Virtualisation management  

If you wish to make better use of the available ICT resources and essential facility services, virtualisation can offer the solution. Inter Access knows how you can take maximum advantage of the possibilities offered by this for your applications and operating platforms. This brings you benefits on all fronts: optimum resources management, increased availability, greater flexibility and a more efficient use of hardware.

Approach

Virtualisation Management has developed a sophisticated step-by-step plan, whereby the approach and the end result are based on the three pillars of our strategy: continuity, cost control and adaptability. To this end, we work with innovative, but proven products such as VMWare, Softricity and Xen. These make it possible to collate various logic systems on one physical server. These systems then work completely independently and can therefore not influence one another.

Thanks to the use of qualified professionals, your primary processes are not disrupted. We also identify options for improvement in relation to the arrangement of the control processes and the automation of routine tasks. This leads to cost savings and improvements in efficiency.

Within the boundaries of Prince II, we virtualise extensive, complex infrastructures in four steps.

1. Specification - Ascertaining present and future situations

  • Future management environment
  • Security choices
  • Communications strategy
  • Project and virtualisation strategy
  • Setting up Proof of Concept upon request

2. Validation - Testing basic assumptions and expectations

  • Architecture choices and basic assumptions, Project and Communications plan

3. Virtualisation - Implementation of the new functionality and embedding in the organisation

  • Implementation of project plan

4. Evaluation - Completion of implementation and “lessons learned”

  • Conclusion, aftercare and project evaluation
Expertise

Inter Access offers you the following assurances in relation to the virtualisation:
As a system integrator, we not only deliver a ‘virtualisation layer’, but also include aspects such as operating systems, applications, the network and storage.
Our people’s expertise is backed up by the most recent certification levels.
We have our own project and service management organisations.

  • Partnership with suppliers, including IBM, HP, Microsoft, VMWare, Virtuozzo, Softicity, Novell, Cisco
  • Expertise with development environments such as Oracle, SAP, MS.NET and J2EE
  • Possibilities for taking on the management of the infrastructure environment

Results

Inter Access proves its value in particular at companies in the mid-market and high-end segment which are looking to update their ICT infrastructure in a reliable manner. The most significant results being:

  • Benefits of scale and use of ICT resources (fewer servers, fewer switches, fewer cables)
  • Hardware independence
  • Standardisation of server configurations (increasing availability)
  • Isolation of servers and applications
  • Several versions of the same applications can be offered alongside one another
  • Implementation of updates and new applications without (technical) regression tests
  • Simpler installation and roll-out of SBC servers or workstations
  • Reduction of facilities costs (lower electricity costs, lower maintenance costs, less space)
  • Flexibility through dynamic capacity increase

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