Running digital services
A platform could bring capacity, service health and recovery into one operational view, helping a team understand what needs attention.
Digital Infrastructure
The foundations beneath digital life.
Digital activity depends on computing capacity, data and reliable services. Our focus spans the physical infrastructure and foundational software that keep those resources available and useful.
The opportunity
Infrastructure people can operate.
When infrastructure becomes difficult to understand or operate, its limitations reach the people using the services above it. Useful infrastructure gives operators a clear view of capacity, dependencies and recovery when something goes wrong.
Our interest spans infrastructure itself and the tools used to run it. We look for opportunities to improve how computing and data resources are provisioned, connected, secured and maintained over time.
Our focus
Within this field.
Areas that guide where we look
for opportunities to build businesses.
Computing infrastructure
Data centres, hosting, compute systems and high-performance computing.
Cloud and edge
Cloud platforms, virtualisation, edge infrastructure and orchestration.
Data infrastructure
Storage, databases, data movement and distributed systems.
Internet resources
DNS, domain-name services and IP address management.
Infrastructure software
Tools for deployment, observability, resilience and infrastructure security.
Decentralised infrastructure
Distributed computing, blockchain infrastructure and the foundations of decentralised platforms.
Illustrative applications
How it could be used.
Examples of possible applications
of this field.
Conceptual illustration
Behind every digital service.
Applications draw on a range of underlying resources and services. These are complementary foundations; the combination depends on what is being built.
Applications & digital services
The experiences people and businesses use.
Supported by
Compute
Processing capacity to run software and workloads.
Data
Storage, databases and the systems that manage information.
Internet foundations
Domain names, DNS and IP resource management.
Where it runs
Resources can be provided through data centres, cloud or edge environments.
Computing close to the work
Edge infrastructure could support local processing where connections are constrained or information needs to stay close to its source.
Managing internet resources
Tools for DNS, domains and IP addresses could help organisations track dependencies and manage changes across their internet infrastructure.
Enabling connected life
How the fields work together.
Networks connect these resources. Software and intelligent systems use them. Energy keeps them running.