Sizing and capacity models
Compute, storage and throughput modelled against your real workload and growth curve, not a vendor sizing tool. You also get refresh sequencing and a line-by-line read of the bill of materials you were quoted.
Infrastructure Design Consulting
Capacity models, virtualization architecture, and disaster recovery design, reviewed before you buy. We design it, then hand it back to your team.
The call
The refresh quote came in and nobody can tell you if the design behind it is right.
Three vendors, three bills of materials, and three different answers on how much storage you actually need. The maintenance window opens whether or not you have decided.
Your team knows the environment better than anyone. What they don’t have is a spare month to model it from scratch while keeping the rest of the estate running. Some problems are bigger than your bench.
What you get
The design, before the purchase order.
Virtualization architecture and migration plan
Host and cluster layout, failure-domain math, storage presentation and licensing consequences, written up as a design document. The migration plan is scoped to the change windows you actually get.
Rack elevations and power budgets
Elevations, power and cooling budgets, cabling and patching schedules, and as-built diagrams that match what is genuinely in the cabinet. The next person to open the door is not guessing.
Disaster recovery and continuity design
Recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO and RPO) written down and agreed to, replication topology, failover sequencing, and runbooks your staff can rehearse. We design the plan and hand it over. Your team runs the failover.
How we work
Modelled, written down, handed over.
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Discovery first, then a scope
It starts with a discovery pass: current state, constraints, and the workloads that are not allowed to stop. Scope, deliverable and end date go in writing before we begin.
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Weeks for a review, longer for a refresh
A focused design review is a matter of weeks. A full data center refresh runs longer, because it should. Either way the shape of the engagement is agreed up front, and when the work is done it’s done.
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Signed, handed over, yours
The engagement ends with signed deliverables your team owns outright and can hand to any integrator you like. Nothing stays behind with us, and the documents should stand on their own without a call to us.
Why independent matters
A second opinion with a name on it.
When you hand us a proposal, the question we answer is whether the design behind it holds up. If the quote in front of you is sound, we’ll say so. We would rather finish and leave than sit on an open retainer.
Engagements are named and attributable. Your review arrives on our letterhead, not scrubbed clean for another firm to resell. You know which engineers did the work, and that matters: a second opinion is only as strong as the person willing to put a name to it. Ours is a review you can put in front of a client, a board, or an auditor.
Where we hand off
Two things a refresh runs into that aren’t ours.
If the design depends on circuits or voice service at the recovery site, that belongs to our sister division IZT CLOUD. If the blocker is a line-of-business application that has to be integrated or rebuilt before a workload can move, that belongs to IZT APPS. Separate divisions, separate contracts, and either way it goes in the deliverable as a finding like any other rather than quietly becoming our next phase.
The rest of the practice
Where else the same team goes deep.
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Need help with something?
Tell us the decision you’re trying to make. We’ll tell you whether it’s an engagement, a referral to one of our sister divisions, or something you don’t need us for.
We’re here for you, so you can focus on what matters.
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