Veteran-owned infrastructure consulting

Reliable server and network projects, planned before anything gets racked.

Wharton Secure Systems helps businesses assess current hardware, close reliability gaps, deploy the right infrastructure, and hand everything back with clear guidance for upkeep.

10+ years
Professional IT services experience
Veteran-owned
Operated with honor and accountability
Locally based
Pacific Northwest IT Support

Built for practical business outcomes

Our goal is to provide a wholistic solution. We want the equipment to fit your business needs. Installation is streamlined to leave your team with a system they can maintain.

Services

Infrastructure help where downtime, confusion, or underbuilt systems create risk.

Services can stand alone for a specific project or be combined into a start-to-finish infrastructure engagement.

Primary offer

Server, storage, and network hardware projects

Assessment, recommendations, product lists, installation support, and operational handoff for business-critical infrastructure.

Start with a consultation

Infrastructure consultation

  • Review the existing environment
  • Identify gaps in protection or continuity
  • Align recommended technologies with business goals

Virtualization and platform planning

  • Guidance for virtualization hosts
  • Storage layout
  • Migration readiness
  • Right-sizing compute resources for current and future workloads

Firewall and switching design

  • Practical planning for segmentation
  • Routing, edge protection, switch refreshes
  • Network hardware that supports growth

Monitoring and alerting guidance

  • Handoff recommendations for visibility
  • automated alerts so issues can be caught before they become outages
  • Upkeep

Process

A clear path from first conversation to operational handoff.

The workflow is built to make each infrastructure project understandable, scoped, and easy to hand back to your team.

  1. 01

    Consultation

    Assess current hardware and setup, uncover reliability or protection gaps, discuss goals, and define what the system needs to accomplish.

  2. 02

    Plan and scope

    Provide a clear plan and contract that documents the proposed solution, expectations, delivery responsibilities, and project boundaries.

  3. 03

    Order and stage

    Build a product list for review, then coordinate ordering, delivery, and protected storage until the scheduled installation begins.

  4. 04

    Install and configure

    Install hardware carefully, configure for performance and continuity, and validate the deployment against the goals from consultation.

  5. 05

    Handoff

    Transition responsibility back to your internal team or existing IT personnel with maintenance guidance, monitoring direction, and operating notes.

Product families

Vendor-flexible recommendations, selected around the job.

Hardware availability, warranty options, retailer inventory, and business requirements all matter. The recommendation should fit the environment, not the other way around.

Servers

Dell, Cisco, HP Enterprise, Supermicro, 45Drives

Firewalls

Cisco, Juniper, OPNsense, Palo Alto, Sophos

Switches

Cisco, HP Enterprise, Juniper, MikroTik

Wharton Secure Systems

A 100% veteran-owned business based in the Pacific Northwest, led by Patrick Wharton with over a decade of professional IT services experience and a CompTIA Security+ certification held since 2016.

Best fit

Good projects for an infrastructure specialist.

Aging infrastructure

Servers, switching, firewalling, or storage that needs a refresh before failure forces the timeline.

Growing businesses

Environments that need more capacity, cleaner segmentation, or better operational reliability.

Existing IT teams

Internal staff or incumbent IT providers who need extra project capacity without losing long-term ownership.

FAQ

Questions prospects usually need answered.

Do you replace our current IT provider?

No. The consultation model is designed as a hybrid approach that works with your internal team or existing IT provider. If you do not currently have IT support, we can discuss what ongoing management should look like after the project is complete.

Can you help choose hardware?

Yes. A consultation can produce a product list based on business goals, current environment, continuity risk, availability, and warranty considerations.

Is this only for servers?

No. The site now presents server, firewall, switch, storage, virtualization, monitoring, and handoff support as connected infrastructure work.

Start here

Tell me what you are trying to improve, replace, or protect.

Share the project basics and the form will open a pre-filled email. For production, this should later be connected to your business inbox or CRM through a real form backend.

  • Current infrastructure pain point
  • Approximate timeline
  • Location or remote/on-site expectations
  • Any existing IT provider or internal contact

Submits through your email client for now.