The expensive mistakes in infrastructure are made at the design stage, not during installation. Storage sized on today's data rather than three years of growth, a virtualisation cluster with no failure headroom, a backup design that has never had its restore time calculated — each becomes visible only when it is costly to change.
We do this work vendor-neutrally, which is the point. Because we hold partnerships across several manufacturers rather than a quota with one, the design can conclude that the cheaper option is sufficient. A design produced by a company that only sells one brand will, reliably, need that brand.
Deliverables are documents you can put in front of a board or a procurement team: sizing with the assumptions shown, architecture with the failure modes named, and a capacity plan with a horizon on it.
What you end up with
Outcomes, not activity.
Common questions
Presales & Solution Design — asked and answered.
Can we use your design and buy elsewhere?
Yes. It is chargeable work with a deliverable, and the deliverable is yours. We would obviously like to implement it, but a design contingent on winning the supply is not really independent advice.
Do you help with tenders and RFPs?
Yes — both sides. We help buyers write requirements that are technically meaningful, and help integrators respond to them. Not on the same tender, for obvious reasons.
How long does a design engagement take?
A focused sizing exercise is typically one to two weeks. A full architecture for a multi-site estate takes longer, and we will say so at the outset rather than discovering it midway.
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Where this connects.
Browse all services
Twenty-one services, five areas of accountability.
Managed & support
Ongoing operational ownership — someone accountable when a system stops behaving.
Infrastructure & cloud
The layer everything else depends on: compute, storage, network, cloud and the office itself.
Backup & data protection
Recovery you have actually tested, and data you can still find in five years.
Security & safety
Physical and digital protection specified by one team, so the systems interlock.
For overseas businesses
Landing in India for the first time, with one accountable partner on the ground.
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