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Case file
Servers, Storage & Data Centre.
On-prem, hybrid and edge — sized for actual workload.
Server and storage architecture — Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Pure, NetApp — for on-prem and hybrid workloads, including precision cooling, rack design and DR.
/ The discipline, in detail
How we approach servers, storage & data centre.
Server rooms are quietly engineered or noisily failing — there is rarely a third option. We design rack-row layouts to actual heat load, specify precision cooling that matches the IT footprint rather than the brochure, and engineer power redundancy from the BESS through to the PDU. Storage is sized by IOPS and throughput against the actual workload, not the vendor's spec sheet, and DR is tested against a written runbook.
On record
Every servers, storage & data centre engagement is documented end-to-end — design, programming, commissioning, calibration — and handed over with the files our successors would need if we were never to return.
/ Where we deploy this
Active across 5 sectors.
Servers, Storage & Data Centre is rarely a standalone brief — it sits inside a wider sector practice with its own codes, expectations and operating rhythm.
/ Sister services
The rest of it.
A serious brief usually crosses two or three of these. Read across the discipline — we deliver them as one contract.
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EPABX & IP-PBX
Voice, routed cleanly.
Enterprise voice — IP-PBX, SIP trunking, hosted UC and hospitality PMS integrations — Grandstream, NEC, Cisco and Yeastar.0 - 02
IT & Networking
Wires the building's nervous system.
Structured cabling, Wi-Fi 7, switching, SD-WAN and data-centre networking — Cisco, HPE Aruba, Juniper, Netgear, CommScope.1 - 03
Structured Cabling
Backbones rated for the next quarter-century.
Cat6A, OS2 and OM4/OM5 structured cabling — designed to TIA-568, terminated to manufacturer warranty and labelled to a documented patch schedule.2 - 04
Enterprise Wi-Fi
Coverage you can measure, not just claim.
Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 6E enterprise wireless — Cisco, Aruba, Juniper Mist, Netgear — site-surveyed to the building's actual cell-edge SNR.3 - 05
Network Security
Segmentation. Visibility. Recoverable backups.
Next-generation firewalls, segmentation, NAC, EDR, SIEM and backup — Fortinet, Palo Alto, Sophos, Check Point — designed to how breaches actually unfold, not how vendors describe them.4 - 07
Video Conferencing Infrastructure
Reliability beats features.
Cloud, on-prem and hybrid VC — Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Cisco Webex — with bridges, gateways, recording and transcription infrastructure.5
/ Frequently asked
Servers, Storage & Data Centre — what buyers ask first.
On-prem, cloud or hybrid?
Hybrid for almost every organisation in 2026 — latency-sensitive and data-residency workloads stay on-prem; bursty and analytical workloads move to cloud. Latency-sensitive and data-residency workloads stay on-prem; bursty and analytical workloads move to cloud. Pure-cloud strategies make sense at very small scales (under 50 employees) and at very specific large scales (consumer-internet companies). The middle is hybrid.
On-premises, cloud, or hybrid?
Hybrid for almost every organisation in 2026. Latency-sensitive and data-residency-bound workloads stay on-premises; analytical and bursty workloads move to cloud. Pure-cloud strategies make sense at very small scale (under 50 employees) and very specific large scale (consumer-internet companies). Most organisations live in the middle.
What's the right approach to data backup?
3-2-1 rule: three copies, on two different media types, with one off-site. The off-site copy is the one that survives ransomware that encrypts everything on the primary network. We deploy Veeam, Rubrik or Cohesity with cloud-tier backup as the off-site path.
Dell, HPE or Lenovo for enterprise servers?
All three are equivalent at the level of build quality. Choice is usually driven by the existing fleet, the service-and-support contract you can negotiate, and the integration with your management platform. We deploy all three; we do not have a partnership preference.
What's the AMC scope for an on-premises server room?
Quarterly preventive checks (firmware, log review, disk health, fan and PSU verification), monthly remote-monitoring summary, annual full overhaul (deep cleaning, capacitor inspection, battery replacement on UPS). Premium AMC includes 24/7 on-call response with 4-hour replacement-engineer dispatch.
How do we plan for server-room cooling?
Hot-aisle/cold-aisle containment for any rack count above 4, in-row cooling (Vertiv, Honeywell) for high-density racks above 8 kW per rack. Temperature monitoring per rack with alarms; power-distribution-unit telemetry per circuit. We model thermal flow during design and verify after install.
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