Exxoss

Exxoss works in cloud, infrastructure and datacentre services from Belgium. It was founded about ten years ago around a multidisciplinary team, and it says its wide range of expertise allows it to offer products and services across the whole ICT value chain, from consulting to IT operations. Its stated first priority is keeping its clients' online services running, and it describes itself as a proactive partner in the changes its clients make to their technology.

Round-the-clock monitoring and capacity planning

Exxoss runs a network operations centre that watches client services twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, with engineers on alert for any critical issue. Its own central platform displays the performance status of each service, which the company says allows it to anticipate how the capacity of a service will change. It also sets up tailored application monitoring so that the team can act early, before a fault affects users. On-site support is offered for clients who need engineers at their premises.

Networks, fibre and datacentre links

The company specialises in low-latency networks running from one gigabit to one hundred gigabits, and it works with partners including Netgear and Mellanox to design, implement and monitor network facilities. It manages its own network and carries out fibre and DWDM projects from cabling through to operation. It also works with PacketLight Networks to provide up to two hundred gigabits of network speed. Its storage and server work covers NAS, SAN, backup, flash storage and real-time replication.

Datacentre services across Europe

Exxoss says it can place clients in datacentres in strategic locations in Europe, which meet demanding standards and are supported by tailored services that run around the clock. These locations stretch from Madrid to Amsterdam. The firm supports dedicated infrastructure projects, data replication, backup and distribution resource planning, and it offers transport solutions that move data from one datacentre to another so that it can be secured in several places.

Cloud strategy and change management

The company acts as a private adviser on cloud strategy. Its multi-tenant cloud knowledge lets it advise on infrastructure, platform and software services in private, public and hybrid forms. For software development teams, it describes a DevOps approach that automates deployment through test and live environments, and then helps build a reliable operational culture. Change management is a growing area of its work, and it treats a company as defined by its relationships with stakeholders, inside and outside the organisation.