Owen Thomas

Red Oak Consulting

Founded in 2004, Red Oak Consulting was established to meet the market need for high quality, specialist advise for high-performance computing (HPC). We remain the UK's leading independent HPC and cloud consultancy, supporting businesses across the globe. Our services cover the whole of the HPC and cloud lifecycle: strategy development, TCO and financial modelling, stakeholder management, business case development and sign-off, procurement support, requirements and business analysis, commissioning and testing, development and porting, workload and user migration, security, project management, technology assessments, change management and much more. Red Oak Consulting is trusted to provide impartial advice to some of the largest users of computing power in the UK. We understand the constraints and opportunities inherent in high performance computing technologies and how these impact on client business models. In 2022, we elevated our HPC expertise, recognising there was a requirement for professional, highly skilled HPC specialists, delivering on-going HPC support to HPC users. Taking our knowledge and experience we created Red Oak Managed Services. At Red Oak we are renowned for our skill, professionalism, integrity, and honesty. It is through our understanding and skill that we guarantee a level of managed support of demonstrable quality, for all our customers.