As companies grow, so does the challenge of providing staff with a coherent, easy to manage and cost-effective IT environment. A proliferation of desktops – all with different builds and all running off different servers and systems – is a scenario that we often encounter.

Although such an ‘ad-hoc’ infrastructure may work temporarily, the chances are that it will become increasingly costly to manage as operational problems – such as unsupported legacy software and the requirement to patch and upgrade machines separately – increase. Man hours will be lost as users are unable to work while their machines are being fixed.

Xarus regularly manages projects designed to deliver a unified desktop / server infrastructure solution across an organisation and to migrate large numbers of users (often thousands at a time) to it. We deal successfully with all the issues of data and email migration and the transfer of user settings to provide a pain-free transition. Subsequent to the transfer, we can help to ensure that all hardware and software acquisitions, upgrades and disposals are efficiently and cost-effectively managed.