System Optimization

Scalar's System Optimization practice is focused on ensuring our clients have the necessary computing power to drive their business. Scalar has designed and deployed various server infrastructures including: Windows based environments, virtualized environments using hardware (IBM, SUN, HP) and/or software (VMware, Microsoft, Xen) virtualization, hardware consolidation using blade technology (HP, SUN, IBM), and even HPC solutions.

In order to better utilize the myriad of technology offered from all vendors, we develop best in class solutions to solve specific business problems. Some of the questions we might ask are:

  • How important is scalability to your technical team, your development group, and your application managers?
  • Is system reliability a concern, would you like to see a High Availability design?
  • Is energy efficiency a deciding factor, would you like to see options such as Dynamic Cooling in blades, or CPU cycle-down in times of low usage?
  • Are you paying a premium for space in your datacenter? Should we look at hardware consolidation using blades?
  • Do you like having many small servers, or a few larger servers?
  • How far down the virtualization path are you, if at all?
  • Is system flexibility important to your developers?
  • Is power and cooling a problem? Perhaps blade systems are too dense for your datacenter capabilities.
  • Have you done a business impact analysis and do you test your business continuity plan?

As you can tell, there are many factors to consider when making sure your hardware is meeting the needs of the business. Scalar takes a third party approach and filters the noise so you end up with a correctly sized, properly budgeted solution.

Technology

Scalar tests and implements all of our solutions in our own lab before recommending them to you. We focus on integrating easily manageable solutions for our customers. These solutions provide the best performance and are easily maintained. These solutions have included;

  • HP, IBM, and SUN blade solutions
  • HP, IBM, and SUN x86 solutions
  • HP Itanium, SUN SPARC, and IBM POWER solutions
  • Management, Event Monitoring, and Provisioning solutions
  • Comparisons of small servers to large servers for virtualization farms
  • Effects of long distances with respect to replication and database integrity

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Why Scalar is your best choice
for Consulting

Scalar’s Professional Services group is a technology led organization. Our team of industry leading architects have decades of experience deploying complex infrastructure into mission-critical environments. We invest heavily in ongoing training and development of our staff to ensure they remain at the forefront of technological developments.

Testaments to the quality and ability of our delivery team are the bilateral Professional Services agreements we have with our key partners. This enables us to provide integration services for Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, NetApp, EMC, Red Hat, Symantec, and F5 either as Scalar or as their representatives. We have divided our Team into the following Practices: Systems Optimization, Data Management, Networks and Security, Virtualization, and Compute Grids.

Contact Scalar Professional Services today for more information.

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