Optimise, Consolidate, Virtualise
Your organization relies on power-hungry servers that can quickly chew through your budget.
It's imperative to not only choose the right servers for your needs but to also leverage the latest server optimization technologies.
Increase utilization rates, enhance efficiency and reduce operating costs. Our ability to design, deploy and manage scalable server environments enables you to take advantage of clustered and grid computing, consolidation, virtualization and more.
And our technical resources and relationships with leaders like HP, IBM and VMware ensure you receive both the product choice and support your organization needs.
The end result is an optimized server environment that supports your business without devouring your budget.
Storage Solutions
Reliable Retention and Recovery
With data retention needs ever increasing, enterprise storage has never been more critical or complex. Today's organisation must consider business requirements for backup, archiving, disaster recovery and more - not to mention overall costs.
You can meet the unique storage needs of your enterprise with Storage Solutions, from high availability backup and long-term archiving to disaster recovery and business continuity, Synergy delivers a range of solutions to storage challenges.
We're uniquely positioned to assist you, thanks to our deep technical expertise and relationships with leading storage manufacturers including HP & IBM.
Server and Storage Consolidation
A server and storage consolidation solution can provide an immediate return on investment. We will improve your IT infrastructure's performance, availability and manageability by providing a custom-designed, best-of-breed solution to meet your business requirements.
Information is critical to the success of all businesses and a consolidated storage/server infrastructure provides the storage foundation for a highly-flexible and responsive IT strategy.
What is Server and Storage Consolidation?
Storage consolidation is the concept of centralising and sharing storage resources among multiple application servers.
Storage consolidation architectures are designed to address the limitations with direct-attached storage and solve the growing data demands of information rich business environments.
Why invest in a Server and Storage Consolidation Solution?
The primary reason for deploying a storage consolidation solution is to simplify and optimise the current storage infrastructure. Huge data growth over the past several years has meant many businesses have had to rapidly expand storage sub-systems to accommodate the new capacity, performance and availability requirements demanded by business units. This has often meant a situation where there are many separate servers and storage infrastructures in place, resulting in difficult management, inefficiency, high costs and an inability to meet the demands of the business environment.
Storage consolidation is generally achieved through 2 specific architectural methods:
- Storage Area Network (SAN) storage consolidation
- Network-attached storage (NAS) storage consolidation
The actual method by which the solution is implemented is largely down to your current infrastructure and your specific business environment.
Consolidation Benefits
- Simplified Environment - The whole environment becomes easier to manage. Therefore staff costs are reduced and less staff are required to manage larger amounts of storage and IT resources.
- Lower Annual Maintenance Costs - As the infrastructure is simplified allowing older, expensive to maintain equipment to be phased out or moved to a lower level support contract.
- High Availability - Reducing the numbers of servers and associated storage allows data to be simply replicated, in real-time, to a remote location ensuring immediate system availability in the event of a major failure disaster.
- Disaster Recovery - As the data is now stored on an enterprise-class storage device, normally difficult to manage, and expensive to purchase solutions such as snapshots of data become available. These can then be used to quickly and simply recover data.
A server and storage consolidation solution will be tailored to meet your specific business requirements, designed to work with your existing infrastructure - and deliver the flexibility to leverage future technologies and meet future requirements.