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DATACENTER SERVICES

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ALL CHANGE

Customers expect an always-on, ‘super-fast’ response. Businesses need to release new products faster to stay competitive. Sales teams need to close deals quicker to maintain growth. Speed is the new currency in today’s digital age, and CIOs need to ensure IT delivers on these expectations all the time, every time.

At Computacenter, we put the agile into infrastructure. We help organizations scale their IT up and down to meet changing customer demands and market dynamics.

From the server estate to the storage array, we bring together the physical and the virtual to create not only an agile infrastructure, but a reliable and affordable infrastructure.

We optimize every technology at every layer to ensure customers achieve maximum business value for minimum effort and expense. We design private clouds. We relocate datacenters. We enable analytics.

Computacenter helps organizations select the right vendors and deploy the right solutions so they can continuously right-size their infrastructure and their datacenter to meet their needs.

As more data, devices and digital services become reliant on the infrastructure, we help organizations balance higher business demands with lower IT budgets. We centralize. We virtualize. And we orchestrate.

SOLUTION SUMMARY

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WHY COMPUTACENTER’S AGILE INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES MATTER

FOR THE USER

• Shortens time-to-market

• Unlocks new revenue streams

• Safeguards customer satisfaction

FOR THE BUSINESS

• Increases productivity and flexibility

• Accelerates decision-making

• Mobilizes information and applications

FOR THE CIO

• Aligns IT with business change

• Reduces risk and cost

• Maximizes IT uptime and utilisation

React, grow and innovate faster with Computacenter’s agile

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Computacenter has more than 30 years’ experience of sourcing, deploying, optimizing and managing agile infrastructures. We bring together the strategies, the solutions and the services needed to ensure the infrastructure meets business expectations and enables users.

MAXIMIZE VALUE, MINIMIZE RISK

END-TO-END SERVICE

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CHANGE & CONSULT

From virtualization and automation to systems integration and implementation, our dedicated advisory teams help customers make the right infrastructure decisions and investments. From developing roadmaps to analysing ROI, we ensure infrastructure transformation projects deliver the best value. We mitigate risk. We reduce cost. And we remove complexity. Our extensive knowledge enables us to provide pragmatic independent advice that our customers can trust.

SOURCE & DEPLOY

With extensive logistics and configuration capabilities, we get agile infrastructures ready faster. We simplify product benchmarking. We accelerate build deployment. And we de-risk lifecycle management. We bring greater control and certainty to the procurement and provisioning of new technologies needed to underpin software-defined, private cloud and big data infrastructures. Thanks to our global reach, we can support cross-country programmes and provide a single point of contact for sourcing multi-vendor solutions.

MANAGE & TRANSFORM

Computacenter delivers hundreds of infrastructure transformation initiatives on time, on budget and on scope every year. By combining proven methodologies with repeatable processes, we ensure predictable costs and guaranteed outcomes for our customers. Our contractual services help organizations overcome the complexity of managing a growing number of infrastructure devices and environments. We respond to events. We schedule tasks. And we apply patches. As well as managing customers’ own datacenters, we deliver hosting services from four ISO 27001:2013 certified Computacenter facilities.

We have delivered over 750 virtualization projects, and our consultants, including 100 accredited VMware consultants, hold more than 200 vendor and industry accreditations

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ENTERPRISE COMPUTE

We blend the physical and the virtual with cloud-based resources to maximize the agility and efficiency of enterprise compute. From mainframes to middleware, our team has end-to-end experience of not just the infrastructure and its operating systems, but also the application layer. Our services span the entire lifecycle of enterprise compute – from designing, testing and implementing new systems to hosting, supporting and relocating existing assets. We optimize platforms. We optimize performance. And we optimize costs.

HYBRID CLOUD

We help organizations establish and maintain the hybrid cloud foundations needed to enable the business and its users. Our repeatable blueprints simplify every stage of the cloud journey – from defining processes and planning implementations to orchestrating workload provisioning and managing hypervisors. Our pragmatic advice and comprehensive services help CIOs cut through the cloud noise and vendor hype to make informed decisions and investments. We define roadmaps. We aggregate resources. We make hybrid cloud an operational reality.

DATA & STORAGE MANAGEMENT

Computacenter’s services improve the accessibility, availability and integrity of data for users and the business. We optimize storage platforms. We accelerate recovery. We simplify data protection and governance. From flash technologies to object architectures, we help our customers define, design and deliver their data and storage management strategies and solutions. We increase utilization. We decrease duplication. And we enable transformation.

ANALYTICS & BIG DATA

Computacenter delivers agile infrastructures for ingesting, cleansing, integrating and presenting data – whether it’s in the cloud, on a mobile device or a virtual machine. From delivering Hadoop clusters to enabling IT Operations Analytics, we help organizations exploit structured, unstructured and machine data so they can achieve better insights and make more strategic decisions. We evaluate vendor solutions. We integrate analytics tools. We create user dashboards. Our Analytics & Big Data Services help organizations save money and make money.

BUILDING BLOCKS

SERVICE STACK

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Computacenter helps establish flexible foundations for the future with physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure solutions. From the software-defined to the hyper-converged, we understand the platforms and the processes needed to maximize agility for IT and the business. Computacenter brings together existing and emerging technologies to establish stable and sustainable infrastructure foundations in the datacenter and beyond.

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At Computacenter, we take a user-centric approach to IT. We maximize application availability. We increase workplace flexibility. We safeguard data security. All our agile infrastructure services and solutions are designed to provide a richer user experience and greater business value.

Our expertise spans every operating system, every technology stack and every vendor. Our team includes hundreds of certified professionals with cross-platform expertise, including x86, Windows, Unix, Linux, z/OS, SAP, Oracle and SQL.

The breadth and depth of our skills and vendors partnerships provides us with a unique insight into product roadmaps and industry trends, which means we can provide trusted independent advice and design best-of-breed solutions.

Our Global Solutions Center provides customers with a unique risk-free environment for testing and proving new infrastructure systems prior to deployment.

Featuring 10 customer laboratories and two fully functional datacenters, the facility provides a secure environment for testing how planned infrastructure investments interoperate with existing business applications.

By helping organizations achieve an optimal balance between cost, performance and risk, we ensure agile infrastructures deliver the best outcomes for today and tomorrow.

CHAIN REACTION Making the link between infrastructure performance and the user experience

OUR CAPABILITIES

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DIFFERENTIATION

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A STRONG PEDIGREE

• Computacenter’s certified solution specialists and project managers hold accreditations with all the key infrastructure vendors, including Cisco, EMC, NetApp, HDS, HPE, IBM, Microsoft, Symantec, VCE and VMware

• We are a certified Cisco Master Cloud Builder and were named Cisco’s Global Cloud Builder Partner of the Year

• We are HP’s PartnerOne EMEA Cloud Solution Partner of the Year, VMware’s EMEA SDDC and vCloud Air Partner of the Year and NetApp EMEA Partner of the Year

• Our contractual services portfolio for the agile infrastructure includes more than 40 service lines – from asset management and application packaging to build management and batch processing

• We manage 28,000-plus physical and virtual servers and seven million events for our customers every year

• Our 240-strong consultancy practice has delivered thousands of customer projects

• We have 2,500 build points and can configure 5,000 infrastructure components simultaneously

Computacenter brings together repeatable processes and global facilities with best practice technologies and skilled people

The infrastructure isn’t an IT enabler, it’s a business enabler. And the majority of the FTSE100 trust us to enable their business. Computacenter has the people, the processes and the pedigree to provision and support agile infrastructures on a global scale.

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OUR EXPERIENCE

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GET IN TOUCH

To find out more about how Computacenter’s Agile Infrastructure services can help you enable your business and users, please contact your Computacenter Account Manager

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DELIVERING RESULTSFINANCIAL SERVICES FIRM INCREASES AGILITY WITH SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATACENTER

ChallengeTo ensure it can meet rapidly evolving customer demands, the customer needed to improve agility. Having already invested in a software-defined datacenter solution to enable this goal, it needed help turning its vision into reality.

SolutionThe customer turned to existing IT managed services partner Computacenter to help it leverage its investments in the VMware tools. This involved building a private cloud infrastructure based on VMware Virtual SAN for enterprise-class shared storage, VMware NSX for network virtualization and the VMware vCloud Suite for hybrid cloud management. Computacenter is also providing managed services for the new platform.

ResultsThe customer now has a resilient software-defined datacenter environment that will enable it to meet its goals for self-service provisioning and greater agility.

Enabling users and their business

Group Headquarters

Computacenter (UK) LtdHatfield Avenue, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9TW, United Kingdom

Computacenter is Europe’s leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, enabling users and their business. We advise organizations on IT strategy, implement the most appropriate technology, optimize its performance, and manage our customers’ infrastructures. In doing this we help CIOs and IT departments in enterprise and corporate organizations maximize productivity and the business value of IT for internal and external users.

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