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Infrastructure that doesn't hold the
business back.

Our Infrastructure & Cloud practice designs, builds and operates the physical and virtual foundation enterprises run on — hyperscale cloud, on-premise tier-III data centres, enterprise networking, and disaster-recovery architectures — all FinOps-disciplined.

The business problem

Infrastructure is invisible when it works. And ruinously expensive when it doesn't.

Every enterprise runs on infrastructure — but most treat it as a cost centre to be minimised, not a capability to be engineered. Until the day a DC outage costs a full day of revenue, a cloud bill doubles unexpectedly, or a network bottleneck caps a new product launch. Then it becomes an executive problem, badly and fast.

Infrastructure decisions compound. A five-year cloud contract signed without FinOps erodes EBITDA. A DC sized for 2018 throttles the AI workload needed in 2026. A network topology designed around HQ breaks when opening a second country. Bad infrastructure is invisible until it isn't.

Our practice designs, builds, and operates the full stack — Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud, private cloud, tier-III data centres, enterprise networking, SD-WAN, and DR architectures. Every design is costed over five years, governed by FinOps discipline, and operated under contracted SLAs. Infrastructure becomes an asset line, not a risk line.

Measurable outcomes

Numbers our clients report to their boards.

-34%
reduction in cloud spend through FinOps engagement
Average post-engagement savings
99.99%
availability on tier-III infrastructure
24-month rolling SLA
4.2×
faster provisioning on landing-zone automated environments
Pre- vs post-automation
<15min
recovery-time objective on active-active DR designs
Quarterly DR drills
What we deliver

Nine concrete services inside this one solution.

Every Digital Enterprise engagement is assembled from these modular services. Scope is agreed upfront, priced as fixed-outcome or time-and-materials, and governed by a single steering committee.

SERVICE 01

Cloud Strategy & Migration

Cloud-fit assessment, workload classification, migration wave planning, business case — before a VM moves.

SERVICE 02

Azure / AWS Landing Zones

Production-grade landing zones — networking, identity, policy, cost-management — deployed as IaC so every new workload inherits governance.

SERVICE 03

Data Centre Design & Build

Tier-II to tier-III DC design — power, cooling, physical security, cabling, rack layout, commissioning. For sovereignty, latency, or cost requirements.

SERVICE 04

Enterprise Network Architecture

Campus, DC, and branch networking — Cisco, Fortinet, Aruba — with segmentation, QoS, and observability engineered for applications.

SERVICE 05

SD-WAN & Multi-Site Connectivity

Software-defined WAN consolidating MPLS, broadband, and 4G/5G into one resilient, policy-driven fabric.

SERVICE 06

Backup, Recovery & BCP

Enterprise backup on Veeam, immutable storage, air-gapped copies, tested DR runbooks.

SERVICE 07

Virtualisation & HCI

VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, KVM — consolidation, lifecycle management, HCI migration.

SERVICE 08

Hybrid Cloud & Edge

Workload placement across public cloud, private cloud, and edge — Azure Arc, AWS Outposts, private-cloud equivalents.

SERVICE 09

FinOps & Cost Optimisation

Continuous cloud cost engineering — rightsizing, commitment strategy, showback/chargeback. Reported monthly to finance, not just IT.

Architecture & approach

Five layers, one integrated enterprise system.

Every Digital Enterprise engagement follows the same reference architecture — adapted to your scale, cloud posture, and compliance requirements. This is the stack-level view we present to steering committees and auditors.

VIRTUAL ERA REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

Infrastructure capability reference model

Governance
FinOps Architecture board Change management Capacity planning Resilience testing
Platform
Azure AWS Oracle Cloud VMware Nutanix / HCI
Network
Campus LAN SD-WAN DC fabric Security zones Internet edge
Facilities
Tier-III DC Power & cooling Physical security Cabling Edge sites
Operations
NOC 24/7 Observability Automation DR drills Capacity reporting
Related capabilities

Capabilities that work alongside this one.

Most engagements combine multiple capabilities. These are the practices that most frequently operate alongside this one — each with dedicated leads, certified engineers, and standing playbooks.

Engagement shapes

Engagement patterns we see most often.

Different entry points, same practice. Whether the trigger is a strategic initiative, a regulatory deadline, a new system, or an operational problem, the engagement pattern is recognisable.

Engagement · Migration

Enterprise shifting core workloads off ageing on-prem kit

Hardware reaching end-of-support, capex cycle approaching. Structured assessment, waved migration to Azure or AWS, parallel operations, FinOps-first landing zone. 6–14 months.

Engagement · New DC

Tier-III data hall for regulated sectors

Banking, government, energy operators where sovereignty requires on-premise hosting. Full design, procurement, build, commissioning — tier-III certification path documented.

Engagement · Multi-country

Enterprise opening branches across the Balkans or EU

Standing up connectivity, security, and identity across new sites — SD-WAN backbone, ZTNA at the edge, unified identity plane.

Engagement · Cloud cost

CFO pushing back on an unexplained cloud bill

FinOps engagement: 4–6 weeks of analysis, rightsizing, commitment optimisation, tagging, showback. Typical result: 25–40% reduction in monthly run-rate within one quarter.

Technology partners

We certify our teams on the platforms that matter.

Digital Enterprise is platform-agnostic by design — we lead with the right tool for your scale and compliance load, not the one that pays us the highest margin. Our engineers hold certifications with every major vendor in this space.

Infrastructure vendors we certify on:

Microsoft Azure Aws Oracle Cisco Dell Hpe Veeam
Where we apply it

Sectors we deliver infrastructure for.

All industries
Proof, not slides

A tier-2 bank replaced its core in 18 months, zero unplanned downtime.

Phased core banking modernisation across three subsidiaries — delivered against a central-bank audit deadline, a fixed-scope contract, and a zero-downtime commitment the steering committee demanded. The case study documents the scope, risks, and bankable business case.

Read the case
Let's talk

Start with an infrastructure assessment.

Four weeks, fixed fee. Our architects map your estate, benchmark against industry, model cloud vs. on-prem over five years, and produce a board-ready recommendation with commercial envelope.

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