Private Cloud And Data Center Modernization

Situation

StrategIQ Commerce depended on mission-critical production platforms supporting commerce, logistics, financial, and operational workloads. Infrastructure decisions had direct consequences for availability, performance, security, cost, and long-term business continuity.

Risk

Aging infrastructure, platform growth, vendor exposure, and increasing workload demands required deliberate modernization without destabilizing production operations.

Action

Clint architected, procured, installed, configured, deployed, and operated two major private cloud platform generations: an approximately $1.5M 2016 build and an approximately $4M 2022 rebuild.

Outcome

The two platform generations represented approximately $5.5M in combined private cloud platform investment and established a stronger foundation for scale, resilience, capacity, performance, and operational continuity.

Scope

Private cloud, data centers, virtualization, storage, network architecture, security architecture, backup, disaster recovery, operational readiness, vendor strategy, procurement, lifecycle ownership, and executive infrastructure decision support.

Clint Anderson - For Mission-Critical Infrastructure where Failure is Visible, Expensive, and Hard to Excuse.