Cloud & Managed IT
Cloud and IT sourcing without the vendor maze.
Productivity suites, backup and disaster recovery, managed IT, and migration coordination — reviewed against one set of requirements, with supplier options compared side by side.
What We Source
The cloud and IT stack, one desk.
Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace
Start with the licenses you pay for, who uses them, and which features each team needs. That makes unused seats and mismatched tiers visible without assuming every subscription is waste. We source Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace through supplier channels, compare suitable tiers, and put the options beside what you're paying today.
Backup & disaster recovery
Before comparing backup options, decide how much data the business could lose and how long key systems could be unavailable. We source endpoint, server, and cloud-to-cloud backup and disaster-recovery options, including Microsoft 365 data protection, against those requirements rather than a supplier's default bundle.
Managed IT & MSP sourcing
If your business needs day-to-day IT support — a help desk, patching, device management — that's a managed service provider, and choosing one is a real procurement decision: scope, response commitments, per-user pricing, and exit terms vary widely. To be clear about our role: we source and coordinate, we are not your MSP. We help you define requirements, gather comparable proposals through our network, and weigh them — the ongoing support relationship is between you and the provider you choose.
Cloud migration coordination
Moving email, files, or workloads to the cloud can involve licensing, connectivity, security, and migration work from different suppliers. We coordinate the sourcing side: the subscriptions, the bandwidth the migration will need, and the suppliers doing the work. Before cutover, confirm who owns testing, acceptance, and cancellation of the old services.
When to Review
Four moments cloud and IT are worth a look.
License sprawl
Compare billed seats with active users, then check whether each paid tier matches the features that team needs.
A server is aging out
End-of-life hardware is the natural moment to price cloud against replacing the box.
IT support is stretched
Whether it's one overloaded person or no one at all, that's when MSP sourcing belongs on the table.
A close call happened
A ransomware scare or a failed restore is the loudest argument for reviewing backup and DR properly.
Our Role, Plainly
We source and coordinate. We are not your MSP.
SwitchU is a procurement desk. We define requirements with you, benchmark options across available supplier channels, coordinate contracting and implementation, and keep your agreements on a renewal calendar. We don't run your help desk, manage your servers, or answer your 2 a.m. outage call — the providers we help you choose do that, under contracts you've actually compared.
Cloud decisions also lean on the rest of the stack — the connectivity that carries the workloads and the security controls around them — which is why one desk across categories is the point.
FAQ
Straight answers on cloud and IT.
Review your cloud and IT spend.
Tell us what you run — subscriptions, backup, support arrangements — and a SwitchU advisor will come back within one business day.