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Contact anyone of our consultants: Vision Minesh +27 (0) 83 441 0745 Andre +27 (0) 83 357 5729 Francois +27 (0) 82 579 1705 Jacques +27 (0) 83 357 5659 ITgility is an Information Technology Solutions company with a vision to provide business solutions, which are uniquely different and more efficient. By leveraging our knowledge and expertise in IT infrastructure technologies, we will become a recognised leader in the provision and management of specialised IT infrastructure solutions. Mission ITgility is an end-to-end IT solution provider. Our solutions are focused on your business needs: Agile, to compete, Simple to operate and Adaptable to changes. ITgility focus on consulting and design that delivers roadmaps narrowing the gap between business and IT requirements. Our service offerings are built around core components, focused on solution architecture integrating with the right hardware and software technology that will best serve your needs. These include: Backup and Recovery, Archiving, Unified Storage, Disaster Recovery, Server Virtualisation and Consolidation, Virtual Desktop and Cloud Computing. Background The four ITgility directors each have more than 20 years of server and storage management experience. Our consultant level experience in solution design is provided to a number of South African enterprises. Our experience is based on complex hardware and software configurations that include: architecture and design, performance tuning and capacity planning as well as solution implementation and support. With this background ITgility is uniquely positioned to assist any size business in delivering roadmaps to our customers, narrowing the gap between business and IT requirements to operate at industry best practice standards. This approach will enable your business differentiation in the market place. Our consultation based roadmap approach will allow you to plan ahead and achieve better efficiency. Jacques Andre Francois Minesh page 1
Our Process Our process is designed to deliver industry-standard technology solutions by combining strategy and delivery to simplify operations. We build our service offerings in three core areas, namely: consulting services, delivery offerings and operations. Our consultative approach identifies requirements, objectives and constraints for our customers. Delivery offerings include the activities required to implement technologies. Operations offerings help to control and monitor customer environments. Consulting Services Far too often, Information Technology initiatives fail (not due to poor technology) but due to a poor understanding of requirements, objectives, strategy, architecture and design. ITgility begins by ensuring that these critical elements are addressed BEFORE technology solutions are implemented, by defining roadmaps and focusing on end-to-end solutions. To ensure a successful implementation of the solution that was designed for your company, the delivery team at ITgility provides expertise at every level, from project management to implementation engineering and skill transfer. This team has the sole focus of ensuring that the technologies and solutions for your environment are implemented according to industry-standard best practices, along with the skill and experience acquired after many successful implementations at other customer sites. Delivery Offerings To ensure a successful implementation of the solution that was designed and architected for your company, the delivery team at ITgility provides expertise at every level, from project management to implementation engineering and skill transfer. Operations Monitoring and controlling a technology implementation can make the difference between a successful deployment and one with a disastrous outcome. Without proper planning and controlling risks to your implementation, you can easily experience cost and schedule overruns. At the same time if you do not effectively manage issues as they arise, you can also lose control of the project, whilst cost and schedule overruns become more likely. Our transition engagements help our customers to successfully move new technologies into their operational routine. page 2
Key Focus Areas The success of our business is based on superior solution architecturing in combination with the focus on the right hardware and software technology that will best serve your needs and business requirements. In addition, the ITgility engagement is wrapped with extra attention to detail, with our ability to deliver state of the art services, using highly experienced groups of resources that are loyal and dedicated. We strongly believe in leaving our customers with plans, designs and configuration documentation. Agility, Simplicity and Adaptability allow us to successfully differentiate our products and services from the competition. Solutions ITgility has a hands-on approach. Our expertise in virtualisation, storage, backup and recovery as well as disaster recovery allows us to offer advanced solutions that will address your needs. Our complementary offerings include Virtual Desktops, Data Protection, Cloud Solutions and Linux subscriptions. Focus is a big part of our culture. We believe that by deeply understanding these technical areas we can best serve the customers who rely on us. We will always prefer to deliver a small set of solutions with exceptional quality. page 3
Consolidation & Virtualisation ITgility recognises that virtualisation comes in many forms. Our expertise in both data storage, host consolidation and virtualisation gives us a broader vision than most other virtualisation resellers. Adoption of virtualisation: Physical Environment 0% P3 Phase 1 Cost efficiencies: Consolidation Phase 2 Quality of service: Improved IT production Phase 3 Business agility: Enable private clouds P1 P2 Server utilisation HW costs Op Ex. Business productivity Flexibility Virtual Environment 100% We can deliver solutions that cut costs through increased automation, provide simplistic management and improve market responsiveness. From applications to data centres, ITgility can be trusted to boost your business agility via our bespoke solutions. Our virtualisation services give our clients a complete understanding of the benefits and compromises of a virtualised environment. Virtual Infrastructure Assessment Planning and Design Services Data Auditing and Reporting Virtual Infrastructure Health Check Proactive Support Reactive On-site Consultancy Virtualisation allows companies to remove the physical constraints from their technology infrastructure. Software workloads can then be distributed more efficiently across available resources. As a result, we have helped customers drive very high utilisation rates. page 4
Unified Storage Our Unified Storage solutions allow you to optimise your data center, maximise storage assets, improve efficiencies, increase service levels, and reduce costs with industry-leading technologies and expert services. Unified Storage Seamless virtualisation experience Accelerates the speed of your virtual machines Auto Tiering Provides automated data management Flash SAS SAS SAS optimises storage resource usage Flash SAS SAS SAS Storage Administrator Active data Inactive data vcentre APP APP APP APP OS OS OS OS Virtual Server Administrator VAAI offload Creating and copying virtual machines Offloads much of the heavy lifting to the storage array 10 x Flash SAS SAS SAS $ Cost Effective Intelligent multipathing and load balancing Migration-related features Free advanced PowerShell Cmdlet NAS - iscsi - Fibre Channel Our solutions are designed for IT generalists with limited storage expertise, where it facilitates complete storage consolidation with advanced file and block functionality as well as a simple, application-driven approach to managing shared storage. Our solution includes optional software packs, to ensure that data is secure and protected. These solutions provide significant advancements in efficiency, simplicity and affordability: Simple Optimised for virtual applications with VMware and Hyper-V integration Easy to deploy with set up and provisioning wizards for Exchange, VMware, Hyper-V, iscsi volumes and file shares Easy to manage with centralised and simple GUI Efficient A single platform for file and block data services Advanced technologies including file de-duplication with compression and thin provisioning, improve performance and capacity efficiency Twenty percent more efficient out-of-the-box Affordable Low acquisition cost 2U and 3U sizes ideal for small / medium businesses and remote / branch offices Start small with options to scale page 5
Backup and Recovery More and more organisations are embracing the benefits of virtualisation as a powerful tool for consolidating hardware and infrastructure but many organisations find that they haven t fully anticipated the unique backup challenges of virtualised environments. Physical environment: data app config app software OS If something goes wrong: x Rebuild hardware x Reinstall OS x Install apps x Configure software x Retrieve data Process is very slow and risky. Virtualised environment: VM Improve backup Improve recovery Centralised Not dependent on VM Rebuild anywhere VM recovery backup VM Process is faster. Every new virtual machine creates thousands of new virtual files there s no avoiding it. All this data needs to be backed up leading to longer backup times and expanding backup storage requirements. Our backup solutions immediately solve your virtualisation backup pains and can also eliminate the need for legacy tape systems. With our industry-leading de-duplication storage systems and software, your data can be reduced 60 fold, slashing your backup time, storage hardware and bandwidth requirements. Disk-based backup and recovery is now more cost-effective than tape, even for large volumes of data. In addition, it also allows for remote site replication. page 6
Archiving The Business Challenge: The amount of data being stored, administered and protected by organisations is exploding and so are costs to manage it. Valuable resources are being diverted to control and administer storage growth. Power and cooling demands are draining budgets. ediscovery time frames and compliance SLAs are regularly being overshot. One of the primary reasons for these issues is the continued proliferation of unmanaged, stale or duplicate data. The Solution: Our solution allows you to retain data for longer periods, in a space efficient way, while simplifying the ability to search and retrieve it. Our solution enables enterprise data archiving, storage management and ediscovery capabilities with solutions for email, collaboration, file system and Network Attached Storage (NAS) data. With built-in tiered storage and multi-platform support including Microsoft Exchange servers, IBM Lotus systems, and Microsoft SharePoint data, comprehensive archive management is simplified. Active migration of Network Attached Storage (NAS), e-mail and file system data reduces primary storage use, extending the life of storage systems and reducing the time required for data protection. Archiving Provides Primary Storage Savings and Efficiency Information Growth IT Budget files e-mail Primary Storage Disk Based Archive Archiving Provides content Primary storage savings Simplified infrastructure Easier management Improved back up process page 7
Disaster Recovery Recovery needs to be a strategic and planned part of each operation. It includes not only restoring data and applications, but also providing access to them. Eliminate risk and make your applications more resilient. Automate recovery processes. Understand the impact to your business and how to react effectively. Production Bound to HW 5-10% Utilised server application os SAN os files local storage WAN 20% - Tier 1 (24 hours) -5 days 30% - Tier 2 (48 hours) 50% - Tier 3 (72 hours) CD ghost image tape vendor X Boot & Pray server application os os files local storage SAN DR Lil server ratio Rack space Power Network Storage RTO = Recovery Time Objects RPO = Recovery Point Objects Small and large disasters affect business every day. The impact analysis and system strategies that our consultants deliver dramatically improve response times and recovery capabilities for our customers. Recovery can occur faster, automatically, for the systems that matter most. Virtual Desktop Desktop virtualisation simplifies application and operating system management without impacting the user experience. ITgility s architects design, plan and implement Virtual Desktop and virtualised application environments that quickly simplify life for our customers. Our industry recognised expertise allows those customers to focus on what matters most. Advantages VMware Infrastructure Data App OS Isolated Mobile Supports: Streamlined Lower cost management Resource policies Advanced VDI management View Manager updates or upgrades are seamless page 8
Contact any one of our consultants: Minesh Andre Francois Jacques +27 (0) 83 441 0745 +27 (0) 83 357 5729 +27 (0) 82 579 1705 +27 (0) 83 357 5659 info@itgility.co.za 0861 IT4 ALL (0861 484 255)
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