B2B IT agency · Antananarivo
Your servers, your backups, your access rights and your business tools: we hold them all year, or for the length of one job. You pay for the skill while the work lasts, not for a salary all year round.
Above: your business, and one point of contact
Load shedding · line failures · ageing hardware · nobody to ask
Konsolia is the console: the single desk your IT is run from. You have one place to call; behind it, four areas answer. The ground is what operating here actually looks like.
The ground we work on
An IT failure in Antananarivo does not look like an IT failure elsewhere. The four situations below are the ones that genuinely cost days, and not one of them is solved by buying software.
Load shedding does not break machines; it breaks whatever was writing at the time — a database, a shared file, a print queue. The UPS holds for ten minutes, the cut lasts ninety, and the next morning the database will not come back up.
What we doClean automatic shutdown before the battery runs out, restart in the right order, and a backup that was tested the day before.
A fibre cut is obvious immediately. Blacklisting is not: messages leave without error and never arrive. You find out a week later, over a quote the client never received.
What we doBackup line switched over automatically, reputation of outgoing addresses monitored continuously.
A system that has grown by successive additions has never stopped long enough to be written down anywhere. The server nobody dares switch off, the former provider’s account still active, the service installed “just to try” and in production for three years.
What we doAn inventory of what runs, what is exposed and what depends on what. Written down, handed over, and kept current.
A backup that has never been restored is not a backup, it is an intention. The day you need it, you find it stopped running eight months ago, or that it holds everything except the application database.
What we doA real restore onto a test machine, on an agreed date, with the report that goes with it.
The four areas we run
Four areas, and you can buy them separately. Most clients start with just one — the one keeping them awake.
The aim fits in one sentence: you should hear about an incident from us, not from a member of staff who can no longer work. Monitoring that raises the alarm before your phone does, backups proven by an actual restore, and a written report on your servers every morning — whether the system is already in place or still to be built.
Production estate migrated from VMware to Proxmox with no loss of service.
Nothing gets closed before we know what is open: the inventory comes before the quote, not the other way round. Fixes then follow the order of what they would cost if left waiting, and every package delivered states in writing what is still outstanding. No six-month programme before closing what is open today.
Zero minutes of downtime caused by a blacklisted IP address since reputation monitoring was put in place.
Two costs go unnoticed because nobody ever decided on them: the subscription renewed because it was already there last year, and the hour spent again every week by someone you pay to do something else. We put a figure on both, line by line, and we resell none of the tools we recommend. You decide on amounts.
80% less time spent sorting incoming email; estate health report delivered every morning.
When the bottleneck is not a machine but the information, the cost appears nowhere in the budget: it is counted in hours spent looking for a file, asking again for a figure, checking who approved what. We build the tool that puts that back in order, and we deliver it hosted and in service — not as a demonstration.
Private secondary school: enrolments now arrive online, and re-enrolment is done by scanning the QR code on the report card, with nothing re-keyed.
The results quoted on this page were achieved by our founder in a previous role, before Konsolia was set up. They can be checked in conversation.
How we work
The order matters: nobody prices a job honestly without having looked at it first. It is also what lets you stop after the first stage if the diagnosis does not convince you.
We survey what exists before proposing anything: what runs, what is exposed, what is no longer being backed up, and what depends on what. You receive a written document, ranked by severity, putting a figure on what each point costs you if it waits.
Written assessment report
Scope, duration and price are set before the first intervention, and split into packages that do not depend on one another. You take one, two, or none: what is not a priority waits without holding back the rest.
A quote per package, no opaque lump sum
Nothing goes into production in one block: every stage has its way back prepared before it is started. And every package delivered comes with a test written in your words: you run the scenario yourself before signing off and paying.
A test procedure you run yourself
What was done is documented and handed over: access, procedures, what to keep an eye on. You must be able to change provider without asking our permission — that is the only proof the work is finished.
Documentation handed over, access returned
Our structure, stated plainly
Konsolia is not a forty-person consultancy and does not claim to be. One permanent mission lead, plus freelancers and consultants brought in according to what the work package calls for. You know exactly who is working on your premises and in what capacity.
The mission lead carries out the assessment, prices the work, follows the delivery and stays reachable afterwards. There is no salesperson who promises and then disappears, and no file changing hands between signature and site work.
Networking, development, data, electrical work: each specialist is engaged for the package where they are needed, and only from people who have already proven themselves on a job. You are not billed for a full team on a job that needs a third of one.
No payroll to carry between jobs, so a cost that follows what you actually need. And no skill imposed on you because it happened to be on the bench: we go and find the one the package requires.
The commitment is made by Konsolia, not by the individual. A package delivered badly gets redone, and we are the ones you call. Confidentiality and access are contracted at agency level, for everyone who sets foot on your premises.
Mbolafinaritra Andrianarimanana
Infrastructure and cybersecurity engineer · mission lead
Nine years in production IT, including eighteen months running an estate of more than 50 servers and leading a team of five.
Education
Master 2 in infrastructure and cybersecurity, ESTI
What we can do
Every entry corresponds to a real job. Clients are anonymised where the contract requires it.
Coming off licence on servers carrying the directory, the business application and the file shares. Inventory first, backups proven by an actual restore, then a package-by-package switchover with a way back prepared at each step.
No loss of business observed on the migrations carried out
Public site, online enrolment, and portals for pupils, teachers, parents and administration, through to report cards. Around 35 entities, token authentication in an httpOnly cookie, deployed to production in containers.
Online enrolment and re-enrolment by QR code, with nothing re-keyed each year
The condition of the estate collected continuously, drift detected before it becomes a failure, and a readable report delivered every morning rather than one more alert in an already full inbox.
Estate health report delivered every morning
A census of the software actually installed on workstations, checked against the licences held, showing what has been installed without authorisation.
Gap between licences held and software installed, quantified
Incoming messages qualified, classified and routed to the right person, with a record of what was handled and by whom.
80% less time spent sorting incoming email
Continuous checking of the reputation of outgoing addresses, an alert on the first listing, and a delisting procedure run before mail is affected.
Zero minutes of downtime caused by a blacklisted IP
What we built for ourselves
Konsolia doesn't just operate third-party tools: it builds its own too, for itself and for its clients. This is the proof, not a promise.
The tools below are the ones we actually run in production, not a catalogue of skills. Each name corresponds to a mission carried out. They are here to be checked, not to be sold: what you are buying is further up this page.
Servers and continuity
Security and access
Automation and monitoring
Business tools and website
A tool missing from this list is not a refusal: it is a skill we engage per package, and say so.
First step
It is the only commitment to make for now. You receive a written document stating what runs, what is exposed, what is no longer backed up, and what each point costs if it is left alone. The document is yours: it stays useful even if you do not work with us.