Assessments
Independent IT infrastructure assessments with a decision at the end.
Establish the evidence, risks, constraints and dependencies before a vendor proposal, refresh programme or architecture decision becomes difficult to reverse.
Where this fits
Complex enough to carry real risk. Small enough that wasted effort is visible.
Praetorian's strongest fit is a mid-market UK organisation with a complex, multi-site environment and a relatively small internal team facing a material decision, failure, renewal, audit finding or proposed change. The assessment creates the technical and commercial basis for action; it does not manufacture a programme where one is not required.
Understand
Establish how the environment works today, where its constraints lie and what the available data can prove before change begins.
Explore operational intelligence →02Frame
Turn symptoms into engineering questions that can be answered, then make the choices and trade-offs clear.
Explore the Decision Centre →03Recommend
Set a practical direction that can be explained and delivered. See how Praetorian tests assumptions and keeps recommendations independent.
Read the engineering principles →04Engineer
Make the decision work in the real environment. Read concise accounts of delivery choices, trade-offs and operational outcomes.
View the Engineering Journal →Defined starting points
An IT infrastructure review with a usable decision at the end.
Start with the uncertainty already in front of the organisation. Praetorian gathers the evidence, tests the assumptions and makes the delivery consequences visible through a focused assessment rather than a generic estate report.
Infrastructure Decision Assessment
Establish current constraints, accumulated risk and the decisions that must be made before infrastructure investment begins.
Frame the assessment →Platform Direction Assessment
Determine whether the current platform remains appropriate and compare credible options against the real operating requirement.
Frame the assessment →Operational Visibility Assessment
Examine monitoring coverage, evidence, ownership, relationships and the questions the organisation still cannot answer reliably.
Frame the assessment →Recovery Assurance Assessment
Test whether backup, recovery dependencies, responsibilities and evidence can produce the service the organisation expects to recover.
Frame the assessment →Network Architecture Assessment
Assess resilience, segmentation, traffic paths, performance and service dependencies before network change is committed.
Frame the assessment →Application Platform Assessment
Assess application, data, integration and infrastructure dependencies before a platform or modernisation decision is committed.
Frame the assessment →Identity & Access Assessment
Review identity, privilege, MFA, remote access and operational continuity before access architecture is changed.
Frame the assessment →Assessment outputs
Evidence that supports a decision—not a report that creates another project.
- Current-state findings
- Material risks and constraints
- Evidence and assurance gaps
- Options considered
- Recommended direction
- Delivery implications
- Executive summary
Bring one decision that needs a defensible answer.
We will establish the environment, evidence and scope required to assess it properly.
Specific requirements
Start with the decision already in front of you.
Focused assessment and engineering support for common infrastructure requirements.
VMware alternatives
Support the current estate while planning a controlled exit to a platform the organisation can operate, support and defend.
Explore the service →02Cyber Essentials Plus readiness
Technical readiness, remediation and evidence support for organisations preparing for assessment or resolving issues before the audit.
Explore the service →03Infrastructure modernisation
Architecture, migration and controlled delivery across servers, storage, networking, virtualisation, backup and disaster recovery.
Explore the service →04SQL Server engineering
Assessment, remediation and support for SQL Server performance, maintenance, backup, recovery and operational control.
Explore the service →05Operational Intelligence
Bring health, evidence, relationships and service context together so engineers and decision-makers can see what is happening and what needs attention.
Explore the service →06Governed Infrastructure Execution
Opifex is Praetorian's developing control plane for defining, executing and verifying infrastructure change through governed workflows rather than disconnected scripts and manual steps.
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