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Openskye started in 2015 as a hosting company obsessed with uptime. A decade later we're the managed IT department for professional-services firms across the east coast — still obsessed, just with more to be obsessed about.
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The short version of how a hosting company became an MSP that professional-services firms actually recommend to each other.
2015
Openskye launches as a boutique hosting provider. The founding bet: Australian businesses would pay for hosting where someone answers the phone and the uptime claim is verifiable.
2019
We built our own monitoring platform because off-the-shelf tools kept lying to us. Solis now watches every client environment we manage — infrastructure, sites, and tenants — around the clock.
2022
Hosting clients kept asking us to "just look at" their email, their laptops, their last IT guy's mess. We formalised it: Microsoft-first managed IT, delivered with hosting-grade monitoring discipline.
2025
Security demands outgrew what any MSP should pretend to do alone. Partnering with Praes gave our clients SOC, Essential Eight, and incident response — without a second vendor relationship to manage.
Four differences you can verify before signing anything.
01 · Solis monitoring
Our own monitoring platform watches every environment we manage. A public status page proves it — uptime isn't a marketing claim, it's a URL you can check.
02 · Cloud-native
We never sold servers, so we never had a reason to keep you on them. Every solution is designed for the Microsoft cloud from line one — leaner, safer, cheaper to run.
03 · Australian
Helpdesk in Australia, engineers in Australia, data in Australian regions. When a regulator or insurer asks where your data lives, the answer is one word.
04 · Security-first
We're honest about the line between MSP security and specialist security — and we built a partnership so you're covered on both sides of it.
Supply chain & partnerships
Procurement via Dicker Data Pax8 Synergy Security via Praes Microsoft-first practice
Book a consultation — you'll talk to an engineer, not a salesperson, and leave with three concrete recommendations whether you sign or not.