Data Centres and Virtualised Infrastructure Solutions

White Papers Data Centre Convergence is now a Reality     Data Centers Provide a Foundation for Business Growth     Cisco Energy Efficient Data Center Solutions and Best Practices

Data Centres address all the problems which challenge every IT executive; ask yourself the following: Do you spend 70% of your ICT budget on just keeping existing systems running? Are you able to provision new applications at short notice, without delaying users due to vendors long lead times? Do you have too many physical servers that need to be: physically stored, powered and secured regularly upgraded & backed up Are you unhappy with the cost of running and maintaining your IT infrastructure? Are some of your servers under-utilised while others have too much memory and/or disk capacity that is not being utilised? Are you constantly spending more on data storage equipment, and is your stored data easily available? Is your back up process fully automated or is it still a time consuming manual process that can only be performed after hours? What if a server goes down or a system crashes? Can you guarantee business continuity? Are you confident that your Disaster Recovery plan will be effective in an emergency situation? Is your network secure from both internal and external threats? Are more workers going mobile, using remote computing?

If you said yes to one or more of the above questions, Yes - Data Centres can help address all these challenges and more! Contact KSS today and find out how!

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White Papers Virtualising the Data Center     VMware and Cisco Virtualization Solution     Network Implications of Server Virtualization     Virtualization	Simplify: Preserve existing operational models and best practices, minimising the impact on your existing environments Enhanced Resilience: Provide high levels of availability, pervasive security, and business continuance by rapidly responding to business demands and service disruptions, smoothly moving applications as the need arises. Business Agility: Move application across the network based on factors such as CPU usage, while maintaining provisioned network services. Easily and rapidly respond to changing business demands Investment Protection: Preserve investments in existing infrastructure, while taking advantage of the benefits of virtualisation from the first day Lower TCO: Consolidate and more efficiently use existing compute resources as well as reduce management and operation costs Freeing server resources: for more online users and enhancing Web application response times, by offloading the compute-intensive processes of SSL connection setup and bulk encryption from Web servers

White Papers Unified Data Center Fabric: Reduce Costs and Improve Flexibility	Simplify: Validated system, designed and built with component integration in mind and specifically for optimised virtualisation performance Increased Productivity: Increased IT staff productivity and business agility through just-in-time provisioning and mobility support for both virtualised and non-virtualised environments Scalability: Designed for up to 320 discrete servers and thousands of virtual machines, and the capability to scale I/O bandwidth to match demand. Easily and rapidly respond to changing business demands Investment Protection: Preserve investments in existing infrastructure, allow for benefits of virtualisation from initial deployment. Industry standards supported by a partner ecosystem of industry leaders Reduced TCO: At the platform, site and organisational levels, using existing resources more efficiently, decrease provisioning, implementation and management time and operational costs

White Papers Server Consolidation Using Cisco	Simplify Deployment: Consolidate and relocate IT infrastructure quickly, cost-effectively, and with less risk Enhanced Efficiency: Gain operational efficiencies and cost savings through standardisation and asset consolidation Optimise energy consumption and achieve corporate sustainability goals Business Agility: Move application across the network based on factors, such as CPU use while maintaining provisioned network services. Easily and rapidly respond to changing business demands Investment Protection: Preserve investments in existing infrastructure, allow for benefits of virtualisation from initial deployment Lower TCO: Consolidate and more efficiently use existing compute resources as well as reduce management and operation costs Consolidate and relocate IT infrastructure quickly, cost-effectively, and with less risk Ensure more efficient use of data centre facilities Gain operational efficiencies and cost savings through standardisation and asset consolidation Increase asset utilisation to increase flexibility and reduce costs

White Papers Unified Storage Architecture - Enabling today’s dynamic data center     Managing Risk in the Cloud	Lower costs by consolidating onto an efficient storage pool Simplify and automate common and complex tasks Effortlessly create more frequent backups in minutes Grow or change storage in minutes to meet changing needs Reduce complexity with efficient unified storage supporting integrated deduplication. Enhance manageability by simplifying management and automating common tasks Get higher availability with quick backups, fast recovery and cost effective disaster recovery Reduce risk with proven and affordable platforms that changes with your needs