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Driving the private cloud
Date: Thursday 3 September 2009
Author: PHILIP ALSOP
End-to-End Portfolio Helps Customers Strategize, Design, Deploy and Manage Virtualized Information Infrastructure.
EMC has announced a breakthrough approach to speeding the transition to private cloud with a suite of more than 30 new services and solutions. The comprehensive approach EMC takes to address the application, infrastructure and governance issues that impact execution of a private cloud strategy is reflected in the broad portfolio of end-to-end services and solutions that enable customers to accelerate enterprise-scale virtualization. As a leading VMware professional services provider, EMC Global Services has expertise in delivering virtualized information infrastructures in the data centre, the first step on the journey to realizing the benefits of private cloud.
The new services and solutions—encompassing consulting, technology integration, resident, and education services offerings, along with a full suite of EMC Proven™ Solutions—are critical to helping customers address the challenges they face when planning, implementing and scaling their private cloud environment, inclusive of backup and recovery, business continuity, disaster recovery, management, and the transition of tier 1 applications to the virtual infrastructure.
Highlights
• As a premier partner in the VMware Partner Network with hundreds of VMware Certified Professionals, and a VMware Authorized Training Centre (VATC), EMC is helping customers speed their transition to private cloud environments.
• EMC Consulting services provide expertise in developing strategies, business cases and roadmaps to effectively transform information infrastructures to achieve the benefits of a private cloud. Customers have experienced savings of up to 45 percent over traditional data centre approaches using EMC Consulting private cloud methodologies combined with leading EMC, Cisco and VMware technology.
• EMC's approach rationalizes applications against business requirements, develops strategies for virtualising applications, and aids customers in managing their transformational journey to a private cloud.
• EMC offers a full range of new Private Cloud Acceleration Services to efficiently plan, deploy, manage and operate a secure virtualized environment with tier 1 applications. These services also help customers develop the skills and knowledge required to manage a private cloud environment or augment IT staff.
• New EMC Ionix™ IT management services help ease customers transition to a private cloud by leveraging ITIL and ITSM frameworks for both physical and virtual environments. The services help maximize overall effectiveness by automating procedures based on best practices using EMC Ionix virtualized data center management software.
• EMC Proven Solutions minimize risk by providing reference architectures and documented best practices for deploying technology to virtualise the data center. Using validated combinations of EMC, VMware and 3rd party technologies, these Proven Solutions enable customers to reduce virtual infrastructure configuration time by more than 65 percent and deployment time by as much as 50 percent; reduce email archiving volumes for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 by more than 85 percent; enable full-scale disaster recovery rehearsal without interruption to SAP production data; and reduce CPU cycles and improve resource efficiency for Oracle in virtual environments.
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