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Virtualisation

Virtualisation has arrived – for desktops, servers, applications, networks and storage. With it has come more effective and less expensive utilisation of IT resources.

But implementing virtualisation is a journey. Addressing the consolidation and management issues at every level of the system architecture must be completed with a step by step approach.

At every stage, with virtualisation the resources will be better utilised, the service levels will be maintained, flexibility will be built in with a simple management interface and there will be a reduction in complexity.

As specialists in the field of virtualisation, our Professional Services consultants will find out your business needs and how your IT can better serve them. Only after a careful analysis and review exercise - undertaken with you - will Keltec design and draw up a virtualisation route unique to your business needs.

Benefits of Virtualisation:

  • Green benefits – less power consumption
  • Increased flexibility
  • Greater manageability
  • Greater security
  • Lower operating and total cost of ownership costs
  • Enhanced productivity
  • Simpler and more cost–effective DRP
  • Reduced system complexity
 

Maximising your investment
Working with our global partners – HP, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, VMWare and Citrix – we will implement your solution to our strict standards and methodologies.

Your journey towards virtualisation will not end there. We will then help you to manage and support your new environment through our Support services, making certain you maximise the benefits of your new investment.

To learn more, roll your cursor over the five levels of virtualisation we offer:

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Storage Virtualisation

It’s all about the data – how it’s stored, accessed and retrieved. As data has exploded, the solution has been to add more storage devices. But no matter how cheap buying and implementing storage now is, managing the data in different systems has become a nightmare and usage is wasteful. Virtualisation consolidates your storage resource pools into one or two systems, easily managed with data usage stored safely and prioritised automatically so that the most frequently used data can be accessed quickly. It simplifies storage management and access practices, obviates data duplication, slashes power usage, facilitates disaster recovery plans, enhances ‘save everything’ compliancy regulations, and boosts your return on storage investments – past and future.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Your whole desktop population can be virtualised. Think about it, no more trying to manage and maintain hundreds or thousands of PCs spread throughout the organisation. With a virtualised Blade PC centralised environment, they would all be housed in a few enclosures no larger than the size of typical filing cabinet. Despite their new reduced footprint, they can deliver the same power, if not more, to your users. And through virtual storage, all your corporate data can be safely stored on a Storage Area Network, as it becomes part of the enterprise backup and restore strategies – much less of a management overhead and headache than when you run a distributed environment.

Application Virtualisation

Not everyone thinks of applications in the same context as the virtualisation of your physical IT assets. But it is now a proven method of managing and securing the applications which, like the servers and desktop systems they run on, have spread uncontrollably across the enterprise. With Application virtualisation, instead of installing and managing applications for each user, they are streamed on–demand from a local or remote network. They are easily managed self–contained exe files with complete isolation from the operating system they run on.

Server Virtualisation

Our professional consultants will design, develop and implement either a totally new deployment for you, or they will help you to migrate from existing infrastructure. Your new server infrastructure is commissioned as virtual machines with redundant physical and virtual networking. These virtual machines can support most of the operating systems and applications in the business field. Where they are not suitable for a virtual environment, we will guide you though the alternatives.

Network Virtualisation

By its nature the total virtual journey is network–based and dependent remotely via a wide area network, and on–site via the local area network. Maximum services must be a given. But, as with servers and storage, there is no point in adding more to meet demands. Rather use what you have better. That is what Network virtualisation is about. Network virtualisation optimises network bandwidth by providing a reliable means of accelerating interaction between the desktop, servers and storage devices by adding a simple device either end to manage data flow without the expense of adding extra bandwidth.

Keltec can deliver effective virtualisation through a set of proven stages:

Assessment – Keltec’s virtualisation analysis service assesses your current infrastructure. It calls our virtualisation capacity planning tools and the expertise of our Professional Services consultants. With a vendor-independent view of how your current infrastructure is using resources, we advise you on exactly how virtual you need to be. We will use our virtualisation model tailored to your specific infrastructure needs.

Design workshop – running a design workshops alongside our analysis service, we deliver a complete design architecture based on industry best practices. The design comes as a comprehensive document and includes high–level design topology right down to the breakdown of infrastructure components, details and how it fits together to complete the solution.

Implementation project – we will implement the designed solution using Prince2 project management standards, signing off each implementation stage with customers.

Managed and support services – Keltec’s Managed and support services ensure the appropriate levels of support and management are implemented so that your new infrastructure continues to provide your organisation with a reliable and stable platform for business.

Call Keltec on 01344 306700 to discuss your virtualisation needs, or email us today.