Professional Services
Your firm runs on files. They should open fast, from anywhere, every time.
Legal, accounting, and engineering practices carry enormous file volumes and expect instant access to all of it — from the office, from home, from a client site, from a deposition.
Technology management is part of Guardian's Managed Services.
What That Looks Like
Storage sized for how much you actually keep
Matter files, drawing sets, and client records that go back years and can't be archived away, because someone will need one of them today.
Performance, not just availability
A large file that technically opens but takes ninety seconds is a billable-time problem. CAD and drawing work in particular needs hardware specified for it, not whatever was on sale.
Compliance that differs by practice
Accounting, legal, and engineering each answer to different requirements. Documentation has to match the one you're actually held to.
Access from wherever the work happens
Court, a client site, a job walk, home. Getting to the file shouldn't depend on which building someone is standing in. Managed Mobile Devices
What We've Seen
An engineering firm came to us running AutoCAD Civil 3D on consumer-grade desktop towers. Drawing files took forever to open and crashes were a daily event. There was no antivirus, no multifactor authentication, and no backup. They were also paying for both Dropbox and SharePoint to do the same job.
We moved their data to SharePoint and OneDrive, dropped Dropbox, and rolled out multifactor authentication, advanced threat protection, and automated cloud backups. The consumer PCs were replaced with NVIDIA-powered CAD workstations.
In a firm that bills for its time, technology friction has a direct cost that never appears on an invoice. Ninety seconds waiting on a file, several times a day, across everyone who does the work, is usually a larger number than whatever it would have cost to fix.
Need to know where you actually stand before a client or insurer asks? See our Security & Compliance Readiness Review.
Let's Talk About What's Slowing the Firm Down
Tell us how much you're storing, where it lives, and what your people wait on most.