Cloud, Microsoft 365 & Infrastructure
Cloud and virtualisation
Virtualisation is how you get more out of less hardware. Done without thought, it is also how four independent systems end up depending on one box.
Consolidation done carefully
Most environments we inherit have accumulated physical servers, each bought for one purpose, each now running at a fraction of capacity, and each with its own replacement date and its own risk. Consolidating them onto a virtualised platform reduces cost, power and complexity.
The trap is concentration. Putting the clinical system, the file server, the domain controller and the backup target on one host means a single hardware failure takes everything. We design for this deliberately — redundancy where it matters, and a documented recovery path where redundancy is not justified.
Hybrid, which is what most organisations actually need
- Latency-sensitive and connectivity-dependent workloads stay local — clinical systems, gaming integrations, print and file services used heavily on site
- Collaboration, email and document management in Microsoft 365
- Backup, archive and disaster recovery targets in Azure, which is where cloud economics work best
- One identity across all of it, so access is managed in one place
- One monitoring and patching regime, regardless of where a workload sits
Virtual desktops
For shared workstations, shift work and clinicians moving between rooms, a virtual desktop can solve the sign-in and session-persistence problem elegantly. It is also dependent on the network being good. We assess the connectivity first, because a virtual desktop over a marginal link is worse than the thing it replaced.
Common questions
We have five old physical servers. What now?
That is a normal starting point. The audit establishes what each one does, what it depends on, and what its replacement date should be. Consolidation is then sequenced into the roadmap with the capital plan attached.
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