Cloud and Infrastructure Modernisation
Consolidation that removes physical sites where it is safe to, and hardens the ones that must remain, with edge processing kept local where latency or continuity demands it.
Sectors ยท Telecommunications and Energy
Uptime and efficiency are the same conversation here.
Heavy infrastructure loads, distributed sites and equipment that runs continuously. Power and resilience decisions are usually made by separate teams, which is why both end up more expensive than they need to be.
ContinuousOperating profile
DistributedSite estates
MeteredBefore advised
The pressure
Efficiency is treated as a facilities matter, so nobody owns it.
What we are engaged to produce
A single view where infrastructure and power are assessed together, with the efficiency case measured from metered consumption rather than estimated from a datasheet.
Telecommunications and Energy run the most power-intensive estates we work on, and the most distributed. Equipment sits in exchanges, substations, base station sites and depots, running continuously, frequently in enclosures with no thermal headroom left.
The structural problem is ownership. Infrastructure sits with technology, power sits with facilities, and the two are assessed on different cycles against different budgets. So the resilience decision gets made without the power consequence, and the efficiency programme gets run without the resilience consequence.
Meanwhile the equipment itself keeps ageing. On distributed estates the end-of-support position is usually worse than in a central data hall, because nobody has physically visited some of these sites since commissioning.
The instrument
Where the power actually goes
On heavy infrastructure sites, the share of draw doing useful work is usually smaller than anyone expects. Toggle between a typical estate and the same estate after an optimisation pass.
Site power distribution, illustrativeTypical estate
IT loadServers, storage, network doing useful work48%
CoolingCRAC units, chillers and air handling32%
Distribution lossesUPS conversion, transformers, cabling11%
Idle capacityPowered equipment carrying no workload9%
48%Draw doing useful work
32%Cooling overhead
20%Idle and losses
Illustrative proportions drawn from the pattern we typically find on heavy infrastructure sites. Your figures come from metered consumption during a stage one energy audit, and we do not quote a saving before we have measured one.
Applied here
Where the four disciplines land on a heavy estate
Data Harmonisation and Backup
Recovery on Veeam and VMware across a distributed estate, where the constraint is usually bandwidth to site rather than anything in the data centre.
Sustainable Energy Engineering
Metered load profiling across IT, cooling and distribution, then optimisation frameworks that reduce the draw before any new capacity is specified.
Enterprise Audit and Advisory
A first accurate inventory across every site, including the ones nobody has attended in years, with refresh planning against both support and efficiency.
A typical first engagement
Most Telecommunications and Energy organisations start by measuring, not by buying
Metered energy audit
Consumption measured across IT load, cooling and distribution, per site, rather than estimated from equipment ratings.
Estate and exposure inventory
Every site inventoried with its support position, thermal headroom and physical access constraints recorded together.
Combined optimisation plan
One sequence covering both resilience and efficiency, so the two stop being funded against each other.
We do not quote a saving before we have measured one. That is the entire difference.