How does co-managed actually work?

We define ownership of each domain in writing — what your team owns, what we own, where we collaborate. Day-to-day, we appear as another tier in your support workflow with full context on your environment.

Won't this make our IT team feel threatened?

Not when it's set up properly. Co-managed works because both sides have full plates. Internal teams typically welcome a senior bench they can escalate to without the recruitment overhead — not the other way around.

Can you do project work without a long-term commitment?

Yes. Most co-managed clients start with a defined project — a security uplift, an Azure migration, a Microsoft 365 hardening — and then decide whether to keep us on a retainer afterwards.

Mid-sized business IT

IT support for medium-sized enterprises.

Co-managed IT support for medium-sized enterprises with internal IT — project capacity, senior engineering bench, and the cyber-security and infrastructure depth that in-house teams don't always have time for.

Why medium-sized enterprises choose Chewing IT

Mid-sized enterprises typically have an internal IT team — but the team is busy keeping the lights on. Strategic projects, security uplifts and infrastructure refreshes get pushed back. Specialist work — Microsoft 365 hardening, Azure migrations, MDR, cyber-security assessments — sits outside the team's day-to-day.

Chewing IT works as a co-managed partner. Your team keeps owning what they own; we provide the senior engineering bench, project capacity and specialist depth alongside them. No politics, no land-grab — just a working relationship that gets things shipped.

IT challenges medium-sized enterprises face

The recurring patterns we see — and the ones that shape how we set up your environment.

Project backlog vs day-to-day operations

Internal IT teams are typically over-subscribed to BAU. The strategic projects that really move the business slip quarter after quarter.

Specialist skills that don't justify a full-time hire

Cyber security, Azure, Microsoft 365 governance, network architecture — each justifies access to a specialist, not a permanent FTE.

Independent assurance and second opinions

Boards and audit committees increasingly want a second opinion on cyber posture, IT spend and risk. We provide that without disrupting your team.

What we deliver for medium-sized enterprises

The components we tailor to your sector. Each links through to the underlying solution.

Co-managed IT services

Defined scope, defined ownership. Your team and ours work side by side — we cover what they don't, they cover what we don't.

Co-Managed IT

Project delivery capacity

Senior engineers available for project work — Microsoft 365 migrations, Azure landing zones, security uplifts, infrastructure refreshes.

Managed IT Support

Cyber security assessments and uplift

Independent cyber-security assessments mapped to the Essential Eight, with a remediation plan your board can fund.

Security Assessment

Virtual CIO and IT strategy

Strategic IT advisory for boards and exec teams — roadmap, budget, risk reporting and vendor governance.

Virtual CIO

The solutions behind the work

The most-relevant Chewing IT solutions for medium-sized enterprises. Browse the full solutions catalogue for everything we cover.

Co-Managed IT

Augment your in-house IT team

Got an internal IT person or team but stretched thin? We slot in alongside them — taking on the heavy lifting like 24/7 monitoring, security tooling, after-hours coverage and project work, so your in-house team can focus on the business.

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Managed IT Support

Fully managed support, security & strategy

A fixed-monthly managed plan that covers your people, your devices and your servers. We monitor, patch, secure and support — and act as your strategic IT partner so technology pulls in the same direction as your business.

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Cyber Security

24/7 protection, monitoring & response.

A layered, modern security stack built for small and medium businesses. We combine endpoint protection, application allow-listing, identity hardening and 24/7 managed detection & response — so threats are spotted, isolated and neutralised before they spread.

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Security Assessment

95+ checks. Free, written report.

Our complimentary Microsoft 365 Security Assessment runs more than 95 checks across the services your business actually depends on — identity, mail flow, file sharing, device compliance, conditional access, audit logging — and produces a written report you can share with leadership.

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Virtual CIO

Senior IT leadership, fractional cost.

Most SMBs can't justify a full-time CIO. Our Virtual CIO service gives you a senior strategist who sits across your technology, builds a multi-year roadmap, owns vendor relationships and reports into your board.

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Best-in-class technology partners

We don't pick vendors based on commission — we pick the best tools for the job and stand behind them. The stack we deploy day-in, day-out:

Microsoft

Microsoft 365, Azure, Entra ID

QNAP

Network-attached storage

LaCie

Rugged storage & backup drives

StorageCraft

Backup & disaster recovery

Bitdefender

Endpoint security & EDR

Sophos

Firewall & endpoint protection

Blackpoint Cyber

24/7 managed detection & response

ThreatLocker

Application allow-listing & ringfencing