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solutions >> server technologies

Server Technologies

The rapid growth of IT requirements over the past decade has left organisations facing a number of key challenges in deploying and managing their server infrastructures, including:

• Cost and effort involved in administering over-complex and unwieldy server infrastructures
• Difficulty managing new technology adoptions, such as blades and virtual servers
• Unreliable service delivered to the end user
• Escalated risk of downtime
• Consolidating or rationalising sites and resources
• Reduced ability to respond to business requirements

Failure to address these issues results in organisations maintaining server infrastructures which are complex, inflexible, unreliable and costly to manage and support. This limits operating potential, reduces efficiency and increases costs, leaving organisations unable to achieve core business objectives in an increasingly competitive market environment. Investment in the right server technologies is a critical factor in the successful operation of organisations today. ipLogik Client Solutions has a dedicated team of server specialists to assist our clients in the design, implementation and management of their server environments, delivering bespoke solutions to meet the specific needs of individual clients.

From the design of single workgroup servers to the implementation of large consolidated blade environments, ipLogik has proven experience in delivering a high level of service to our clients. ipLogik Client Solutions offers the following range of services under Server Technologies

1. High Availability
2. Specification & Design
3. Virtualisation

High Availability

Ensure continuous access to business critical applications

One of the primary IT concerns for organisations today is to ensure that the applications and information that drive critical business processes are available as soon as they are needed, whenever they are needed. ipLogik Client Solutions provides bespoke High Availability solutions to ensure your vital business systems are continuously operational and accessible to your organisation, while delivering the key requirements of simplicity, cost-effectiveness, application-awareness, flexibility and high performance.

The Issue

The real task of data protection today is to support true business continuity to mitigate the risks businesses face, not just in loss of data, but in loss of access to the application using that data. Effective protection of access requires moving beyond the traditional technologies of RAID and tape backup to true high availability with continuous protection through live replication of data. No single technology is able to accomplish this goal - only a true high-availability solution - continuous replication linked with a fully automated switchover capability - is adequate to the needs of frontline businesses today.

The ipLogik Client Solution

True high availability is about ensuring uninterrupted access to applications even in the event of hardware or software failure. It cannot be achieved with redundant hardware alone since it must accomplish three distinct tasks:

1. Access must be provided to a new instance of the application
2. Access must be provided to the application data, the same data as that accessed by the failed instance
3. Clients must be redirected to the new instance of the application

ipLogik Client Solution fully understands how these key tasks must be implemented to benefit your business and will deliver a bespoke solution that meets your specific requirements.

ipLogik High Availability services include:

• Comprehensive pre-sales advice and consultancy on the best solution for your needs
• Supply of chosen IT hardware
• Full installation of infrastructure by fully accredited engineers
• On-site configuration of solution by fully accredited engineers
• Ongoing support for your server environment

Benefits

1. Minimised risk of disruption to your critical business operations
2. Vendor-independent advice on all aspects of the solution
3. Protection for your current investments in people, skills, and software
4. Integrated new technologies into your existing environment
5. Controlled, planned delivery of envisaged solutions - to manageable timelines and predictable costs
6. Best-practice implementation according to industry standards
7. Cost and performance optimised solution

Specification & Design

Servers tailored to meet your business requirements.

The rapid growth of IT requirements over the past decade has left many organisations with a server infrastructure which is complex, inflexible, unreliable and costly to manage and support. The result is that organisations are unable to reach their full performance potential, holding them back in an increasingly competitive market environment. ipLogik Client Solutions has a dedicated team of server specialists to help you specify and design solutions for your server environment needs. From single workgroup servers to large consolidated blade environments, ipLogik Client Solutions has proven experience in delivering a high level of service to our clients.

ipLogik Solution

ipLogik Client Solutions’s Server Specification & Design service helps to simplify your infrastructure environment and meet key high-level business objectives, such as reduced costs and increased operational efficiency, thus ensuring that the optimum return on investment is achieved. ipLogik Client Solutions works closely with clients and the major infrastructure vendors to address specific challenges and business requirements in relation to server technologies. ipLogik Client Solutions designs according to manufacturer best practices in scoping, sizing and specifying hardware solutions.

By modernising and consolidating server environments, ipLogik Client Solutions helps you to implement IT environments which are easy to manage and provide a flexible platform which can adapt to business requirements today and in the future.

Service Overview

ipLogik Client Solution’s team of pre-sales consultants are readily available to discuss your technology requirements and advise on the best commercial solution to meet your needs. ipLogik’s services cover a broad range of server infrastructure solutions, including but not limited to:

• Infrastructure servers (Domain Controllers, File & Print etc)
• Storage servers
• E-mail
• Database
• Business applications, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) & Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Server / Thin client
• Virtualised environments

ipLogik Client Solutions has a wide range of accreditations with the leading server manufacturers, and our vendor-agnostic approach ensures that we will carry out server specification and design based on your bespoke business requirements.

Benefits

• Strong vendor relationships and industry expertise, delivering bespoke service
• Up-to-date information on the latest products and solutions
• Proven delivery of a wide range of solutions
• Vendor independent - ensuring the right solution is delivered to suit your needs
• Pre-sales advise and recommendations from experienced consultants
• Option of either manufacturer or comprehensive 3rd party support

Virtualisation

Drive efficiency and cost-effectiveness through a virtual Infrastructure

Virtualisation is a proven technology that can provide guaranteed return on investment (ROI) and help significantly lower the total cost of operations. In any deployment program that aims to bring virtualisation capabilities in-house, organisations should begin with a step-by-step approach to ensure that they understand the benefits of virtualisation before moving to larger virtualisation projects. ipLogik Client Solutions works closely with the industry leaders in virtual infrastructure technology and server hardware to advise our clients on how virtualisation can best serve your business and support your virtualisation goals.

What is Virtualisation?

Virtualisation is an abstraction layer that separates the physical hardware from the operating system to deliver greater IT resource utilisation and flexibility. It allows multiple virtual machines, with different operating systems to run in isolation, side-by-side on the same physical machine. Each virtual machine has its own set of virtual hardware upon which an operating system and applications are loaded. This ensures that the operating system sees a consistent, standard set of hardware regardless of the actual physical hardware components.

Virtualise through ipLogik

ipLogik Client Solution's virtualisation services enable our clients to optimise and manage their IT infrastructure, from desktops to data centres, by virtualising their computing, storage and networking systems with the leading virtualisation software. This provides you with enterprise-class virtual machines that increase server and resource utilisation, improve performance, increase security and minimise downtime, reducing the cost and complexity of enterprise services. By leveraging your existing technology, virtualisation enables the roll out of new applications with less risk and lower costs.

The key to the proper implementation of a virtualisation strategy is the hardware you select to run virtual machines. That's why ipLogik Client Solutions works with industry leaders to support your goals. For either local or centralised virtualisation scenarios, the choice of hardware you make must be focused on the following key components:

• Processor - powerful processor(s) provide higher performing Virtual Machines.
• RAM - the more RAM you have access to, the more machines you can run at once.
• Disks - larger and faster disks will give better response times for your Virtual Machines.

ipLogik Client Solutions will provide hardware vendor-independent consultation and advice on the right virtualisation infrastructure to meet your specific business requirements.

solutions >> network design

Network Design

Maximise business potential through fast, effective connectivity

The transfer of information both internally and externally is vital to every organisation. Fast, effective connectivity ensures that our clients are able to operate to their full potential, ensuring maximum capability and functionality is achieved and business objectives are met. ipLogik Client Solutions is able to offer comprehensive options that ensure clients get the tailored solution they require, with added flexibility and salability.

ipLogik Client Solutions Offering

Connectivity choices at each location are dependant primarily on the business criticality of the site and the data being transferred. ipLogik’s presales team will work closely with you to understand your requirements and design a complete solution, which meets your needs. ipLogik Client Solutions offers a broad range of connectivity products from fixed priced to bespoke specialist solutions including, but not limited to:

• Ethernet
• Leaded lines
• SDSL (Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line)
• SHDSL (Symmetric High-Bit-Rate Digital Subscriber Loop)
• ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line)
• ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)
• Managed Wide Area Network (WAN) services

ipLogik Client Solutions also provides managed firewalls, including Nokia checkpoint and MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) and IP-VPN (Virtual Private Network) solutions. ipLogik Client Solution’s fixed priced packages for Internet access include ADSL, SDSL and ISDN technologies which offer unlimited data transfer, and Service Level Agreement (SLA) options with up to 24 hour technical support. ipLogik has a backbone network, meaning ipLogik can provide guaranteed bandwidth and quality of service for WAN and external connectivity.

ipLogik Client Solution's bespoke Connectivity Services are ideal for corporate or specialist clients requiring advanced, secure private data communications along with robust, scalable and high availability solutions.

Benefits

• 24 / 7 telephone technical support for fixed priced products
• Complete bespoke solutions
• High levels of service delivered through stringent Service Level Agreements
• Priority bandwidth for servers and critical systems
• Flexible intelligent bandwidth control to provide peak access
• Secure point-to-point connections using private bearers to route network traffic
• Integration / migration of existing systems with ipLogik providing total analysis and support externally or for client’s on-site technical staff via web-browsers
• Fixed annual charges

solutions >> connectivity

Connectivity

Maximise business potential through fast, effective connectivity

The transfer of information both internally and externally is vital to every organisation. Fast, effective connectivity ensures that our clients are able to operate to their full potential, ensuring maximum capability and functionality is achieved and business objectives are met. ipLogik Client Solutions is able to offer comprehensive options that ensure clients get the tailored solution they require, with added flexibility and salability.

ipLogik Client Solutions Offering

Connectivity choices at each location are dependant primarily on the business criticality of the site and the data being transferred. ipLogik’s presales team will work closely with you to understand your requirements and design a complete solution, which meets your needs. ipLogik Client Solutions offers a broad range of connectivity products from fixed priced to bespoke specialist solutions including, but not limited to:

• Ethernet
• Leaded lines
• SDSL (Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line)
• SHDSL (Symmetric High-Bit-Rate Digital Subscriber Loop)
• ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line)
• ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)
• Managed Wide Area Network (WAN) services

ipLogik Client Solutions also provides managed firewalls, including Nokia checkpoint and MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) and IP-VPN (Virtual Private Network) solutions. ipLogik Client Solution’s fixed priced packages for Internet access include ADSL, SDSL and ISDN technologies which offer unlimited data transfer, and Service Level Agreement (SLA) options with up to 24 hour technical support. ipLogik has a backbone network, meaning ipLogik can provide guaranteed bandwidth and quality of service for WAN and external connectivity.

ipLogik Client Solution's bespoke Connectivity Services are ideal for corporate or specialist clients requiring advanced, secure private data communications along with robust, scalable and high availability solutions.

Benefits

• 24 / 7 telephone technical support for fixed priced products
• Complete bespoke solutions
• High levels of service delivered through stringent Service Level Agreements
• Priority bandwidth for servers and critical systems
• Flexible intelligent bandwidth control to provide peak access
• Secure point-to-point connections using private bearers to route network traffic
• Integration / migration of existing systems with ipLogik providing total analysis and support externally or for client’s on-site technical staff via web-browsers
• Fixed annual charges

solutions >> remote data management

Remote Data Management

Minimise risk to your business data through our managed service offering

Evolve enables clients to outsource data management problems through deploying industry leading remote backup storage services that meet the needs of everyone from small and medium sized business, to enterprise level organisations.

Off-site on-line data backup

Evolve offers seamless integration with web, email and IM clients, simple installation and control over your security and policy settings. Through deploying Evolve’s Remote Data Management solutions no storage hardware or software is required on client premises, removing the need for on-site maintenance and added layers of complexity to your IT infrastructure.

These managed services ensure that your organisation’s data is permanently securely backed up and always available for on-line restoration. This is an "on-demand" service with no minimum or maxim storage limits – our scalable infrastructure has the capacity to accommodate growth at a fixed cost. Backup can be provided for laptops, desktops, servers and applications using industry leading software and IT hosting infrastructure.

Service Summary

Evolves Remote Data Management services provide:

• Network protection
• Content control
• Secure communications
• Legislation compliance

Solutions can be delivered to your business across multiple protocols, at a fixed budgeted cost. By outsourcing this service to experts, clients are able to realign internal resource to concentrate fully on core activities within the business.

Benefits

• Daily backups carried out that are stored securely off-site as part of a DR / Business continuity plan
• Ensures compliance to data protection legislation
• Content control
• Complete confidentiality for your business data
• Removes the need to purchase/upgrade storage equipment and media
• Takes the management overhead out of completing and managing backups
• Business continuity and minimised risk through hassle-free data management

solutions >> disaster recovery

Disaster Recovery

Restore operations at lightning speed with ipLogik’s DR Solutions

In the event of a natural or human-caused disaster, a correctly implemented Disaster Recovery solution can quickly recover your critical data and applications with minimal interruption. This enables off-site replication of data and services to fully protect your mission critical IT environments. DR forms a subset of Business Continuity, which focuses on avoiding or mitigating risks, while DR restores the organisation after a disaster has occurred. A Disaster Recovery solution must be based on a solid Business Continuity plan that has taken into account the reality of the business requirements for recovery. This must encompass the:

• Recovery Point Objective (RPO) – This is the age of files that must be recovered from backup storage for normal operations to resume if a computer, system, or network goes down.
• Recovery Time Objective - The period of time within which systems, applications, or functions must be recovered after an outage, for example one business day. RTO’s are often used as the basis for the development of recovery strategies, and as a determinant as to whether or not to implement the recovery strategies during a disaster situation.

ipLogik Disaster Recovery Solutions

ipLogik’s DR Solutions help client organisations make significant, systemic improvements to their existing DR environments. This delivers increased readiness to meet operational Service Level Agreements (SLAs), be they defined by internal efficiency and/or salability, or by external compliance demands. The service takes existing DR planning to higher levels, ensuring alignment of technology, people and processes with overall strategic objectives and general Business Continuity regimes.

ipLogik offers different product/service portfolios for different client scenarios, ensuring a bespoke solution is always delivered. Understanding business requirements for application performance and data protection will allow an organisation to make informed choices between various data protection strategies. ipLogik’s DR solutions focus around data replication and backup, ensuring the ability to resume services locally and/or remotely with minimal impact on your business operations.

The Benefits

ipLogik provides fast, simple and reliable DR solutions that are easy to install, deploy, and manage:

• Reduced/mitigated risk of data loss
• Cost-optimised delivery of potentially unused facility
• Identified, achievable and improved RPO/RTO goals
• Demonstrable compliance with both internal and external regulatory standards
• Balance DR capability with defined strategic goals

solutions >> server consolidation

Server Consolidation

Minimise risk & maximise savings through a consolidation solution

Many organisations are struggling to keep the balance of satisfying storage demand from users against the demand from management to reduce costs. Developing a long-term strategy for your storage applications, which includes cost-containment tactics, is fast becoming a mission-critical objective for organisations of all sizes.

The Consolidation Solution

Storage consolidation is the pooling and provisioning of shared storage resources. Rather than having storage directly attached to the servers, a dedicated high-speed network provides access to storage assets on an as-needed basis. Storage consolidation allows a business to use one system for controlling all servers and storage devices located on a network. All of the data capacity in this system can be managed from a central location, reallocated among applications and users for maximum utilisation of disk space, and easily scaled to respond to growth.

There is a strong business case for storage consolidation, as it enables companies to gain control over escalating storage costs, provides for better utilisation of storage assets and improves the quality of storage services being offered by IT to the enterprise.

ipLogik’s Offering

ipLogik’s Storage Consolidation solutions deliver a vendor-independent roadmap to the realisation of the cost, service and risk benefits that are the goal of any organisation considering an overall consolidation strategy. Individual projects and solutions are tailored to the precise business requirements that they seek to fulfil, and can include people, process and alignment as well as technology. Once the roadmap has been agreed with our experienced, independent strategy consultants, it is then implemented to global industry Best Practice, and can be externally managed or supported to ensure continued adherence to original objectives.

The Benefits

• Reduced/mitigated risk of data loss
• Improved alignment of storage resources to IT in general, resulting in improved alignment between Business and IT
• Demonstrable compliance with both internal and external regulatory standards
• Optimised storage performance and increased network and data availability
• Visible and ongoing cost savings
• Ensured salability - add capacity and software to grow when needed