Virtualisation

Private clouds are about IT flexibility, efficiency, and cost savings. Maximize the benefits by building your private cloud with advanced storage and data management technologies from our key partners like NetApp.

Around the world, enterprises of all types and sizes have transformed the promise of private cloud computing into breakthrough business results using technologies from NetApp and our partners. With a services delivery model, IT can offer services to its internal customers from a service catalogue, automate processes, meter usage, create showback or chargeback models, and deliver services for greater cost savings, utilization, and efficiencies.

Key Benefits:
• Accelerate time to market by up to 75%.
• Reduce IT storage management costs by up to 66%.
• Scale to accommodate service growth of up to 50%.
• Automate and reduce resource provisioning from weeks to minutes.

Our professional consultants have a vast knowledge base when it comes to all things virtual. We know how to drive innovation whilst simultaneously addressing common issues like data growth, sprawl and the management complexity associated with datacentres. We have worked with a number of clients across a range of verticals to implement cutting edge virtualised infrastructure through combining our knowledge and a select range of industry best-of-breed technologies from leading IT organisations like NetApp, VMware, Dell, Citrix, Microsoft and more. We encourage visitors to read over the briefs below on each on the industry leaders and let us help find out what you need and how to deliver it.

And with Data on the rise isn’t it nice to know we guarantee we can get at least 35% more from your existing IBM, EMC and HP storage without having to buy a single storage disk or drive*. Call or email us to find out how and we’ll be happy to take you through a whiteboard session on how we can improve your environment.

Desktop, Server and Storage Virtualisation – A complete datacentre virtualisation portfolio.


NetApp’s Virtualised Storage. The traditional model for enterprise storage requires a different storage system for each storage function. One storage architecture might be deployed for primary network-attached storage (NAS), another for storage area networks (SANs), with additional platforms for secondary storage, archive, and compliance. NetApp delivers a true unified architecture with Data Ontap a single, end-to-end foundation for dynamic data management. It goes beyond simple multiprotocol storage to provide integrated data management and data protection, support for all tiers of storage, quality of service, and other elements, all in a single platform. A unified storage architecture enables the creation of a common storage pool that can be networked and shared across a diverse set of applications with a common set of management processes. The ability to scale from small to very large storage capacity without compromising application performance or service levels is a key attribute. View the IT Consult NetApp page here.


Virtualisation and Citrix. Citrix offers a range of solutions including best-of-breed desktop virtualisation with XenDesktop as well comprehensive suite of virtualisation solutions with XenApp an on-demand application delivery solution that enables any Windows® application to be virtualized, centralized, and managed in the data centre and instantly delivered as a service to users anywhere on any device. Plus the XenServer solution, a complete, managed server virtualization platform built on the powerful Xen hypervisor. Xen technology is widely acknowledged as the fastest and most secure virtualization software in the industry.

 
Microsoft. Microsoft’s proven data centre virtualization and management solutions, built on Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V and System Centre provide you with a familiar, supported, and cost-effective technology platform to help you improve data centreoperations, deliver reliable services, and lower costs. Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is the hypervisor-based server virtualization product that allows you to consolidate workloads onto a single physical server. In addition Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is a capability in Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 which separates where the desktop or application is used from where it runs. It accelerates desktop & application deployments enabling any client to run any application or operating system.

Dell Compellent and Equalogix. Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI virtualized SANs enable cost-effective enterprise storage solutions for virtualized server environments. PS Series arrays come complete with a comprehensive set of advanced data protection and management software, with no additional software licensing cost, including:

Dell Compellent’s Storage Virtualization is the perfect complement to any leading virtual server platform. Aggregating physical disks into logical virtual volumes removes the limitations inherent to physical drives. The result is a dynamic pool of storage resources shared by virtual machines (VMs). Storage is presented to VMs simply as capacity, regardless of disk type, RAID level or server connectivity.

VMware. Simplify your IT infrastructure as you create a more dynamic and flexible data centre with VMware’s proven server and data centre virtualization solutions built on VMware vSphere, the industry’s leading virtualization platform. Ensure continued IT innovation while meeting enterprise application SLAs and increase time-to-market for application provisioning and upgrades. VMware virtualization helps you reduce capital expenses through server consolidation and improve operating expenses through automation, while minimizing lost revenue by reducing both planned and unplanned downtime.


Get automated operations management for the new dynamic virtual infrastructures with VMware vCenter Operations, so you can accelerate IT service delivery, improve operational efficiency, ensure compliance and reduce risk.

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