Cloud and Data Centre
Cloud and data centre services, engineered for the workload.
Cloud and data centre services for organisations choosing where workloads should run, planning a migration or improving an existing environment. We design and manage Azure, AWS, private and sovereign cloud, with backup, disaster recovery, cloud cost management and colocation to support the workloads you rely on.
Microsoft CAF aligned
AWS Well-Architected
Sovereign-ready
FinOps Foundation aligned
Context
Where should your workloads run next?
A cloud decision starts with the workload: its performance needs, data location, recovery requirements and cost over time. You may be approaching a platform renewal, preparing a new application or finding that your current cloud environment has become difficult to manage.
CloudCoCo brings together cloud design, migration and ongoing operation. We can help with public cloud landing zones, private and sovereign environments, colocation, recovery and FinOps. The service detail below explains the available capabilities; the right combination depends on your environment.
Named cost lead
FinOps Foundation framework, monthly accountability scorecard published to your CFO
AI by design
GPU compute, RDMA networking and parallel storage architected top-down for the workload
Tested recovery
Immutable backup with quarterly rehearsed recovery, designed for ransomware scenarios
Sovereign-ready
DORA, NIS2 and GDPR-aligned deployment, with disconnected and air-gapped scenarios
Who we serve
Two starting points. One delivery model.
We work with organisations facing the VMware decision, and with cloud estates where the original landing zone is no longer fit for the workloads now running on it.
What we deliver
Cloud and data centre capabilities
Public, private, sovereign, physical and hybrid deployment, with the FinOps, backup, migration and AI capability to deliver them as a coherent operating model.
01 · Public Cloud Landing Zones
Public cloud landing zones built to framework, handed over as code.
The first generation of cloud landing zones in most enterprises were built quickly, by different teams, against different priorities. Tagging is inconsistent, identity is split, security baselines drifted, and the FinOps regime was bolted on years later. The right foundation is a landing zone built to a recognised framework with infrastructure-as-code that the customer keeps and an operating regime that runs from day one.
Landing zones designed to the recognised reference architecture for each platform, with Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework alignment for Azure and AWS Control Tower with Landing Zone Accelerator for AWS. Infrastructure-as-code in Bicep, Terraform or CloudFormation, handed to your repository. Policy and security baselines applied as code from day one. FinOps tagging built in. Multi-cloud where the estate genuinely is multi-cloud, with one FinOps regime and one identity backbone across both.
02 · VMware Decision
The VMware decision is structural, decided on a five-year cost model.
VMware licensing, renewal and product-support milestones can prompt a wider platform decision. Review the versions you run, the workloads they support and the practical cost of staying, modernising or moving. A comparison should include migration effort and the operating model after cutover.
We run a fixed-scope, fixed-price VMware Exit Assessment. Discovery, dependency mapping, Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and AWS Well-Architected scoring, and a five-year TCO across the three options. The output is a named decision, a phased roadmap and a costed migration plan that the executive team can sign off.
03 · Cloud Migration
Cloud migration and modernisation delivered as a multi-workstream programme.
Most cloud migrations succeed at the technical layer and fall short at the operating layer. Workloads land in production, but FinOps is missing, observability is incomplete, change management has not caught up, and the savings case in the proposal does not materialise. Migration programmes that include the operating-model uplift produce the outcomes the business case promised.
We run cloud migration and modernisation programmes to PRINCE2 or MSP standards with a named CloudCoCo programme manager. Lift-and-shift, replatform and refactor approaches selected against the business case rather than the path of least resistance. Database migration and application modernisation handled as workstreams in their own right. Workstream leads for FinOps, security, networking, identity and observability. Phased delivery with business-aligned cutovers and rollback plans. Post-migration optimisation tracked against the original business case.
04 · Sovereign Cloud
Sovereign cloud options around your deployment requirements.
Data location, access, operating control and disconnected operation can each affect a sovereign cloud decision. Start with the requirements that apply to your organisation and its contracts, then compare the deployment options against them. Availability and eligibility need to be checked for the chosen platform and scenario.
Delivered through Microsoft Sovereign Cloud certified specialists on hyperscaler-validated hardware, covering the connected, disconnected and air-gapped scenarios that regulated workloads demand. Sovereign Microsoft 365 deployment for organisations with hard data-residency or disconnected requirements. Customer-eligible AI deployment on sovereign infrastructure where the eligibility criteria allow it.
05 · AI-Ready Infrastructure
AI-ready infrastructure designed top-down for the workload.
Most enterprise cloud estates were designed for North-South traffic and steady-state workloads. AI training generates large East-West GPU traffic, requires fast parallel storage, and depends on RDMA networking that traditional Ethernet does not deliver out of the box. Retrofitting AI onto an existing estate produces idle GPUs and unpredictable cost.
We design AI-ready infrastructure top-down. NVIDIA H100, H200 and B200 or AMD MI300X clusters where the economics favour them. VAST Data, Pure Storage FlashBlade or WEKA for training and inference storage. InfiniBand or 400 GbE RoCEv2 fabrics with lossless transport. Kubernetes orchestration on AKS, Amazon EKS or Nutanix Kubernetes Engine.
06 · Backup, DR and Cyber Recovery
Backup and disaster recovery designed for ransomware recovery, not just replication.
Most organisations have backups. Far fewer have a tested recovery plan that survives a ransomware incident, where backup catalogues are deleted before encryption and replicated copies are encrypted alongside production. Modern backup and disaster recovery is built around immutable storage, isolated recovery environments and rehearsed failover, with a recovery profile measured in RPO and RTO that the business has actually agreed.
We design backup, disaster recovery and cyber recovery as one programme. Immutable backup with retention enforced at the storage layer rather than in the backup catalogue. Disaster recovery to Azure Site Recovery, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery or a private DR target where the regulator requires it. Cyber recovery with isolated clean-room rebuild capability for ransomware scenarios. RPO and RTO documented per workload class, and failover rehearsed quarterly with named owners on each side.
07 · FinOps and Governance
FinOps delivered as a managed service with named accountability.
Cloud cost overruns are not usually a tooling problem. They are the absence of an operating rhythm, with no named owner inside the business and no published savings target. The FinOps Foundation framework provides a recognised reference model, but it only produces results when it is operated rather than just deployed.
We run cloud FinOps as a managed service aligned to the FinOps Foundation framework. Named CloudCoCo cost lead on every account, monthly cost accountability scorecard published to your CFO, reservation and savings-plan optimisation across Azure and AWS, anomaly detection with automatic ticket creation, and chargeback or showback model design tied to your business unit structure. Savings tracked monthly with a named lead accountable to the deliverable.
08 · Colocation and Hosting
Colocation in Tier III and Tier IV facilities, through accredited carrier-neutral partners.
Some workloads belong in physical data centre space rather than the public cloud. Mission-critical legacy systems that are not yet ready for refactor. High-bandwidth or low-latency workloads where the cloud egress economics do not work. Regulated workloads where the sovereignty profile requires named in-country facilities. Hybrid estates where private cloud needs a physical home with cloud on-ramps to the hyperscalers.
Colocation is delivered through accredited carrier-neutral partners with Tier III and Tier IV facilities, including UK presence and international reach where multinational footprints require it. CloudCoCo orchestrates the engagement and runs the managed services on top. Racks, cages and private suites are scoped against your equipment footprint, power density and growth plan. Carrier-neutral interconnect with cloud on-ramps to Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute and AWS Direct Connect. UPS and standby generation for continuity through mains failure. ISO accredited facilities with audited physical and digital security.
09 · Hybrid by Design
Hybrid estates designed and operated as a single model.
Few organisations are now committed to single-cloud strategies. Some workloads belong on hyperscalers for elasticity, some on private cloud for cost or sovereignty, some in colocation for control, some at the edge for latency. The discipline that makes hybrid work is treating the estate as one operating model rather than a stack of separate platforms.
Hybrid estates are managed through a unified management plane spanning cloud, private and edge, with Azure Arc, AWS Outposts or Nutanix Central depending on the estate. Identity unified through Microsoft Entra. Networking unified through SD-WAN, ExpressRoute and Direct Connect. FinOps and observability operated as one programme. Disaster recovery designed across the topology rather than within each platform.
Why CloudCoCo
Why customers choose CloudCoCo for cloud and data centre services.
What sets our delivery apart, in measurable terms.
Multi-vendor by design
Azure, AWS, Nutanix and Microsoft Sovereign Cloud delivered through certified Solutions Partner specialists. Recommendations depend on your environment, not our reseller portfolio.
VMware decision with the maths attached
Fixed-scope VMware Exit Assessment with five-year TCO across stay-with-VCF, Nutanix Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure Local.
Sovereign deployment capability
Microsoft Azure Local connected and disconnected, Microsoft 365 Local and Foundry Local, delivered through Sovereign Cloud certified specialists for regulated and air-gapped workloads.
FinOps with a named cost lead
Aligned to the FinOps Foundation framework. Named CloudCoCo cost lead on every account, monthly accountability scorecard published to your CFO.
AI-ready infrastructure design
GPU compute, RDMA networking and parallel storage designed top-down for AI workloads rather than retrofitted onto existing estates.
Backup and recovery built for the threat
Immutable backup, isolated cyber recovery, RPO and RTO documented per workload class and rehearsed quarterly.