IT Services and Consulting in Scottsdale
NetSys provides IT consulting to businesses in Scottsdale: written assessments, roadmaps with real numbers, cloud and Microsoft 365 migrations, network designs, compliance programs and a virtual CIO who stays for the quarterly review. Engineers since 1998, not a sales deck. Scottsdale is served from Brooklyn, two to three hours behind us depending on daylight time. Monitoring, help desk and remediation run remotely around the clock from Brooklyn, with coverage hours stated in Mountain time in the proposal. On-site commitments are arranged in advance and sized to the engagement. Most clients run between 10 and 75 seats, and every agreement is month to month.
The short answer
NetSys provides IT consulting to businesses in Scottsdale: assessments, technology roadmaps with costs, Microsoft 365 and Azure migrations, network and office designs, security and compliance programs and virtual CIO reviews. Delivery is remote-first from Brooklyn, with coverage hours stated in Mountain time, and on-site commitments are arranged in advance and sized to the engagement, up to a dedicated engineer with a drive time generally under an hour where regular presence is part of the scope. Most clients run between 10 and 75 seats, and every agreement is month to month.
How IT consulting is delivered in Scottsdale
Scottsdale is served from Brooklyn, two to three hours behind us depending on daylight time. Monitoring, help desk and remediation run remotely around the clock from Brooklyn, with coverage hours stated in Mountain time in the proposal. On-site commitments outside the tri-state area are arranged in advance and sized to the engagement: a mostly remote engagement needs no dedicated on-site engineer, while an engagement that calls for regular presence, such as vCISO work with someone on site two days a week, gets a dedicated engineer whose drive time is generally under an hour, depending on where that engineer and your office are. Hardware ships pre-configured, so most projects need no visit at all. The buildings decide a lot of the design. Kierland and the Airpark have carrier choice, but Old Town offices often run on one Cox circuit, and the wealth-management concentration means SEC and FINRA expectations shape the design. The carriers we see most in Scottsdale are Cox Business, Lumen and AT&T Business Fiber, and the failover design starts with which of them actually reach your building.
Who IT consulting in Scottsdale is built for
Most of our Scottsdale work sits in Old Town Scottsdale, the Scottsdale Airpark, North Scottsdale, Kierland and Paradise Valley: wealth managers and family offices on Orion, medical and dental practices on Dentrix, real estate and title companies on Qualia, law firms on Clio, professional firms on QuickBooks Online, and hospitality businesses on Toast. Each carries its own compliance load, which the section below covers, and each has a line-of-business vendor we coordinate with rather than work around. Companies with an internal IT person fit too; in that case we supply the monitoring, the security stack and the after-hours coverage behind them, and they keep their projects.
What tends to go wrong in Scottsdale
Two things shape the continuity design here. First, the weather and the grid: monsoon-season power outages and overheated server closets are the recurring risk, so temperature alerts, UPS runtime and off-site backups are standard. Second, the attacks that actually land locally are ordinary ones, and the public record shows how they go: the 2016 breach at Phoenix-based Banner Health, which exposed the data of 3.7 million people and led to a $1.25 million HIPAA settlement in 2023. The controls in the next section are the ones that would have changed those stories.
IT Consulting in Scottsdale: what NetSys delivers
Know what you have
- Discovery across every server, cloud tenant, device, circuit and contract, written up in IT Glue so it stays current
- Risk register with the ten findings that matter most, each with a fix, an owner and a cost
- Licensing audit of Microsoft 365, line-of-business software and security tools, with money found in seats nobody uses
- Rapid7 InsightVM scan of the internal and external footprint so the roadmap starts from measured exposure
Decide and build
- Cloud strategy with real numbers: keep, refresh or migrate, for each workload, with Azure and Microsoft 365 sized from your data
- Microsoft 365 architecture: Entra ID, Conditional Access, Intune, SharePoint information design and Exchange Online, in that order
- Office moves and build-outs specified from the floor plan: cabling, Cisco Meraki networking, Wi-Fi, failover and building access
- Security programs designed to the framework you are measured against, with the evidence an auditor or insurer will ask for
Keep it honest
- Virtual CIO reviews each quarter, with a written roadmap, a budget and a list of what changed
- Vendor management for the decisions that involve a CRM, ERP, EHR or practice-management vendor
- Due diligence for acquisitions and leases, so surprises show up in the report rather than after closing
- Month-to-month terms, with consulting priced by the project or by the review rather than by the hour
A 40-person medical or dental practice in Old Town Scottsdale
The specific engagements behind this profile are under NDA, so it is written as a generalization rather than a named client. Our published, client-approved outcomes are in case studies.
A medical or dental practice in Old Town Scottsdale with 40 staff, two offices on two different systems, and a leadership team that wants one. The server in the closet is seven years old and the vendor quoted a refresh nobody understands. Dentrix lives on one side, the other side runs on spreadsheets, and the identity, file and email layers were never designed to be shared. A compliance questionnaire arrived in the middle of it.
- Rapid7 InsightVM scan of the external and internal footprint, so the roadmap starts from measured exposure rather than assumptions
- SharePoint information architecture designed by function and role before the file migration, so permissions follow the business rather than whoever created a folder
- A written security program mapped to the framework in play, with the control, the evidence and the owner listed for each requirement
- Project plan with a named engineer, acceptance checks for each phase and a cutover scheduled outside business hours
- A handover document that says what was built, what was decided and why, so the next person does not start from zero
- Workload-by-workload cloud assessment: each on-premises system sized for Azure, priced against a hardware refresh, and sequenced by dependency
The company knows what it has, what it should change and what each option costs, in one document it can act on. The projects that follow have a plan, an owner and acceptance checks, and the same engineer runs the quarterly review afterwards. Month to month.
On-prem servers to Azure and OneDrive to SharePoint
Two migrations in one engagement. The client's servers lived in the office, so the business lived with the office's power, cooling and hardware age, and years of files sat in individual OneDrive accounts shared ad hoc. NetSys assessed and sized each workload and moved it into Azure with identity anchored in Entra ID, designed a SharePoint structure of sites by function and permissions by role before moving a single file, migrated the OneDrive estate into it, set backups for both platforms and took on day-to-day management. The write-up is limited to the scope delivered, with no outcome figures claimed.
Compliance in Scottsdale: A.R.S. § 18-552 and what sits on top of it
If you hold personal information on a resident of Arizona, Arizona's breach-notification statute (A.R.S. § 18-552) requires notice to affected residents within 45 days of determining a breach occurred, with notice to the Attorney General and the three consumer reporting agencies when more than 1,000 residents are affected. Healthcare practices carry HIPAA, aerospace and defense suppliers face CMMC 2.0, and financial and real-estate firms answer to insurer and customer questionnaires. Consulting engagements map each requirement to a control, an owner and the evidence an auditor or insurer will ask for, before anything is bought. Most firms we take over have none of it documented, which is the part that matters if you ever have to demonstrate compliance, so the documentation is built during onboarding rather than sold as a separate project.
What IT consulting costs in Scottsdale
Consulting is priced by the project or by the review rather than by the hour: an assessment has a fixed price based on the size of the environment, a migration is quoted from the workload inventory, and virtual CIO advisory is a monthly figure that scales with how many reviews and decisions a year you need. What moves the number is the number of systems and sites, the compliance standard in play and whether we are also managing the environment afterwards. Every quote is written from discovery, and the terms run month to month.
Who this fits, and who it does not
Best fit: 10 to 150 employees, a decision on the table that involves cloud, an office move, an acquisition, a compliance program or a system nobody trusts, and leadership that wants options with numbers rather than a sales deck.
Not a fit: businesses looking for staff augmentation by the hour, or projects where the outcome has already been decided and only a signature is wanted. We consult to reach the right answer, which sometimes means telling you not to buy something.
Read next
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IT Consulting in Scottsdale: FAQs
How is IT consulting different from managed IT services?
Managed IT runs your environment every day: help desk, monitoring, security, backups. Consulting answers a question or delivers a project: whether to move to Azure, how to pass an audit, what a new office needs, what an acquisition target's IT will cost. Many clients use both, with consulting decisions feeding the managed roadmap.
Do you charge by the hour?
No. Assessments carry a fixed price based on the size of the environment, projects are quoted from the inventory, and virtual CIO advisory is a monthly figure. Terms run month to month, and the scope of every engagement is written down before it starts.
Can you do IT due diligence on a company we are buying?
Yes. We inventory the target's accounts, licenses, contracts, backups and security posture, and report the three risks that need a price before closing. Findings are in writing and the review is scoped to the transaction timetable.
Do you have an office in Scottsdale?
Our office is in Brooklyn, NY. Scottsdale is served from Brooklyn, two to three hours behind us depending on daylight time. Outside the tri-state area the on-site arrangement is agreed before the engagement starts and sized to what it needs: none for a mostly remote account, and a dedicated engineer, generally within an hour's drive, where regular presence such as vCISO work with someone on site two days a week is part of the scope. The proposal states that arrangement, coverage hours in Mountain time and any travel in writing, and the agreement runs month to month.
What does Arizona require after a data breach?
A.R.S. § 18-552 gives a business 45 days from determining a breach occurred to notify affected residents; more than 1,000 affected residents also means notice to the Attorney General and the consumer reporting agencies. Logs and a written response plan are what make the deadline realistic.
Bring the decision you are stuck on.
A cloud move, a merger, a compliance deadline, a system nobody trusts. Tell us what you run and what has to change, and an engineer comes back with an assessment, options with real numbers and the order to do them in.