Polaris

Polaris IT Solutions was founded in Chapel Hill in 2010 to give small organizations access to senior technical judgment without requiring a full-time engineer.

Most of the work has been infrastructure: networks, servers, storage, identity, and the moves and migrations between them for nonprofits, practices, and small companies across the Triangle. That work continues. Along the way, software became part of the practice when a client's problem did not have a sensible off-the-shelf answer.

Polaris is a consultancy, not a managed service provider or reseller. It stays deliberately small and takes on only the clients it can know well. The work is documented so a client's knowledge of its own systems never depends on keeping Polaris.

Esse quam videri

To be, rather than to seem. It is North Carolina's motto, and a useful standard for the work: make it correct whether or not anyone is looking, and describe it plainly whether or not the description is flattering.