Software and integrationPurpose-built applications, APIs and automation that join real operations together.
Three decades of IT.Engineered for what comes next.
From early websites and data-centre software to video platforms, secure networks, private cloud and AI—we design, build and operate the complete technology stack.
Information technology
Experience that reaches back to the beginning of the commercial web.
The Blue Group's experience in IT extends back to the 1990s, when predecessor companies were undertaking IT consultancy, data-centre engineering and software development. That experience now shapes the way we build, secure and connect technology across the wider Group.
We combine practical engineering with modern automation: resilient infrastructure, controlled access, secure data, connected business systems and support from people who understand how the complete environment works.
This gives The Blue Group a distinctive capability wherever confidentiality, continuity and careful information handling matter—including Secret and Top Secret material within our Defence work.
Infrastructure and resilienceNetworks, virtualisation, storage, backup, monitoring and recovery designed as one system.
Security throughoutSegmentation, identity, controlled access and observability built into the architecture.
Our journey
Built through each major shift in digital technology.
1998 · The early web
Among the first generation of websites
Creating websites from the earliest days of the commercial web, when every interface, integration and hosting environment had to be engineered from first principles.
2000s · Data centres
Software for serious infrastructure
Developing software for data-centre environments and delivering the engineering, integration and operational discipline needed behind business-critical systems.
2010s · Online video
Video streaming at platform scale
Building video streaming platforms and digital media services that connected content, audiences, distribution and reliable back-end operations.
Today · Connected systems
Infrastructure, automation and AI
Operating integrated networks, private cloud, storage, security, business platforms and intelligent automation across a complex real-world estate.
Designed as one environment
We do not just recommend technology. We operate it.
Our expertise comes from designing, integrating, monitoring, backing up and recovering the platforms we depend on every day. That creates a practical view across the whole stack—from the network edge and hypervisor to applications, automation and the people using them.
Technology we know from the inside
Expertise across the complete stack.
Every platform shown here is part of a system we actively operate, integrate, monitor or support. The result is joined-up knowledge across infrastructure, operating systems, security, business software, automation, AI and connected media.
Networks, virtualisation & storage
UniFi Network & Protect
Proxmox VE & Backup Server
Synology DSM
TrueNAS
OpenZFS
Caddy
Tailscale
WireGuard & strongSwan
Hetzner CloudOperating systems
Ubuntu
Debian
Linux Mint
macOS
WindowsCloud, business & web platforms
Odoo
Google WorkspaceHHestiaCP
WordPress
Docker
PostgreSQL
Node.js
Python
NGINXSecurity, automation & AI
OCOpenClaw
OpenAI
Ollama
vLLM
Home AssistantWZWazuh
FFleetDM
Syncthing
KeycloakMedia, communication & connected systems
PlexMTXMediaMTX
MCMailcow
Spotify
Shelly
SonosBuild technology that works as one dependable system.
From a network or data-centre project to a complete secure digital platform, we can design, deliver and support the environment around your organisation.