Cloud and Infrastructure Modernisation
Edge-to-Cloud design where stations keep functioning on a degraded local mode when connectivity drops, rather than halting until the centre returns.
Sectors ยท Aviation and Logistics
Systems that recover in hours have already failed the operation.
Operations run against the clock, and the cost of a stoppage compounds by the minute. We design for the recovery window the ground team can absorb, not the one the runbook found convenient.
Edge sitesDistributed estates
24/7Operational tempo
MinutesNot hours
The pressure
Nothing waits. Delay is the only currency.
What we are engaged to produce
A recovery position built around the windows the operation can actually absorb, with edge sites able to run degraded rather than stopping when the link to the centre drops.
An aviation or logistics estate is unusual in two ways. It is distributed across sites that have no on-hand technical staff, and the consequence of an outage does not stay where the outage happened. A check-in system down at one station puts aircraft out of position across the network by the end of the day.
That changes what a recovery design has to optimise for. A four hour restore may be entirely acceptable for a reporting platform and completely unusable for a system that touches turnaround. The tiering has to follow the operation, not the org chart.
The estates themselves are typically the hardest we see. Equipment installed during a terminal fit-out, never refreshed, running in a comms room with no cooling headroom, and long past the point where the vendor will answer the phone.
The instrument
What each recovery window costs the operation
Recovery time is usually discussed as a technical number. It is easier to argue about when it is expressed as what the ground team is dealing with. Select a window.
Operational consequence by recovery window
Illustrative, and deliberately expressed in operational terms rather than currency. The real figures are specific to your network, fleet utilisation and slot structure, and we model them during stage one.
Applied here
Where the four disciplines land in an operation
Data Harmonisation and Backup
Recovery on Veeam and VMware, tiered against turnaround impact, with restore targets proven at the station rather than assumed from the data centre.
Sustainable Energy Engineering
Comms rooms in terminals and depots are usually thermally constrained. We profile the load and the cooling headroom before anything new is specified into them.
Enterprise Audit and Advisory
A single inventory across every station, which for most Aviation and Logistics organisations is the first time the distributed estate has been seen in one place.
A typical first engagement
Most Aviation and Logistics organisations start with the estate they cannot see
Multi-site discovery
Every station, depot and comms room inventoried, including the equipment installed during a fit-out and never recorded.
Operational tiering
Systems classified against turnaround impact, so recovery targets follow the operation rather than the org chart.
Degraded mode design
Stations able to keep working when the link drops, with the recovery window proven at the site rather than from the centre.
Recovery time only means something once it is expressed as aircraft, shipments and shifts.