Central Valley IT, Remote Nationwide
Managed IT And Computer Repair For The Central Valley
We look after the computers, networks and servers that businesses and households rely on — on site across California's Central Valley, and remotely across the entire United States. Most problems are solved remotely, in minutes, instead of after a drive.
- You speak to a technician, not a call queue.
- Remote first — we connect and look, rather than book a visit.
- Flat monthly agreements, quoted after we look at what you have.
- The first consultation is free, for businesses and households alike.
What We Do
Four Ways We Keep You Running
Four service lines, and no fifth one hiding in the small print. Start with whichever one is hurting today and add the others as the business grows — if you are not sure where you fit, you can compare all four services side by side.
Managed IT Services
Your whole IT department for a flat monthly fee — monitoring, maintenance, helpdesk and on-site visits, all included.
Explore Managed ITComputer Repair & Tech Support
Repairs, upgrades, virus and malware removal, new machine setup, and patient help for the people using them.
Explore Repair & SupportNetworks, Servers & Cloud
Wired and wireless networks, servers, firewalls, VPN, Microsoft 365 and email — designed, installed and looked after.
Explore Networks & CloudData Recovery, Backup & Forensics
Encrypted on-site and off-site backup, disaster recovery planning, data recovery, and digital forensic examination.
Explore Data & RecoveryHow We Work
Why People Call Gavilan Consulting
Plenty of companies will sell you IT support. What follows is how this one is actually run, so you can decide before you spend anything whether it is the arrangement you want.
Remote First, Because A Van In Traffic Fixes Nothing
When something breaks, the clock that matters is the one your staff are watching. So the first move is almost never to get in a vehicle. With your permission we connect to the machine while you are still on the phone and look at it directly.
A mailbox that will not sync, a printer that has stopped talking to the network, a password nobody can remember, a service on the server that has quietly fallen over, a laptop crawling because something unwanted installed itself — each of those is a few minutes of work once a technician can see the screen. None of them is worth losing half a day to a drive from one end of the valley to the other.
On-site work still matters, and we still do it. A drive that has failed, a new machine to set up on your desk, a switch to swap, cable to pull through a ceiling, a server to physically open — those need hands, and they get a scheduled visit. The point is not that we avoid coming out. The point is that you should not have to wait for a visit to get something fixed that never needed one.
One Flat Monthly Fee, Quoted After We Look
Managed IT services are sold here as one flat monthly amount covering monitoring, maintenance, helpdesk and on-site visits — so a bad month for your network is not also a bad month for your bank account, and nobody has to hesitate before calling because the meter is running.
You will not find a price on this website, and that is deliberate. A figure invented before anyone has seen your network is a figure that gets revised once we do — and nobody enjoys that conversation. Every agreement is quoted per client after a look at the actual environment: how many machines, how old they are, what the server is doing, where the data lives, what is genuinely backed up and what only appears to be. Then the number goes in writing, and it does not move because a month turned out to be busy.
You Talk To A Technician
The person who answers the phone is the person who works on the problem. There is no queue, no script, and no first tier reading from a flowchart before you are allowed to finish describing the symptom. If we cannot help, you will be told that plainly rather than passed sideways.
Office hours are Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Pacific. Clients on a managed services agreement also have around-the-clock telephone support as part of that agreement, because a server does not check the time before it fails.
Businesses And Households Both
A managed agreement is built for business work — offices, clinics, shops, farms and the people who keep them running. But a home computer full of ten years of photographs is not a smaller problem to the person who owns it, and computer repair and tech support is offered to households on exactly the same terms: same technician, same explanations, no talking down to anyone.
That includes the whole environment rather than one favorite platform. Servers, Windows PCs, Macs, phones and tablets are all supported, because almost nobody runs a single-brand office any more and the person whose iPad will not reach the shared drive still cannot do their job.
What A Managed Agreement Covers
- Continuous monitoring of servers and network equipment, so faults are noticed before somebody has to report them
- Scheduled preventative maintenance — updates, health checks, and physically cleaning the dust out of machines so they stop overheating
- Helpdesk support for the people using the computers, not just for the computers
- On-site visits when a job genuinely needs hands on the hardware
- Around-the-clock telephone support for clients on a managed agreement
- Encrypted backup running on site and off site, under a written disaster recovery plan
- Servers, PCs, Macs, phones and tablets, all inside the one agreement
Every agreement is customized, so the exact list is set when yours is written. See what a managed IT agreement includes.
What Happens Next
What Actually Happens When You Call
No obligation attaches to any of this, and the first conversation costs nothing. Here is the whole sequence, so there are no surprises in it.
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You Talk To A Technician
Call (559) 507-2076 or send the contact form. Tell us what is broken, or what you are trying to build. You do not need the right words for it — describing what you see on the screen is enough, and working out what that means is our job.
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We Look At What You Actually Have
Usually remotely, sometimes on site when the network or the server is the question. We go through the machines, the network gear, where the data lives, what is backed up, and what is quietly out of support and waiting to bite. This is where most of the real surprises turn up, and it is better that they turn up now.
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You Get A Written Plan And A Quote
In plain English: what we would do first, what can safely wait, what it would cost, and what we would leave alone because it is working. If a network, server or cloud project is the answer, you get it scoped rather than started. Nothing begins until you say so.
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We Get To Work
Remote where remote works, on site where it does not. We will tell you when we can realistically start rather than name a time we would then have to break, and you are told what changed and why, in words you can actually act on.
Where We Work
On Site In The Valley, Remote Everywhere Else
Two different kinds of coverage, and it is worth being clear about which is which before you need either one.
On-site service follows the Central Valley the length of the state. In the north that means Sacramento, Stockton and Modesto. Through the middle of the valley it is Merced, Madera, Fresno and Clovis. To the south, Hanford, Visalia, Tulare and Bakersfield — along with the smaller towns between them, which is where a great many of the valley's businesses actually are.
Remote support has no such boundary: it reaches the entire United States. If your bookkeeper works from home two states away, if you opened a second office outside California, or if you moved and would rather keep the people who already know your systems, none of that is a problem. Anything that can be done through the screen is done the same way for someone a thousand miles off as for someone in Fresno.
The honest limit is physical. Hardware that has to be touched has to be reached, so on-site work is Central Valley work — and we would rather tell you that on the home page than after you have signed something.
Handled Remotely
- Helpdesk questions and user support
- Email, Microsoft 365 and account problems
- Virus and malware clean-up
- Updates, monitoring and maintenance
- Most server and network configuration
Scheduled On Site
- Failed drives and hardware repairs
- New machines, servers and switches
- Network cabling and wireless installation
- Physical cleaning and preventative maintenance
- Anything that has to be picked up and looked at
Before You Call
Three Places To Start Reading
If you would rather do some homework before speaking to anyone, start here — and if a drive has already failed, start with the third one.
Questions And Answers
The questions that come up before anyone commits to anything: what a managed agreement covers, how remote support actually works, and whether we take on home computers as well as offices.
Read the questions we get asked mostAbout Gavilan Consulting
Decades of experience across servers, networks and the desktops in front of them — who you would be dealing with, how the work is done, and what to expect before you commit to anything.
Learn how the company worksLost Something Already?
If a drive has failed or files have gone, stop using the machine and call before anything else overwrites them. Then we can talk about backup that would have caught it.
See data recovery and backup