Solutions / Cloud & Infrastructure

The right home for every workload

Public, private, hybrid, colocation — the right answer is rarely “all-in on one.” We model your workloads against real market pricing and place each one where it performs best and costs least, with providers who back their SLAs.

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12
cloud & infra categories

61
colocation providers

49
backup & DR specialists

$0
cost for our guidance

Explore cloud & infrastructure categories

Twelve categories covering where workloads run, where hardware lives, and how everything survives a bad day. Provider counts are live from our vetted portfolio.

Compute & platforms

IaaS / Compute
Virtual compute, bare metal, and VDI — capacity on demand, someone else’s hardware problem. 57 providers vetted

Private Cloud
Dedicated private cloud environments — cloud agility with single-tenant control and predictable pricing. 52 providers vetted

Public Cloud Management
Managed AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle — hyperscaler power with an ops team that answers the phone. 14 providers vetted

Hybrid / Multi-Cloud
Management platforms that make two (or five) clouds behave like one coherent environment. 32 providers vetted

Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
Cloud-hosted virtual desktops — a secure, managed workspace on any device, anywhere. 4 providers vetted

Data centers & storage

Colocation
Cabinet, cage, and suite colocation — your gear in a facility with enterprise power, cooling, and connectivity. 61 providers vetted

Hyperscale / Build-to-Suit
Hyperscale campuses and build-to-suit data centers for serious capacity — including AI-scale power. 20 providers vetted

Cloud Storage
Object, block, and archival storage — the right tier for hot data, cold data, and “keep it seven years” data. 14 providers vetted

Protect & optimize

Backup as a Service (BaaS)
Managed cloud backup — automated, tested, and monitored, because untested backups are just hope. 49 providers vetted

Disaster Recovery (DRaaS)
Business continuity with recovery measured in minutes — the insurance policy that actually pays out. 49 providers vetted

Cloud Cost Optimization / FinOps
Visibility, accountability, and optimization for cloud spend — because bills grow like garden weeds. 8 providers vetted

App Development / Modernization
App dev, DevOps, and modernization — moving legacy applications into the cloud era without breaking them. 7 providers vetted

Why it matters

Right workload, right home.
Some workloads belong in hyperscale cloud. Others run better — and up to 40% cheaper — in private cloud or colo. Placement is strategy, not preference.

Resilience you can prove.
Backup and DR aren’t checkbox items — they’re the difference between an incident report and a press release. Test days, not talking points.

Spend under control.
Cloud bills grow quietly, then suddenly. FinOps discipline plus renewal-time leverage keeps your CFO smiling — or at least not frowning at IT.

Featured cloud & infrastructure providers

A live sample from the portfolio — vetted for SLA history, facility quality, support responsiveness, and contract fairness.

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How Rubber Duck helps

We model your workloads against real market pricing — compute, egress, licensing, support — before you commit to anything. Then we negotiate with providers who know we’ll see their next ten deals too. That’s leverage you can’t get going direct.

“The most expensive cloud decision is the one made from a single vendor’s pricing calculator. Get three real quotes and watch the math change.”
— Rubber Duck advisory team

Find out where your workloads really belong

A placement map grounded in real pricing beats a migration built on a hunch. Start with the assessment.

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How your Cloud & Infrastructure engagement runs

The same disciplined path every time — so you always know what happens next and who is accountable for it.

Day 1

Assess

We map your environment, contracts, and goals. No pitch — an honest read on where you stand and what it should cost.

Week 1

Shortlist

You get 3–4 fits from 475 vetted providers, with the reasoning attached — capabilities, pricing leverage, trade-offs.

Weeks 2–3

Evaluate

We run the demos, reference checks, and side-by-side pricing benchmarks so your team doesn't have to.

Weeks 3–4

Negotiate

Terms, SLAs, and pricing negotiated with portfolio-level leverage — anchored to real market rates, not list price.

Ongoing

Manage

We oversee implementation and stay your escalation point for the life of the service, through every renewal.

Typical timeline for mid-market engagements. Complex builds — colocation, dark fiber, custom AI deployments — carry longer evaluation and delivery windows, and we set that expectation on day one.

Why source Cloud & Infrastructure through Rubber Duck

No retainers, no hourly billing, no markup on your contract. Here is how that works:

Same or better pricing

Your contract is signed directly with the provider at rates we benchmark against comparable deals — you pay the same or less than going direct.

$0 advisory fee

Providers fund our advisory through their partner programs, and every provider compensates us the same way — so recommendations are based on fit, never commission.

One escalation point

After go-live we stay accountable: implementation oversight, billing disputes, outage escalations, and renewal strategy all route through your advisor.

What buyers ask before their first call

Does the guidance really cost nothing?

Yes. Our advisory is supplier-funded: providers pay us through the same partner programs they fund for all technology advisors, and every provider compensates us the same way. You pay the provider directly, at rates we benchmark — the same or less than going direct.

How are you different from a reseller or an MSP?

We don't carry inventory, quotas, or a house brand to protect. A reseller earns more when you buy what they stock; we earn the same regardless of which vetted provider you choose — so the recommendation is driven by fit. Where a managed service is the right answer, we source and oversee it rather than sell you our own.

Do we keep a direct relationship with the provider?

Yes. Your contract, billing, and SLAs sit directly with the provider you select. We sit on your side of that relationship — running the evaluation and negotiation up front, then acting as your escalation point after go-live.

What if we're already under contract?

That's the most common starting point. We benchmark your current rates now, flag billing errors worth disputing immediately, and build the renegotiation plan around your renewal window — including co-terming services so future decisions happen on your schedule, not the vendors'.

How fast do we get to a shortlist?

For most categories you'll have a reasoned shortlist of three or four providers within a week of the first assessment call. Complex infrastructure — colocation, dark fiber, large contact-center builds — takes longer, and we tell you that up front.