Network and datacentre technical debt
Single points of failure, undocumented VLANs, and firewall rules nobody wants to touch.
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Infrastructure & automation for logistics & distribution
Logistics and distribution businesses run 24/6 on warehouse systems, fragile networks, and hybrid cloud paths that grew faster than documentation. North Ark designs resilient infrastructure and automates the reporting glue between WMS, finance, and customer portals.
Regional distributors, 3PL operators, and multi-site logistics — 80–250 staff.
Warehouse & hybrid infrastructure
Network, datacentre, or Azure hybrid for growing distribution? Tell us the constraint — we reply with engineer or migration fit.
Common pressures
Warehouse and finance systems do not sync
Status updates are phone calls and CSV exports — customers call for tracking that should be self-serve.
Hybrid cloud without a roadmap
Some workloads moved to Azure; identity and backup story is still incomplete.
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Typical outcomes
- — Datacentre and network builds with segmented zones and hybrid Azure connectivity
- — OC-01 Job-to-Cash style integrations between WMS, CRM, and finance
- — Documented runbooks for MSP handover
Proof
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Engineer
Datacentre & network build — greenfield infrastructure
Regional business, 120 staff
A growing logistics operator needed new datacentre and network infrastructure — core switching, firewall architecture, server room design, and hybrid cloud connectivity. No internal network engineering capacity.
- Uptime: Redundant core — no single switch failure point
- Security: Segmented zones with logged firewall policy
- Hybrid: Azure workloads connected with documented path
Questions
- Can you work in tight maintenance windows?
- Yes — cutovers are staged with rollback at each wave. We document every change for your ops team and MSP.
- Do you replace our WMS?
- No — we integrate and automate around systems of record. Build is scoped only where no package fits.
Brisbane-based delivery — see local hub.
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