At Cowbell, we’re really concerned with that thing: what’s best for your business. With a combined quarter century of hands-on first-hand experience in everything from building development environments, data center moves, security audits (giving and receiving,) operating system migrations, vendor management and outsourcing,  caring hands-on support and light mental therapy,  and fixing your Windows Domain woes, we know what makes a network tick, from the small business to the enterprise.

Projects

Do you have a business project? Maybe you know what you want your end result to be, but you don’t know where to start or you don’t have time. Or, maybe you know exactly what’s involved and you want to hire someone to build a plan for you. Cowbell can help you make it happen. For big business or small, we will break it down into three easy steps, you can choose one or all three depending on your needs:

Assessment and planning

Want to know where to go next, or just how to get things in place without blowing up your network? Maybe you just want to ballpark a project for effort and expenses, this is what you’ll need.

Deployment and implementation

This is where we roll up our sleeves and go to work. Using materials from our planning steps or from yours, we put your plans into action.

Steady state and maintenance

If you are a business owner or department manager, you rarely go a day without asking yourself: How do we keep our business running? What happens when Admin Bob decides to go on permanent vacation in New Zealand? Do we know for sure we can recover our business if we lose the data on our servers? This is where we help you with the day-to-day tasks. Again drawing from our planning phase or yours, we put reliable, repeatable processes around the systems you’ve built so that your network stays online and humming. Whether you choose to have Cowbell provide your support or you want your own team to take it over, we’ll make sure you have the tools you need to keep the system healthy

Service Contracts or one-time service

Whether you just need to put out a fire or you need someone within easy reach all the time, Cowbell can do it. Our experts will schedule regular visits to your sites, whether you have one or many. We can provide support over the phone, remotely, via drop-off or mail-in, or of course on site. Here are some of our core competencies and services we can provide:

• Workstation rollouts
• Application rollouts
• Server purchasing and installation
• Checking Workstation, application, server, website, network performance
• Operating system (security) updates
• Antivirus and antispam\antimalware software and updates
• Development environments
• Backup planning and maintenance and disaster recovery planning and testing
• Business process evaluation
• Microsoft product planning and licensing
• Securing your systems and processes
• Workstation and application support
• Server Support
• Active Directory migrations and support
• Scripting and automation for your network, processes, or website
• Secure file transfer systems
• Upgrading your existing systems
• Steady-state oatmeal deployment and distribution