Data Centre

 

 

Our Data Centre business unit will assist you to provide your customer with a reliable infrastructure for their IT operations.

Strategic data centre solutions by Westcon SA

Data centre managers are under increasing pressure to deliver more with less. Their dilemma is summed up in the 2008 State of the Data Centre survey*, which rates cost savings (on staff and resources) as the data centre manager’s most critical objective. And yet, almost as importantly, they still have to increase service levels!

With lower budgets and fewer resources, how can your clients’ IT organisation:

• Protect escalating data volumes and mission-critical apps
• Manage complex, heterogeneous environments and
• Meet steep SLAs, while
• Going ‘green’?

With the help of Westcon’s Data Centre Solutions strategic business unit, you can now offer your customers a range of specialised solutions that use our leading technologies, processes and service expertise to increase their efficiency and maximise resources. As a preferred distributor for Symantec, Cisco and Juniper data centre solutions, APC and Check Point, Westcon can help your customers do more with less! And you’ll always have the backing of our pre sales, sales, services and marketing support.

Automation

The abovementioned survey found that 38% of IT organisations are under-staffed. Some get around the problem by outsourcing; others automate repetitive tasks just as effective. Free up IT to address more strategic initiatives!

Storage management

A growing number of storage management tools can handle heterogeneous environments and automate tasks while offering advanced capabilities, all of which saves money. Emerging technologies like agent-less change management tools further cut costs and minimise deployment and maintenance effort. Storage resource management (SRM) lets you interrogate the IT environment and improve as well as ease capacity utilisation.

Disaster recovery

High availability solutions like clustering tools can monitor and resolve application faults. Combine them with replication tools for complete automation and a single interface for managing physical and virtual environments.

Data protection

We also offer automated, unified data protection and recovery management tools.

Maximise

Techniques like virtualisation go a long way towards better utilising existing infrastructure.

Go green

Among the various strategies for meeting green IT directives are server virtualisation and data de-duplication, which lessen the requirement for storage and archiving resources.

* Conducted by Applied Research

Should you require more information contact Graeme Dillane on graemed@westcon.co.za or alternatively on 011 233 3333.