Business data is a crucial component in maintaining competitive advantage. Increased business demand for IT functionality has driven considerable and rapid datacenter growth for many organisations.

Guaranteeing datacenter performance and availability is getting harder: there is more data and more demand yet less budget and fewer resources. To ensure the datacenter stays lean and mean, IT departments need to optimise every device, every square metre, every watt and every second.

From rationalisation and virtualisation to automation and aggregation, Computacenter helps organisations find the best-fit, best-value solutions and strategies to make their datacenter more predictable, sustainable and affordable.

ACCELERATE OR RESTRAIN GROWTH.

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The datacenter needs to continually adapt to cope with planned and unplanned demands from the business, an issue which has intensified with huge virtualisation sprawl and the expectations of cloud computing.

Without integrated technologies, real-time management and end-to-end visibility, the datacenter can quickly spiral out of control, impacting budget targets and business goals.

All too often, organisations have incomplete or inconsistent views of their IT assets. Computacenter helps organisations get a grip of every facet of their datacenter – from the devices and data to power consumption and problem resolution.

With 30 years’ experience of delivering complex infrastructure projects and managing datacenters, we understand the risks, the challenges and the opportunities, helping you to make the best use of new and existing assets, so that your datacenter meets today’s objectives and delivers tomorrow’s outcomes.

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COMPUTACENTER AND THE DATACENTER: WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?

We enable our customers to understand and take control of their existing datacenter infrastructure. We will help you to become agile and responsive, turning your datacenter into an internal service provider.

Taking control of your datacenter assets

COMPUTACENTER UNDERSTANDS YOUR BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL GOALS. WE WORK WITH YOU TO IDENTIFY YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS AND HOW THEY ARE USED, BRINGING

YOUR DATACENTER THE CONTINUITY, STABILITY AND AGILITY IT NEEDS, SO YOU CAN GET TO MARKET FASTER AND EXCEED CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS.

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Today’s datacenters need to work harder, faster and smarter if organisations are to meet their financial and efficiency goals.

As well as optimising existing systems, IT departments need to build the business case for investment in new technologies and consumption models.

Sweating legacy assets is not a long-term solution. It not only increases the total cost of ownership, but also the risk of security breaches and service outages.

Computacenter helps organisations decide what datacenter systems to retain, revamp and remove in order to minimise overheads and maximise efficiency. And, with consultants accredited to the highest level with all major datacenter vendors, we will take complete responsibility for the operational management of all the technology suppliers and ensure support for heterogeneous environments is maintained.

We will help you automate manual tasks, utilise more capacity and virtualise the right workloads – all of which are key steps on the journey to a dynamic datacenter and an IT-enabled business.

TODAY’S DATACENTERS NEED TO WORK HARDER, FASTER AND SMARTER IF ORGANISATIONS ARE TO MEET

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PERFORMANCEWe’ll work with you to identify and implement improvements to your datacenter capability. Through optimisation, virtualisation and automation, we’ll ensure your datacenter is better equipped to meet changing demands and new data consumption models.

Driving datacenter value and performance

COMPUTACENTER IS ACKNOWLEDGED BY CUSTOMERS AND VENDORS ALIKE AS BEING A MARKET LEADER IN DEPLOYING AUTOMATION AND ORCHESTRATION

TECHNOLOGY, DUE TO OUR PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF DELIVERING INTEGRATED END-TO-END SOLUTIONS.

We will assess your current state and help build a roadmap that facilitates continuous improvement and embraces new consumption models, such as cloud computing.

The datacenter will no longer just facilitate change; it will be a champion of change, a springboard for innovation, a source of competitive advantage. It will be a strategic business asset.

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We are uniquely placed to help you build and deploy a dynamic datacenter at the very heart of your business. We’ll ensure that your datacenter infrastructure is truly cloud-ready, becoming a key enabler of strategic growth, delivering new ways of working and increasing commercial advantage.

GROWTH, INNOVATION, COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. THEY ALL COME BACK TO THE DATACENTER AND

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ONE OF OUR CUSTOMERS SAVED £750,000 PER YEAR ON DATACENTER FLOOR SPACE COSTS AND HAS DRAMATICALLY REDUCED ITS IT MANAGED SERVICES BILL

BY ALMOST £800,000 PER ANNUM THROUGH TESTING AND PLANNING CARRIED OUT AT THE SOLUTIONS CENTRE.

Proof of concept (POC) – By prototyping, testing and validating we can help you analyse the expected ROI before committing to large project expenditure.

Load testing – We can help you gain clarity on the high and low performance boundaries of a solution prior to implementation. By identifying the optimum system and application configuration we can ensure any deployments support immediate and future workloads.

Stage services – Through the combination of established logistics and a purpose-built environment, our customers can reduce operational disruptions and downtime by ensuring systems are ready to deploy prior to shipment.

We can help make your datacenter lean, mean and fit-for-purpose by removing cost, complexity and barriers to change. Our purpose-built Solutions Centre was the first multi-vendor testing facility in Europe and has been used by hundreds of customers since its launch in 2002. The Solutions Centre hosts an array of enterprise infrastructure and cloud-ready integrated systems which can be used for load testing and proof of concept exercises.

Computacenter offers three types of engagement:

Reducing costs: Consolidating datacenters will reduce costs in floor space, power and cooling.

Improving quality of service and continuity: By moving to a well-managed environment we can help you improve performance, availability and security whilst enabling appropriate levels of resilience and continuity.

Driving economies of scale: Reducing the number of site hosting systems can deliver economies of scale, while our automated scalable solution can also significantly reduce costs.

Computacenter works with IT departments, not around them, and we provide advice to help you reduce costs, improve service, continuity and economies of scale.

Computacenter offers a managed hosting service from highly-available datacenters across the UK in Romford, Manchester, Leeds and Nottingham and in Frankfurt, Germany.

The Romford datacenter was the first in Europe to be Tier IV design-certified by the Uptime Institute and is located within the M25, only 30 minutes from the City of London.

As Europe’s largest independent IT infrastructure services organisation, Computacenter is in a unique position. We offer an end-to-end service for all datacenter requirements, from transformation, supply and disposal, maintenance, monitoring, reporting, relocation, hosting and cloud services.

However, before any of these activities are undertaken, we first assess the requirements of each application to ensure the impact of change does not threaten system reliability, performance or integrity.

Working in close partnership with your organisation, our experienced consultants will agree a roadmap for your datacenter infrastructure, adopting approaches such as consolidation, virtualisation and storage; ensuring a low risk, cost-effective solution that meet the needs of your business.

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COMPUTACENTER’S EXPERTISE AND KNOWLEDGE OF DATACENTER TRANSFORMATION PROVIDES A PERFECT FIT FOR A PARTNERSHIP THAT WILL HELP CLIENTS DRIVE OUTCOMES IN VIRTUALISATION, AUTOMATION AND THE PATHWAY TO CLOUD.

The key benefits of a dynamic datacenter

Our datacenter virtualisation programmes typically deliver ROI within 12 months due to our considerable experience in relocation and consolidation projects and co-ordinating platform migrations.

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BAA makes cost savings of more than £1.8 million

with agile virtualised datacenter.

Eversheds increases competitive advantage with IT transformation

and outsourcing partnership.

BAA partnered with Computacenter to design, plan and implement a new virtual datacenter. The virtual datacenter has enabled BAA to reduce its production environment by 246 servers, with spare capacity to support future growth. This has contributed to cost savings of £1.8 million. The new infrastructure will also reduce carbon emissions by 1,239 tonnes a year, minimise risk and enable greater business agility.

To ensure Eversheds can focus its internal resources on the differentiating elements of IT, the law firm has outsourced a number of core services to Computacenter, including offsite datacenter hosting. Computacenter helped Eversheds implement a virtual server infrastructure as part of the migration to its hosted facilities. As well as achieving a 25:1 server consolidation ratio, Eversheds can provision new systems more quickly, which helps to limit the need to invest in new hardware.

By virtualising our production systems we have been able to make a significant contribution to the company’s strategic goals for IT simplification and cost reduction while achieving greater business agility and IT performance.

Terry Fusco, Head of IT, Heathrow, BAA

Working with Computacenter makes our datacenters easier to control. The environment is robust with excellent provisioning for disaster recovery.

Conor O’Brien, Head of IT Services and Operations at Eversheds

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WE WILL SUPPORT AND GUIDE YOUR JOURNEY TO THE DYNAMIC DATACENTER – GIVING YOU GREATER VISIBILITY AND CONTROL OF YOUR DATA ASSETS AND INFRASTRUCTURE; ENABLING YOU TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE AND REDUCE COSTS; AND TURNING YOUR DATACENTER INTO AN AGILE, CLOUD-READY ENVIRONMENT THAT DELIVERS TO YOUR STRATEGIC BUSINESS PRIORITIES.

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T: +44 (0)1707 631000F: +44 (0)1707 639966

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Computacenter has the depth and breadth to support you at every stage of the datacenter life cycle. Our end-to-end service capability means we have the insight to help effectively design, build, test, and manage complete IT infrastructures.

To find out how Computacenter can make your datacenter fit-for-purpose now, and for the future, speak to one of our datacenter specialists at dynamicdatacenter@computacenter.com or visit computacenter.com/datacenter

Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services and solutions. From desktop to datacenter, we help our customers minimise the cost and maximise the value of IT to their businesses. We can advise organisations on IT strategy, implement the most appropriate technology, optimise its performance, and manage elements of our customers’ infrastructure on their behalf.

Computacenter operates in the UK, Germany, France and the Benelux countries, as well as providing transnational services across the globe.

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