

Depending on the scope agreed:
  • A helpdesk your team can reach, within agreed coverage
  • An asset inventory and an access map, kept current
  • Managed devices, servers and cloud resources
  • Scheduled patching and update management
  • Joiner, mover and leaver handling for accounts and access
  • Backups running to an agreed scope, with tested restores
  • A written recovery plan
  • Monitoring and alerting on the systems that matter
  • Vendor and supplier liaison, so chasing an internet provider is not your job
  • Regular reporting in plain language, and a named contact who knows your setup
Why LeafyWings

A Software Company Looking After Your IT, Which Cuts Both Ways

Worth being straight about what that means, because it is an advantage in some situations and irrelevant in others.

We understand the software you depend on

Most IT providers stop at the operating system. When the problem turns out to be the application, the database or the integration behind it, that is work we already do rather than a referral to somebody else.

The assessment is a real assessment

It comes out of the same practice as our IT audit service, so what you get back is findings and priorities rather than a proposal with a survey stapled to the front.

Scope and coverage in writing, first

Before the engagement, not after the first argument about whether something was included. It is the most boring commitment on this page and the one that prevents the most trouble.

Reporting that includes what we have not fixed

Open risks and deferred work go in the report, including the items you chose not to spend on. A report showing only good news is a report nobody can act on.

We will tell you when you do not need us

Some businesses genuinely do not need a managed IT retainer, and the section below says exactly which ones. Selling one anyway would be easy and would not survive the first renewal.

Chennai-based, working the way you work

The same team across development, support and IT, in your timezone, on your working week.

Be honest about it

When Managed IT Is the Wrong Thing to Buy

A retainer suits a business with an estate to look after. Several of the enquiries we get are not that, and are better served by something smaller or by something else entirely.

Your only IT is a website and a shared inbox

Then there is no estate to manage. What you probably want is maintenance & support for the site itself, at a fraction of the cost of this.

You need one specific thing fixed

A migration, a server problem, an office move. That is a project with an end, and pricing it as an ongoing retainer would suit us and not you.

You already have a capable IT team

Then the useful conversation is co-managed: we cover what they cannot get to, or the areas nobody has had time for. An IT audit is usually the better place to start than a support contract.

You need certified compliance

If a client or a regulator needs a formal certification, we are not the ones who issue it and will not pretend otherwise. Direction on getting there is technology consulting; the evidence of where you stand today is an IT audit.

The honest summary: managed IT is worth buying when the cost of your IT being nobody's job has started to exceed the cost of making it somebody's. If you are not sure whether you are at that point yet, the assessment will tell you, and it costs nothing to find out.
How managed IT is priced

Three Ways This Gets Priced, and Which One Suits You

Quotes from different providers are notoriously hard to compare because they are often priced on different units entirely. There are three shapes in common use, and knowing which one you are being quoted matters more than the number attached to it:
  • Per user — a monthly figure for every person supported, regardless of how many devices they use. Predictable, and usually the fairest when your team works across a laptop, a phone and a desktop each.
  • Per device — priced on what is being managed rather than who is using it. Tends to suit businesses with shared machines, or with more equipment than staff.
  • Fixed scope — an agreed monthly fee for a defined set of systems and responsibilities. Suits an estate that does not neatly divide into users or devices, such as one built mostly around servers and cloud infrastructure.
Which one you are quoted on should follow the assessment, not precede it, and the same is true of the number. What sits inside the fee — coverage hours, what counts as a project, whether hardware and licences are included — varies more between providers than the headline figure does, which is why the coverage section above exists. Term and notice are set out in the proposal, before anything is signed. Indicative bands for our other services are on the pricing page.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Managed IT looks after the estate your business runs on — the people, their devices, their accounts, the network, the servers and cloud infrastructure, and the backups of your business data. Maintenance & support looks after a piece of software: an application, a website, the code and database behind it, its deployments and its features. The shortest test is who reports the problem and what they say. "The accounts team can't log in" is managed IT. "The booking system is throwing an error" is maintenance and support. Plenty of businesses buy both, and when they do we make sure the line between them is written down rather than argued about later.
Coverage hours are agreed with you in writing before the engagement starts, and we would rather tell you that than print "24/7" on a page and work out the details afterwards. Round-the-clock cover is a staffing commitment, not a marketing line, and it should be quoted against how your business actually runs — a single-shift office and a business operating late six days a week do not need the same thing and should not pay for the same thing. Tell us how you operate and what genuinely cannot wait until morning, and the coverage in your proposal will answer this question specifically rather than generically.
Most of this work is remote by its nature — patching, account changes, monitoring, backups, configuration and the large majority of helpdesk requests do not need anybody in the room. On-site attendance is arranged where the work genuinely requires it, such as hardware, network equipment or setting up a new office, and it is agreed as part of the scope rather than assumed in either direction. We are Chennai-based and work your hours, so this is a practical conversation rather than a limitation.
We work with the platforms you already run rather than requiring you to move to something we prefer, and the honest answer to "do you support X" depends on what X is doing in your business. There is a field on our enquiry form for the main platforms you use, and it is there so this gets answered specifically in the first reply instead of with a logo wall. Where something in your estate genuinely sits outside what we should be responsible for, we will say so during the assessment rather than after you have signed.
Frequently, yes, but as co-managed support rather than as a replacement. In-house IT people are usually fully occupied with the immediate, which means backups, documentation, patching discipline and access reviews are exactly what gets deferred. We can take those, or provide cover for leave and out-of-hours, or handle a specific area nobody has had time for. If your team is genuinely on top of everything, the useful thing to buy from us is an IT audit rather than a support contract, and we would say so.
We handle the operational side of it, which at this end of the market is where most incidents actually come from: patching, endpoint protection, access control, multi-factor authentication, and removing access when people leave. What we do not do is penetration testing, run a security operations centre, or issue compliance certification, and we would rather name that boundary than let it be inferred. Direction on meeting a standard sits with technology consulting, and independent evidence of where you stand today is an IT audit.
That depends entirely on what was agreed and configured beforehand, which is why the backup section on this page is about testing rather than about promises. Where backup and recovery is in scope, we agree what has to survive, how much data you can afford to lose and how long you can afford to be down, configure backups to match, monitor the jobs, and test restores on a schedule with the result reported to you. A provider who answers this question with an unqualified yes, without having asked those three questions first, is answering about their intentions rather than about your data.
It starts with the assessment, because a takeover with no picture of what you have is how things get missed in the handover. From there it is a documented transition: building the inventory and access map, collecting credentials and moving them into proper control, confirming what backups and monitoring exist and where they run, and identifying anything that only worked because of something the outgoing provider held. Where a provider has already given notice and the clock is running, say so at enquiry — that changes the order we do things in, and it is much easier to plan a week before a handover than a week after one.

Find Out What Shape Your IT Is Actually In

Whether you are replacing a provider, moving on from the one person who knows everything, or simply want to know whether your backups would work, start with the assessment. Tell us roughly how many people rely on your IT, who looks after it now, and what worries you most — we will come back with findings, not a generic pitch. Free assessment, no obligation.
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