Practice · Cloud & Data CentresWhat a costed model settles
Four questions an opinion cannot settle
Where is your data really held, and under which jurisdiction?
Locations, access conditions, contractual responsibilities, sector constraints. A clear strategy removes the grey areas and secures the commitments you make to your own clients.
What is your level of operational risk?
Hosting determines your attack surface, your ability to segment, your continuity and recovery plan. It is a security decision as much as an infrastructure one.
What does it truly cost you?
The trade-off between capital and operating expenditure, recurring costs, drift through over-provisioning, and the boundary between your teams, your suppliers and your managed service provider.
What is your environmental trajectory?
PUE, WUE, water consumption, waste heat recovery. These criteria now belong in the design, not in a retrospective report.
Our method
We model, you decide, we deliver
An integrated view
The project is a lever for transformation, not a technical works package.
Clear structure
Governance bodies, indicators, milestones. An infrastructure project never fails all at once: it drifts.
The model belongs to you
We hand over the techno-economic model in a usable form, not a fixed report. You can keep it alive, challenge it and use it for your future decisions without us.
Levels of engagement
Three entry points, depending on the deadline ahead of you
Indicative durations. Pricing is established case by case, in a meeting.
01
Hosting opportunity paper 10 days
A deadline is approaching. We establish the current position, identify the scenarios and compare them on five axes: total cost, sovereignty and compliance, resilience, carbon footprint, capacity to evolve.
You leave with
- A decision paper
- The costed comparison of scenarios
- A reasoned recommendation
02
Feasibility study and techno-economic model 20 to 40 days
Detailed modelling over eight to ten years, sizing, target architecture, environmental criteria, risk analysis, migration trajectory.
You leave with
- The complete, usable model
- The feasibility file
- The migration plan
- The tender specification
03
Client-side project management 12 to 36 months
Running the tender, selecting suppliers, overseeing design and construction, governance, running the migration, acceptance.
You leave with
- An infrastructure in service
- A trained operations team
- Governance transferred
AI in this practice
Hosting models is an infrastructure decision
Sovereign AI infrastructure
Sizing a compute base, choosing where models are hosted, applicable jurisdiction and conditions of access to data. The same five axes as any hosting decision.
Computing close to usage
Inference shifts the constraint: latency, available energy and data location become decisive. We model these trade-offs before you commit.
Our tools on engagements
Assisted analysis cuts several weeks from establishing the current position: contracts, configurations, invoices, operating documentation.
AI runs through all three of our practices. Our approach to AI →
Lead partner
Nicolas Ludmann
Partner, programme director
More than twenty years carrying infrastructure projects end to end: opportunity study, techno-economic model, build, commissioning.
He designed and built the private cloud of an international industrial group, defined its service catalogue, then took charge of its governance, its chargeback and its carbon footprint.
In a listed group, he led the merger of two groups' infrastructures, then their separation into two independent entities.
Track record
What we have already delivered
International industrial group
Design and build of a private cloud, definition of the service catalogue, rollout across the group's entities, then stewardship of governance, chargeback and carbon footprint.
European financial services firm
Design and delivery of a production data centre, and management of the migration of an information system kept in live operation.
Our clients are not named. The facts are exact. Our full track record →
Let's talk about your hosting
With Nicolas Ludmann, lead partner for this practice.