Virtualization and Cloud
Our virtualization and cloud practice is focused on helping you understand how you can get the most out of your IT. Whether this means moving to the public cloud or helping you architect a private cloud, our strong technical capabilities in virtualization, coupled with our understanding of how these new architectures affect business processes, position us uniquely in the industry.
The cloud isn’t for everybody, but there are some compelling features of the cloud that every organization can benefit from. We identify these with you and map a plan to get you from your current state to your desired end-goal. From start to finish you’ll be dealing with Scalar engineers and consultants who understand the risks and complexities associated with large-scale virtualization projects.
Our strategy is based on a proven three phased approach; Assessment, Architecture, and Implementation. The goals of the strategy are as follows:
Reduced facilities costs: Scalar understands the impact that moving to a virtual or cloud infrastructure has on your facilities. We quantify the savings and explain exactly how your future power and cooling, rack, and support requirements will change throughout your journey.
Reduced computer hardware costs: Hardware procurement savings can be realized once a standardized platform has been chosen. Mappings of workloads to hardware are developed as part of the strategy to ensure that ‘procuring before provisioning’ does not occur. We understand which workloads are ideal for the public cloud and which should be kept in-house.
Reduced software costs: In addition to the savings achieved by reducing the number of servers, further savings may be possible by using a capacity on demand model where you share your load onto a public cloud. Growing your caching farm only when required may reduce the total number of licenses required.
Improved provisioning processes: When introducing virtualization as the platform for x86 servers, IT admins now have the ability to “create” servers with the click of a mouse. This flexibility wreaks havoc on storage systems and adds to the CPU and Memory capacity required to run all those virtual servers. We’ll work with your organization to ensure the proper processes and procedures are in place to avoid “Virtual Server Sprawl”.
Increased Service Levels and Availability: Shared pools of resources can improve SLAs and availability, provided the systems are architected with availability in mind. Scalar will work to ensure that systems which require increased availability will be taken into consideration during the architecture phase. We will then help you determine if you need your own disaster recovery solution or if you can leverage a cloud based offering.
Improved computing resource allocation: With enhanced management capabilities in a consolidated and virtualized environment, your organization will enable the on-demand allocation of resources. Leveraging VMware’s VMotion and Dynamic Resource Sharing, your organization will have the ability to allocate resources to the businesses processes that require them. If you are further down the journey to the cloud, VMware’s vCloud Director can be used to help introduce more automation into resource allocation.
Reduced staffing costs: Using dashboard-like management interfaces, a single administrator will now have a much broader view of the servers s/he is responsible for. These management interfaces give the ability to monitor many systems, and only be notified when a system is acting outside of its “desired norm”. This will allow your organization the opportunity to repurpose or reduce staffing costs.
Our proven consolidation methodology and approach will provide your organization with an offering that introduces current technologies, mitigates risk, and ensure success.
Scalar's Virtualization and Cloud Products
Virtualization and Consolidation Strategy
Virtualization Readiness AssessmentDeploying virtualization is often considered the first step towards data center automation. This readiness assessment will determine how much of your environment can be virtualized. The assessment will provide technical and financial justifications for the introduction of virtualization into your environment. GridsWhether your grid requirements are High Frequency Trading, High Performance Computing (HPC), or Database, Scalar provides proven expertise in the design, deployment and management of these complex environments. |
Virtual Desktops
VDI for Education
Data Centre Automation StrategyThis end-to-end study of your entire IT infrastructure encompasses servers, applications, storage, networking, security, and web presence. By looking at automation as a whole processes for network, server, and storage provisioning can be tied together, thus further reducing adminstrative tasks for the design, implementation, and management of your entire infrastructure. OptimizationServers are a critical component in the datacentre to ensure the most optimal performance. We provide services to tune and right size the server platform for the job. Given the increasing cost of power and cooling, selection of the correct servers and tuning can provide significant cost savings. |
Scalar's Key Virtualization and Cloud Partners
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Scalar Decisions played a vital role in delivering a successful and on budget project for the 407ETR to convert our physical infrastructure to a virtual server and storage environment using VMware and N-series storage to support our Windows based applications.
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