HPE infrastructure, specified and delivered

Most of our work starts before anyone knows the part number. Someone has a goal — replace ageing hosts, consolidate sites, add capacity ahead of headcount — and a budget. What they need first is someone to turn that into a configuration that will hold up. We have been doing that from Seattle since 2001.

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If you specify for clients

A significant share of our work comes through consultants and MSPs who own the client relationship and lean on us for specification, sourcing, configuration and staging.

  • Quote against your spec, or build it with you. If the requirements are still moving, that is the normal case, not an inconvenience.
  • Invoice your client directly where it suits the arrangement, so the hardware does not sit on your books.
  • Configured and staged before it ships, rather than drop-shipped in pieces.
  • We hold stock. Distributor-backed, so equipment can be held and staged to your timeline.

Your client stays your client. When work reaches us through a consultant or an MSP, the relationship is yours. We do not approach your client directly — not during the engagement, and not afterwards.

If you run IT in-house

You know your workloads better than any supplier does. What is usually missing is time, and current pricing across generations.

  • Sizing against real workloads — host counts, capacity headroom, where redundancy earns its cost and where it does not.
  • Generation selection — the newest is not automatically the right answer, and we will say so.
  • What we ruled out and why, not just what we recommend.
  • Refresh without a forklift — extending or re-storaging what you already have is often the better answer than greenfield.

What we actually do

Specification. Sizing hosts against real workloads. Deciding how much headroom is worth paying for and how much is waste. Choosing between generations. Working out where redundancy earns its cost.

Sourcing. New, HPE Renew, and refurbished, configured to order. We were the first reseller to fulfil orders through HPE’s US online store at buy.hpe.com, and remain one of three.

Deployment and lifecycle. Installation, migration, ongoing support, and end-of-life planning. Financing where the budget cycle needs it.

Our HPE relationship

NautilusNet is an HPE Silver Partner, with specialisations in legacy systems, data centres, virtualisation, and scalability.

  • HPE ProLiant — rack and tower servers
  • HPE Alletra — storage
  • HPE Aruba Networking — switching and wireless
  • HPE GreenLake — consumption-based infrastructure

The legacy specialisation matters more than it sounds. Most infrastructure work is not greenfield — it is extending, integrating with, or migrating off equipment that is still running the business. We keep the expertise and the stock for hardware that larger resellers have stopped carrying.

Where we do our best work

Regulated environments. FDA-regulated manufacturing, pharmacy systems, and financial services, where validation and audit requirements shape the build.

Awkward requirements. When a major medical manufacturer needed 1,700 laptops inside 30 days mid-pandemic, with the channel backordered 90 days out, we were the provider who could do it.

Refresh under constraint. Multi-site consistency, and migrations that cannot take the business down.

How to start

Most engagements begin with a conversation about the goal and the budget, not a part number. If you know exactly what you want, we will quote it. If you do not, that is the more common case, and the one we are better at.

Pre-Sale Consultation (206) 706-7886