Datapac - Virtualisation & Storage

In this current economy, you are expected to do more with less. With Datapac's virtualisation and storage solutions you see immediate, quantifiable cost savings and that is only one of a multitude of benefits.

Datapac is an established market leader in delivering virtualisation and storage solutions to a diverse range of organisations across several industry sectors. As a reputable VMware Partner Enterprise Solution Provider with Infrastructure Virtualisation specialisation, Cisco Premier Partner of the Year with Unified Communications Specialisation, Citrix Partner Gold Solution Advisor and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Datapac has accredited technical experts available to plan, design, deploy, optimise and maintain virtualisation and storage solutions.

VIRTUALISATION

Virtualisation will reduce operational costs:

• Server consolidation & containment: reducing the amount of servers can cut power and cooling costs by as much as 50% whilst doubling utilisation.
• Simplifying high availability & disaster recovery: virtualisation can keep business critical applications on-line whilst assisting in simple, quick recovery, in the event of a disaster.
• Dynamically automating resources: in just a few clicks IT staff can manage resources, assign processor power and migrate virtual machines. 
• Reduce energy costs and consolidate: lower energy costs by 80% in your server room by running fewer, more highly utilized servers.
• Minimising server deployment time: deploy a new virtual machine in minutes instead of waiting days or weeks to implement mission critical applications and services.

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UNIFIED COMPUTING SYSTEM (UCS) - THE NEXT GENERATION DATA CENTRE

The industry is now in a transition away from rigid, inflexible platforms and moving towards more flexible, integrated and virtualised environments. Servers and computers are becoming fluid objects in the network. Cisco and VMware have joined forces and are helping to lead this industry transition. Datapac has been selected as one of a limited number of Unified Computing System (UCS) partners; combining this with our extensive virtualisation and network infrastructure experience, Datapac brings this next-generation data-centre platform to you.

Cisco UCS combined with VMware’s virtualisation offering, delivers solutions that allow organisations to implement their server virtualisation strategies with enhancements of application infrastructure availability, stability, security, policy compliance and manageability. Network, compute, storage access and virtualisation resources are all brought into a single, cohesive, energy-efficient system designed to reduce total cost-of-ownership, management costs, complexity and to increase business agility.

Cisco UCS

Cisco UCS streamlines data-centre computing platforms so that they are easier to manage, more flexible to changing business needs and more cost effective than competing data server architectures. The result: increased business agility, improved IT responsiveness, and reduced costs. This approach decouples scale from complexity. Whether the system has one server or 320 servers with thousands of virtual machines, all resources participate in a unified management domain designed to reduce total cost of ownership at the platform, site and organisational levels, and to increase IT staff productivity and business agility through just-in-time provisioning and mobility support.

Cisco UCS integrates a low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers. It can host both virtualised and non-virtualised workloads. It is reliable and proven next-generation technology that brings together network, compute, storage access, and virtualisation resources into a single platform, reducing or eliminating costs at the platform, site and organisational levels.

Designed for up to 320 blade servers and thousands of virtual machines, capable of scaling I/O bandwidth to demand without complexity, it empowers organisations to rapidly scale data-centre infrastructure whilst avoiding costs. Every aspect of UCS is designed for energy efficiency and the computing infrastructure adjusts power consumption based on demand. The blade server chassis, power supplies, and midplane are capable of handling future servers with even greater processing capacity, the higher-power CPUs of the future, and future 40 Gigabit Ethernet standards.

Cisco UCS - Technical Details

STORAGE SOLUTIONS

Although the proliferation of virtualisation has driven the adoption of shared storage environments over recent years, organisations who haven’t yet virtualised can still realise major cost and operational benefits when moving from a direct-attached storage (DAS) environment to a consolidated storage area network (SAN) environment. By migrating the storage into a single manageable, scalable and flexible platform, organisations can plan for future data requirements, simplify backup and restore procedures and move away from under-utilised, costly islands of storage.

Through working with our strategic storage partners including HP, IBM, Quantum, Veritas and CA, Datapac can ensure that the storage solution that is delivered complements the current and future requirements of the organisation.

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