Managed IT Support in Battersea

Battersea’s business mix has changed enormously in a decade. Alongside the older workshops and mansion-block professionals there is now a dense band of studios, agencies, product teams and design practices in and around the Power Station development — organisations of eight or twenty people who generate an enormous amount of data and treat a dropped video call as a genuine incident. That shapes what ongoing support has to cover. The first pressure point is nearly always storage. Photo libraries, edit projects, CAD sets and design archives grow far faster than anyone budgets for, and the usual answer — everybody keeps their own copies, plus a consumer cloud folder syncing badly in the background — falls over the moment two people edit the same asset. Putting work on properly configured shared storage, whether that is a NAS on the premises or cloud storage arranged sensibly, removes a whole category of daily friction. The second is the network itself. Open-plan floors are hostile to Wi-Fi: glass partitions, exposed services, thirty devices contending for the same channel and a router the developer left in a riser cupboard. We stabilised exactly this for a two-floor firm whose Wi-Fi kept dropping during video calls — the fix was survey, placement and wired backhaul rather than buying faster kit. Getting the network right underpins everything else. Third is the churn of people. Studios run on freelancers and contract crew who need access on Monday and should lose it when the project ships. Left unmanaged, six months of that leaves a client folder readable by a dozen people nobody employs. Provisioning and de-provisioning on a routine, plus a tested backup of the work itself, is most of what protects a creative business from its own pace. We are two and a half miles away, roughly twelve to fifteen minutes, outside the congestion zone, with parking that is usually workable — so onsite time is easy to arrange around a shoot or a deadline. See the managed IT support page for the full picture, the marketing agencies notes for sector specifics, or our Battersea page for everything else we do locally.

Based in Putney (SW15), supporting Battersea — 12–15 minutes away.