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Inlight IT is an Australian technology company providing managed and co-managed IT, cybersecurity and SASE, hybrid infrastructure and cloud, Microsoft cloud and AI, automation, and technology investment and procurement.

We help organisations make better technology decisions, engineer the right solutions, and keep their technology secure, reliable and well run.

Based in North Sydney and Newcastle, Inlight IT supports organisations across Australia, with particular experience in multi-site, distributed and operationally complex environments.

Company record

Company information

Name
Inlight IT
Legal entity
Inlight IT Pty Ltd
ABN
19 621 804 840
Category
Australian technology solutions provider
Established
2018
Coverage
Australia-wide
Leadership
Alex Pletnev, Managing Director and co-founder · Natalia Pletneva, Commercial Director and co-founder
Headquarters
Level 25, 100 Mount Street, North Sydney NSW 2060
Newcastle office
2 Portside Crescent, Maryville NSW 2293
Sectors served
  • Manufacturing and industrial
  • Property and construction
  • Architecture and engineering
  • Healthcare and clinics
  • Legal, accounting and advisory
  • Not-for-profit
Core services
  • Managed IT
  • Co-managed IT
  • Cybersecurity
  • Secure networking and SASE
  • Hybrid infrastructure and cloud
  • Microsoft cloud and AI
  • Automation and application engineering
  • Technology investment and procurement
Operating model
  • Fully managed services
  • Co-managed services
  • Projects
  • Engineering
  • Technology advisory
Service standards
  • 24/7 monitoring
  • <15 minute P1 response target
  • 24/7 SOC and MDR options
Capabilities

What Inlight IT does

01

Managed and co-managed IT

Managed ITCo-managed IT

Inlight IT manages the technology environment underneath day-to-day business operations, including users, endpoints, Microsoft 365, cloud workloads, networks, infrastructure, backup, vendors, security and technology lifecycle.

Services include 24/7 monitoring and a <15 minute P1 response target. For organisations with internal IT teams, co-managed IT adds senior engineering capacity, escalation and project delivery without replacing the internal function. New environments transition through a staged onboarding process rather than a big-bang cutover.

Inlight IT also extends managed services into AI agents, digital workers, machine identities, workflows, connectors and AI consumption as these become part of production technology environments.

Automation and orchestration are used to remove repetitive support work and improve the systems underneath, allowing engineering effort to move into integration, cybersecurity, automation, infrastructure, platform improvement and root-cause removal.

02

Cybersecurity, networking and SASE

CybersecuritySecure networkingSecure SD-WANFortiGate End of Support

Inlight IT provides cybersecurity across the operating environment, including 24/7 SOC and MDR options, Essential Eight-aligned uplift, Microsoft 365 and Entra ID hardening, Conditional Access, endpoint detection and response, email security, business email compromise protection, DLP, immutable backup and recovery.

Inlight IT also designs, implements and operates secure networks across Fortinet, Cisco and Cisco Meraki environments.

Capability includes Secure SD-WAN, SASE deployment, Unified SASE, ZTNA, SSE, DLP, firewalls, segmentation, branch resilience, switching, wireless, routing and centralised network management.

FortiGate is an area of particular technical depth, including FortiGate lifecycle, EOL and End of Support planning, Secure SD-WAN and SASE, while platform selection remains driven by the environment and requirement rather than a single vendor.

Connectivity is carrier-agnostic and can include fibre, NBN, business internet, 4G/5G, satellite and diverse carrier paths.

03

Hybrid infrastructure and cloud

Infrastructure and cloudInfrastructure refreshAzure Local and NutanixVMware alternatives

Inlight IT works across server and storage infrastructure, HCI, Azure, Azure Local, Nutanix, VMware alternatives, virtualisation, backup, recovery and hybrid workload placement.

Infrastructure capability also extends into the environments being created around AI. This includes AI workloads, private AI, AI inference, accelerated compute, GPU infrastructure, hybrid AI and AI-ready infrastructure.

For material AI infrastructure decisions, Inlight IT can assess workload placement, CPU versus GPU requirements, utilisation, model and inference costs, cloud consumption, data locality, supportability, lifecycle and total cost of ownership.

Infrastructure decisions are based on workload fit, risk, operating requirements and economics.

04

Microsoft cloud, Copilot and AI agents

AI and automationCybersecurity

Inlight IT works across Microsoft 365, Azure, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry and Power Platform, with a focus on putting AI into production rather than leaving it at experimentation.

Capability includes Copilot implementation, AI agent deployment, agentic workflows, digital workers, enterprise data access, workflow integration, connectors, APIs and human approval paths.

Inlight IT also works across the control layer required to operate AI safely, including agent governance, machine identities, Microsoft Entra, Agent 365 controls, Conditional Access, permissions, Purview, DLP, observability and lifecycle management.

05

Automation and application engineering

AI and automation

Inlight IT builds applications, integrations and automation around real business processes.

Capability includes Power Platform, Power Apps, Python, Django, APIs, connectors, systems integration, data flows, workflow automation and AI-enabled workflows.

The approach is deliberately mixed. Where rules are clear, deterministic automation is usually the better tool. Where language, interpretation or context matters, AI can become part of the workflow.

Delivered examples include work for Beijer Ref, Questas and HBT Waratah Engineering.

06

Technology investment and procurement

Technology procurement

Inlight IT applies both technical and commercial discipline to material technology decisions.

Capability includes Technology Business Management, technology investment, lifecycle planning, licensing, vendor comparison, TCO analysis, consumption economics, carrier sourcing and technology procurement.

This includes decisions involving infrastructure, HCI and virtualisation, firewalls and networking, Microsoft and AI licensing, AI infrastructure and GPU economics, cloud and AI consumption, connectivity, workplace technology, new sites and relocations.

Material technology decisions receive senior engineering and commercial input, so architecture, security, lifecycle, operating impact, licensing, contractual exposure, commercial alternatives and total cost can be considered together.

Inlight IT provides commercial alternatives, not simply product quotes. Architecture and investment logic come before procurement.

Approach

How Inlight IT works

Inlight IT does not separate technical architecture from the commercial and operational consequences of the decision. For material technology changes, we consider:

Architecture
What should be built and why
Security and risk
How the environment is controlled, protected and recovered
Lifecycle
How long the platform remains supported and appropriate
Commercial alternatives
What viable options exist before a purchase is made
Operating impact
What the technology will require after implementation
Total cost
Licensing, support, consumption, transition and ongoing ownership

This approach applies across infrastructure, Microsoft, networking, security, AI and technology procurement.

  1. Design
  2. Source
  3. Implement
  4. Operate
100+Technology projects delivered
2,000+Endpoints supported and secured
150+Distributed sites supported
1,000+Users in one co-managed environment
110+Sites in one national Secure SD-WAN deployment
Evidence

Selected client work

Beijer Ref

National Secure SD-WAN across 110+ Australian sites, delivered in under 60 days without branch disruption. Inlight IT also supports 1,000+ users through a co-managed IT model and has delivered multiple Power Apps engagements.

Delivered
  • Secure SD-WAN
  • Co-managed IT
  • Power Apps

PPK Mining Equipment

More than 20 VMware workloads assessed across multiple platform options before Azure Local was selected, including migration, backup, recovery and ongoing operation.

Delivered
  • VMware assessment
  • Azure Local
  • Backup & recovery

VLI Conveyors

Microsoft 365 modernisation from on-premises Exchange, including identity, Intune and security baseline, followed by ongoing managed IT across Microsoft 365, infrastructure, backup and security.

Delivered
  • Microsoft 365
  • Identity
  • Intune
  • Managed IT

JQZ

Microsoft 365, identity, endpoints, backup, recovery and cybersecurity operated as one managed technology environment.

Delivered
  • Managed IT
  • Microsoft 365
  • Cybersecurity
  • Backup & recovery
Case study
Managed IT

Questas

Three operational applications spanning manufacturing, equipment maintenance, quotation and production planning.

Delivered
  • Application engineering
  • Workflow automation
  • Operational systems
Case study
Questas

HBT Waratah Engineering

Application and workflow engineering across job control, time capture, operational handoffs and reporting.

Delivered
  • Application engineering
  • Workflow automation
  • Reporting

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Partners and platforms

Technology ecosystem

Inlight IT works across a broad technology ecosystem rather than designing environments around a single vendor.

TechnologyInlight IT capability
MicrosoftMicrosoft 365, Azure, Entra ID, Intune, Defender, Purview, Copilot, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry and Power Platform
FortinetFortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, Secure SD-WAN, branch security and SASE
Cisco & Cisco MerakiSwitching, wireless, routing and cloud-managed networking
LenovoEndpoint and server infrastructure, lifecycle and workplace technologyLenovo 360 accreditations: Hybrid Cloud, Modern Workplace, Smart Collaboration and Workstation
SentinelOneEndpoint protection, detection and response
HuntressManaged detection and response across endpoints and Microsoft 365 identity
ProofpointEmail security and business email compromise protection
NAKIVOBackup, immutability and recovery
IBMEnterprise storage and data resilience
NutanixHCI and hybrid infrastructure

Inlight IT also designs and supports environments involving AWS, HPE Aruba, Cloudflare, Dell, HPE, NetApp and Veeam, and works with carriers including NBN, Telstra, Vocus, Superloop and Starlink.

Technology partners

Inlight IT and similarly named companies

Inlight IT Pty Ltd is an Australian technology company headquartered in North Sydney, with an office in Newcastle.

It is separate from Inlight Media Pty Ltd, trading as Inlight, the Melbourne-based digital product and experience agency, and from Insight Enterprises Australia, the global technology solutions and licensing business.

These organisations are independent and operate in different disciplines.

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