Infrastructure services, organised around your needs
Each service can be taken on its own or combined into a single improvement plan.
Infrastructure assessment and planning
Review existing environments, identify constraints, and develop practical improvement roadmaps.
What this covers
Current-state review of servers, network, storage and backups
Constraints, dependencies and risks
A prioritised, practical roadmap
Server and virtualisation consulting
Server sizing, workload planning, virtualisation strategy, and availability considerations.
What this covers
Server sizing and workload planning
Virtualisation strategy
Availability considerations
Network architecture
LAN, WAN, enterprise Wi-Fi, segmentation, connectivity, and network resilience planning.
What this covers
LAN and WAN design
Enterprise Wi-Fi
Segmentation, connectivity and resilience
Storage and data management
Capacity planning, storage architecture, and data availability considerations.
What this covers
Capacity planning
Storage architecture
Data availability
Backup and disaster recovery
Backup strategy, recovery planning, and business continuity considerations.
What this covers
Backup strategy
Recovery planning
Business continuity considerations
Data centre and server room consulting
Rack layout, power and cooling considerations, structured cabling, monitoring, and physical access considerations.
What this covers
Rack layout and structured cabling
Power and cooling considerations
Monitoring and physical access
Cloud and hybrid infrastructure advisory
Help businesses evaluate deployment options, workload suitability, connectivity, and migration considerations.
What this covers
Deployment options and workload suitability
Connectivity
Migration considerations
Interactive 3D explorer
Explore a small enterprise IT environment
Select a component to highlight it and read what it does and what we consider when advising on it. You do not need to drag the model: the buttons do the same job.
Small enterprise IT environmentEducational model, not a monitoring tool
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Text description: a small IT environment seen from above and to the side. A firewall and a network switch sit at the front. Behind them, left to right, are a server rack, a storage system, a backup system, and power and cooling equipment. Glowing lines show data links from the switch to the servers, storage and backup. The same information is available through the buttons.
Select a component
Choose a component using the buttons, or tap it in the model, to see what it does and what we consider when advising on it.
Server rack
A standard frame that holds servers and other equipment, with shared power and cabling.
What we consider
Server sizing and where each workload should run
Virtualisation, to use hardware efficiently
Rack layout, weight, airflow and cable labelling
Room to grow without a redesign
Network switch
Connects servers, storage, Wi-Fi access points and users so that they can exchange data.
What we consider
Port counts, speeds and uplink capacity
Redundancy, so one failure does not stop everything
Dividing the network into separate segments
Monitoring and documentation
Firewall
Sits between networks and enforces rules about which traffic is allowed.
What we consider
Reviewing rules and removing those no longer needed
Secure remote access design
Separating zones such as staff, guests and servers
Resilience, firmware updates and change control
Storage system
Holds business data and serves it to servers and users.
What we consider
Capacity planning and expected growth
Performance for the applications that use it
Protection against disk and component failure
Access control and data availability
Backup system
Keeps separate copies of data so the business can recover after loss, error or an incident.
What we consider
What to back up and how often
Recovery time and recovery point goals agreed with the business
Keeping a copy that is separate from the main systems
Regular restore tests, and protecting access to backups
Power and cooling
Power protection (such as a UPS) and cooling keep equipment running within safe conditions.
What we consider
Power load and how long equipment must keep running
Redundancy for critical power and cooling
Cooling capacity, airflow and temperature monitoring
Maintenance and physical access to the room
An educational illustration. Layouts, sizes and equipment in a real environment depend on your business and are agreed during consulting.
Planning a new environment, or improving an existing one?
Tell us about your servers, network, storage and backup arrangements, and we will suggest a sensible way to begin.