Virtualization Services
Drive dramatic improvements in utilization across storage, servers, and networks – increasing overall agility and aligning resources with organization goals.
Virtualization infrastructure services overview
Today's IT relies on more than just physical assets. Virtualization technologies are an essential component for driving efficiency, enhancing service levels, and optimizing performance in the IT operation. However, they also introduce complexity that requires revised architecture planning to accommodate extraordinary levels of availability, recoverability, performance, scalability, and end-to-end provisioning.
Following a virtualization model built from best practices is the ideal method for making the most of any virtualization strategy. Datalink's proven virtualization infrastructure services can help you properly architect your IT infrastructure for your virtual environment – whether you're launching any combination of server, storage, or network virtualization.
With our data-driven analysis and qualitative review, we give you the tools you need to manage the complexities inherent to virtualized environments. Ultimately, our broad range of expertise and step-by-step, incremental strategies enable you to reap the full benefits of your virtualization solutions. We independently assess the many alternatives available in the market and ensure that you select the options best suited to your needs.
Results-driven services:
- Get an end-to-end view – Our services provide an end-to-end view of your infrastructure, including servers (both physical and virtual), applications, and storage. With this cross-domain visibility and information about how each area is interrelated, you'll be better able to identify problems and properly plan for the future.
- Reduce costs dramatically – Virtualization strategies offer significant advantages to the data center, notably the reductions in power, cooling, and footprint costs. Our engineers assess your needs and provide specific solutions and business analysis to help justify projects across servers, storage, and networking.
- Solve today's dilemmas – With detailed reports that include key metrics such as application contention and infrastructure response time, you'll have the information you need to solve immediate problems.
- Avoid future issues – A broad view of information can help you prevent problems from occurring. For instance, we'll show you where resources are being requested, so you can properly balance those resources. We'll clearly articulate the impact of the backup operation on your infrastructure and project how different scenarios could improve it.
- Eliminate the guesswork – Our analytical approach enables you to properly design and align your infrastructure for your virtual environment. You can be confident in your decisions as they will be based on concrete data.
Benefits:
- Integrate storage strategy with server virtualization to provide the highest data center efficiency
- Scale server virtualization to include more mission-critical applications
- Easily isolate and resolve performance problems and backup exposures
- Enable a less complex and more cost-effective approach to disaster recovery
- Consolidate storage islands while optimizing storage to complement virtualized servers
- Improve provisioning from multiple storage vendors
- Provide consolidated network strategies from servers to storage
Technology-driven analysis
Datalink’s virtual infrastructure services are driven by robust analytics management software, provided by Datalink and powered by Akorri BalancePoint™. This proven technology is part of StorageScape, our suite of tools designed to help organizations better optimize their IT infrastructures.
Virtualization services offered
Virtual Infrastructure Audit – With the virtual infrastructure audit, the bulk of data is collected through our automated tool. The audit includes:
- A pre-engagement call to review your current environment and define the scope of analysis
- Installation and configuration of the automated tool
- Thirty-day access to StorageScape
- Onsite interviews with key IT owners regarding business metrics and requirements
- Offsite data analysis by Datalink
- Presentation of virtualization audit report, including detailed cross-domain analytics
Virtual Infrastructure Assessment – The virtual infrastructure assessment features all the elements of the audit. Beyond this, Datalink experts will do more exhaustive onsite data collection and provide additional, detailed qualitative analysis, including:
- Strategic guidance focused on improving specific aspects of your virtual infrastructure
- Tactical recommendations spanning technologies and proposed solution designs, processes required, and implications for existing resources
- Roadmap for the future
Strategic value to your organization
Datalink’s virtualization infrastructure services enable you to easily identify and resolve problems in your virtualized environment. Additionally, you can be more proactive in designing an architecture that supports maximum efficiency, performance, and scalability. With multiple groups in your organization sharing a common blueprint, you can diagnose issues more quickly and make informed decisions regarding which technologies, processes, and resources to apply and how to evaluate the resulting improvements. The end result drives ongoing increased business value to your organization.
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