Server consolidation, virtualisation and storage solutions

• Meeting your organisation’s growing needs doesn’t have to mean ploughing more cash and management resources into another new server.
• BT Business Direct can help you maximise return on the server-room investments you've already made, or do more with fewer servers which means lower management, maintenance and replacement costs.
• Confused by all the storage solutions on offer? Be it DAS, NAS or SAN, BT Business Direct will help you choose the right storage solution for the needs of your organisation both today and tomorrow.

Overview

As your organisation grows or new projects come to a head, the need for additional server resources is often on the cards. But before you sign up to the introduction of another new server, consider the alternatives. BT Business Direct can offer cost effective solutions that help you to achieve the same end-game in terms of provision and capability, but with fewer servers.

Our server experts can recommend and implement consolidation and virtualisation strategies that allow you to better utilise the servers you’ve already got (thus maximising return on your existing investments), or do more with fewer new servers. And of course fewer servers to look after means lower management, maintenance and replacement costs, as well as a reduction in server room temperature and power consumption.

We’ll also help you implement a storage solution that’s right for both today’s and tomorrow’s data needs.

Server consolidation

• Got under-utilised servers taking up space and demanding management which drains IT resources?
• Consolidation allows you to take a number of under-utilised servers carrying out similar roles, and condense them into fewer physical units

Server virtualisation

• Our experts can convert one physical server into multiple smaller virtual machines
• Each is capable of running its own operating system and each virtual server can be independently rebooted
• VMWare, Hyper-V and Citrix solutions provided

Data storage solutions

• Direct Attached Storage
• Network Attached Storage
• Storage Area Network Solutions
• Backup and Recovery Solutions