Independent IT Consulting · Vadodara, Gujarat
IT decisions backed by twenty-five years on the ground.
Since 2001 I have built, maintained and rescued IT for businesses of every size — from single-site SMEs to organisations running operations across India and abroad. That experience now goes into advising owners on infrastructure, security and continuity, in plain language, with a clearly defined scope.
- 25 years, businesses across India
- Fixed scope, fixed quote
- First call is free
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“You just need to explain it to them and forget it.”
Trusted by businesses across India
The pattern I see everywhere
Most IT problems are visibility problems.
Hardware gets added when something fails. A vendor configures a server and moves on. Nobody holds a current picture of what is running, who has access, or what happens if a critical machine dies on a Monday morning.
That is not negligence — it is what happens when a business grows faster than its documentation. My work is to give you back that picture, in language you can act on.
Track record
Twenty-five years advising businesses on IT that actually holds up.
- Years in IT infrastructure
- 25+
- System Solution founded
- 2001
- Clients across the country, and abroad
- India
- Engagements at every scale
- SME → Enterprise
Years in IT infrastructure
System Solution founded
Clients across the country, and abroad
Engagements at every scale
Consulting engagements
Fixed-scope work with a defined outcome
Every engagement has a clear beginning, a clear deliverable, and a clear end. You know what you are getting before it starts.
IT Infrastructure Audit
A clear, jargon-free picture of what you actually have, what it is costing you, and what will break next.
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Cyber Security & Risk Review
Find out how exposed you really are — before someone else does it for you.
Learn moreBackup & Business Continuity Plan
Answer one question with confidence: if your main server died tonight, when would you be t...
2 weeksNetwork & Connectivity Design
Networks that grew by accident cause outages that look like bad luck. They are not.
2–4 weeksServer & Virtualisation Strategy
Consolidate what has sprawled, and decide what genuinely belongs in the cloud.
2–3 weeksIT Vendor & AMC Cost Review
An independent read on whether you are getting what you pay your IT vendors for.
1–2 weeksNot sure which you need?
Describe the problem in a short call and I will tell you which engagement fits — or that you do not need one.
Why this experience
I have already seen what breaks — usually more than once.
Twenty-five years supplying, configuring and recovering IT for organisations of every size means most problems that reach your desk are ones I have handled before. That pattern recognition is what you are engaging.
Broad industry exposure
Manufacturing, engineering, construction, IT services and more, since 2001 — across India and with clients abroad — so the constraints of your business are rarely unfamiliar.
Pattern recognition
The same failures recur across sectors and company sizes. Having seen them repeatedly, I know where to look first rather than starting from theory.
Plain-language reporting
Findings written for a business owner, ranked by business impact rather than technical severity, so you can act on them directly.
Defined engagements
Fixed scope and a fixed quote agreed before work begins, with a clear deliverable and an end date — not an open-ended arrangement.
Results
What the work looks like in practice
Client names are withheld. The problems, and the outcomes, are the ones that come up again and again.
Engineering
Cutting unplanned downtime at a precision engineering firm
Production planning depended on a single ageing server with no tested backup. Unplanned outages were costing roughly two shifts of lost output every m...
- Under 4 hrs
- Recovery time
- Monthly
- Tested restores
- Removed
- Critical single points of failure
Manufacturing
Closing security gaps ahead of a customer audit
Auto-components manufacturer, ~250 staff, Gujarat
A major OEM customer introduced a supplier security assessment. The business had no documented security postur...
Read the full storyConstruction
Reducing recurring IT spend at a multi-site construction group
Construction group, 4 sites, Gujarat
IT costs had risen year on year without a clear reason. Three vendors held overlapping AMC agreements, and sit...
Read the full storyRipal and System Solution — whatever you want to get done in IT, Networking or Security, you just need to explain it to them and forget it. Be assured it will be done in a timely manner and that too at a good price.
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Insights
Notes from the field
Business Continuity
Your backup is not a backup until you have restored from it
Almost every business I assess believes it has working backups. Roughly half of them are wrong, and they only...
30 Jul 2026 4 min read
Perspective
What twenty-five years of SME IT taught me about buying technology
The businesses that get the most from their IT budget are rarely the ones spending the most. They ask better q...
15 Jul 2026 5 min read
Cyber Security
The security questions your customers will start asking
Supplier security assessments have moved from large enterprises down to their supply chains. If you supply a m...
01 Jul 2026 4 min readNot sure where your biggest risk is?
Start with a short, no-obligation conversation. Tell me what is causing you trouble and I will tell you honestly whether I can help — and whether you actually need to spend anything.
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