What is OChK Platform?
The OChK Platform is a Polish cloud fully developed and managed by our team of experts. It was built for organizations seeking not only the highest level of security and full control over data residency but also technological flexibility and support in ensuring business continuity. The OChK Platform serves as the foundation for modern IT infrastructure, offering the freedom to choose between public, private, and hybrid models.
Who is it for?
The OChK Platform helps solve different technological challenges, therefore is a suitable solution for a wide range of organizations—from mid-to-large enterprises to public sector and regulated industries (finance, insurance, healthcare, energy, and transport) to ISV/Software Houses providing digital business solutions.
Choose the OChK Platform if you:
need a cloud solution that adapts to your organization’s needs and provides technological independence (e.g., you are looking for an alternative to VMware to avoid unpredictable licensing changes)
seek a trusted, local solution that meets the highest security standards and guarantees that your data—even the most sensitive—is stored and processed exclusively in Poland, maintaining full digital sovereignty
want to build an effective and cost-optimized digital resilience/Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy
need an enterprise-ready cloud because current low-cost solutions no longer meet your requirements
aim to optimize IT environment costs through multicloud or hybrid models, combining various technologies and on-premise resources
want to modernize and automate a legacy environment that is difficult to maintain, as well as automate and improve cloud infrastructure management processes
require predictable performance and physical data isolation without using shared public cloud resources
need a guaranteed SLA (up to 99.9%) with 24/7 local support and a clear escalation path
Cloud and Services Tailored to Your Needs
We help you build public cloud solutions, hybrid environments, multicloud strategies, or private clouds—tailored fully to your organization’s preferences. We match the model to your workloads, take a flexible approach where it makes the most sense, and introduce isolation where required.
Take advantage of the extensive service catalog available through the OChK Platform—ranging from virtual machines and storage to networking services, VDI, and security – which allows for a more personalized configuration than typically offered by hyperscalers.
Public Cloud
the best choice for organizations requiring rapid scaling with a pay-as-you-go model
Private Cloud
recommended for organizations requiring full physical separation of the environment with fixed costs
Hybrid Cloud
ideal for organizations that want to combine on-premise environments and the cloud with a unified management layer (via portal or Terraform)
By choosing the OChK Platform, you gain the ability to manage your IT resources securely and cost-effectively. A precise metering system allows you to monitor consumption in real-time and optimize costs, while the option to provision infrastructure on-demand provides your organization with essential operational agility. Full automation of repetitive tasks through the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach is also key—leveraging the Terraform standard allows you to configure your entire environment via code, which minimizes the risk of human error and significantly accelerates the deployment of new solutions.
Disaster Recovery and Digital Resilience
Strengthen your organization's digital resilience and ensure business continuity in crisis situations—we help you build environments based on the resilience first principle. Our two data centers guarantee redundancy at the infrastructure layer and ensure that if one of them fails, the second immediately takes over (automatic failover).
Take advantage of the built-in OChK Platform feature (in the public cloud variant), Disaster Recovery by design, to forget about the headaches associated with building your own DR.
Use the OChK Platform as a backup data center (Disaster Recovery Center) for your primary environment.
Offload the responsibility for your recovery processes to us (managed model) and take advantage of our support in performing regular failover tests to a secondary data center with our DR backup service.
Choose dedicated infrastructure (DR dedicated) to provide your organization with maximum flexibility and constant operational readiness.
Ensure compliance with NIS2, DORA, and GDPR by leveraging our comprehensive services for designing availability and failover scenarios between sites, defining realistic recovery plans, and preparing and testing procedures that fully align with regulatory requirements.
With these support capabilities, you can effectively minimize downtime and, consequently, the risk of financial loss. You also gain the peace of mind that your disaster recovery scenario will work exactly when you need it most.
Highest Level of Security
We integrate advanced security mechanisms and strictly adhere to recognized international standards, regularly renewing certifications such as ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 27017, and ISO 27018. Learn more about OChK security standards here.
Build an environment optimized for both performance and cost by aligning the storage type—whether block storage, file storage, or object storage—with the specific nature and criticality of your business processes.
Effectively guard your organization against data loss and ransomware attacks. We provide services such as OChK Backup as a Service (BaaS), WORM (Write Once, Read Many), Golden Copy, and client-managed encryption keys, giving you full control over your data security.
Our data centers are located at an optimal distance from each other—far enough apart to guarantee resilience to local disasters, yet close enough to ensure near-instantaneous data synchronization.
Benefit from continuous support provided by our Security Operations Center (SOC) teams. Our experts monitor the environment and respond to threats in real-time, 24/7.
Data Storage and Processing in Poland
We launch all services on servers located within the country, which guarantees local data residency and proper redundancy.
Gain full control over your data residency and simplify the process of meeting formal requirements on your end.
Take advantage of an infrastructure that ensures not only the data, but also the processes, administrative access, and full responsibility for the solution are handled in Poland.
Benefit from direct access to our support, maintenance, and SOC teams, who communicate in your language and operate 24/7.
Leverage expert know-how built on extensive experience in delivering cloud services for 400+ clients.
OChK Platform: A Digitally Sovereign Solution.
The OChK Platform is a fully digitally sovereign cloud solution, compliant with European requirements set forth in the Cloud Sovereignty Framework.
An analysis conducted by OChK has confirmed that the solution meets the highest standards in areas such as: full client’s control over data encryption, no dependency on a single provider (vendor lock-in), operations handled by teams based in the EU, as well as the security and compliance of processes with EU legal requirements.
What does this mean for your organization?
By utilizing the technologies and processes within the OChK Platform, you can be certain that they are subject exclusively to EU law and are free from dependencies on non-EU providers or external geopolitical factors.
The OChK Platform therefore serves as a secure foundation for all organizations (including entities from regulated industries) seeking trusted, local solutions suitable for processing even the most sensitive data.
Technological Independence without Vendor Lock-in
Avoid long-term commitments that span years. With the OChK Platform, you can build IT environments and combine solutions from different providers without vendor lock-in. For example, depending on your specific needs, you can choose the most suitable hypervisor for a given project (VMware or OpenStack), thereby avoiding a range of inconveniences and risks associated with, for instance, changes in licensing models.
Reduce licensing and infrastructure costs, regain budget predictability, and achieve greater flexibility in the development of your IT environment.
VDI/VDA Services
Does your organization have thousands of people working all over the place, or people who need expensive, specialized equipment? Optimize and automate the management of your distributed structure with our VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) and VDA (Virtualized Desktop Applications) services.
Replace difficult-to-maintain local workstations with a uniform, centrally managed workspace environment.
Take advantage of our end-to-end support and provide your company with comprehensive care from our experts—from design and sizing, to environment launch and user migration, to ongoing maintenance.
As a result, you will not only reduce end-point device costs but also enhance data security and simplify the fleet management process (including updates, security policies, and hardware configuration for new employees).
Need support with deploying or managing your environment? OChK professional services
We deliver more than just technology; we provide highly sought-after, specialized expertise from over 120 engineers. Take advantage of OChK professional services, such as:
cloud migration
infrastructure audit and modernization (support in reducing technical debt)
Kubernetes cluster and Service Mesh design
managed services
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
automation of container building and deployment (CI/CD)
Let us know how we can support you!
OChK Platform in practice
PGZ SW faced the challenge of rapidly launching the design and construction process for frigates. Due to the scale of the project, the specialized CAD software used in this process required significant computing power, which would have necessitated a substantial expansion of their local on-premises IT environment.
The OChK Platform enabled the rapid deployment of the applications needed for ship design, providing PGZ Stocznia with an environment whose capacity can be scaled to match current needs.
OChK Platform has been trusted by, among others
The implementation of the Workplace of the Future at PKO Bank Polski was an exceptionally ambitious and complex project. It concerned both the technology area, but also had a large impact on the existing work environment of people who serve the bank's customers in branches. On the one hand, we wanted to take into account existing processes and applications, but at the same time enable cooperation with new applications and devices. Reconciling so many changes required working in an agile model with the involvement of business and direct recipients of the service. Thanks to prototyping, we arrived at its final shape while maintaining the established cost level. A very important goal was to implement the solution in a way that was imperceptible to customers - we could not afford to close branches or lower the quality of service. We had the opportunity to verify the effectiveness of the service during the pandemic, and now we successfully use it in hybrid work.
Mariusz Komorowski
Director of the Asset and Configuration Management Office at PKO Bank Polski
When designing the durable medium service, we faced the challenge of developing a cross-sector service that would work wherever information durability is key. Cooperation with OChK made it easier for us to offer the market an innovative product to support entrepreneurs in digitalization. We offer the implementation of a durable medium in a service model, while ensuring full compliance with regulations. This is possible thanks to OChK providing a comprehensive container platform for the business application of our durable medium system. OChK has one of the largest WORM array instances in Poland, thanks to which we are sure that we provide a service with the highest security and quality parameters in the field of data storage, with a guarantee of their non-removability and unchangeability. Confirmation of the value of this solution is the fact that the largest entities from the financial and ecommerce sectors have already trusted us.
Jolanta Błaszczyk
Expert in the Electronic Signature Business Line, KIR
Thanks to such partners as OChK, a real digital transformation of our company is possible. Thanks to the solutions implemented together in our shipyard, it is possible to integrate digital systems at the level of CNC machines and devices with our ERP class system. Already today we are thinking about the next step and the further development of the shipyard within the Industry 4.0 idea.
Paweł Lulewicz
President of the Management Board of PGZ Naval Shipyard
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Billing Model
Two billing models are available:
Fix (recommended for those who value fixed costs)
Flat-fee payment, regardless of resource consumption
Ability to set limits that restrict infrastructure growth once the planned budget is exceeded
Flex (recommended for variable, dynamic environments)
Payment for actual resource consumption (PAYG, pay-as-you-go)
Hourly billing (CPU, RAM)
Automatic discount once a virtual machine exceeds 25% of its monthly uptime
How We Work with Our Clients
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We start from understanding your needs
We begin with a conversation and an analysis of the business context. Together, we identify key needs, critical systems, types of risks, the target level of resilience, and the scope of modernization required for your infrastructure.
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We design and implement the solution
We design the target architecture and handle migration, configuration, or environment replication, as well as the implementation of automation. We take care of the documentation and the preparation of operating procedures.
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We maintain and develop the environment
We provide 24/7 monitoring and support, optimize costs and performance, and develop the environment in line with business needs. In the case of digital resilience solutions, we perform periodic tests and maintain constant operational readiness.
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We analyze and recommend the optimal model
We conduct technical and business workshops and analyze your current architecture, including Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Based on this, we recommend the appropriate collaboration model, tailored to your organization’s needs and applicable regulations.
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We test and validate readiness
We run performance and recovery tests (where DR is applicable), and failover simulations. We verify operational readiness to ensure that the backup environment functions exactly as intended.
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We start from understanding your needs
We begin with a conversation and an analysis of the business context. Together, we identify key needs, critical systems, types of risks, the target level of resilience, and the scope of modernization required for your infrastructure.
02
We analyze and recommend the optimal model
We conduct technical and business workshops and analyze your current architecture, including Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Based on this, we recommend the appropriate collaboration model, tailored to your organization’s needs and applicable regulations.
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We design and implement the solution
We design the target architecture and handle migration, configuration, or environment replication, as well as the implementation of automation. We take care of the documentation and the preparation of operating procedures.
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We test and validate readiness
We run performance and recovery tests (where DR is applicable), and failover simulations. We verify operational readiness to ensure that the backup environment functions exactly as intended.
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We maintain and develop the environment
We provide 24/7 monitoring and support, optimize costs and performance, and develop the environment in line with business needs. In the case of digital resilience solutions, we perform periodic tests and maintain constant operational readiness.
See how the OChK Platform can support your organization.
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FAQ
Yes, the OChK Platform is a Polish cloud, built from the ground up and managed by our own engineers. Our infrastructure is located in two independent data centers within Poland, which guarantees local data residency and ensures that data is processed exclusively under Polish jurisdiction. This principle also extends to our technical support process—all data provided during ticket handling is stored and processed solely on a local basis. You gain direct access to a Polish team of over 120 certified experts and a guaranteed resolution time (SLA).
Yes. The OChK Platform provides the infrastructure and procedures to support compliance with key NIS2 requirements for risk management and business continuity. Thanks to the built-in Disaster Recovery by Design feature, along with additional services—including DR backup, Golden Copy, designing availability and failover scenarios between sites, and defining realistic recovery plans—we provide organizations with high digital resilience and the continuity of critical processes.
The OChK Platform is a solution that allows for the deployment of services in public, private, and hybrid cloud models. This versatility enables organizations to precisely align their infrastructure with specific performance, cost, and regulatory requirements.
Data sovereignty on the OChK Platform is ensured through the physical location of our data centers within Poland and by being subject exclusively to national and EU jurisdiction. The technologies and processes within the OChK Platform are governed solely by EU law and are free from dependencies on non-EU providers or external geopolitical factors.
With the OChK Platform, you can build IT environments and combine solutions from different providers. This also applies to the hypervisor layer—you can choose the tool (e.g., VMware or OpenStack) to your current expectations and switch to another in the future if the need arises.
Yes, the OChK Platform fully supports the Infrastructure as Code approach. Through integration with Terraform, your organization can automate resource provisioning, configure networks, and manage environments in a repeatable and rapid manner, while eliminating errors that result from manual changes. Documentation regarding Terraform is available here, while documentation for OChK Platform management is accessible directly within the OChK Platform user portal.
Our key differentiator is a guaranteed incident resolution time, rather than just an initial response time, which is the standard among global providers like Google or Microsoft. Depending on the priority level, this resolution time ranges from 4 to 48 hours:
- Critical Incidents (P1): Response within 15 minutes and resolution within a maximum of 4 hours,
- High Priority Incidents (P2): Response within 30 minutes and resolution within 8 hours,
- Medium Priority Incidents (P3): Response within 2 hours and resolution within 24 hours,
- Low Priority Incidents (P4): Response within 8 hours and resolution within 48 hours.
This provides our clients with operational predictability and the assurance that in emergency situations, support does not end with a ticket confirmation, but with the actual restoration of system operations.
- Critical Incidents (P1): Response within 15 minutes and resolution within a maximum of 4 hours,
- High Priority Incidents (P2): Response within 30 minutes and resolution within 8 hours,
- Medium Priority Incidents (P3): Response within 2 hours and resolution within 24 hours,
- Low Priority Incidents (P4): Response within 8 hours and resolution within 48 hours.
This provides our clients with operational predictability and the assurance that in emergency situations, support does not end with a ticket confirmation, but with the actual restoration of system operations.
We provide an intuitive portal that allows you to self-manage your entire infrastructure from a single application (available in both Polish and English). The portal enables, among other things: management of virtual machines and backups, configuration of firewall rules, Identity and Access Management (IAM), resource consumption monitoring and access to system logs. The transparent and user-friendly interface makes working on the OChK Platform simple, highly automated, and efficient. An integral part of the portal is also our comprehensive Help Center (knowledge base).
| Hyperscalers | OChK Platform | |
|---|---|---|
| Location and Jurisdiction | Distributed jurisdiction; global infrastructure | Polish and EU jurisdiction; infrastructure located in Poland; data, processes, administrative access, and full responsibility for the solution handled in Poland |
| Data Storage | Region in Poland possible, but without a guarantee of local exclusivity | Two independent data centers located exclusively in Poland; guaranteed data storage and processing in Poland |
| Capital and Ownership | Global corporations; decision-making outside of Poland | 100% Polish capital; local decision-making and ownership responsibility |
| Billing Model | Pay-as-you-go; complex data transfer fees (egress); billing in USD | Predictable costs in PLN; no hidden transfer fees; PAYG or fixed rates |
| Exchange Rate Risk | High exposure to USD exchange rate fluctuations | No currency risk; budget stability and billing in PLN |
| Technical Support | Corporate model; support in English | Local team; support in Polish; direct access to engineers |
| Escalation Path | Multi-level (complex) | Direct and short |
| SLA | Guaranteed response time | Guaranteed response and resolution time |
| Scope of Services | Very broad portfolio (AI, serverless, analytics, PaaS) | Solutions focused on: IaaS, public, private, and hybrid cloud, Disaster Recovery, and resilience |
| AI/GPU/Global Scale | Unlimited scale and global availability | Limited scale |
| Architecture multi-region | Multi-region scenarios (often outside of Poland) | Redundancy within Poland |
| Chmura prywatna | Possible, but the process is often costly and complex to implement | A native element of the offering; full resource isolation is possible |
We offer two levels of monthly availability (SLA): 99.5% for Standard-class solutions* and 99.9% for Enterprise-class solutions**.
*Standard: The solution operates within a single data center.
**Enterprise: The solution is stretched across two of our data centers with synchronous data replication.
*Standard: The solution operates within a single data center.
**Enterprise: The solution is stretched across two of our data centers with synchronous data replication.
Yes. The security of the OChK Platform extends beyond the infrastructure itself—one of OChK’s professional services is support from our Security Operations Center (SOC) team. They monitor your environment 24/7, preventing, detecting, and responding to threats, while also eliminating gaps and vulnerabilities to thwart potential attacks.
Related Services
Managed Services
Cloud environment management—including multicloud and hybrid deployments—covering configuration, maintenance, and optimization.
FinOps
Managing cloud costs by combining finance, technology, and organizational culture to optimize spending.
Cloud Management Platform
An application built by OChK experts that facilitates multi-cloud environment management.
