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Managed Service

Pharmacy Server Management

Your dispensing server is the single most important machine in the building. We treat it that way.

Pharmacy servers carry dispensing history, controlled-drug registers, patient profiles and POS data. A dead drive or missed patch can mean a week of disruption — and a notifiable data breach.

WAPIT provides full-lifecycle server management: design, install, patch, harden, monitor and refresh. We also run pharmacy workloads in our hardened Azure tenancy when you want to retire the back-room server altogether.

What's included

Built for Australian pharmacy operations.

Patching & hardening

Monthly patch cycles with Essential Eight ML2 hardening baselines applied and audited.

Performance monitoring

CPU, memory, disk and SQL telemetry with alerts before slowness hits the dispense bench.

Hybrid & cloud-hosted

Run on-premise, in our Azure tenancy, or split — whichever fits your dispensing software vendor.

UPS & power

Right-sized UPS, generator integration and graceful shutdowns to protect data during outages.

Lifecycle planning

5-year roadmap with budgeted refresh dates so servers never quietly fall out of support.

Documented recovery

Bare-metal and image-based recovery plans tested quarterly.

Deliverables

What you receive.

  • Server inventory, age and risk register
  • Hardening configuration aligned to ACSC Essential Eight
  • Monthly patch and health report
  • Documented recovery runbook with tested RTO/RPO
Outcomes

Results pharmacy owners see.

  • No more 'mystery slow' dispensing servers
  • Patch compliance above 95% every month
  • Recovery tested — not assumed
  • Predictable capital planning for hardware refresh
Questions answered

Frequently asked questions

Should we keep our on-prem server or move to cloud?

Depends on your dispensing vendor. Minfos and Fred both have hybrid models. We'll model the 3-year total cost of ownership for both options and recommend honestly.

Do you support virtualised servers?

Yes — Hyper-V and VMware on-prem, plus Azure and AWS hosted. Our team holds Microsoft and Azure certifications.

Related services

Often paired with this service.

Free Pharmacy Security Assessment

Ready to take server management off your plate?

Book a free 30-minute pharmacy IT assessment with a WAPIT specialist.