Professional Services.
Architecture & engineering, end to end.

Professional Services covers architectural and engineering services across the entire data center stack — and we mean the entire stack, not just the building. Our primary engineering practice spans compute, networking, applications, and security, alongside the critical facility infrastructure (power, cooling, structural) beneath them. The discipline is the same end to end: scope a system to its real behavior, design it to survive its real failures, document it for the people who will operate it.

Scope is defined up front. Deliverables are named. The engagement ends when the work is done. Where engineering judgment is needed before the work is scoped — design counsel, modernization sequencing, M&A engineering due diligence — that is Advisory Services. Where engineering work runs as part of an ongoing operating practice, that is Operations Management. Professional Services is the executable middle.

Compute architecture and engineering

We architect compute for the workloads that have to run on it. CPU and accelerator sizing, GPU fabric design for AI training and inference, virtualization and bare-metal topologies, host-level tuning, and the physical-to-logical mapping that ties every node back to a rack, a row, and a power and cooling envelope. We engineer the seam where compute meets the facility — the seam most teams treat as someone else's problem until the first thermal incident.

Network architecture and engineering

Network is where most workload pain originates and where most engineering shortcuts hide. We design spine-leaf and AI-fabric topologies, BGP/EVPN/VXLAN underlays and overlays, segmentation for tenant isolation and compliance, out-of-band management networks, MMR and meet-me layouts, and the structured cabling that connects all of it. We engineer the IT-to-facility seam at the patch panel, the rack PDU port, and the leaf-switch port — the three places network problems become operations problems.

Application architecture and engineering

Applications are what tenants actually pay for. We architect workload tiering and SLOs, dependency maps, regional and cross-zone failover topology, observability surfaces, and the run-time posture that turns a production incident into a contained event rather than a public one. Application architecture is what makes our operating model application-aware — operators who know which workloads tolerate brownouts, which need cross-zone failover, which carry regulatory weight.

Security architecture

Physical, logical, and tenant security layered through the stack. Access control and physical zoning at the facility. Network segmentation at the fabric. Identity, authentication, and authorization at the application. SIEM and SOC integration to tie the layers into a single posture, with evidence collection mapped against the compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST 800-53) the asset operates under.

Critical power engineering

The power chain — utility intake, MV/LV switchgear, ATS, UPS, PDU, and busway — is where most operational pain originates and where most engineering shortcuts hide. We design power topology to measured load behavior, not nameplate, and we engineer for the failure modes a redundancy class is supposed to cover. N+1 and 2N are not slogans. They are commitments that have to survive a breaker test, a generator black-start, a UPS bypass, and a real maintenance window. Our power deliverables include single-lines, short-circuit and coordination studies, arc-flash labeling, and the operating procedures that keep that engineering true once tenants arrive.

Mechanical and cooling engineering

Cooling is the most-changed system in any active data center. AI and heavy-density workloads have pushed even mid-tier facilities past the cooling assumptions of three years ago. We engineer cooling against the ASHRAE A1–A4 envelopes the building actually operates in, with chilled-water and air-side approaches sized for the rack densities you plan to land. We work with CRAC, CRAH, in-row, RDHX, immersion, and direct-to-chip approaches, and we model thermal behavior at the row, hall, and plant level. We are opinionated about commissioning — most cooling problems are installation problems, not design problems, and we keep that gap short.

AI-ready and heavy-density data center engineering

Most of our engineering retrofit work today is heavy-density conversion of existing halls — moving facilities from a legacy 5–15 kW per rack design point toward 30, 60, 100, even 150+ kW per rack. That conversion touches every system: branch circuits and busway, rack PDUs, in-row or rear-door cooling, chilled- water plant capacity, leak detection, structural floor loading, and the control logic that ties them together. Liquid cooling is not a single decision — it is twenty engineering decisions that have to be sequenced around live tenants. We have built the discipline to stage those engagements without disrupting the customers that pay today's bills.

Network, security, and structured cabling engineering

The engineering work that lands ahead of tenants — fiber entrances, MMR layout, structured cabling, out-of-band networks, segmentation, physical access topology, and the camera/sensor coverage that backs both — all has to be designed once and documented for every audit, every hand-off, and every move/add/change for the life of the facility. We engineer this layer alongside the mechanical and electrical layers so the operating team inherits a single coherent model.

DCIM integration engineering

A DCIM platform is only as useful as the model behind it. We engineer the physical-to-logical mapping that DCIM systems live on — asset taxonomy, parent/child relationships, sensor coverage, poll cadence, and the integrations into BAS, EPMS, ITSM, and SIEM that turn DCIM from a viewer into the operating substrate. Our DCOS platform extends that work, but the engineering discipline underneath is identical whether you run DCOS or any other DCIM stack.

Capacity planning and modeling

Capacity is a system, not a number. We model power, cooling, network, and floor-space capacity against booked tenants, signed but unbooked capacity, and the deal pipeline. The deliverable isn't a spreadsheet — it is a planning model your sales, operations, and finance teams can each operate from without re-deriving capacity every quarter.

Migrations, retrofits, and decommissioning

Moving live workloads is engineering work and operational work in equal measure. We design move-groups, map dependencies, plan cut-over windows, and produce the runbooks the operating team uses through the night. Decommissioning gets the same engineering rigor — chain-of-custody, asset disposition, certificate-of- destruction, and the documentation auditors and insurers expect.

Documentation and runbook authoring

Engineering documentation, MOPs, runbooks, escalation matrices, and operating manuals — the unglamorous work that pays back the first time someone needs it at 2am. We write what survives a turnover, not what survives a single audit.

Discrete deliverable

A defined scope with named deliverables — a viability assessment, a full design package, a commissioning plan, a capacity model, a retrofit design, a documentation refresh. Fixed scope, fixed deliverable, quoted up front.

Embedded engineering capacity

A senior engineer or small team embedded into your program for a defined window — typically 3 to 12 months — to lead an upgrade, stand up an engineering function, or carry an organization through a build-out. Hourly or monthly rate, scope renegotiated as the program evolves.

Hourly tactical support

For targeted work that doesn't justify a project scope — review a single drawing, sit a witness commissioning, prepare a single MOP, support a single audit walkthrough.

Specialty licensed disciplines (civil, structural, MEP, fire protection, telecom, environmental) are coordinated and integrated under one accountable team rather than handed off to the client as a stack of disconnected packages.