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IT Services for Startups

Need IT Services for Your Startup and Don’t Know Where to Start?

We know you’re winging it. That’s just what start-ups do. You’re moving fast to grab great talent and early customers. You’re scrabbling to get the team, timing, market, and finances just right. And now you’re scaling. Holy macaroni, are you scaling! And, look, here’s Attila the Investor flashing that sweet, sweet Series B coin you’re drooling over.

Your startup adventure will be chock full of oh-god-what-now moments, but IT doesn’t have to be one of them. If your head is swimming trying to figure out where to start with IT services for your startup, this guide has your back. Grab your coffee and a scone (or two) and let’s jump in.

The Must-Have IT Services for Startups

Mobile Device Management

Ensures all your devices are connected and secure

Mobile device management, fondly referred to as MDM, is the foundation of excellent IT services. MDM involves important stuff like automated encryption, remote device wiping and data locking, controlled access, and remote monitoring management. Got an unholy mess of endpoints in all the colors, flavors, and continents? Awesome! MDM helps corral them into a managed, secured, and optimized fleet that delights your team, pisses off wannabe hackers, and makes your compliance auditor dance that happy dance you love. What’s that you say? BYOD too? Sure, the best MDM services for startups are inclusive.

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Automated Onboarding

Quick, easy, zero-touch onboarding for new hires

Want fast, streamlined, and just-right onboarding? Of course you do. With the right IT service, it’s all yours, Goldilocks. Automated onboarding cuts the fluff and ensures new hires get up to speed with the right apps, policies, and access for an easy transition. Things like zero-touch onboarding and conditional access mean more security and calmer new hires. No matter how many new people you’re taking on by Friday, a comprehensive onboarding service will customize configurations to provide exactly what they need. Get your newbies connected and ready for action in, ooh, about 20 minutes with user-driven onboarding.

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Cybersecurity

Keeps your data out of the hands of hackers

Nothing says “We can’t be trusted to do stuff right” more than being locked out of your pitch deck presentation just before that venture capital meeting. The right IT service for startups should stuff you with a delicious buffet of compliance-friendly cybersecurity tools and services that’ll minimize your hackable footprint and keep you, your data, and your reputation safe 24/7. IT services should help you identify where your most sensitive data lives, monitor and protect it, and create an ongoing culture of cybersecurity so your people can help you defend your treasures.

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IT Management

Helps you optimize your IT ecosystem to make it work for you

Leading a startup is harder than juggling bitey kittens with your pants on fire. Upside down. In the dark. And that’s why clever startups hire someone else to manage their IT for them. IT strategy experts can talk you through IT governance, risk reduction, and how to measure whether your strategy is even working. An extra pair of hands comes free with brains that’ll secure, maintain, and optimize your IT ecosystem so everything plays nicely together. And, the best IT services for startups come with a side-order of CTO-as-a-Service for strategic IT consultancy.

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IT Support

Friendly humans to hold your hand (through the phone) if IT things get rough

No matter what you do or where you do it, you’ll want a flexible month-to-month IT support service that will keep your uptime up and all systems systematized. Network monitoring, inventory management, device warehousing, plus an awesome help desk peopled with friendly humans that actually want to help are essential to keeping you and your team safe and happy.

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IT Services for Startups From People That Get You

Ignition offers comprehensive IT services for startups that’ll give your business a headstart. Not to brag, but our Net Promoter Score is 86 (the industry average is 44) – the math just adds up. Our twenty years in the Damn-Good-IT-for-Startups game means you can stop crying yourself to sleep because you’ve just found a whole ton of IT smarts that are on your side. (That’s us).

Ignition is Silicon Valley’s best (and friendliest) IT security, compliance, and support team. Contact us now–chatting about our top-notch IT services is our favorite thing to do!

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