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The IT Operations Problem Most Startups Face
Your infrastructure is working fine. Systems are up. Users are happy. But you're burning money on it.
A single senior Linux engineer costs $120K-$150K annually. Add benefits, equity, and recruiting costs, and you're looking at $180K+ just to have someone watch infrastructure, apply patches, handle user provisioning, and respond to incidents.
For most growing companies, that's not a sustainable business model. You need infrastructure expertise, but you don't have enough work to justify a full-time hire.
What Managed IT Services Actually Means
Managed IT Services isn't about outsourcing your entire engineering team. It's about outsourcing the operational toil—the repetitive, predictable work that doesn't directly drive your product forward.
Typical Managed IT Services from Sahi include:
- 24/7 Network Operations Center (NOC): Real-time monitoring of your entire infrastructure, with automated alerting and incident response
- Linux System Administration: User management, package updates, security patches, performance tuning, container orchestration
- Windows Server Management: Active Directory administration, group policy management, Windows Update deployment, performance optimization
- VMware / Virtualization: VM provisioning, resource allocation, backup management, disaster recovery planning
- Database Administration: Backup verification, query optimization, replication management, failover procedures
- Security Operations: Log analysis, vulnerability scanning, compliance reporting (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR)
The Economics: Why This Makes Sense for Startups
Let's do the math for a typical growth-stage startup:
Traditional Model (Hiring):
- One Senior SRE/Infrastructure Engineer: $150K salary + 40% benefits = $210K/year
- Recruiting and onboarding costs: $15K-$20K
- Training and development: $5K-$10K/year
- Total: ~$230K+ annually for one person
Managed IT Services Model (Sahi):
- 24/7 NOC monitoring: $3K-$5K/month
- Linux/Windows administration: $2K-$3K/month
- Database and application support: $1K-$2K/month
- Total: ~$6K-$10K/month (~$72K-$120K annually)
The difference? You save 50-68% on infrastructure costs while getting better 24/7 coverage, no hiring hassles, and the flexibility to scale up or down as your needs change.
What You Get with Sahi's Managed IT Services
Comprehensive Monitoring
Real-time visibility into CPU, memory, disk, network, database health, and application performance. Alerts are configured intelligently—we tell you about problems that matter, not noise.
Proactive Maintenance
We don't wait for things to break. Security patches are applied on schedules that minimize risk. Database maintenance runs during off-peak hours. System capacity is monitored to catch issues before they impact users.
Incident Response
When something goes wrong at 3 AM, you don't wake up. Our NOC team responds within 15 minutes, assesses the situation, and either fixes it or escalates to your engineering team with full context.
Compliance & Security
If your customers require HIPAA, GDPR, or SOC 2 compliance, we handle the infrastructure side—audit logs, encryption, access controls, vulnerability scanning, and compliance reporting.
Disaster Recovery
Regular backup verification, failover testing, and documented procedures ensure your business survives infrastructure failures, ransomware, or data corruption.
When Managed IT Services Make Sense
Managed IT is ideal if:
- You have 10-500+ users and growing infrastructure
- You can't afford a full-time infrastructure person yet
- Your infrastructure is mission-critical and downtime costs money
- You need compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2) but lack internal expertise
- You want to focus engineering time on product, not operations
Getting Started with Managed IT Services
We typically start with a free infrastructure audit—30 minutes to understand your current setup, identify gaps, and recommend support levels that fit your business.
Most startups start with basic NOC support ($3K-$5K/month) and add system administration as their infrastructure grows ($2K-$3K/month additional).
Ready to reduce infrastructure burden? Schedule a free infrastructure audit with Sahi Technologies. We'll review your current setup, identify cost savings, and recommend a support model that fits your stage. Book Free Audit →
