Enterprise depth, Gulf Coast address.
Emerald Coast Technologies is an independent infrastructure consultancy in Pensacola, Florida. Enterprise engineering for IBM Power, storage, and networks, and practical IT for businesses along the Gulf Coast.
What we do
More than twenty years of hands-on infrastructure work, from Fortune 500 data centers to small offices, in one independent practice. We plan, build, fix, and document, and we hand things back cleaner than we found them.
IBM Power and IBM i
Power Systems, IBM i and AIX, FlashSystem, and Fibre Channel fabrics. Upgrades, migrations, relocations, backup and recovery, health checks.
Storage and data center engineering
SAN design and cleanup, storage, virtualization, servers, rack builds and moves. Cabled, labeled, documented.
Network and security foundations
Firewalls, segmentation, remote access, DNS and email authentication, backups, hardening. The basics, done properly.
Advisory and second opinions
Assessments, roadmaps, quote reviews, disaster recovery planning. Independent advice with no hardware to sell you.
Small-business IT
For Pensacola-area businesses and organizations: setup, cleanup, troubleshooting, Workspace and Microsoft 365, backups, networks. Hourly or prepaid.
Automation and applied AI
Practical automation for repetitive work, built on the systems you already run. Measured in hours saved.
Who we work with
Enterprises running IBM Power
Shops that need senior hands for a project, a migration, or a second set of eyes. On site anywhere in the U.S., or remote.
IBM Business Partners and services firms
Subcontract engineering under your agreement and your brand, invoiced cleanly through our LLC.
Gulf Coast businesses and organizations
Small and mid-sized businesses, practices, and nonprofits from Pensacola north to the Alabama line.
We build software, too.
OpenVTL is a free, open-source virtual tape library for IBM i, developed and supported by Emerald Coast Technologies.
How we work
Scoped before we start.
You get a written scope and an estimate before work begins: time and materials, prepaid hours, or a fixed-scope project, whichever fits.
Documented when we leave.
Every engagement ends with documentation you can hand to the next person. Including us.
Independent.
We don't resell hardware or carry vendor quotas. The recommendation is ours, not a manufacturer's.
Start with a conversation.
Tell us what you're working on. We'll tell you plainly whether we're the right fit, and what it would take.