Infrastructure,
engineered, not procured.
Datacentre, hybrid, virtualisation, storage, backup, DR, networking and end-user compute, engineered for reliability, security and cost, and operated as a discipline.
A complete infrastructure practice, engineered end to end.
From datacentre and hybrid platforms through storage, backup, DR, networking, end-user compute and modernisation, our practice covers the full delivery surface of enterprise infrastructure.
Infrastructure strategy & TCO
Target-state architecture, sourcing and total-cost-of-ownership models, grounded in workloads, resilience needs and the reality of your operating team.
Datacentre & colocation
Datacentre design, colocation strategy, power/cooling and rack-level engineering, for the workloads that genuinely stay on-prem, run at scale, or have regulatory pin.
Hybrid & on-prem cloud
VMware, Nutanix, OpenShift and Kubernetes on-prem, with connectivity and data gravity engineered honestly, rather than pretending workloads can move on a whim.
Virtualisation & compute
Compute platforms, hypervisors and bare-metal, with capacity planning, standardised images and lifecycle designed for the fleet, not for a single build.
Storage & data services
Block, file and object storage, with tiering, replication, snapshots and lifecycle engineered against the actual read/write profile of your workloads.
Backup, DR & business continuity
3-2-1 backups, immutable copies, RPO/RTO-driven DR, and drills that actually run, because the backup you didn't test is a story, not a control.
Networking & connectivity
Datacentre and campus networking, SD-WAN, transit and interconnect, engineered against traffic profile and failure modes, not just wired to the vendor's reference diagram.
End-user compute & VDI
Modern workplace, VDI/DaaS, imaging, MDM and identity, designed against how your workforce actually works, not against a template.
HPC & specialised compute
HPC clusters, GPU platforms and specialised workloads, for research, ML training, engineering simulation and rendering pipelines.
Infrastructure operations
Monitoring, patching, capacity, config drift and standard operating procedures, with owners, runbooks and SLAs, not a wiki full of good intentions.
Modernisation & cloud migration
Move-or-modernise decisions per workload, and rolling-wave migrations with parallel-run and reconciliation, never a big-bang weekend.
Sustainability & efficiency
PUE, workload placement, right-sizing and lifecycle disposal, designed for cost and carbon, and measured rather than claimed.
Map the workloads. Move the ones that should move.
A delivery model that starts with an honest workload map and lands changes as reconciled, reversible waves, never big bangs.
Assess
Inventory workloads, dependencies, contracts, SLAs, risks and TCO. Output: a workload-by-workload map of what stays, what moves, and what modernises.
Design
Target-state architecture, hybrid or on-prem, engineered against resilience, cost, compliance and the operating team's skills.
Deliver
Rolling-wave delivery with parallel-run, reconciliation and same-day rollback. Every change ships with monitoring, runbooks and evidence trails.
Operate
Capacity, patching, backup, DR, cost and drift monitored as ongoing engineering. Enablement is designed in, your team owns the platform on day one.
A pragmatic infrastructure toolchain.
Hardware, hypervisor and platform selection is driven by workloads, resilience and skills, not by vendor preference.
KubernetesPProxmox
Windows ServerRRHELUUbuntuCCiscoJJuniperAAristaFFortinetPAPalo AltoNNetAppPSPure StorageDEDell EMCCCephVVeeamRRubrikCCommvault
Prometheus
Grafana
DatadogAAnsible
Terraform
AWSAzure
GCPProgrammes delivered on this practice.
What prospective clients ask us first.
If your question isn't addressed here, please reach us at hello@tekansa.com.
01How do we decide what stays on-prem versus moves to cloud?
Workload by workload, on evidence, never as an all-or-nothing choice. Data gravity, latency, regulation, licence economics, hardware attachment and the operating team's skills all matter. Some workloads genuinely earn on-prem or hybrid; others obviously belong in cloud. The valuable output is a workload-level map with a costed, phased plan, not a slogan.
02How do you approach backup and disaster recovery so it actually works?
By designing to RPO/RTO objectives per workload, keeping immutable copies out of the blast radius, and running drills that would fail early enough to be fixable. A backup you don't test is a story, not a control. We build the runbooks, own the drills alongside your team, and treat DR readiness as an ongoing engineering discipline, not a checkbox for auditors.
03How do you keep hybrid environments manageable?
By standardising the seams, identity, monitoring, IaC, CI/CD, backup, across on-prem and cloud, so operations don't split into two disconnected estates. Workloads keep the runtime that suits them; the operations model stays coherent. It's cheaper long-run than either 'lift everything' or 'stay everywhere on-prem'.
04How do you handle patching, drift and standardisation without breaking production?
With IaC, immutable images where possible, staged rollouts, and drift detection that surfaces changes rather than hiding them. Patch cycles are automated, staged and reversible; emergency patches have their own path. Standardisation is a service to application teams, not a rule imposed on them, and it holds because it's easier to use than to bypass.
05How do you manage cost / TCO across a hybrid estate?
By modelling TCO honestly, hardware, refresh, power, licences, cloud, operations, incident cost, per workload and per year. Cost is attributed, visible and negotiable rather than blamed on a vendor. That's what turns infrastructure into an engineering discipline instead of a procurement exercise.
06How do you approach sustainability without turning it into a slogan?
By measuring what we run, PUE, workload placement, right-sizing, refresh cycles and lifecycle disposal, and designing improvements against actual numbers. Sustainability improvements that ship are almost always cost improvements too. We prefer measured, defensible progress to certified marketing.
Let's discuss your infrastructure programme.
Share a brief overview of the estate and workloads, we'll arrange an introductory conversation with the relevant practice leadership.