Servers & Desktops

Server and Desktop Virtualisation - enabling Business Continuity and reducing on-going Operational Expenditure

Server and Desktop Virtualisation works by making much better use of your Infrastructure. With most Wintel servers being utilsed at an average of 10% and Desktops only 1% this allows us to design solutions using market leading software from organisations such as VMware and Citrix which will make much better use of your investment.

The first step to understanding how your server or desktop infrastructure may look and perfom on a virtual platform is to perfom a detailed capacity planning excercise. This lets us model the new proposed environment in a studio format, whilst also helping to build a business case by showing what the financial benefits of a virtualised server infrastructure would bring your business. The feedback we have received from IT Managers within businesses is that without the capacity planning and the detailed report we produce the project would not have got off the ground.

Following on from the Capacity Planning phase we produce a detailed design document which ensures 100% certainty that the solution we propose will perform and mitigates any risk from the project - which is imperative when perfoming a large change to your IT Infrastructure.

The design phase then leads to the procurement phase. To ease the financial cost of an initial solution we can offer tailored finance packages to help make the tranistion to a Virtual Environment as easy as possible. The detailed planning at the start of the excercise means you only buy what you need plus an agreed overhead for growth.

We then embark upon the installation of your new Virtualisation solution. Our consulants work to the design all parties have signed off on to ensure that everyone knows there own individual responsibilities. At every point of the installation there is always a planned exit strategy to ensure that if the unforeseen does occur there is a plan to deal with it.

Completing the life cycle is on-going support - taliored to suit your exact requirements.

For those organisations who have already Virtualised we also offer an objective independant review and health check of your systems.