New offices need IT built right, not patched together
Lakewood Ranch is where Southwest Florida businesses go to open a second location, move from older space, or start from scratch. Medical and dental practices along Lakewood Ranch Boulevard and near Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, professional firms around Main Street and Waterside, and growing companies in the office parks off University Parkway. New space is the one chance to build the network correctly before a "temporary" router becomes permanent.
We design and install the network, Wi-Fi, firewall, phones, and workstations for new Lakewood Ranch offices, then manage all of it on one flat monthly plan with security built in.
What's included
- Network design and installation for new or renovated space: cabling, switching, Wi-Fi, firewall
- Workstations and laptops delivered configured, encrypted, and joined to Microsoft 365
- Cloud phone system with desk phones, mobile apps, and number porting with no downtime
- 24/7 monitoring, patching, and unlimited help desk once you're open
- Security built in: endpoint detection, email security, enforced MFA, staff training, managed firewall
- Tested backups and a written recovery plan from day one
- Quarterly planning as the office grows
For practices and firms already here
Many Lakewood Ranch businesses opened with whatever the general contractor's low-voltage sub installed and whatever the first employee set up in Microsoft 365. We take those environments over regularly. The first 30 days cover the usual list: documenting what exists, enforcing MFA, deploying endpoint detection, verifying a backup restore, separating guest Wi-Fi, and closing former-employee accounts.
Between Sarasota and Bradenton
Lakewood Ranch sits on the route our technicians drive between Sarasota and Bradenton, which makes same or next business day on-site response the norm rather than the exception. Our office is in Englewood, and we're in Manatee County every week.
Compliance in a growing practice
New practices here are often under HIPAA from the first patient. New firms handling financial data are under the FTC Safeguards Rule. We build the required controls in at opening, which is far cheaper than retrofitting them after an audit, and the Compliance add-on provides the risk assessment and evidence file.
Getting started
If you're planning a Lakewood Ranch office, bring us in before the build-out. If you're already open, a free assessment takes about 30 minutes and produces a written gap list with priorities. No cost, no obligation.