Servers & Storage
Organizations are faced with a highly dynamic business environment that requires extreme levels of flexibility while maintaining cost effectiveness. The solution is to simplify and optimize your infrastructure so that your business can efficiently respond in a cost-effective way. Essextec has a wealth of experience in infrastructure design, archiving, deduplicaiton, backup & recovery, storage virtualization, server consolidation and capacity planning.
Our extensive portfolio of solutions, will help you build a resilient infrastructure optimized for cost-effectiveness, simplified management and flexibility. Our specialists will help you leverage complementary approaches for improving IT asset utilization, creating an available and resilient infrastructure, enabling rapid response to changing business requirements and employing virtualization and system-management technologies to increase flexibility and responsiveness.
Infrastructure Design
The IT challenge is clear — simplify and optimize your infrastructure so that your business can efficiently respond in a cost-effective way.Read more...
Archiving
Data growth exploded within businesses of all sizes and impacts the operational efficiency, the risk profile and the scalability of the enterprise.Read more...
Deduplication
Storage of duplicated data is a costly problem for the enterprise that results in more risk, less availability, higher infrastructure costs, and less productivity.Read more...
Backup & Recovery
Do you have an intelligent data storage management solution that can easily grow with your increasing data storage needs?Read more...
Storage Virtualization
Organizations today live and die on data. Without the ability to store, protect, manage and access critical data – productivity, client satisfaction and the bottom line can be greatly affected.Read more...
Does Your Company Suffer From:
Too Many ServersMaintenance Costs
Complex Infrastructure
Data Center Constraints
Case Study
Client: A pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and markets generic drugs and innovative proprietary pharmaceuticals for specialty markets.
Challenge / Problem / Requirements: The client had a multitude of older, underutilized Intel servers with limited data center space, power, and cooling.
Test / Benchmark: essextec consultants gathered server performance and utilization metrics during peak operational times and analyzed the data to devise the best possible and affordable solution for the client.
Solution / Implementation: IBM BladeCenters were chosen as the reference platform enabling reduced space requirements in the existing datacenters. Blades were configured by essextec solution architects for boot-from-SAN with IBM DS4000. SAN replication provided Disaster Recovery protection between remote locations.
Benefits: The Blades solution provided by essextec -
- Reduced floor space, power, and cooling needs
- Greatly simplified deployment of new servers
- Dramatically reduced the amount of network and fiber connections needed to maintain this environment
- Simplified server management
- Provided improved Disaster Recovery capabilities
The Solution
essextec can plan and implement a server consolidation solution with IBM Blades that will provide for higher availability and resiliency of your IT infrastructure, while reducing physical and operational costs.