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Enterprise Managed Services & DevOps

Infrastructure that holds under load.

ALCO USA Inc runs the systems enterprise clients depend on — servers, networks, pipelines and the security controls around them. U.S.-based engineers, continuous monitoring, and operations you can audit.

Who we are

A managed services provider that operates like an engineering team.

Most managed IT is a help desk with a monitoring dashboard bolted on. We were built the other way round: engineers first, with a help desk in front of them.

That is the difference between a provider who closes your ticket and one who removes the reason you opened it. We automate the repeatable work, instrument the rest, secure all of it, and put our own names against the outcome.

About ALCO
What we do

Five services. No overlap.

We deliberately do not offer a catalog of forty things. These five cover what an organization actually needs from an outside technology partner, and each one is distinct from the others.

Managed IT Solutions

Your infrastructure, monitored and maintained as a system rather than a collection of devices.

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Help Desk

Support your people will use, staffed by engineers rather than a script-reading first line.

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DevOps

Pipelines, infrastructure as code, and the automation that makes releases boring.

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Advanced Hosting Solutions

VPS, dedicated and database-optimized infrastructure, managed end to end.

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Cybersecurity & Compliance

Assessment, hardening, monitoring and the paperwork an auditor will accept.

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All services

Five offerings, scoped so they do not overlap. You can buy one or all of them; nothing here depends on buying the others.

All services
7
U.S.-based engineers
24/7
Help desk and response
100%
U.S.-based operations
5
Languages supported
Why ALCO

What separates us from the firm you are using now

Senior engineers, not tiers

You reach the person who can fix it. No script, no offshore first line, no ticket closed for inactivity — and a median first response measured in minutes, not days.

Everything is instrumented

If we manage it, we monitor it. Outages raise a ticket automatically and appear on your portal before you call us.

Automation over billable hours

Work that repeats gets automated. We would rather bill you for engineering than for the same manual task twelve times — which is a worse deal for us and a better one for you.

Transparent operations

Flat pricing, a client portal showing every ticket and invoice, and a written record of every change we make.

Security is not a line item

Every engagement is hardened, monitored and evidenced as standard. Our healthcare, government and financial clients set that bar; everyone else gets the same controls at no extra charge.

We own our stack

Our monitoring, ticketing, and client portal are built and run by us — not resold. When you need something changed, we change it.

Industries

Where the requirements are not negotiable

Regulated, uptime-critical, or both. These are the environments where the difference between a provider and a partner becomes obvious.

Professional Services

Firms where an hour of downtime is an hour nobody can bill. Predictable cost, fast response, and technology decisions that survive growth.

Healthcare & Medical

HIPAA-aligned controls, protected health information handled correctly, and infrastructure that stays available during clinic hours.

Commercial & Retail

Point of sale, stock systems and multi-site networking. PCI DSS obligations met without turning the store into a security project.

Government & Defense

CMMC and NIST-aligned practice, documented change control, and the evidence trail a contracting officer will ask for.

Media & Publishing

High-traffic publishing platforms, editorial workflow, and the hosting to survive a story going wide without warning.

Manufacturing & Industrial

Plant-floor networks, OT and IT that have to coexist safely, and support that understands a line stopping costs more than a desk.

Clients

In their words

ALCO USA has been an outstanding technology partner for our organization. Their responsiveness, professionalism, and ability to solve problems quickly have made a major impact on our operations. It’s rare to find a team that combines enterprise-level expertise with such personal service.
Kevin Cody Owner, Easy Reader News
Working with ALCO USA has been a seamless experience from start to finish. Their technical knowledge, communication, and proactive approach to IT management consistently exceeded expectations. They operate with the precision and reliability you’d expect from a much larger organization.
Quentin Brouster CTO, Back Market UK
ALCO USA brought structure, security, and reliability to our technology environment. Their team is dependable, easy to work with, and always focused on delivering practical solutions that actually improve day-to-day operations. We value the partnership greatly.
David Glendenning President, CSG
ALCO USA has been instrumental in helping keep our systems running smoothly and securely. Their attention to detail, fast support response times, and commitment to customer service make them stand out from other providers we’ve worked with in the past.
James Pieratt CEO, SoCal Solar Energy Inc
Controls and compliance

Built to standards our regulated clients are audited against

Healthcare, government and financial clients set the bar for how we operate. Every client gets the same controls, whether their sector requires it or not.

HIPAA aligned Protected health information handled, logged and encrypted to the Security Rule.
CMMC practice Documented change control and evidence trails for defense-adjacent work.
SOC 2 controls Access control, monitoring and change management mapped to the Trust Services Criteria.
PCI DSS scope Cardholder environments segmented, hardened and kept out of general infrastructure.
NIST CSF Identify, protect, detect, respond and recover — used as our assessment framework.
Encrypted throughout TLS everywhere, AES-256 at rest, credentials sealed and every reveal audited.

These are the frameworks we operate against and can evidence for your auditor. Where a client requires a formal attestation report, we support their assessment rather than claim one of our own.

Common questions

How do I raise a support request?
Email team@alcousa.org, call the number at the top of this page, or open a ticket in the support portal. All three land in the same queue and are worked by the same engineers — there is no faster route, so use whichever suits you.
What does a managed agreement actually cover?
Monitoring, patching, help desk, backup verification, identity administration, security controls and documented change management across the estate we agree in the scope. Anything outside that scope is quoted before it is done, never after.
Do you work with organizations outside the United States?
Yes. We hold contracts in North America, Europe and the Middle East, and this site is published in five languages for that reason. Our engineers are U.S.-based; work is delivered remotely with hours arranged around your timezone.
How quickly will someone respond?
Response targets are written into your agreement and reported against honestly, including when we miss them. Critical issues are picked up continuously, day or night. Routine requests are answered within the business day and usually within the hour.
Do you take on every client who approaches you?
No. We qualify before we quote: a scoping conversation about your estate, your obligations and what you actually need. If the work is outside what we are good at, or the expectations are not ones we can meet, we say so and point you elsewhere. Taking work we cannot do well costs us more than turning it down.
What happens to our documentation and credentials if we leave?
They are yours and you get them, in full, without a fee or a delay. A provider who makes leaving difficult is telling you something about how they intend to keep you.

Let us look at what you are running.

A scoping conversation with a senior engineer. We will tell you what we would change, what it would cost, and whether we are the right firm for it.