Logicalis

 

The economics of the Data Centre is changing, with new architectures that combine the network, compute and storage platforms. The result is a shift from today's Data Centre environment - where over 70% of budget goes towards "keeping the lights on" - to one that delivers consolidation, virtualisation and automation.

The old way

Data Centre IT assets become obsolete approximately every 5 years, so the vast majority of IT investment is spent on upgrading various pieces of infrastructure and providing redundancy and recoverability: activities that consume approximately 60 to 80% of IT expenditures without necessarily providing optimal business value or innovation. In addition, the return on investment (ROI) for new IT projects can take anywhere from 9 to 18 months.

As a result, IT has been forced to focus on simply keeping the Data Centre running rather than on delivering the kind of innovation that meets user needs for faster, better services while also meeting requirements and ensuring business agility.

The new way

We help customers develop a roadmap and an architecture for private cloud computing, and offers an alternative approach. It profoundly transforms the way in which information and services are consumed and provided and can enable businesses to:

• Lower costs by using energy and resources more efficiently (capital and operational costs can be cut by over 50%)
• Enhance agility, growth, and profitability, with the ability to scale up (and down) and 30% increase in server workloads
• Simplify operations and management, with faster provisioning and the ability to manage the infrastructure as a single system.

Logicalis has partnered with VMware, Cisco and EMC ("VCE")to deliver the private cloud computing vision. While a full cloud computing model may be some years away, an immediate ROI can be achieved by adopting a strategy to:

• Consolidate
• Virtualise
• Automate

Why Logicalis?

Logicalis has expertise across the network, compute and storage platforms; we enable our customers to implement solutions based on validated "VCE" architectures. This reduces risk, ensures a faster return on investment and significantly lowers ongoing support and management costs. We also differentiate our approach by our management offerings that further reduce operating costs and takes the burden of managing the day to day operation of your virtual environment away from your IT staff.

Our Data Centre services include:

• Health check of existing Data Centre infrastructure
• Virtualisation Assessment
• Server Consolidation
• Transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• Deployment of Unified Fabric
• Managed Virtual Infrastructure services
• Managed Back-up services

Contact Logicalis today using our online enquiry form for more information on our Data Centre and virtualisation capabilities.