Ineapple: Infrastructure Architecture

Architecture

We’ve spent decades learning, improving, and perfecting infrastructure technologies. Our team of experts has been designing and implementing the IT infrastructure behind services you use every day. If you swipe a credit card, stream a video, upload a photo to the cloud, purchase something online, check your account balance, or talk on the phone, chances are you have used a service designed or implemented by one of our team members. We can provide that same expertise directly to you.

Vendor Validated Designs

Vendors like Cisco, VMware, Juniper, Dell, HPE, Check Point, and Palo Alto Networks invest enormously in research and testing to produce designs that fit specific enterprise goals. We know the caveats and where to apply each validated design — and we always keep the big picture in mind so it fits your overall architecture.

Reference Architectures

Heard of converged-infrastructure solutions such as FlexPod, FlashStack, Vblock, VersaStack, VSPEX, or OpenStack? We can select the best-fitting converged solution, design a custom one around hardware you already own, and support the entire stack.

Business Continuity

Disaster recovery restores service after an unexpected failure; business continuity is a survivable architecture that needs no manual intervention at all. We use enterprise automation tools, custom scripts, and built-in protocols to deliver the best business-continuity solution your budget allows.

WAN Architecture

From simple point-to-point designs to multi-provider MPLS, self-managed MPLS, or SD-WAN — we design, deliver, and support your WAN across vendors including Cisco, Juniper, HPE, Riverbed, Silver Peak, CloudGenix, and VeloCloud.

Cloud Architecture (AWS/Azure)

It is healthy to ask whether your entire service catalog could move to the cloud — and rarely right to move everything blindly. Cloud is another tool in your toolbox, not the answer to every problem. We have seen the successes and the failures, and will help you identify the caveats, pain points, benefits, and a clear path to successful cloud consumption.

Security Architecture

We identify your current risk profile, define a target profile using frameworks such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and then architect or adapt solutions for your data center, cloud, hosts, network access, perimeter, and anomaly prevention.

Software-Defined Data Center

No single product today provisions your storage, network, compute, hypervisor, containers, OS, and applications end to end — you must combine tools, orchestrators, or custom scripts. We will analyze your workflows and design the right SDDC solution with the least operational impact.

Load Balancers / ADC

Your applications need redundancy, load sharing, and the ability to rotate worker nodes out for maintenance — which makes ADCs the logical heart of your data center. Our team has designed, implemented, and supported numerous load-balancer deployments and will deliver the most resilient solution for you.

Bring Your Own Device

BYOD raises productivity and lowers the learning curve — when it is done securely. We will prepare your network environment for BYOD culture and keep every device secure and protected.

Virtualization Platforms

VMware, Hyper-V, OpenStack, or containers? Which licenses do you actually need? Is there such a thing as too much redundancy? A wrong architectural answer costs real money — and even the right answer can expire. We architect and implement virtualization platforms for production, development, and proof-of-concept environments.

IPv6

Thanks to RFC 1918 and NAT, most enterprises put IPv6 off for years — but adoption on the public internet keeps growing steeply, and IPv6 will become the predominant protocol for Layer 3 connectivity. We will help you get ahead of the curve and take the steps to be 100% IPv6-ready.

Smart Compute Platforms

Products like Cisco UCS, HPE Synergy, and Dell PowerEdge FX make it easy to create and manage physical servers virtually — after the initial architecture is right. We review the architecture and select only the features you need for the perfect balance of simplicity, scalability, and performance.

Automation / API

Nearly every infrastructure product now advertises an API — because automation is no longer optional. Our goal is to automate the mundane so your team can focus on innovation. You probably already own automation tools you aren’t using; we will help you get the most from them or introduce custom scripting.

End-to-End Network Architecture

In siloed environments, different teams solve the same design problem in different ways — adding complexity and sometimes causing downtime. Standards for route injection, redistribution, protocol timers, Layer 2 creation, and route filtering should exist before they are needed. We will help you formalize your network architecture and provide the remediation services to meet those standards.