CLIFFGATE · Core Competencies

Cloud Infrastructure

Hybrid-cloud and resilient infrastructure environments engineered for uptime, security, and scalable operations across trading, logistics, finance, and enterprise systems.

Cliffgate Cloud Engineering

Cloud built for operations that cannot stop

We design cloud and hybrid environments for trading, settlements, logistics, plant operations, reporting, and partner-facing systems where downtime has direct operational or financial impact.

Each workload is tiered by business criticality — with the right level of resilience, recovery discipline, observability, and cost control.

Tier 00

ACTIVE-ACTIVE

Mission-Critical

For trading desks, settlements, plant control, and partner-facing systems where minutes of downtime create direct financial or operational impact.

Multi-region active-active
Automated failover
RTO < 15 min · near-zero RPO

Tier 01

RAPID FAILOVER

Business-Critical

For ERP, logistics platforms, executive reporting, and core internal services where short outages are tolerable but recovery must be predictable.

Active-passive with hot standby
Regional disaster recovery
RTO < 4 h

Tier 02

RESILIENT BASELINE

Standard

For internal tooling, batch workflows, and supporting platforms where daily backups and scheduled recovery procedures are sufficient.

Single region with backups
Scheduled disaster recovery exercises
RTO < 24 h

What we do

We design cloud and hybrid environments for organizations that cannot afford downtime during trading, settlement, logistics, plant, or partner-facing operations.

Each environment is engineered around resilience, observability, secure connectivity, and cost discipline — aligned with security, compliance, and data-governance requirements from day one.

When this matters

Downtime hits revenue directly
Critical operations stop when systems go down — every minute of trading, settlement, or plant outage creates direct loss and partner risk.
Recovery procedures are untested
Backups exist, but failover and disaster recovery have never been exercised under realistic load and time pressure.
Cloud spend grows faster than usage
Capacity expands ad hoc, environments multiply, and cost no longer correlates with business value.

How we deliver

—Multi-region and hybrid-cloud architectures with automated failover, capacity planning, and tiered recovery objectives.
—Observability, backups, disaster recovery, and operational runbooks aligned with the criticality of each workload.
—Secure private connectivity between corporate systems, plant networks, logistics platforms, and external partners.
—Foundations for data platforms, analytics, AI workloads, web portals, mobile applications, and enterprise integrations.

Operational foundations

Resilience by design

Failover, redundancy, and capacity buffers are engineered in from day one — not retrofitted after the first outage.

Observability & on-call

Metrics, logs, traces, and synthetic checks feed defined alerts and a structured on-call response model.

Secure connectivity

Encrypted private channels between corporate systems, plant environments, logistics partners, and external counterparties.

Cost & capacity discipline

Autoscaling, right-sizing, and quarterly reviews keep cloud growth aligned with budget and service-level objectives.

Engineering standards

Infrastructure as code: every environment is reproducible, versioned, and reviewable.
Tested recovery procedures: disaster recovery is exercised, not just documented.
Defense in depth: identity, network, workload, and data controls are layered together.