Server and Storage Consolidation & Virtualization Services

The Business Challenge
In the past, most clients followed the vendor mandate of "one application per server", resulting in server sprawl and a highly underutilized IT infrastructure. Server virtualization is a software based solution which shares a single server's physical resources across multiple applications, operating systems, and users. It offers the promise of significant consolidation of data center platforms, as well as reduction in labor and facilities costs. Newer technologies such as blade servers may compliment a virtualization program, but their space savings benefit may be offset by the rise in cooling costs created by the increased power density. The challenge is to tailor an appropriate approach which combines the best elements of consolidation, virtualization, and hardware based blade technology which provides the most cost effective, responsive, and reliable server deployment program.

The NetEnrich Solution
NetEnrich services can help you address these challenges with our server and storage consolidation and virtualization offerings. With our proprietary methodologies and enterprise experience we can help you develop a structured approach and rationale for enterprise server deployment.  We conduct proof of concept, opportunity assessment, server applications and services discovery, and P-to-V (Physical to Virtual) migration strategy development. Our consolidation services realize cost savings for you:

• Increase project efficiencies using our comprehensive methodology and program management leadership
• Accelerate deployment of a virtual infrastructure
• Consolidate direct-attached data onto SANs
• Optimize application access though centralization or Wide Area File Services (WAFS)
• "Rightsize" servers to support increased application & data utilization
• Evaluate potentially lower cost options which provide advanced hosting and virtualization services

In addition, our deployment services for server virtualization and provisioning allow you to consolidate multiple applications and operating systems onto a reduced number of platforms and greatly accelerate and automate the deployment of servers through virtualization technologies such as VMWare or others.

Solution Benefits

• Reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by maximizing server and data center utilization
• Lowers costs of server acquisition, maintenance, and operations
• Reduces physical space needed for hardware and server racks
• Improves the uptime and availability of production services
• Drives standardization of hardware platforms and improve manageability