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- 1. Get more from NonStop!8th December 2011 The smart choice for IT services and support of systems that cannot afford to fail!Copyright TCM Solutions Limited 2011. All Rights Reserved.
2. Get more from NonStop Why? Reduced TCO Increased ROI Improved Efficiencies Investment Protection How? Enhance Longevity Performance more power Automation less overhead Resource Optimisation Who? DIY Use NonStop specialistMake NonStop Better,Faster, Cheaper 3. Getting more from NonStop - Methods Performance Tuning Hardware Life Extensions and Migration Planning HW / SW / SLA Audits and Rationalisation BC / DR Provisioning Automation Alert and Fix Remote Support Use Centres of Excellence Adaptive Support 100% efficiencies ITIL framework / ISO20000 standard 4. Performance Tuning Performance Audit / Review Partitioning Database Configuration / Tuning CPU Performance Disk performance I/O Performance Low PIN / High PIN Utilisation Application Specifics 5. HW / SW / SLA audits and rationalisation Review HW / SW support contracts versus SLA HW / SW consolidation Review existing configuration against business requirements Alternative tools Bespoke developments 6. BC / DR provisioning Identify and Remove Single Points of Failure Review test procedures and results Planned / Unplanned procedures Review existing approach and evaluate against business requirements 7. Automation alert and fix Reduce resource costs, Faster fix, Reduced downtime Ops alerting and automated fix/call out Sys Man alerting Evaluate 3rd party products against in-house custom SW 8. Remote Support Centre of Excellence Centralised service desk Speedy access to local specialists Adaptive Support - Combination of on-site and remote for ultimate costefficiency 9. Why? Heres what can be achieved. UK Service Provider realised 20% performance improvement following detailedperformance review UK Financial Institution realised 40% cost savings by extending life of existingHW and SW investment - delaying migration to latest generation platform untilnecessary UK Financial Institution realised annual cost savings of 170K following HW /SW / SLA review European Financial Institution 2 week fast-track project to develop and testprocess of recovering their Development system to meet compliance UK Financial Institution reduced level of out-of-hours call out by over 80% usingtheir existing HP NonStop tools and TCMAlert UK Service Provider with limited NonStop skills / resources managed aNonStop environment supported by the TCM Centre of Excellence 10. Where to start.. Review the performance of your HP NonStop systems Do it yourself if you can if not, were here to help and well provide you with a high-level report with no obligation. Review your platform migration plans are you migrating for capacity orperformance reasons? If not, could you save cost and achieve better return on your HW / SW investment by extending life of your existing platform? S-series can be supported long beyond HPs Dec 2012 EOS date. Check your HP and 3rd party SW/HW license and support contracts Do you really know what youre paying for and do you really need it? 11. Where to start.. Review your current system requirements Review DR provision Review consolidation options save on HW / SW costs Look to extend life of your existing investment save on HW / SW costs How much do those out-of-hours support calls really cost? Look at repeat calls and implement fixes, up-skill 24x7 Ops teams, automate fixes wherever possible, and look at using tools such as TCMAlert Are you temporarily inflating team size because of specific projects? FTEs and on-site contractors can be expensive Offshoring can be risky Looked at using shared services such as UK Centres of Excellence 12. Further InformationWeb:www.tcmsolutions.comContacts:Lee BradleySales and InformationTel: 07850 852512Email: [email protected] YatesPrincipal ConsultantTel: 07779 888773Email: [email protected]