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2. ACCELERATE OR RESTRAIN GROWTH. Business data is a crucial
component in maintaining
Guaranteeing datacenter
performance and availability is
From rationalisation and
virtualisation to automation and
ENABLE OR OBSTRUCT CHANGE.
competitive advantage. getting harder: there is more data aggregation, Computacenter helps
Increased business demand and more demand yet less budget organisations find the best-fit,
for IT functionality has driven and fewer resources. To ensure the best-value solutions and strategies
INCREASE OR DECREASE PRODUCTIVITY. considerable and rapid datacenter
growth for many organisations.
datacenter stays lean and mean,
IT departments need to optimise
to make their datacenter more
predictable, sustainable and
THE DATACENTER IS A DECISIVE FACTOR
every device, every square metre, affordable.
every watt and every second.
IN EVERY ORGANISATION’S SUCCESS,
AND THEREFORE MUST DELIVER
ON TIME, EVERY TIME.
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3. TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR
DATACENTER ASSETS Taking control of your datacenter assets
We enable our customers to understand and take control of their existing datacenter
MULTI- infrastructure. We will help you to become agile and responsive, turning your datacenter
VENDOR PROOF
OF CONCEPT into an internal service provider.
FACILITIES
INDEPENDENT The datacenter needs to Without integrated technologies, With 30 years’ experience of
ON L
N LED
SOLUTION-LED
VICE
ADVICE continually adapt to cope with real-time management and end- delivering complex infrastructure
planned and unplanned demands to-end visibility, the datacenter projects and managing
from the business, an issue can quickly spiral out of control, datacenters, we understand the
which has intensified with huge impacting budget targets and risks, the challenges and the
END-TO-END GUARANTEED virtualisation sprawl and the business goals. opportunities, helping you to make
CAPABILITY OUTCO
OUTCOMES
expectations of cloud computing. the best use of new and existing
All too often, organisations have assets, so that your datacenter
incomplete or inconsistent views meets today’s objectives and
FLEXIBLE
TERMS of their IT assets. Computacenter delivers tomorrow’s outcomes.
helps organisations get a grip
PREDICTABLE
COSTS of every facet of their datacenter –
from the devices and data
to power consumption and
VENDOR
DOR problem resolution.
NSHIPS
RELATIONSHIPS
ACCREDITATIONS
COMPUTACENTER UNDERSTANDS YOUR BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL GOALS. WE WORK WITH
COMPUTACENTER AND THE DATACENTER: YOU TO IDENTIFY YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS AND HOW THEY ARE USED, BRINGING
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT? YOUR DATACENTER THE CONTINUITY, STABILITY AND AGILITY IT NEEDS, SO YOU CAN GET TO
MARKET FASTER AND EXCEED CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS.
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4. DRIVING DATACENTER VALUE AND
PERFORMANCE Driving datacenter value and performance
Today’s datacenters need to Computacenter helps We will help you automate manual We’ll work with you to identify and implement improvements to your datacenter capability. Through
work harder, faster and smarter organisations decide what tasks, utilise more capacity and optimisation, virtualisation and automation, we’ll ensure your datacenter is better equipped to meet
if organisations are to meet their datacenter systems to retain, virtualise the right workloads – all changing demands and new data consumption models.
financial and efficiency goals. revamp and remove in order to of which are key steps on the
minimise overheads and maximise journey to a dynamic datacenter
As well as optimising existing efficiency. And, with consultants and an IT-enabled business.
systems, IT departments need accredited to the highest level with
to build the business case for all major datacenter vendors, we
investment in new technologies will take complete responsibility DYNAMIC DATACENTER
and consumption models. for the operational management
of all the technology suppliers and
Sweating legacy assets is not a ensure support for heterogeneous
long-term solution. It not only environments is maintained.
increases the total cost of
ownership, but also the risk
of security breaches and
service outages.
OPTIMISATION VIRTUALISATION AUTOMATION
COMPUTACENTER IS ACKNOWLEDGED BY CUSTOMERS AND VENDORS ALIKE AS TODAY’S DATACENTERS NEED TO WORK HARDER,
BEING A MARKET LEADER IN DEPLOYING AUTOMATION AND ORCHESTRATION
TECHNOLOGY, DUE TO OUR PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF DELIVERING
FASTER AND SMARTER IF ORGANISATIONS ARE TO MEET
INTEGRATED END-TO-END SOLUTIONS. THEIR FINANCIAL AND EFFICIENCY GOALS.
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5. DATACENTER-DRIVEN BUSINESS
TRANSFORMATION
Datacenter-driven business transformation
We are uniquely placed to help you build and deploy a dynamic datacenter at the very heart of your
CHANGE business. We’ll ensure that your datacenter infrastructure is truly cloud-ready, becoming a key enabler of
strategic growth, delivering new ways of working and increasing commercial advantage.
GROWTH
We will assess your current state
RELOCATION
and help build a roadmap that
facilitates continuous improvement
and embraces new consumption
models, such as cloud computing.
MIGRATION
The datacenter will no longer
just facilitate change; it will be
IT-ENABLED a champion of change, a
TRANSFORMATION springboard for innovation,
a source of competitive
advantage. It will be a strategic
business asset.
GROWTH, INNOVATION, COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE.
THEY ALL COME BACK TO THE DATACENTER AND
ITS AVAILABILITY AND AGILITY.
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6. AT THE HEART OF THE
SOLUTION
We can help make your datacenter Computacenter offers three types Computacenter works with IT
lean, mean and fit-for-purpose by of engagement: departments, not around them,
removing cost, complexity and and we provide advice to help you
barriers to change. Our purpose- reduce costs, improve service,
built Solutions Centre was the Proof of concept (POC) – By continuity and economies of scale.
first multi-vendor testing facility prototyping, testing and
validating we can help you Computacenter offers a managed As Europe’s largest independent
in Europe and has been used by
analyse the expected ROI Reducing costs: Consolidating hosting service from highly- IT infrastructure services
hundreds of customers since its before committing to large
launch in 2002. The Solutions datacenters will reduce costs in available datacenters across the organisation, Computacenter is
project expenditure. floor space, power and cooling. UK in Romford, Manchester, in a unique position. We offer
Centre hosts an array of enterprise
infrastructure and cloud-ready Load testing – We can help you Leeds and Nottingham and in an end-to-end service for all
Improving quality of service and
integrated systems which can be gain clarity on the high and low Frankfurt, Germany. datacenter requirements, from
continuity: By moving to a well-
used for load testing and proof performance boundaries of a managed environment we can transformation, supply and
of concept exercises. solution prior to implementation. help you improve performance, The Romford datacenter was disposal, maintenance, monitoring,
By identifying the optimum availability and security whilst the first in Europe to be Tier IV reporting, relocation, hosting and
system and application enabling appropriate levels of design-certified by the Uptime cloud services.
configuration we can ensure any resilience and continuity. Institute and is located within the
deployments support immediate M25, only 30 minutes from the
and future workloads. Driving economies of scale:
City of London.
Reducing the number of site
Stage services – Through the hosting systems can deliver
combination of established economies of scale, while
logistics and a purpose-built our automated scalable
environment, our customers can solution can also significantly
reduce operational disruptions reduce costs.
and downtime by ensuring
systems are ready to deploy
prior to shipment.
ONE OF OUR CUSTOMERS SAVED £750,000 PER YEAR ON DATACENTER FLOOR
SPACE COSTS AND HAS DRAMATICALLY REDUCED ITS IT MANAGED SERVICES BILL
BY ALMOST £800,000 PER ANNUM THROUGH TESTING AND PLANNING CARRIED
OUT AT THE SOLUTIONS CENTRE.
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7. PARTNERING
CHANGE REDUCED
COSTS
Our datacenter virtualisation programmes typically deliver
ROI within 12 months due to our considerable experience
in relocation and consolidation projects and co-ordinating
platform migrations.
IMPROVED
However, before any of these QUALITY OF
activities are undertaken, we first SERVICE
assess the requirements of each
application to ensure the impact of
change does not threaten system
reliability, performance or integrity.
Working in close partnership with IMPROVED
your organisation, our experienced BUSINESS
consultants will agree a roadmap
for your datacenter infrastructure,
CONTINUITY
adopting approaches such as
consolidation, virtualisation and
storage; ensuring a low risk, cost-
effective solution that meet the
needs of your business.
RISK
MITIGATION
COMPUTACENTER’S EXPERTISE AND KNOWLEDGE OF
DATACENTER TRANSFORMATION PROVIDES A PERFECT FIT FOR THE KEY BENEFITS OF A
A PARTNERSHIP THAT WILL HELP CLIENTS DRIVE OUTCOMES IN DYNAMIC DATACENTER
VIRTUALISATION, AUTOMATION AND THE PATHWAY TO CLOUD.
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8. BAA makes cost savings
of more than £1.8 million
BAA partnered with Computacenter
to design, plan and implement a
new virtual datacenter. The virtual
“ By virtualising our
production systems we
have been able to make a
with agile virtualised datacenter has enabled BAA to significant contribution to the
datacenter. reduce its production environment company’s strategic goals
by 246 servers, with spare capacity
for IT simplification and cost WE WILL SUPPORT AND
GUIDE YOUR JOURNEY TO
to support future growth.
reduction while achieving
This has contributed to cost
greater business agility and
savings of £1.8 million. The new
THE DYNAMIC DATACENTER –
”
infrastructure will also reduce IT performance.
GIVING YOU GREATER VISIBILITY
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carbon emissions by 1,239 tonnes
CASE STUDY Terry Fusco, Head of IT,
a year, minimise risk and enable
greater business agility.
Heathrow, BAA
AND CONTROL OF YOUR DATA
ASSETS AND INFRASTRUCTURE;
ENABLING YOU TO INCREASE
PERFORMANCE AND REDUCE
Eversheds increases
competitive advantage
To ensure Eversheds can focus
its internal resources on the
differentiating elements of IT, the
“ Working with Computacenter
makes our datacenters
easier to control. The
COSTS; AND TURNING YOUR
DATACENTER INTO AN AGILE,
with IT transformation
CLOUD-READY ENVIRONMENT
law firm has outsourced a number environment is robust with
and outsourcing of core services to Computacenter, excellent provisioning for
partnership.
THAT DELIVERS TO YOUR
”
including offsite datacenter
disaster recovery.
hosting. Computacenter helped
Eversheds implement a virtual
server infrastructure as part of the
Conor O’Brien, STRATEGIC BUSINESS
migration to its hosted facilities.
As well as achieving a 25:1 server
Head of IT Services and
Operations at Eversheds PRIORITIES.
consolidation ratio, Eversheds
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CASE STUDY quickly, which helps to limit the
need to invest in new hardware.
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9. Computacenter has the depth and
breadth to support you at every
stage of the datacenter life cycle.
Our end-to-end service capability
means we have the insight to help
effectively design, build, test, and
manage complete IT infrastructures.
To find out how Computacenter can
make your datacenter fit-for-purpose
now, and for the future, speak to
one of our datacenter specialists at
dynamicdatacenter@computacenter.com
or visit computacenter.com/datacenter
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