IT Services for Sarasota, Manatee & Charlotte County Businesses
Portolan Networks provides IT services to businesses across Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties, including Sarasota, Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch, Venice and Port Charlotte. Most clients start with Managed IT, which includes help desk support, 24/7 monitoring, patching and a built-in security baseline. Many of the other services can be added to a managed plan or handled as a stand-alone project.
Managed IT Services
Help desk support, 24/7 monitoring, patching, backup oversight and a built-in security baseline, all for one per-user monthly price. Plans start at $150 per user per month.
Co-Managed IT Services
For businesses with their own IT staff. We take on infrastructure monitoring, patching and 24/7 security monitoring, and back your team up when they’re stretched thin. Responsibilities are divided to fit your team.
Cybersecurity
EDR/MDR backed by a 24/7 security operations center, DNS filtering and privileged access management are included in every Managed IT plan. Add-ons include managed firewalls, vulnerability management, business password managers and secure remote access.
Backup and Disaster Recovery
Local backups for fast restores, plus nightly replication to the cloud. We monitor and test your backups, and if your office is lost, we can restore to a cloud-hosted server so your team keeps working.
Microsoft 365
Setup, migration and ongoing management of Microsoft 365. Our Microsoft 365 & Security bundle adds enforced MFA, 24/7 identity threat detection, email filtering, security awareness training and backup.
Cloud Services & Migrations
We help you decide what belongs in the cloud and what doesn’t, then handle the move: files to SharePoint and OneDrive, or servers to cloud-hosted infrastructure.
IT Consulting
A technology roadmap, IT budget, hardware lifecycle plan and infrastructure recommendations that work together. Managed IT clients get some planning included, depending on their plan.
Business VoIP
Portolan Voice is our cloud phone system, with HD calling, mobile and desktop apps, auto attendants, call queues and texting from your main business number. Business phones from $25 per user per month.
Internet & Connectivity
A single internet connection is a single point of failure. We design failover and SD-WAN solutions that keep your business online and your calls connected when the primary connection goes down.
Network Design & Installation
IT Asset Disposal
We pick up retired computers and drives, sanitize them to NIST 800-88 R2 and send them to an EPA-registered e-waste recycler, with certificates of destruction when you need them. Free for managed IT clients.
Pat Midzio
Founder & Chief Technologist