Are you on the journey to a more efficient and agile data centre?

Organisations worldwide are placing greater demands on their data centres to provide business services faster, more efficiently and securely. This challenge to the IT department is exacerbated by growing computing and storage requirements, and the need to maintain service levels.

Can you ensure that critical business systems are available 24 x 7 x 365?

How do you reduce your carbon footprint?

How do you deliver a greater number of services to the business with fewer resources?

Our data centre solutions can help address these challenges by increasing the adoption of virtualisation, optimising the management of data and ensuring the network and data centre facilities are ready to support new projects.

Telecoms expense management and the data centre

Virtualisation has created significant opportunities to reduce cost and drive infrastructure efficiency in today’s tough climate. But for virtualisation to deliver end user satisfaction, the only impact it should have on the end user experience, should be a positive one, whether they’re working from their desks, or accessing corporate applications from mobile hotspot.

So how do you architect optimal solutions both inside and outside the firewall?

How do you improve the business case for cloud and virtualisation?

How do you manage user satisfaction with cloud and virtualisation and provide premium value?

Dimension Data can help.

Our Solution Areas

We help our clients on their journey towards a more efficient and agile data centre that enables greater automation and responsiveness in the delivery of business services in the following areas:

• Desktop & Server Virtualisation

• Storage & Data Management

• Data Centre Networking

• Data Centre Facilities

Why Dimension Data for Data Centre Solutions

By combining over 10 years’ experience in consulting, building and managing data centre infrastructure with strong technology partnerships and expert people, we craft solutions and services that improve the efficiency, performance and agility of your data centre.

Accelerate the cloud… Dimension Data and the virtual computing environment

For organisations to succeed in today’s dynamic markets, they need to be agile when responding to challenges and opportunities. Many IT executives are looking towards cloud computing to deliver a more agile and flexible IT infrastructure.

Dimension Data understands the value that a seamless, pre-configured, efficient IT infrastructure can have on your move towards cloud computing. To help achieve this, we have partnered with Cisco, VMware and EMC through the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition to bring our clients a market leading cloud computing infrastructure.

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Leading Thinking

Desktop Virtualisation on the Fast Track to Mainstream Adoption - This opinion piece looks at the forces driving organisations to move away from the traditional desktop and embrace virtualisation as a better way to operate their end user environments.

The Client Virtualisation Imperative Thought Leadership Paper - Provides new insights into the global desktop virtualisation market, uncovers the principal drivers and restraints to adoption, and explores the timelines that businesses have assigned to their desktop transformation journeys.

Swing to Data Centre Consolidation - A trend towards consolidation of data centres – to achieve not only cost savings but consistency of service.

Seven Design Considerations for a Green Data Centre - Key considerations for designing a green data centre.

Data Centre Relocation: More than Just Two Guys and A Truck - Understanding the risks of any data centre relocation event and how to overcome them is key to success.

Virtualisation Touches Everything - While the driving force behind the uptake of virtualisation initially focused on consolidation, containment as well as the potential cost savings, as time progresses, other drivers have emerged.

Data, Data Everywhere - Exploding volumes of data mean organisation need tactics to better profile and structure enterprise data

Client Successes   

Grindrod need to replace an ageing infrastructure to process over 3 million e-mails a month.

Asiana's virtual solution reduces overall administration costs, simplifies installation and software updates and allows users to safely access their work data at any time and from anywhere.

Naxoo virtualised over 90% of their existing server infrastructure to drive down costs and ensure scalability.

Spar Group Backup and Recovery solution helps safeguard complex distribution business from risk and disruption.

Hamilton City Council leveraged existing infrastructure to deliver a cost effective Infrastructure as a Service solution.