Data Centre Virtualisation

One of the biggest strategic choices faced by organisations today involves balancing the IT challenge of growth against environmental sustainability, investment constraints and business risk. With Gartner estimating that energy costs may increase from 10% of the IT budget today to over 50% in the next few years, customers are asking us to address issues such as:

•    the rising costs of running data centres, cost to refurbish them and build more

•    sorting out years of legacy hardware and infrastructure, often distributed around many data centres and office locations

•    End of life hardware and software

•    CO2 emissions, carbon footprint, Corporate Social Responsibility objectives

•    the increasing cost and complexity of running IT infrastructure

•    a disconnect in the pace of business change compared to IT's ability to deliver the mission critical projects required to support change

THE BUSINESS BENEFITS

Virtualisation allows you to replace your old, inefficient, under-utilised servers with consolidated, highly utilised, efficient new ones. It removes your legacy equipment, saving on "IT sprawl" support costs.
Overall, your infrastructure costs are reduced, both in terms of equipment and power consumption. Your carbon footprint is also considerably diminished and you can achieve your sustainability targets. Data centre virtualisation helps you shake off some of the business risk.

According to an Information Edge survey, just over a third (35%) of organisations have now introduced server virtualisation. Of those, 75% rate the technology as either effective or very effective.

WHY US?

We know that more than half of UK companies are unable to adopt virtualisation technology because they lack the IT skills to do so. This is what partnering with EyeWiMAX can bring you.

We bring a repeatable, proven and risk-free transition capability. The process begins with an audit of your current infrastructure. Then, we will design a virtualised platform scaled to cope with your specific needs.

We'll then migrate your applications and infrastructure onto the new virtualised platform. For those applications not suited to virtualisation, we can consolidate these down onto the latest, efficient technology within our datacentres.

We'll deliver in a fast and flexible way both commercially and technically. That means commercial flexibility with on-demand, Pay as You Go and utility commercial models, and technical flexibility with "on-demand" style move, add, delete and change portal, so we give you control over your infrastructure.

We know what we're talking about. We already manage virtual platforms for customers including the UK Government. We have a proven repeatable migration capability jointly with Computacenter and we manage and transform the data centre environments for organisations such as Aviva and Serco.

Datacentre virtualisation provides clear business benefits and a tangible return on investment, avoids the conventional transition approach which can be costly and risky, and it enables faster IT delivery.