The compute, storage and recovery underneath everything
Servers, storage, virtualisation, backup infrastructure and disaster recovery — specified against the workload, installed by the engineers who will still be supporting it.
Infrastructure, specified and supported
Servers
Rack and tower compute from Dell EMC PowerEdge and HPE ProLiant, sized against the real workload — and hyperconverged where it earns its place.
Read moreStorage
SAN, NAS and direct-attached, with the tiering, IOPS and growth curve worked out before anyone quotes you a shelf of disks.
Read moreVirtualisation
VMware, Hyper-V and Proxmox. Design, migration and consolidation, including moving off licensing that no longer makes sense.
Read moreBackup infrastructure
The hardware and software layer underneath your backup policy — sized for the restore time you actually need.
Read moreDisaster recovery
A second site, a cloud target, or both. Designed against agreed recovery time and recovery point objectives, then tested.
Read moreHigh performance computing
Cluster design and build for engineering and geoscience workloads, including interconnect, scheduling and storage throughput.
Read morePhysical security
Surveillance, access control and intrusion detection designed and installed as part of the infrastructure, on Hikvision and ZKTeco, with the cabling and power planned rather than improvised.
Read moreThe hypervisors behind the infrastructure
We are a partner for all three, so the recommendation is not decided by who pays us. The platform pages sit under cloud services, because that is where they are managed from.
VMware
vSphere design, migration and support, with an honest model of what the licensing now costs you over five years.
Read moreProxmox
Open-source virtualisation with Ceph or ZFS storage and Proxmox Backup Server. Often the answer when licensing has become the largest line in the budget.
Read moreHyper-V
Failover clustering on Windows Server, frequently the cheapest correct answer for an estate that is already Microsoft.
Read moreSpecified against the workload, not the catalogue
The most expensive infrastructure mistakes are made at the sizing stage, before anything is bought.
- We measure what you run now — CPU, memory, IOPS, throughput, growth — before proposing anything
- We will tell you when the honest answer is cloud, or a hybrid, rather than more hardware on your floor
- Vendor-neutral: we hold partnerships with the major manufacturers and still specify against the requirement
- Installation, migration and cutover run by our own engineers, with a written rollback point
- Lifecycle: warranty, firmware, capacity review and refresh planning, so end-of-life is a plan and not a surprise
- Ongoing operation available under Managed IT Services if you want it monitored and maintained
Common questions
Do you build data centres as well?
Yes — that is a separate service. See Data Centre Build for containment, power, cooling and the rest of the room.
Can you work with hardware we already own?
Yes. Extending or consolidating an existing estate is usually cheaper than replacing it, and we will say so when it is.
Should we move to cloud instead?
Sometimes. We run the comparison honestly, including the costs that only appear in year two. See Cloud Services.
Do you supply as well as install?
Yes. We are an accredited partner with the major manufacturers and supply, install and support the same equipment.
Tell us what you run today.
Send us the current estate and the workload. We will tell you what actually needs replacing and what does not.
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