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One company's own cloud, on its own hardware
Virtualisation, storage, backup, tenancy and a self-service portal, built for a single organisation and handed over working.
What it is
Private cloud, in plain terms
Virtualisation, storage, backup, tenancy and a self-service portal, built for a single organisation and handed over working.
Control plane and tenancy
Projects, quotas and role-based access for internal teams.
Storage tiers
NVMe and capacity, with snapshots and immutable backup.
Segmentation
East-west policy between tenants, and private links to the wider estate.
Migration in waves
Existing workloads moved in batches, with rollback at each step.
How it works
How private cloud is delivered
- 01Identity firstWe integrate your directory before anything else, so projects and roles exist on day one rather than being retrofitted.
- 02Control plane in pairsNothing sits on a single node. Scheduler, API and identity run in a highly available pair or trio.
- 03Pools, not serversCompute, NVMe and capacity storage are presented as pools, so a team asks for capacity rather than for a machine.
- 04Segmented from the startTenant traffic and management traffic never share a path, which is the thing hardest to retrofit later.
- 05Backup that is testedSnapshot and replicate are scheduled, and we restore from them during acceptance so the runbook is proven.
In the field
Private cloud on site
What the work looks like once it is on the floor.
Detail
What is included
| Typical scale | From eight nodes upward, sized against the workloads found in discovery. |
|---|---|
| Deliverables | Working environment, runbooks, evidence pack and a named team. |
| Timeline | Ten to twelve weeks for a single site foundation. |
| Hardware | Specified by us, owned by you, procured directly or through us at cost plus. |
| Afterwards | Hand to your team, or keep us on a monthly operating retainer. |
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Common questions
How is it priced?↓
Fixed price against a defined scope. Ongoing operation is quoted separately as a monthly service.
Do you supply the hardware?↓
We specify it and can procure it, but it stays on your balance sheet.
Can a partner sell this under their own name?↓
Yes. Design and build are delivered white-label where a partner holds the customer.
Next step
Tell us what you are building and we will tell you what it needs.
An hour with our engineers, no charge. Bring a floor plan, a workload, or just the problem.