Data center and cloud

Overview

Hotel applications such as the property management system, point of sale and accounting are often spread across ageing, separate servers. Each one is another machine to maintain, back up and eventually replace. Virtualization and consolidated storage bring those workloads onto a smaller, more manageable platform, while a clear cloud strategy decides what should stay on site and what should move.

This is the work behind one of our proudest milestones: Amanoi became the first Aman property globally to successfully deploy and operate the new cloud-based virtualization architecture that our engineering team designed and implemented.

Scope

• Virtualization: host and cluster design on platforms such as Nutanix and VMware.
• Servers and storage: selection and deployment, with partners including HPE, Dell, Synology and QSAN.
• Cloud: workload assessment and migration strategy.
• Continuity: backup, recovery and business continuity planning.
• Physical environment: racks, UPS, grounding and coordination of power and cooling.

How we work

1. Inventory: list applications, dependencies, data volumes and recovery requirements.
2. Architecture: choose the platform and decide what runs on site and in the cloud.
3. Migration: move workloads in planned stages, with rollback options at each step.
4. Hand over and improve: document the platform, train the team and plan continuity tests.