Sword modernises corporate and CNI data centre infrastructure. Partnering with our strategic vendors Cisco, Dell Technologies and Nutanix, we engineer high-density compute clusters, Nutanix HCI platforms, and high performance Enterprise-class Storage solutions, pre-staged and burn-in tested in our UK labs for zero-risk deployment.
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Compute & Storage Capabilities
Compute and Storage at Sword provides high-performance server architecture, Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), Dell enterprise storage, and lab pre-configuration staging to modernise data centre infrastructure. Bespoke 24/7/365 support packages are provided across all compute, storage and hybrid multi-cloud solutions our expert team design and deliver.
Sword helps customer migrate from silo’d and complex SAN environments to modern easy to manager HCI solutions from Nutanix, running on high performance Compute Nodes. Nutanix is completely Vendor agnostic from a Compute perspective.
- Platform Assessment & Solution Design
- Infrastructure Deploymennt & Configuration
- Workload Migration & Consolidation
- Resilience, Performance & Validation
- Operational Readiness & Handover
Delivering high performance Compute and Storage infrastructure optimised to accelerate Enterprise Database performance, scalability and resilience.
- Platform Architecture & Sizing
- Enterprise Storage & SAN Configuration
- Data Protection & Availability
- Performance, Capacity & Readiness Validation
- Operational Handover & Adoption
Deploying immutable backup storage and secure, isolated recovery vaults to protect critical data and enable rapid restoration following ransomware or cyberattack.
- Immutable backup storage implementation
- Isolated recovery vault architecture
- Automated recovery validation
- Comprehensive backup policy assessment
HPC environments designed and delivered for data-intensive, compute-heavy workloads such as modelling, simulation, analytics and AI.
- HPC clusters designed around your workloads and performance needs
- High-performance compute, storage and networking working as one system
- Pre-configured and tested in our lab for faster, lower-risk deployment
- Ongoing 24/7/365 support to keep performance and availability high
Case Study
Greenfield Platform Build
Major Operator: Oil and Gas Sector
Context
Rapid, Time-Critical Delivery: Sword designed and delivered a complete IT/OT platform supporting 1,000+ users within six months, meeting a fixed operational deadline and enabling Day-1 operational independence.
Solution
Integrated Hybrid Infrastructure: Sword delivered a secure greenfield data centre and cloud platform, bringing together Azure, Nutanix HCI and segregated IT/OT environments to provide a resilient foundation for operational independence.
Outcome
Sword delivered the full agreed project scope within the required timeframe and budget, maintaining critical service availability throughout cutover and supporting successful NSTA regulatory approval.
Leadership Spotlight
Stephen McLaughlin
Hybrid Cloud Sales Lead
Stephen’s strengths lie in building strong relationships with key customer, channel and strategic partners across all sectors of business but particularly within the Public Sector, Health, Education and Enterprise marketplaces. Many of these relationships have been established and developed over a 20 year period working in IT.
More Information
By configuring and validating infrastructure before it reaches the production environment, lab pre-staging reduces deployment risk, accelerates implementation and minimises disruption to business-critical services. It also provides greater confidence that the solution will perform as intended from day one.
Nutanix HCI simplifies data-centre management primarily by combining compute, storage, virtualisation and management into a software-defined platform, reducing the number of separate technologies and management tools an infrastructure team has to operate. Nutanix is fundamentally a unified management plane covering compute, storage, networking, automation and disaster recovery, all managed by one single platform across multiple locations, removing silos and complexity
Backup storage is considered immutable when the backup data, once written, cannot be modified, overwritten or deleted for a defined retention period, even if an attacker gains access to the backup environment.
Yes. We design and deliver HPC environments for the workloads oil and gas relies on, including seismic processing and imaging, reservoir modelling and simulation. Every system is built around the scale and performance of those workloads.
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