IT INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE DATA CENTRE

Although it's the desktop and applications that users see, the IT within your data centre is a critical aspect of IT's capability. The infrastructure within the data centre fundamentally affects the performance of your business, as highlight in the recent McKinsey Report on IT Infrastructure. The challenge remains the same as ever; provide the optimum IT infrastructure capability with the least cost. As IT infrastructure specialists we know that today's data centres are complex and evolving. As trends from industry vendors and analysts come and go, IT is under constant pressure to be flexbile, business aligned, cost-effective, secure, simplified, always-on. Get it wrong and not only does functionality suffer and costs increase, but the obvious threat of outsourcing becomes ever inviting to business leaders; yet most IT organisations know that in reality it's typically the least flexible and least business aligned option. IT needs to prove that it is capable of providing the right service, cost, capability balance.

 

However, it is a constant challenge of budget and retention for most organisations to have access to the right resources at the right time, as technology and trends constantly change. For commodity skills this is less of an issue as the market provides depth at competitive costs. However, where the challenges become more business critical or niche it is too risky to lose the 'corporate memory' and more difficult to obtain the right skills to deliver effectively. Today the technologies are capable and the choices are infinite, where technologies often overlap; where servers are capable of acting as application components, and networks capable of taking on more intelligence, such as authentication and storage.

 

We provide a range of services covering technology, process and governance, to help clients develop their IT infrastructure within the data centre. We cover a range of Infrastructure technologies and provide strategy, planning, design, testing and implementation.