Platform Modernisation
Modernise the estate you have, rather than replacing technology for the sake of change.
Most enterprise estates are not one platform but several, accumulated over years: physical servers alongside virtualised workloads, an established IBM Power footprint alongside x86, storage bought under three different strategies, and applications with very different tolerances for change. Modernisation work begins by establishing which of those still earns its place.
We assess the current environment, identify where workloads are constrained, and design a target state that keeps what remains fit for purpose while moving what does not. Migration is planned around the applications the platform carries, so change is sequenced against business risk rather than against a technology roadmap.
What the engagement covers
Infrastructure assessment
Establish what the estate runs today, where capacity and lifecycle pressure sit, and which workloads carry a clear modernisation case.
Target-state architecture
Design the destination platform across compute, storage and virtualisation, including the operating model that will run it.
Virtualisation modernisation
Move virtualised workloads onto current platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, SUSE Virtualization and Canonical MicroCloud.
Migration services
Plan and execute the move — sequencing, cutover, rollback position and post-migration validation.
Workload optimisation
Right-size and tune workloads on the platform they land on, rather than carrying existing sizing assumptions across unchanged.
Where this applies
This work applies across on-premises, virtualised, cloud-native and hybrid environments, and is most often driven by hardware or software lifecycle dates, capacity limits, or a platform whose support position is closing.
Technologies
- IBM Power
- Lenovo
- IBM Flash Storage
- IBM Fusion
- Canonical Micro-cloud
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation Engine
- SUSE Virtualisation
- Hybrid architecture
- Virtualisation
- Migration services
Other capabilities
- Automation & Intelligent OperationsRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform, infrastructure automation, event-driven automation, remediation, patching and configuration governance.
- Cloud-Native & Container PlatformsIBM Fusion, SUSE Rancher, Canonical Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, OpenShift Virtualisation, platform engineering, application platforms and hybrid cloud architecture.
- Enterprise Linux & Open SourceRed Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Ubuntu, lifecycle management, Satellite, Insights, security, patching and optimisation.
- Observability & AIOpsInfrastructure monitoring, application performance, ITSM, event correlation, operational intelligence and Motadata platform solutions.
- Managed & Engineering Services24x7 support, embedded engineers, specialist escalation, health checks, DR testing, optimisation, architecture and skills transfer.
- CybersecurityVulnerability management, attack surface management, endpoint security, managed endpoint security, managed detection and response, awareness and training, incident response and threat intelligence — all delivered through a concierge experience and security journey, on award-winning technology from Arctic Wolf.
Describe the estate. An engineer will tell you what actually applies.
The first conversation is a technical one, not a pitch. Tell us what the environment looks like and the constraint you are working against.
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