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Our engineers. Your infrastructure. Wherever it lives.

Design, deployment and day-2 operations for open infrastructure — in a Racktrail region, your own data center, or a colo you already use.

What we do

Architecture and design

Capacity, topology, failure domains, and an honest view of what you'll need to operate it.

Deployment

OpenStack, Proxmox, Ceph, Kubernetes. Built to upstream, documented as we go.

Migration

VMware to OpenStack or Proxmox, hyperscaler to private, or colo consolidation. Continuous replication and a per-VM cutover measured in minutes. See below.

Kubernetes

Cluster design, upgrades, and the platform layer underneath.

Day-2 operations

Monitoring, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, incident response.

Training and handover

Your team learns the platform properly, with documentation written for operators rather than for a sales cycle.

Coverage and response times

Cover, escalation and response targets depend on your workload, architecture and how the on-call split is drawn. We agree them with you and write them into the contract rather than quoting a number before we understand the estate. Ask the team for specifics.

How we engage

Model
You own
We own
Fully managed
The workloads
Everything under them
Co-managed
Day-to-day operations
Architecture, upgrades, escalation
Support only
All operations
Expertise on call when you need it
Project
Everything after handover
A defined piece of work, delivered and documented
Solutions · VMware Migration

VMware to OpenStack, without the outage

Continuous block-level replication while VMware keeps serving traffic, then a per-VM cutover measured in minutes. Load-balanced tiers move with no user-visible interruption. Rollback stays available until you sign off.

How the migration works →

The handover promise

We document everything and train your team to run it.

Operating boundary · moves with the engagement fully managed · co-managed · support only
WORKLOADS PLATFORM OS & HYPERVISOR HARDWARE YOU OWN WE OWN fully managed · co-managed · support only the boundary goes in the contract

If you decide in a year that you want to operate it yourselves, that’s a successful engagement, not a lost account. We would rather be the company that made your team capable than the company your team can’t leave.

This is not a soft commitment. It’s why the configuration is standard, why the runbooks are yours, and why the documentation is written for someone who doesn’t work here.

Where we'll work

A Racktrail region, your own data center, or a colo you already use. If your hardware is already racked somewhere, that's usually the cheapest good answer, and we'll say so.

01

A Racktrail region

Eleven locations across Europe, North America and Asia.

02

Your own data center

On hardware you own, under your physical control.

03

A colo you already use

Existing contracts and cross-connects stay in place.

Tell us what needs to run.

Send us the workload, the constraints, and the region it has to live in. An engineer — not a sales rep — will tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.