Evan Connell — Sector / Enterprise

Your infrastructure isn’t old. It’s proven. The upgrade cycle disagrees.

Technology lifecycle, infrastructure longevity, and digital sustainability — for enterprise and government environments where continuity is the whole job.

Field note System 01
Patched, documented, monitored. Still doing the job it was built for — a decade past its “end of life.”
Asset classCore infrastructure
Vendor EOLYear 5
ConditionFully serviceable
StatusOperational
§ Observation 01 / 03

“End of life” is a date on a vendor’s spreadsheet. Condition is what your operation actually runs on.

Twenty-five years inside government and enterprise environments teaches one thing quickly: the systems that matter are judged on uptime, security, and recoverability — not on how recently they were replaced.

Yet replacement is sold as the only safe option, and the churn it drives — licensing, migration risk, retraining, e-waste — rarely makes anything more reliable. The alternative is lifecycle discipline: keep what is serviceable, secure it properly, document it thoroughly, and replace only what condition and need actually justify.

§ Practice 02 / 03
Strategy

Infrastructure lifecycle

Server, network, and platform decisions assessed on condition, security posture, and business need — not on a vendor’s end-of-life calendar.

Operations

Breaking forced upgrade cycles

Reducing licensing churn, migration risk, and rip-and-replace projects that add cost without adding reliability. Keeping what works; replacing what genuinely needs it.

Continuity

Security & recoverability for long-life systems

Hardening, patching strategy, backups, and disaster recovery for environments expected to run for decades — the discipline of high-availability government operations, applied anywhere.

Systems

Fit-for-purpose software

Custom applications for organisations too specialised for off-the-shelf products and too small for enterprise vendors — built lean, documented, and designed to be maintainable by whoever comes next.

Speaking

Talks & workshops

Sessions for boards, leadership, and technical teams on technology longevity, planned obsolescence, and what sustainable IT actually costs — and saves.

§ Booking 03 / 03

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