Our Partners
The technology partners behind every promise we keep.
3CX is a software-based business communications platform delivering professional-quality voice, video, and messaging without the cost or complexity of traditional phone systems. Their solution supports everything from simple office telephony to multi-site, remote-work-ready deployments from a single platform.
What this means for Next Step clients:
Reliable business communications managed as part of your overall IT environment
Most issues resolved directly by Next Step, without navigating a separate vendor
A single point of accountability for your entire technology stack
Fiberstore delivers high-performance network switching and routing hardware that competes with the major names in networking, without the premium price tag. Their product range covers Layer 2 and Layer 3 infrastructure built to modern standards, backed by strong hardware replacement guarantees.
What this means for Next Step clients:
Reliable, scalable network performance at a commercially sensible cost
Infrastructure that grows with your business
Fast hardware replacement, minimising downtime when issues arise
HP is one of the most trusted names in business computing, with a portfolio of laptops, desktops, and workstations built to professional standards. Their business hardware range is backed by comprehensive warranty programmes and a mature global supply chain, making them a dependable choice for organisations that need consistency.
What this means for Next Step clients:
Standardised, reliable hardware across your environment
Simplified procurement and support
Predictable warranty process when devices need replacement
Microsoft is the backbone of modern business technology, providing the productivity, security, and cloud capabilities that organisations depend on every day. Their ecosystem is where most businesses already live - and Next Step's expertise across the full platform ensures clients get the most from the tools they are already paying for.
What this means for Next Step clients:
Secure, properly configured Microsoft environments tailored to your business
Device management, identity controls, and cloud infrastructure handled end-to-end
Compliance and security obligations met without the complexity of managing it yourself
Proxmox is a powerful open-source virtualisation platform that delivers the capability of leading proprietary solutions without the licensing costs or vendor lock-in. Built on a robust Linux foundation with integrated CEPH distributed storage, it is a commercially intelligent alternative to platforms like VMware.
What this means for Next Step clients:
Modern virtualised infrastructure without inflated software licensing costs
No dependency on a single vendor's pricing or roadmap
Flexible, scalable environments that perform at a professional level
Sophos is one of the world's leading cybersecurity vendors, offering an integrated platform spanning firewall, endpoint protection, email security, and managed detection and response. Every component shares intelligence, so threats detected in one layer are automatically acted upon across the entire environment.
What this means for Next Step clients:
Unified protection across your network, devices, and email from one platform
24/7 threat monitoring backed by human expertise, not just automation
Faster, coordinated response when threats emerge
Simplified compliance reporting with full environment visibility
Super Micro is a globally recognised manufacturer of high-performance server and storage infrastructure, trusted by data centres worldwide. Their hyperconverged systems deliver the compute and storage reliability that critical business workloads demand, at a cost accessible to organisations of all sizes.
What this means for Next Step clients:
Robust, reliable servers underpinning your business-critical systems
Consistent performance and uptime across hosted and on-premise environments
Infrastructure that scales as your business grows
Threat Locker takes a zero-trust approach to endpoint security, permitting only explicitly approved applications to run across your environment. This application whitelisting model stops ransomware, malware, and unauthorised software regardless of whether the threat has been seen before.
What this means for Next Step clients:
Significantly reduced risk of a successful cyberattack reaching your systems
Direct support for Essential Eight compliance at maturity levels 1 and 2
Hardened endpoint security without added complexity for your team
Veeam is the global leader in data protection and backup, trusted by organisations of all sizes to keep their data safe and recoverable. Their platform supports on-site, cloud, and hybrid backup strategies, and is purpose-built for reliability - when you need to recover, it works.
What this means for Next Step clients:
Layered backup covering both on-site and off-site copies
Fast, granular recovery minimising the impact of any data loss event
Audit-ready data retention supporting compliance obligations