About Da Panda IT
Da Panda IT is a Chicagoland technology company built on enterprise infrastructure experience. The same discipline that goes into designing large corporate networks, firewalls, and access control goes into the small and mid-sized businesses we work with. Most of them have never had access to that level of engineering before.
How we work
What you can expect from us
A short list, and we would rather be held to it than write something longer that nobody reads.
Straight Answers
If a project is a bad idea, we say so before you spend the money. If your current setup is fine, we say that too. There is more long-term work in being right than in being agreeable.
Senior-Level Engineering
You deal with an engineer, not a salesperson passing notes to a technician. The person who designs your network is the person who explains it to you.
Documentation You Keep
Network diagrams, configurations, and credentials belong to you. If you leave, you take all of it. Retaining clients by making your environment undocumented is not a business model we want.
Enterprise Practice, SMB Scale
Segmentation, least privilege, tested backups, and change control are not enterprise luxuries. They are what works, scaled to fit a business your size and budget.
Physical and Logical
We run the cable and we configure the switch. Single accountability, which removes the vendor finger-pointing that eats weeks on split projects.
Local and Reachable
Based in Prospect Heights, working across Chicagoland. On site when it needs hands, remote when it does not.
Working with us
Every engagement follows roughly the same shape, whether it is a single cabling job or an ongoing managed services relationship.
We Listen
A conversation about what your business does and where technology is getting in the way. No script, no discovery questionnaire designed to qualify you into a package.
We Assess
We look at what you actually have. You get a written summary of findings whether or not you hire us, because you should be able to get a second opinion on it.
We Build
Scoped in writing, priced up front, documented at handover. You know what you are getting before work starts.
Let's talk about your environment
No obligation and no pressure. Worst case you get an informed second opinion on what you are already running.
FAQ
About Da Panda IT
Prospect Heights, Illinois, serving Chicagoland and the surrounding suburbs. On-site work across the metro, remote and cloud work anywhere.
Typically five to a hundred employees. Manufacturing, logistics, professional services, and trades are the sectors we see most, which reflects what the Chicagoland corridor is made of.
Both. Cabling installs, cloud migrations, security assessments, and consulting engagements are all available standalone. There is no requirement to sign a managed services agreement to get help with a project.
Enterprise network architecture. Day to day that means Palo Alto firewalls, Cisco switching and network access control, SD-WAN, and Azure networking at corporate scale. Da Panda IT exists to bring that same engineering approach to businesses that normally cannot access it.
