Case studies
The work, without the client names
Every engagement below is real and governed by a signed statement of work. None of them name the client, and the partner-delivered ones do not name the partner either — those documents are confidential under their master service agreements, and a firm that publishes its partners' clients is not a firm you should subcontract to.
What is described here is the scope, the constraints, and the outcome. If you need a reference for a specific capability, ask and we will arrange one directly with a client's permission.
- K-12 Education Partner-delivered
Moving 300 virtual machines off VMware without losing one
A large public K-12 school district
A large public school district exits VMware for Azure Local — 300 VMs and 120 TB migrated in planned waves, with Azure Arc onboarding and tested disaster recovery.
- Virtual machines migrated
- ~300 Virtual machines migrated
- Data moved across migration waves
- 120 TB Data moved across migration waves
- Servers onboarded to Azure Arc
- 150–250 Servers onboarded to Azure Arc
- Logistics Partner-delivered
Finding out what would actually come back
A national equipment leasing and logistics company
An independent DR audit across Veeam, NetApp, Carbonite, Microsoft 365 backup, and AWS — with live recovery tests and measured recovery times.
- Backup platforms audited in one engagement
- 4 Backup platforms audited in one engagement
- Recovery time and recovery point measured, not assumed
- Per-platform Recovery time and recovery point measured, not assumed
- Fixed-scope engagement across three weeks
- 120 hrs Fixed-scope engagement across three weeks
- Higher Education Delivered for an MSP partner
Rebuilding identity and detection for a community college
A community college
Entra ID, Microsoft Defender, Azure Site Recovery, and Azure Virtual Desktop delivered for a community college through a reseller partner, under their brand.
- Coordinated workstreams delivered in sequence
- 4 Coordinated workstreams delivered in sequence
- Delivered white-label under the partner brand
- 100% Delivered white-label under the partner brand
- Every identity policy staged before enforcement
- Report-only Every identity policy staged before enforcement
- K-12 Education Delivered for an MSP partner
A hyper-converged refresh scheduled around the school year
A unified school district
Hyper-V failover cluster and hyper-converged refresh for a unified school district, planned around academic calendar blackout periods.
- Change windows available in the entire school year
- 2 Change windows available in the entire school year
- Instructional downtime during cutover
- Zero Instructional downtime during cutover
- Delivered entirely under the partner brand
- White-label Delivered entirely under the partner brand
- Distribution Delivered directly
Becoming the Linux team a distributor could not hire
An industrial products distributor
Managed Linux patching and administration delivered as an ongoing retainer for an industrial distributor whose estate had outgrown its Windows-focused internal team.
- Retained engagement across multiple years
- Ongoing Retained engagement across multiple years
- Patching with tested rollback, not ad-hoc
- Scheduled Patching with tested rollback, not ad-hoc
- Estate inventory the client did not previously have
- Documented Estate inventory the client did not previously have
- Local Government Delivered directly
Separating a control network from the business network
A municipal water utility
Network assessment, managed firewall, and SCADA DMZ segmentation for a municipal water utility — isolating OT without disrupting service delivery.
- Control network separated from corporate IT
- Isolated Control network separated from corporate IT
- Assessment findings with prioritized remediation
- Documented Assessment findings with prioritized remediation
- Ongoing firewall administration and support capacity
- Retained Ongoing firewall administration and support capacity
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