Your ERP, your production systems, the applications that cannot go down: they need infrastructure built around them, not the other way round.
Evolution Systems hosts your business-critical IBM i, AIX, Windows and Linux workloads in Australian data centres and manages everything end to end so your team is not spending its week on patching, backups and system health.
Platform uptime
Fully managed private cloud designed and built to fit your environment, not to make you change it.
If you’re running IBM i or AIX and want to move to cloud without re-platforming
If you’re running Windows or Linux workloads that need dedicated, high-performance infrastructure
Tell us what you are running and we will show you how it would work in our cloud.
Our clients come from various industries. One thing they have in common is workloads too important to leave on ageing hardware or shared public cloud.
Keep ERP and production systems running on the hardware they were built for, including IBM i, without re-platforming.
Move off an ageing platform and end-of-life hardware into a modern managed environment.
Hold large document and content systems in Australian data centres, under ISO 27001 certified processes.
Keep order and dispatch systems available through every daily cycle, with geo-resilient clusters and rapid failover.
Run membership systems and member portals on dedicated infrastructure rather than shared public cloud.
Keep compliance and maintenance records available and recoverable, against backup and recovery targets documented in your own plan.
Give site and project teams reliable access to the systems they work from, wherever they are.
Run infrastructure you can stand behind when your own clients ask where their systems live.
Keep building, access and member systems running without an on-site server room.
Your business moves fast. Your private cloud should too.
Technology should be an accelerator, not an obstacle. When IT bottlenecks, businesses slow down. When cloud computing services are unpredictable, budgets suffer. When cloud security is uncertain, customers lose trust.
With our private cloud, you eliminate these risks and unlock:
We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all cloud services. Your business is unique, and your private cloud environment should be, too.
With Evolution Systems, you get:
Your business handles sensitive data, and you can’t afford security gaps. Our managed private cloud services deliver industry-leading cloud security with:
~ Full data sovereignty to ensure compliance with ISO 27001, Essential 8, and NIST frameworks.
~ Private, dedicated infrastructure - no shared environments, no noisy neighbours, no risk.
~ End-to-end encryption and proactive threat monitoring, protecting every digital interaction within your private cloud.
~ Comprehensive access controls to protect business-critical information.
Speed matters. Downtime isn’t an option. Our private cloud computing services are designed to keep your critical systems always on, always available, and always fast:
~ Optimised for IBM i, AIX, Windows Server and Linux workloads, ensuring smooth performance for mission-critical applications.
~ Low-latency, high-speed architecture - whether you’re running real-time analytics or handling thousands of customer transactions per second.
~ Disaster recovery and high availability built-in, ensuring business continuity for your private cloud services.
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Your cloud environment should work for you - not against you. Unlike public cloud infrastructure, our model gives you transparency, control, and scalability without hidden costs or unpredictable performance.
~ Predictable cost structures -Â the variables that make virtualisation costs volatile, licensing, support, tooling and hardware refresh, sit inside one managed service rather than six separate line items. Our guide to VMware cost control and private cloud economics breaks down the full cost stack.
~ Fully managed service - we handle cloud security, patching, and infrastructure management, freeing your team to focus on Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation.
~ Scalability without compromise - grow as needed, without sacrificing control over your private cloud infrastructure.
Private cloud services provide greater control, security, and reliability compared to traditional IT setups or public cloud services. Unlike public cloud environments, where infrastructure is shared among multiple businesses, a private cloud ensures dedicated resources tailored to your needs.
A fully managed private cloud means you focus on business innovation while experts handle security, maintenance, and performance optimisation.
Absolutely. Unlike public cloud providers that impose standard configurations, private cloud services are designed to adapt to your unique business needs.
With fully managed private cloud services, businesses don’t just scale – they scale with control and efficiency.
Security in a private cloud environment is multi-layered and built-in – not an afterthought.
With managed private cloud services, security isn’t just an add-on – it’s part of the architecture.
Our private cloud offering stands apart by delivering enterprise-grade infrastructure tailored for mission-critical workloads, offering deep compatibility with IBM i, AIX, Linux, and Windows – without the need to re-platform, within our Evolution Private Cloud and Evolution Power Cloud.
Unlike public clouds such as IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, Evolution Systems provides a dedicated, managed environment optimised for performance, flexibility, and compliance.
Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure
Built on certified IBM Power and Dell PowerFlex platforms, our private cloud mirrors the capabilities of on-premise enterprise stacks, ensuring a seamless transition without sacrificing control or performance.
Multi-Cloud Flexibility
While Evolution Systems operates its own private cloud, we also advise and resell public cloud services - including IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud - when workloads are better suited elsewhere. This ensures each solution is aligned to the client’s operational and cost-efficiency goals.
Security and Compliance Built In
Our private cloud infrastructure meets stringent industry standards including ISO 27001:2022. We deliver proactive security measures, geo-resilient data protection, and governance frameworks tailored to regulated industries.
Customisable and Scalable
Scale compute and storage independently, run hybrid cloud environments, and manage resources through flexible subscriptions—offering better cost control and adaptability than traditional hyperscalers.
Hybrid and Business Critical System Support
Ideal for organisations modernising mature systems such as IBM i or AIX, Evolution Power Cloud enables cloud migration without re-platforming, reducing risk and accelerating time-to-value.
A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a logically isolated section of a public cloud that mimics the functionality of a private cloud. While it provides more control than a standard public cloud, it still operates on shared infrastructure.
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Infrastructure
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Shared public cloud infrastructure
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Dedicated, private infrastructure
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Control
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Some control over network settings & security
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Full control over all configurations
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Scalability
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Instantly scalable within the public cloud
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Scalable but requires infrastructure planning
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Security & Compliance
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Secure, but relies on public cloud provider’s security model
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Complete control over security & compliance
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Best for
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Businesses needing cloud flexibility & cost efficiency
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Businesses needing strict data control & compliance
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For businesses looking to balance flexibility and control, hybrid cloud models that integrate both VPC and on-premises private cloud infrastructure offer the best of both worlds.
Public cloud runs your workloads on infrastructure shared with other organisations and prices it on consumption. Private cloud runs them on infrastructure dedicated to you and prices it on capacity. The practical differences are cost predictability, control over who else is on the hardware, and whether your existing applications can move across as they are. Public cloud suits elastic, short-lived workloads. Private cloud suits systems that run continuously and cannot easily be re-architected, which is why organisations running IBM i, AIX or business-critical ERP most often choose it.
Security is built into the platform rather than added on. Infrastructure sits in Australian Tier III and Tier IV data centres across the NEXTDC ecosystem, with physical access controlled by biometric scanners and ballistic-grade portals, and continuous monitoring by our local operations team. Data stays onshore, with Australian data sovereignty. Resilience comes from geo-resilient clusters, automated replication and rapid failover, and the service is delivered under our ISO 27001:2022 certified processes.
Private cloud is priced on the capacity your workloads need rather than on consumption, so the monthly figure is known in advance. For Evolution Power Cloud, software, hardware and future upgrades are folded into a single subscription, including no-cost migrations to future Power Systems, so you are not re-purchasing hardware every generation. For Evolution Private Cloud, compute and storage scale independently, so you size each to what you actually run.
Yes. ERP systems and the databases behind them are exactly the kind of workload our private cloud is built for. Where your ERP runs determines where it sits: if it runs on IBM i or AIX, it moves into Evolution Power Cloud on IBM Power hardware, as-is, with no changes to your applications. If it runs on Windows or Linux, it moves into Evolution Private Cloud on Dell PowerFlex. Either way it is fully managed and hosted in Australian Tier III and Tier IV data centres, with patching, monitoring, backups and system health handled by our team.
We manage the infrastructure and operating system, working alongside your ERP vendor so nothing falls between the two.
One of the reasons FUJIFILM Australia chose Evolution Systems to host their IBM i environment was our experience with their ERP system.
Windows and Linux workloads move into Evolution Private Cloud without application changes, so leaving your current virtualisation stack does not mean rebuilding your applications. The platform is built on Dell PowerFlex, compute and storage scale independently, and it is fully managed, so patching, monitoring, backups and system health sit with us rather than your team.
If you are working through what your current environment actually costs, our guide on cost control and private cloud economics sets out the full cost stack and the three numbers that make a run-rate forecastable.
IBM i and AIX run on Evolution Power Cloud, because those workloads need IBM Power hardware. Windows and Linux run on Evolution Private Cloud. Both sit inside the same private cloud and are fully managed by us, so what changes is the hardware underneath, not the service you get.
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Yes, and this is one of the main reasons organisations with complex environments come to us. Your IBM i or AIX systems and your Windows and Linux servers sit in the same private cloud estate, in the same data centres, on the same network. That means one environment, one team who knows all of it, and one point of contact, rather than splitting your infrastructure across two providers and coordinating between them yourself.
Backed by Dell PowerFlex, our platform achieves 99.9999% uptime. Resilience is built in, with geo-resilient clusters, automated replication and rapid failover across our Australian data centres.
Our technicians manage the entire migration, including setting up dedicated network links for secure, high-speed access to your new environment. We plan it in phases and run the project end to end, so your team is not absorbing the work on top of their day jobs.
No. Our Evolution Power Cloud is built specifically to host IBM i and AIX as they are, and Windows and Linux workloads can move into Evolution Private Cloud without application changes. Avoiding a re-platforming project is one of the main reasons why Australian mid-market organisations come to us rather than a hyperscaler.
Yes, and we have been since 2016, currently to ISO 27001:2022. Certification is not a one-off. We are reassessed through regular independent surveillance and recertification audits, and our cloud services are delivered under those certified processes.
Evolution Systems supports organisations across Australia, as well as a number of international clients. Our infrastructure is hosted in Australian Tier III and Tier IV data centres across multiple locations, and our operations team is based in Australia. If you are in Sydney, our Sydney private cloud page covers the work we do with organisations here.
