ICT solutions
Data centre, servers & IT infrastructure
Servers, storage and the room around them — specified, installed and supported so the applications your organisation runs on stay available.
The foundation of your digital operations
Applications, records, payments and communications all depend on infrastructure that is easy to overlook until it fails. A server room that was adequate five years ago may now be short of power capacity, cooling, storage or physical protection, and every one of those gaps eventually shows up as downtime.
Logitech Consultants designs and implements infrastructure covering servers, storage, server rooms and data centres, together with the racks, power, backup and monitoring that keep them serviceable. We size the platform from the workloads it has to carry and the growth you expect, then agree how availability will be maintained through maintenance windows, failures and recovery.
What the infrastructure covers
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Servers and storage
Server platforms and storage sized for the applications, files and databases in use, with capacity and expansion planned rather than discovered.
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Racks, containment and cabling
Racking, power distribution, patching and structured cabling laid out so equipment can be added, replaced and traced without disturbing the rest of the room.
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UPS and power resilience
Uninterruptible power sized to real load and run-time requirements, with distribution and shutdown behaviour agreed before installation.
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Backup and recovery
Backup schedules, retention and restore testing designed around how quickly each system needs to be running again, not simply around copying data.
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Virtualisation
Consolidating workloads onto virtual hosts where it reduces hardware sprawl and makes recovery, testing and capacity planning more manageable.
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Infrastructure monitoring
Monitoring for power, temperature, storage capacity, device health and backup completion, with alerts routed to the people who act on them.
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Room and environmental considerations
Cooling, humidity, fire protection, access control and physical security treated as part of the design rather than added afterwards.
How the platform is shaped
Assessment before specification
We review the workloads in use, their growth pattern, the existing equipment and its service life, and the constraints of the room itself. That establishes what can be retained, what should be replaced and what the new platform has to support before any hardware is proposed.
- Application and database workloads recorded, with expected growth
- Existing servers, storage and network equipment assessed for reuse
- Power, cooling, space and physical access constraints confirmed on site
- Recovery expectations agreed per system rather than as a single figure
Availability designed in
Availability comes from how the pieces are arranged, not from any single component. We agree where redundancy is justified, how maintenance will be carried out without taking services down, and what happens to each workload during a power, storage or network failure. Backup is tested by restoring, because an untested backup is only an assumption.
Commissioning and handover
Equipment is labelled, documented and monitored before handover. Administrators are shown how the platform is laid out, how to check its health and what to do when an alert appears, so the infrastructure can be operated confidently between support visits.
Implementation and support
Infrastructure work is planned around the services that depend on it, with changes staged rather than forced through in a single outage.
- Migration and cutover planned in windows agreed with the business, with rollback understood before work begins.
- Commissioning covering power, cooling, network connectivity, monitoring and backup verification.
- Administrator training on health checks, alert handling, capacity review and routine maintenance tasks.
- Preventive maintenance covering firmware, storage health, battery condition, cooling and backup integrity.
- Lifecycle planning that identifies end-of-support equipment before it becomes a failure rather than after.
Questions we are asked
Do we need a new server room, or can we use the space we have?
Often the existing room can be improved rather than replaced. We assess power capacity, cooling, physical access and cable management first. If the room is the constraint, we will say so and set out what can be corrected before any question of relocation arises.
Should our systems stay on-premise or move to a hosted environment?
It depends on the application, the connectivity available, your data obligations and how much control you need. We work through those factors with you and recommend a mix where that is the better answer, rather than treating either option as a default.
How much backup is enough?
Enough that you can restore each system within the time the business can tolerate losing it. We agree recovery expectations per system, then design schedule, retention and off-site copies to match, and test restores rather than assuming they work.
Can you support equipment you did not supply?
In most cases, yes. We assess the installed equipment, establish what is still supported by its manufacturer and what has reached end of life, then propose a support arrangement that is honest about the risks of retaining ageing hardware.
Will the work disrupt our operations?
Migrations are staged and scheduled with you. Where a short interruption is unavoidable it is agreed in advance, communicated to users and timed to minimise impact, with a tested route back if something does not go as planned.
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Let’s build the right solution
Tell us what you are trying to achieve. We will help you assess the requirement, shape the architecture and identify the technology needed to deliver it.