We fit around your team and your learning & training platforms.
From a single focused review to a long-term infrastructure partnership, we work at your pace.
Educational technology and e-learning training platforms carry a unique set of infrastructure pressures. Learner data that must be protected, assessment windows that cannot fail, and platforms need to scale as your business grows.
We take infrastructure off the plate of edutech teams, so your developers can build, your engineers can deliver, and your leadership can focus on growth, not platform risk.
Over 20 years working with education and awarding organisations. We know the developer who needs stable environments, the technical director who needs a strategic partner, and the head of learning technologies who needs the platform to just work when learners need it most.
Not everyone loses sleep over the same thing.
- Your Technical Director or CTO needs infrastructure that evolves alongside the business – a strategic partner who plans ahead, not just a provider who reacts when things break.
- Your platform and DevOps engineers need managed infrastructure with genuine technical depth behind the support – not a helpdesk that cannot answer their questions.
- Your development team needs stable, reliable environments that keep pace with delivery – not infrastructure firefighting that pulls them away from building the product.
- Your Head of Learning Technologies or operations lead needs the training platform to stay up when it matters most – during assessment windows, course launches, and peak learner demand.
How Pipe Ten can help
Managed Infrastructure
We provision, manage, and optimise infrastructure across Azure, AWS, on-premise, and hybrid environments. Keeping your educational platforms available, secure, and performing under the demands of global learner bases and assessment peaks.
Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Management
Many edtech businesses grow into complex hybrid environments spanning private and public cloud over time. We help you manage that complexity, rationalise it where it makes sense, and plan the next stage of growth with clarity.
Data Protection and Compliance
Learner data and training records carry significant GDPR obligations. We help you maintain the infrastructure controls, audit trails, and security posture to meet your data protection requirements and evidence them when needed.
Platform Availability and Resilience
Assessment windows, course launches, and learner peaks are not moments when your training platform can afford to struggle. We build and manage resilient infrastructure aligned to your availability requirements and monitor it around the clock.
Fractional Infrastructure Leadership
Need senior infrastructure expertise without a full-time hire? Our fractional CTO, CISO, and platform specialists integrate with your team to provide strategic direction, architecture guidance, and compliance oversight as your educational platform evolves.
FinOps and Cost Management
As edtech platforms grow across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, costs can become difficult to track and control. We provide visibility and optimisation across your estate.
Available edutech infrastructure services
- Full Stack Consultancy
- Hybrid Infrastructure Management
- Public Cloud Management (Azure & AWS)
- Private Cloud Management
- Backup & Disaster Recovery
- Windows & Linux Orchestration
- Systems Patching & Automation
- 24/7/365 Monitoring & Response
We’ve worked with Pipe Ten for many years, growing from a simple two-server setup into a large hybrid infrastructure spanning Azure and private cloud environments that serve our global customer base.
The service and support have always been excellent, but the real value comes from the collaborative planning and strategic partnership between our teams.
This has enabled our systems to evolve alongside our business, supporting both growth, changing requirements and demands.
Their enthusiasm, technical expertise, and genuine interest in our business have proved invaluable.
Philip Reid, Technical Director
Highfield Qualifications
The technical detail, for those who need it
Our engineers work hands-on across technologies that edutech and training infrastructure actually runs on:
- Cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, on-premise, private cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- Infrastructure management: Windows and Linux, provisioning, configuration, and ongoing optimisation
- Resilience: High-availability architecture, geo-redundant infrastructure, DR aligned to RTO and RPO requirements
- Security and compliance: ISO 27001, GDPR-aligned infrastructure controls, Cyber Essentials Plus evidenced controls, not checkbox compliance
- Networking: Private networking, segmentation, VPN, Cloudflare Zero Trust access
- Automation: Infrastructure as code, automated patching, deployment pipeline support
- Monitoring: Full-stack observability, alerting, dashboards, and 24/7/365 response
Why edtech, elearning and training providers choose Pipe Ten
- Over 20 years of infrastructure experience
- ISO 27001 certified
- Genuine technical support – engineers who understand educational platforms and training systems, not just hosting
- Vendor-agnostic – we recommend what is right for your environment
- Flexible engagement – from a contained SAFER or FinOps review through to a full fractional infrastructure team
- UK-based, globally delivered
Ready to take infrastructure off your plate?
Whether you want to start with a contained review or talk about a longer-term partnership, the conversation starts the same way.
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