Private Cloud

Dedicated infrastructure, full control

A private cloud is virtualised infrastructure built exclusively for your organisation on enterprise platforms like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V or Proxmox. Your data and applications run on dedicated hardware with enterprise storage arrays, giving you complete control, stronger security and full regulatory compliance while keeping the flexibility and scalability of cloud computing. Next2IT designs, deploys and manages the whole environment, physical and virtual.

Our private cloud services

VMware vSphere. Enterprise environments with vCenter management, ESXi hosts, vMotion live migration, High Availability clustering and Distributed Resource Scheduler, plus vSAN storage and NSX networking.

Microsoft Hyper-V. Private clouds with System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Failover Clustering, Live Migration, Replica for disaster recovery and Storage Spaces Direct, integrated with your Windows Server estate.

Proxmox VE. Cost-effective clusters combining KVM virtual machines and LXC containers, with High Availability, Ceph distributed storage, ZFS pools and Proxmox Backup Server. A strong fit where you want enterprise capability with open-source flexibility.

Enterprise storage. We deploy and manage HPE 3PAR, HPE Nimble, Dell EMC Unity and PowerStore, and NetApp arrays, covering SAN and NAS configuration, multipathing, tiering, snapshots and replication.

Networking. From physical switches, routers and firewalls through to virtual networking with NSX, Microsoft SDN or Open vSwitch, including VLANs, segmentation and load balancing.

Managed operations. 24x7 monitoring, proactive optimisation, patch management, capacity planning, backup verification and rapid incident response across the full stack.

Key features

• Enhanced security. Dedicated infrastructure, isolated environments and granular access controls, supporting GDPR and ISO 27001.
• Control and customisation. You define the hardware, hypervisor, storage and networking around your exact needs.
• High availability. Clustered hypervisors and storage replication, including HPE 3PAR Peer Persistence and Nimble replication, deliver automatic failover.
• Scalability. Add hosts or storage without service interruption.
• Cost efficiency. Server consolidation, thin provisioning and storage deduplication reduce cost, with predictable billing instead of public cloud surprises.
• Hybrid ready. Extend into public cloud using VMware Cloud Foundation and Azure Stack when you need it.

The benefits

Dedicated resources mean no multi-tenant contention and predictable performance for business-critical workloads. Isolated environments and granular access controls strengthen security and support GDPR and ISO 27001 compliance, while you retain full data sovereignty. Clustered hypervisors and storage replication deliver high availability with automatic failover, and you scale by adding hosts or storage without service interruption. Server consolidation, thin provisioning and deduplication reduce cost, and predictable billing avoids the surprises of public cloud.

When you need extra reach, we connect your private cloud to Azure or AWS using technologies such as VMware Cloud Foundation and Azure Stack, keeping sensitive workloads in your environment while using public cloud for burst capacity or specific services.

Why Next2IT

Our team specialises in VMware, Hyper-V and Proxmox integrated with enterprise storage from HPE, Dell EMC and NetApp. We handle design, deployment, monitoring and maintenance end to end, acting as an extension of your team and focused on performance, availability and security at every stage.

Talk to our private cloud team