# Quorate Systems — llms.txt
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> Quorate Systems is a cluster engineering firm based in Silicon Valley. We deploy, harden
> and operate network fabrics, firewalls, switches, routers, SAN storage networks, Linux,
> Kubernetes, database, distributed storage, messaging, lakehouse, HPC and GPU clusters on
> infrastructure our customers own, and then provide managed 24x7 operations and
> SLA-backed on-call.

Contact: botonwa@gmail.com
Location: Sunnyvale, California, USA

## Engagement models
- Audit: fixed-price cluster health assessment, from $2,500, 2 weeks to report.
- Build: design, implementation, hardening and handover, from $15,000.
- Managed: operations, on-call and quarterly drills, from $1,900 per cluster per month.
- Retainer: prepaid senior engineer hours, from $4,000 per month.
- Training: three-day hands-on cohort on customer hardware, from $14,000.

## Service disciplines (23)
- Network clusters — firewall, switch and router high availability: /services/network/
- SAN and storage networking — Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe-oF: /services/storage-network/
- Foundation network services — DNS, DHCP, time, PKI: /services/foundation-services/
- SD-WAN and multi-site interconnect: /services/sdwan/
- Bare metal and OS layer provisioning: /services/bare-metal/
- Kubernetes and container platforms: /services/kubernetes/
- High availability and failover: /services/high-availability/
- Load balancing and traffic ingress: /services/load-balancing/
- Directory, identity and secrets: /services/identity/
- Distributed storage: /services/storage/
- Database clusters: /services/databases/
- Caching and messaging: /services/messaging/
- Big data and lakehouse: /services/data-platform/
- File and block services — SMB, NFS, object and archive: /services/file-services/
- HPC and AI/GPU clusters: /services/hpc-ai/
- Observability and logging: /services/observability/
- VDI and desktop virtualisation: /services/vdi/
- Virtualization, private cloud and HCI: /services/virtualization/
- Application and web clusters: /services/app-delivery/
- CI/CD and artifact platforms: /services/cicd/
- Backup, restore and disaster recovery: /services/backup-dr/
- Security operations clusters — SIEM, IDS, hardening: /services/security-ops/
- Multi-cluster fleet, DR and security: /services/fleet-security/

## Key pages
- Cluster atlas — every cluster category and where we stand (233 entries): /clusters/
- Services matrix: /services/
- Case studies by cluster type (37 engagements): /work/
- Solutions by industry: /solutions/
- Technology stack index (295 entries): /stack/
- Managed operations and SLA tiers: /managed/
- Pricing with published starting prices: /pricing/
- Delivery process, five stages: /process/
- Resources and checklists: /resources/
- Technical blog: /blog/
- About and position statements: /about/
- Trust, privacy and subprocessors: /trust/
- Service status: /status/
- Contact and 30-minute cluster review: /contact/

## Scope boundaries we publish
- We do not resell hardware, circuits or licences and take no margin on any of them.
- We do not sign business associate agreements as a covered entity.
- We do not act as a compliance auditor, a staffed SOC, or a digital forensics firm.
- We do not build HA clusters without working fencing.
- We do not accept equity, revenue share, or deferred payment.
- The cluster atlas marks every category we do not own, including partner-led and out-of-scope entries.