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Data Centres & Infrastructure
Design, build and support of data rooms, compute and storage platforms, and the backup and recovery that protect them.
Overview
Plenty of organisations in Oman still run critical systems in a server room that grew one rack at a time. Power is shared with the office, cooling was sized for half the current load and nobody has tested a restore in years. We assess what is there, then either modernise the room, move the equipment to a Tier III colocation facility, or design a new data hall with our construction and electrical partners.
Inside the racks we supply and configure servers, hyper-converged platforms, storage and virtualisation, and we put in immutable backup and a recovery site. Recovery is tested on a schedule, not assumed, and the results are reported to management.
What the service covers
| Service | Scope | Technologies and methods |
|---|---|---|
| Data-centre design and build | Rooms, racks, power, cooling and cabling designed to Tier standards and delivered with our partners. | Tier design, Power and cooling, Structured cabling |
| Compute, storage and virtualisation | Servers, hyper-converged infrastructure, storage arrays and virtualisation platforms, sized and supported. | HCI, Storage, Virtualisation |
| Backup and disaster recovery | Immutable backup, replication and recovery sites, tested against agreed recovery objectives. | Immutable backup, DR sites, RTO / RPO |
| Edge and GPU infrastructure | Edge sites for ports and plants, and GPU clusters for AI training and inference. | Edge computing, GPU clusters, AI inference |
How we work
Discover
We map the process, the users and the constraints before proposing any technology.
Design
Architecture, user experience, security model and delivery plan, agreed with your team.
Build
Short delivery cycles, with working software demonstrated every two weeks.
Launch
Testing, data migration, training and a controlled go-live.
Run and improve
Hand-over to your team, or 24/7 operation by ours under agreed service levels.
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