Why Surrey server + storage work runs faster
Surrey customers building new platforms get the design + procurement + delivery + racking from one local team — no London / regional handoff. That means earlier face-to-face design workshops, faster procurement cycles, and engineer attendance for install within the same week of delivery.
Pure FlashArray + Alletra for regulated Surrey estates
Pure FlashArray //X and //XL with NVMe-oF over 25/100G fabric for the latency-sensitive workloads pharma + finance + professional-services Surrey customers need — designed against actual workload, not vendor brochure.
Nutanix HCI for Surrey pharma + public sector
Nutanix Cloud Platform (AHV or ESXi) for Surrey pharma + life sciences (regulated workload-friendly, predictable per-node pricing) and SCC / district council estates (CCS-framework-purchasable, Microsoft-stack-compatible).
AI / GPU clusters for Surrey research + defence
NVIDIA DGX B200 / GB200 NVL72, Supermicro HGX H100 / H200, Dell PowerEdge XE9680 / XE9640 builds for Surrey research labs and defence-supplier AI workloads — including the power + cooling sanity check against your DC suite.
25 / 100G fabric for regional DC suites
Arista 7060X / 7050X, Cisco Nexus 9300 / 9500, NVIDIA Spectrum — fabric design that handles east-west traffic at Surrey customer scale without micro-bursts hurting tail latency.
What Servnet builds in Surrey
Server design + supply
PowerEdge R260, R360, R660, R760, R960; ProLiant DL360, DL380, DL560, DL580 Gen11; ThinkSystem SR250, SR630, SR650, SR860, SR950 — sized against workload, costed in like-for-like comparison.
Storage — Pure, NetApp, HPE Alletra, Dell PowerStore
All-flash block, scale-out NAS, hybrid file/object, NVMe-oF, ransomware-immutable snapshots — designed for the workload mix the Surrey customer actually runs.
HCI — Nutanix, vSAN ESA, Azure Stack HCI
Nutanix AOS on AHV or ESXi for regulated estates, vSAN ESA for VMware-loyal customers, Azure Stack HCI / Azure Local for Microsoft-centric SCC + district councils.
AI / GPU infrastructure
NVIDIA DGX B200 / B300 / GB200, Supermicro HGX H100 SXM5 / H200 SXM5, Dell PowerEdge XE9680 / XE9640, plus PCIe builds with H100 / H200 / L40S / A100.
DC racking + cabling — Pulsant Crowthorne, ARK Spring Park
Engineer attendance for racking, cabling, PDU work and front-end connectivity at Pulsant Crowthorne, ARK Spring Park, Telehouse West, Equinix LD4 (Slough) — DC paperwork held warm.
Lifecycle support + warranty consolidation
Multi-vendor warranty consolidated into one Servnet contract, EOSL / post-warranty cover when vendor TPS ends, scheduled firmware + microcode windows aligned to customer change board.
Surrey infrastructure customers
- ▸Pharma + life sciencesEpsom / Leatherhead / Cobham — validated infrastructure, regulated-estate storage (Pure or Alletra), Nutanix HCI for non-regulated workload, GxP-aware change documentation.
- ▸Defence + aerospaceFarnborough / Camberley — secure-by-design infrastructure, NCSC-aligned hardening, SC-cleared engineer attendance, MOD-aware change processes.
- ▸Professional servicesGuildford / Woking firms — Nutanix or vSAN for the virtualised estate, NetApp ONTAP for unstructured file, ransomware-immutable backup integrated.
- ▸Aviation supplyHeathrow + Gatwick area — 24×7 operational infrastructure, multi-DC active/active for resilience, ATC-compatible specifications where applicable.
- ▸Surrey schoolsIndependent + grammar schools — file servers + MIS / SIMS infrastructure, classroom AV, server refresh aligned to summer holidays.
- ▸SCC + district councilsSurrey County Council and 11 district councils — Nutanix or HPE SimpliVity HCI, CCS-framework supply, public-sector aware change processes.
How a Surrey server / storage project actually runs
In-person design workshop
Workload review with application owners at your Surrey office or ours — IOPS, throughput, latency, capacity, growth rate — turned into sized design with like-for-like comparison across 2–3 vendors.
Procurement → delivery → DC racking
PO raised, factory build lead time tracked, delivery direct into your Surrey DC of choice or to your on-prem site. Engineer attends from Fetcham for rack-in, cabling, power-up, baseline firmware, initial config.
Configuration + handover
Cluster config, storage provisioning, fabric configuration, integration with customer DNS / NTP / monitoring / backup. Acceptance test signed off jointly; documentation pack handed over.
Support activates day one
From the moment the platform goes production, Servnet support is live — 2-hour engineer + parts on Surrey SLA, smart-hands available, named technical account contact.
Surrey servers + storage — common questions
Can you rack into Pulsant Crowthorne or ARK Spring Park?
Yes — standing access at Pulsant Crowthorne, ARK Spring Park, Telehouse West and Equinix LD4 (Slough). Our engineers know the DC-specific protocols. Customer signs the lease; we coordinate everything else.
What do you spec for a Surrey pharma storage refresh?
For most Surrey pharma customers we land on Pure FlashArray //X — all-NVMe, sub-100µs latency, NVMe-oF over 25G or 100G to compute, ransomware-immutable snapshots, replication to a second DC for active/active. Sized against actual workload, with GxP-aware change documentation.
Do you do AI / GPU clusters for Surrey research labs?
Yes — NVIDIA DGX B200 / GB200 and Supermicro HGX H100 / H200 builds, plus PCIe builds for smaller footprints. Including 400G InfiniBand fabric and the power + cooling sanity check against your suite specification.
Can you do a Nutanix design for an SCC department or district council?
Yes — Nutanix on AHV is a common design choice for Surrey public-sector customers, particularly post-Broadcom. We size cluster against workload, design replication / DR, CCS-framework supply.
Who supports the kit after install?
Servnet does — under a Servnet support contract that runs alongside vendor warranty for in-warranty cover and replaces vendor TPS at end-of-life. 2-hour engineer + parts on Surrey SLA, smart-hands available.
How do you price against bigger Thames Valley integrators (Computacenter, Softcat, CDW)?
On hardware and licence typically 4–9% under list. On services we're faster (smaller bid teams, fewer hand-offs), more technically specific in proposals. Trade-off is brand recognition on £1m+ multi-year managed deals.
Other services we deliver in Surrey
Sizing a Surrey server, storage or HCI project?
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