One Sixty Eight | Infrastructure Consulting — Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, AI, Edge Computing

About One Sixty Eight

Enterprise Experience. Practical Guidance.

One Sixty Eight is a boutique infrastructure consulting firm built on decades of real-world engineering. We help organizations navigate the complexity of modern infrastructure — from virtualization and data center architecture to disaster recovery, backup, AI readiness, and edge computing.

Our approach is grounded in hands-on experience. We have designed, deployed, migrated, and optimized enterprise infrastructure environments across VMware, Nutanix, Cisco, Dell, and enterprise storage platforms. We do not offer theoretical guidance. We bring the kind of experience that comes from solving the problems that keep IT leaders up at night: downtime, risk, technical debt, and infrastructure that cannot keep pace with business growth.

Whether you are planning a data center refresh, building a disaster recovery strategy, optimizing a virtualization platform, or preparing infrastructure for AI workloads, One Sixty Eight delivers the technical depth and clear communication that enterprise projects demand.

10+ Years Experience

50+ Projects Delivered

24/7 Mission-Critical

Full Stack Expertise

Services

Infrastructure Consulting That Addresses Real Problems

Every service is designed to deliver measurable outcomes: improved resilience, reduced risk, better performance, and a clearer path forward.

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Virtualization Consulting

Design, optimize, upgrade, and troubleshoot VMware vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, VMware Cloud Foundation, vSAN, Nutanix AHV, and hybrid virtualization environments. We assess your current state, identify optimization opportunities, plan migrations, and ensure your platform delivers maximum performance and reliability.

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Disaster Recovery

We design recovery strategies, replication architectures, failover plans, runbooks, and testing processes using platforms such as Zerto, VMware Site Recovery Manager, Veeam, Rubrik, and Cohesity. Disaster recovery programs that are practical, testable, and proven when you need them most.

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Backup & Data Protection

Assess and modernize backup environments, improve recovery objectives, reduce risk, and align data protection platforms with business requirements. We evaluate your current architecture, identify gaps, consolidate redundant platforms, and implement modern data protection strategies.

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AI Infrastructure Consulting

Help organizations prepare infrastructure for AI workloads — compute, storage, virtualization, data placement, edge processing, and scalable architecture planning. We assess AI readiness, design infrastructure for GPU-accelerated workloads, and develop a phased roadmap that aligns with your budget and timeline.

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Data Center Modernization

Assist with data center refreshes, migrations, consolidation, HCI strategy, storage modernization, compute planning, and operational improvements. We guide multi-phase transitions with minimal disruption, from initial assessment through execution and validation.

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Edge Computing

Design and support distributed infrastructure for remote sites, branch locations, low-latency workloads, and edge-ready business applications. We help you plan, deploy, and manage infrastructure at the edge with the same rigor and reliability expected of your central data center.

Why One Sixty Eight

Not Theory. Not Templates. Real Engineering Experience.

We do not sell generic presentations or hand you a strategy document written by someone who has never touched enterprise infrastructure. Our value comes from hands-on experience designing, deploying, troubleshooting, and modernizing the systems that keep businesses running.

✓ Hands-on enterprise engineering experience — we have built, broken, and rebuilt the infrastructure you rely on.
✓ Deep virtualization and data center expertise across VMware, Nutanix, Cisco, Dell, and enterprise storage platforms.
✓ Practical disaster recovery and backup knowledge that translates to working runbooks and tested recovery strategies.
✓ Experience bridging strategy, design, deployment, and operations — from the C-suite down to the data center floor.
✓ Clear communication with both technical teams and business leaders — we translate infrastructure complexity into business outcomes.
✓ Boutique engagement: you work directly with the principal. No junior engineers, no miscommunication, no surprises.

Platforms & Technologies

VMware vSphere vCenter ESXi vSAN VCF Nutanix Cisco UCS Dell Pure Storage NetApp PowerMax XtremIO Data Domain Veeam Rubrik Cohesity Zerto SRM Horizon HyperFlex SolarWinds vROps Turbonomic HCI VDI Edge

Industries Served

Infrastructure Challenges Span Every Sector

We bring enterprise-grade infrastructure expertise to organizations of every size and sector, with a focus on environments where uptime, data protection, and modernization matter.

Healthcare

Financial Services

Education

Technology

MSPs

Cloud Providers

Mid-Market

Engagement Models

How We Work With You

Every engagement is tailored to your needs. Whether you need a focused assessment, a multi-phase project, or ongoing advisory, we structure our work for maximum impact.

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Infrastructure Assessment

A comprehensive review of your current architecture. We identify strengths, gaps, optimization opportunities, and risks — with actionable recommendations.

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Project-Based Consulting

Engage us for specific projects: migrations, data center refreshes, disaster recovery builds, or infrastructure redesigns. We plan, execute, and validate.

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Migration Planning

Structured migration planning for virtualization, storage, or platform transitions. We design the strategy, create runbooks, and manage the timeline.

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DR Readiness Review

A thorough evaluation of your disaster recovery capabilities, testing procedures, and documentation — ensuring your plan actually works.

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Backup Health Check

Assessment of your backup environment across Veeam, Rubrik, Cohesity, or custom platforms. Review schedules, retention, restore testing, and validation.

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Virtualization Optimization

Performance tuning, capacity planning, resource optimization, and configuration review for VMware and Nutanix environments. Maximize existing infrastructure.

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AI & Edge Readiness Workshop

A focused workshop to evaluate your infrastructure's readiness for AI or edge. Assess capabilities and deliver a phased modernization roadmap.

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Ongoing Advisory

Retainer-based advisory for organizations that need trusted infrastructure expertise on an ongoing basis. Your fractional infrastructure advisor.

Founder

Built on Decades of Real Infrastructure Engineering

⚙ Principal

Founder & Principal Consultant

Solutions Architect & Senior Systems Engineer

One Sixty Eight was founded on a simple principle: infrastructure decisions matter too much to leave to guesswork. The founder brings over a decade of experience supporting, designing, migrating, and modernizing enterprise infrastructure environments — from single-site deployments to multi-data-center, globally distributed architectures.

This experience spans the full infrastructure stack: virtualization (VMware, Nutanix), hyperconverged infrastructure, VDI (VMware Horizon), backup and disaster recovery platforms, enterprise storage systems, data center migrations, and the emerging demands of AI workloads and edge computing.

The founding philosophy is straightforward: solve the real problems, communicate clearly, and deliver work that is built to last. No hype, no overpromising, no solutions that look good in a presentation but fail in production. Just practical, proven infrastructure engineering.

Virtualization VMware vSphere VMware Cloud Foundation Hyperconverged Infrastructure VDI / Horizon Backup & Replication Disaster Recovery Data Center Architecture Enterprise Storage Automation AI Infrastructure Edge Computing

Technology Ecosystem

Vendor-Agnostic Guidance Backed by Proven Platforms

One Sixty Eight works across the infrastructure platforms enterprises already depend on. We help you choose, integrate, optimize, and recover the right systems for your environment — without forcing a one-vendor answer where it does not fit.

VMware

Nutanix

Veeam

Rubrik

Cohesity

Zerto

Cisco

Dell

Pure Storage

NVIDIA

Microsoft

SolarWinds

VMware VCP Nutanix PCNE Veeam Certified Engineer Cisco CCNP Rubrik RCP Zerto VADP

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Ready to Modernize Your Infrastructure?

Whether you are upgrading virtualization, improving disaster recovery, rethinking backup, preparing for AI workloads, or extending infrastructure to the edge, One Sixty Eight can help you build a practical roadmap and execute with confidence.

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Infrastructure Consulting Built for Resilience, Scale, and the Future

VMware • Nutanix • Hybrid

Disaster Recovery • Backup

AI Infrastructure • Edge Computing