Windows Server, fixed or rebuilt only as far as you need.
We fix what's wrong, migrate what's ageing, modernise what's tired, and rebuild from scratch when that's genuinely the right call. Most of the time it isn't, and we'll tell you so. Either way you get senior engineers who do the work to one high standard, for organisations that take their estate seriously, regulated ones included.
You don't have to be in trouble to call us.
Some clients come to us with a real problem: ageing kit, an upgrade they've put off, a domain that's started to creak. Plenty more are running well already and want a faster, more resilient platform. We treat both the same way.
The result is built the way we would build it for ourselves, designed around what you actually run. You decide how far it goes, from a single domain to a whole data centre, with our engineers on it from start to finish.
Work for organisations with demanding requirements, regulated ones included.
What a Windows Server engagement covers.
From a tidy-up of a single domain to a whole data centre, scoped to what the estate actually needs and built to hold up under testing and audit.
Active Directory
A clean domain, whether it's new or just overdue a tidy-up.
New domain or an ageing one that's drifted, we set it on current foundations: clean structure, correct functional levels, Group Policy that does what you intend, and a clear path to the cloud. The directory every login depends on, sorted out rather than left to accumulate.
Fault tolerance
No single thing that can take the whole lot down.
If a single server, disk or switch can take the business offline, that is a single point of failure rather than resilience. We design redundancy in at every layer and prove it fails over, so a failed component does not cause an outage.
Full rebuilds, when they're warranted
The whole platform rebuilt, while the business keeps running.
When a setup has genuinely been outgrown, a rebuild is the honest answer. We design the replacement, stand it up alongside the old, and move you across in stages, so the cutover is planned and controlled.
For regulated work we build to the standard the audit expects, evidenced as we go, so the rebuild and the compliance land together.
Hyperconverged infrastructure
Compute, storage and resilience in one stack.
Racks of separate servers, SANs and switches are expensive to run and slow to scale. We design hyperconverged infrastructure that combines compute, storage and failover into one system you scale by adding a node, giving you data-centre resilience without the floor space.
Hardware and lifecycle
The right kit, bought well and looked after to the end.
We specify and procure the hardware, so you neither overpay nor under-provision for what you actually need. Then we manage it for its whole life, including warranties, refreshes and retirement, so nothing important runs on hardware that is out of support.
A big change that doesn't feel like a gamble.
A major change carries risk when it's done on the fly, so we plan and design it in full, build it alongside what you already run, and prove it works before anything moves. The cutover is controlled and reversible.
Our own engineers carry the work from start to finish, and the people who design it are the people who build it. For regulated work the evidence is produced as we go, so the compliance is ready when the audit is.
What you can count on
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Proven before you commit
We stand the new environment up alongside the old and prove it, so you're moving to something you've already watched work.
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Experienced hands throughout
The people who design it are the people who build it. No juniors learning on your infrastructure.
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Calm, reversible cutovers
Staged and planned, with a way back at every step, so going live is a non-event.
What it buys you, in plain terms.
Room to grow into.
Headroom for what's next, resilience you can rely on, and a platform the rest of the business can lean on.
Audits you walk into, not brace for.
Built to the standard regulators expect, with the evidence already in order, so a review is straightforward.
Resilience that is tested and proven.
Failover tested, recovery rehearsed and weak points designed out, so the thing stays up when something fails.
Start with where you want to be.
We look at what you've got and map the route from there to the standard you want.
Whether you're fixing a real problem or levelling up something that already works, you get an honest read on where you stand and a clear plan to where you want to be, costed before anything starts. From there you choose how we work together: a named engineer, a fully managed service, a fixed-fee project, or ad-hoc support.
- Scope
- Agreed with you on the first call. No surprise add-ons.
- Deliverables
- Where you are, where you could be, and the plan that gets you there.
- Continuity
- The senior engineers who plan the work are the ones who build it.
Factor1's monitoring covers servers too. The assessment maps your coverage before anything changes.
Windows Server is one piece. We look after the whole.
Under one agreement, the estate is watched, maintained and documented as a single thing, by the team behind this page.
…and everything between.
Tell us where you want your infrastructure to be.
A short call with the engineers who would do the work. Tell us what you're running and where you want it to get to, and you'll get a clear view of how we'd deliver it, and whether it needs a rebuild at all.
