Approximately 30 systems to 14
Consolidated legacy servers through virtualization and workload redesign.
Founder and Principal Consultant
Chris Dowd
A Denver-area technology consultant with 30 years of corporate IT experience and a practical understanding of what small and understaffed IT teams face every day.
Experience built inside IT departments
Additional capacity, grounded in operational reality.
30 yearsMicrosoft infrastructure · servers · cloud · SaaS · VoIP · PowerShell · small networks
Chris has spent his career working in corporate IT environments where limited staffing, competing priorities, and unexpected projects routinely place heavy demands on small technical teams.
He founded Ten560 Technology to provide those teams with experienced additional capacity—without requiring another full-time employee or the scope and commitment of a traditional managed services contract.
Through Ten560, Chris provides project support, scheduled monthly help, environment documentation, project work, temporary technical coverage, emergency assistance, and Denver-area remote hands.
Areas of expertise
Practical IT experience, applied to support and recovery.
Chris is available to discuss both the technical work and the operational realities behind maintaining reliable technology with limited internal resources.
- The challenges facing one-person and understaffed IT departments
- Fractional IT support and technical staff augmentation
- IT staffing gaps, project backlogs, and temporary coverage
- Business continuity when key IT personnel are unavailable
- Microsoft 365, Azure, Entra ID, and identity management
- Windows servers, small networks, SaaS, VoIP, and PowerShell
- Environment documentation and institutional knowledge
- Disaster recovery planning: prevention, mitigation, and recovery
Workshops, speaking, and practical commentary
Looking for a practical IT perspective?
Chris is available for interviews, podcasts, contributed articles, panel discussions, and expert commentary concerning fractional IT support, staff augmentation, Microsoft-focused infrastructure, practical disaster recovery planning, and the challenges facing small IT departments.
Press inquiries
press@ten560tech.com- General inquiries
- hello@ten560tech.com
- Phone
- 303-257-8082
- Location
- Denver metropolitan area, Colorado
Experience behind Ten560
Infrastructure experience with concrete results.
Before founding Ten560, Chris modernized infrastructure and administered Microsoft systems in an environment supporting 300–500 users.
15+ servers to 3 virtual hosts
Reduced the physical infrastructure required to support the environment.
Identity, email, and access
Migrated on-premises Exchange to Exchange Online, administered hybrid identity, and implemented MFA and Conditional Access.
These results reflect Chris’s prior employment at DDRC, rather than Ten560 client engagements.
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