About Us

Red Armour is a technical consultancy specialising in design and implementation of IT infrastructure solutions.  Designs include Greenfield solutions to optimizing and improving mature IT infrastructure.

As a Red Armour customer, you will benefit from our experience in IT system analysis, design and deployment.  Red Armour adopts a highly pragmatic approach to solving business problems and as a result we judge our success by the positive change we achieve for our customers. These customers span all major market sectors and range from large, multinational business operations to SME-sized organisations.

Red Armour consultants have a strong business and IT understanding coupled with excellent technical skills.  Our understanding and early identification of potential problems stems from our in-depth knowledge from experience and the exceptional relations we rapidly form with both internal and external clients.

Red Armour’s core proposition is to provide customers with the ability to build a stable and scalable base environment that will support both agility and growth.  Through this we aim to help organisations improve efficiency and responsiveness, whilst reducing overall cost.

What We Offer

“We aim to be the preferred choice for technology consultancy to provide innovative and sustainable solutions.”

Red Armour’s strategic infrastructure solutions are based on best-of-breed technologies that, as a minimum, aim to achieve the following high-level benefits for customers:

  • Reduce total cost of system ownership
  • Increase productivity for core delivery and support staff
  • Achieve greater return on IT investments
  • Risk mitigation
  • Greater degrees of adaptability to change

We offer high quality pre and post sales technical services including design, implementation and upgrade services.  These include but are not limited to health checks, configuration and performance audits and troubleshooting.

To simplify the ever evolving array of technologies, Red Armour has created a suite of Professional Service offerings together with a tiered platform environment that enables the grouping of challenges and technologies into the following easily digestible areas:

The Infrastructure Platform

  • Storage Design for tiered storage, application optimisation and virtualisation
  • Consolidation in the form of host (virtualisation) and footprint (blade technologies)
  • Disaster Recovery for either local or site fail-over
  • Infrastructure Analysis for in-depth understanding of server performance
  • Desktop virtualisation design and implementation

The Data Management Platform

  • Backup for File, Database, Email and Directory recovery
  • Data Lifecycle Management to ensure business critical data is always accessible
  • Business Continuity for recovery in the event of data loss or corruption
  • Data Resource Management for maximising assets and central data availability
  • Data Analysis for a granular understanding of the current data estate

The Application Platform

  • Application Delivery is the access to the application irrelevant of location or device
  • Application Security is to ensure only the correct people can access the right data
  • Application Optimisation is the best application experience irrelevant of user location
  • Penetration Testing for a pro-active stance towards business security
  • Application Virtualisation design and implementation

Our Business Philosophy

We believe that the key to our continued success is to concentrate our efforts on quality.  To this end, we pride ourselves in only providing consultancy of the highest level.

Red Armour remains privately owned to this day and the founding Directors are actively involved in the daily operations of the business. Financial independence means that we can focus all of our time and energy on delivering results for our customers.

Technical Capability and Experience

All of our consultants are specialists in their chosen area and are cross-trained on additional components of our technology portfolio.

Our preferred status with our chosen vendor’s means that we enjoy early access to new release code and are able to evaluate these products in-house, prior to their release to the mass market.  This puts us in the ideal position to advise our customers more comprehensively than our competitors.

Our consultants are trained and experienced with the following major vendor products and technologies:

  • Microsoft
  • VMware
  • Citrix
  • Cisco
  • Veeam
  • Quest software
  • Commvault
  • Hewlett Packard
  • Dell
  • IBM
  • EMC
  • HDS
  • NetApp

We do not focus exclusively on these vendors’ products.  Red Armour design solutions based on many other vendor products to provide best-of-breed options for our customers.

 

Address:

Spectrum House Dunstable Road
Redbourn
St. Albans
Hertfordshire
AL3 7PR

Telephone Number:

+44 (0) 1707 324665

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