Firethorne Tech

Consulting & Strategy

Cloud & infrastructure

We help organizations design, modernize, and manage secure, compliance-ready infrastructure — and we're honest about where it should live. Cloud, on-prem, or hybrid: the answer depends on your workloads, not our preferences.

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Balanced solutions, not vendor pitches

We're vendor-agnostic. Cloud, on-premises, and hybrid options are evaluated honestly for fit — cost, performance, and operational reality — because the right answer is different for every environment. And because many of our clients are regulated, every infrastructure decision we make ties back to compliance.

Our capabilities

Six practice areas covering the full stack — from the server room to the cloud to the plant floor.

Infrastructure Modernization & Virtualization

Hypervisors and virtualization platforms, high-availability clustering, SAN/NAS storage, and replication — modernization aligned with CMMC, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27001.

Cloud Consulting & Migration

Workload placement, secure migration, and identity and access management across public, private, government, and hybrid clouds — including FedRAMP baselines and NIST 800-171 alignment.

Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Environments

Workload placement strategy, hybrid identity, and connectivity via VPN, SD-WAN, or dedicated interconnects — with data residency, encryption in transit, and audit logging handled by design.

Network Architecture & Security

Zero Trust network design through VLANs, microsegmentation, IDS/IPS, and boundary protections — so a compromise in one zone doesn't become a compromise everywhere.

Data Protection & Continuity

Endpoint, server, and cloud backups with immutability, regular testing, documented DR runbooks, and compliance mapping — recovery you can prove, not just hope for.

OT/IT & Critical Infrastructure

Purdue Model segmentation and OT-specific monitoring for industrial environments — aligned with NIST CSF, NERC CIP, and sector frameworks.

Our approach

Four stages, each producing documentation an auditor can actually use.

  1. 01

    Discovery & Assessment

    Asset documentation and framework mapping — what you have, how it's connected, and which requirements apply to it.

  2. 02

    Design & Planning

    Architecture plus a phased roadmap organized into Do Now, Do Next, Do Later — so modernization happens in fundable steps, not one giant project.

  3. 03

    Implementation & Migration

    Execution with minimal downtime, and audit-ready documentation produced as we go — not reconstructed afterward.

  4. 04

    Ongoing Management & Optimization

    Monitoring, patching, and reporting after the build — or a clean hand-off to your internal team if you'd rather run it yourselves.

Two ways to engage

Design & hand-off

We assess, architect, and implement — then hand your team the complete documentation to run it on your own.

  • Project-based
  • Full documentation

Full ongoing management

We stay on after the build for monitoring, patching, optimization, and the reporting that keeps you audit-ready.

  • Ongoing
  • Fully managed

Frequently asked questions

Are you tied to a particular cloud or vendor?

No — we're vendor-agnostic. We maintain partnerships with Microsoft, Dell Technologies, Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Wasabi, but recommendations are driven by fit: cloud, on-prem, or hybrid, whichever serves your workloads, budget, and compliance requirements.

Do we have to replace everything at once?

No. Modernization is phased through Do Now, Do Next, Do Later roadmaps — stabilize what's risky first, then upgrade in planned, budgeted stages.

Do you support on-premises and hybrid environments, or just cloud?

All of it: on-premises, private and public cloud, and hybrid — including virtualized workloads, hybrid identity, and multi-cloud storage.

Do you work with OT environments like SCADA and ICS?

Yes — segmentation, monitoring, and compliance support for SCADA and ICS environments, following the Purdue Model.

Is compliance part of every engagement?

Yes. Every engagement includes compliance mapping to the frameworks that apply to you — CMMC, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, NIST 800-171 — so infrastructure decisions made today don't become audit findings later.

Build infrastructure that holds up

Start with a discovery and assessment — get a documented picture of your environment and a phased, fundable plan to modernize it.

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