Manufacturing & LogisticsNetherlands and Germany
Exiting two data centres in a single weekend each
Consolidating two owned facilities into colocation with certified destruction of 1,400 assets and no missed dispatch window.
3h 40m
Longest outage
Inside the white space
Data Centre Support Services
Data centre work is unforgiving: a mislabelled cable or an undocumented dependency turns a two-hour window into an outage. We run data centre programmes with change control, pre-staged builds and rehearsed cutover plans. Our engineers hold facility inductions at the major colocation providers, so access is arranged rather than negotiated.
Typical outcomes
300+
Facilities with inducted engineers
99.99%
Migration success without rollback
< 4 hr
Typical cutover window
Capabilities
What this service actually covers
Scoped areas, not marketing categories. Each one is something we can be held to in a statement of work.
Rack, stack & cabling
Receipt, asset tagging, racking, structured intra-rack cabling and power commissioning to your build standard.
Data centre migrations
Dependency mapping, move-group planning, physical relocation and post-move validation with rollback plans.
Decommissioning & exit
Controlled shutdown, de-racking, certified data destruction and full facility hand-back documentation.
Resident DC engineers
Dedicated on-site presence at high-density facilities for continuous hands-and-eyes and change execution.
Deliverables
What you receive
Contractual outputs, not best-endeavours extras. If it is on this list it is in the statement of work.
- Rack elevation and power draw plan
- Asset register with serial and location mapping
- Move-group runbook with rollback criteria
- Structured cabling schedule and labelling
- Certificates of data destruction
- Facility hand-back and exit documentation
Talk to someone who does this
No qualification call with a salesperson first — you speak to a consultant from the practice that would deliver the work.
Where it applies
Sectors that use this most
The constraints differ by sector even when the technology does not. These pages set out what changes.
Finance & Banking
Regulated infrastructure, evidenced change control and support windows that respect market hours.
Technology & SaaS
Scale-up infrastructure, multi-region presence and the operational maturity investors ask about.
Telecommunications
Field engineering at national scale — exchange, edge and customer premises, on the same SLA.
Proof
This service in delivery
Questions
The things buyers actually ask
Including the awkward ones. If you have a question that is not here, ask it directly — we answer in the same register.
Do you work in third-party colocation facilities?
Routinely. Our engineers are inducted at Equinix, Digital Realty, Telehouse, NTT and most regional providers, and we handle the access requests and remote-hands escalation on your behalf.
Can you migrate live production workloads?
Yes, though the physical move is the easy part. The value is in the dependency mapping and move-group sequencing that happens in the six weeks before the van arrives.
How is data destruction evidenced?
Every drive is wiped to NIST 800-88 Purge or physically destroyed, and you receive a serial-level certificate for each asset alongside the WEEE disposal record.
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Ready to scope data centre services?
Send us the shape of the problem — sites, timescales, what has already been tried. We will come back with an approach and an honest view of whether we are the right supplier.