Shape Your Business For the Future:
Powering Transformation With Cisco
Tomorrow’s Workplace Harnessing the Benefits of Collaboration
Henry Farahar
Sales Director Logicalis
15th May 2012, Tuesday
Agenda
Overview of Tomorrow’s Workplace
Our Virtual Workspace Solutions
Client Case Studies
The Logicalis Value
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The Journey to Unified
Communications & Collaboration
BI Portal
Collaboration
VDI/VXI
Personal Productivity
Unified Comms
Enterprise Applications
Web 2.0 Content
Audio, Video, Photo
Personal Productivity Tools
Limited Visual
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Tomorrow’s Workplace?
Increased Communication
Quicker Time to Market
Increased Customer Satisfaction
Increased Staff Satisfaction
Reduced Costs
DRIVES BUSINESS EFFICIENCY
Virtual Teams Training
Emergency Planning Internal Communication
Mobile/Remote Worker
Employee Productivity
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Desktop Challenges……
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Logicalis Virtual Workspace Architecture
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VDI – The Key Benefits
Cost Reduction Improved Performance
Offsite backup.
Instant on Thin Clients offer ‘quick booting to reduce wait time’
Reduced Noise
No Fan or hard drive means less noise
No ‘Maverick’ software
Software is loaded and managed in the Datacenter.
Energy Savings
Thin Clients use an average of 80% less energy (avg. 25watts
vs. 170 watts)
IT Management
Typically management & support accounts for more than
70% of your ownership costs
Thin Clients last longer
No moving parts (fan, hard drive) mean less maintenance issues – MTBF greater than 8
years
Thin Clients are less Expensive
Reduction in acquisition costs for computing devices
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Case Study 1
A major betting and gaming player in Hong Kong….
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The Client
Operating in over 100 branches and on various mediums
Extensive infrastructure supporting the business and in
excess of 26,000 employees
Requiring a robust and secure technology environment to
support various usages and requirements
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The Challenge
Lowering back end costs whilst maximising profitability
Streamlining process and management
Increasing ease if transaction
Managing the “spike intensity” of network
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What was Needed?
Remote access to network from various devices
Central Management
Lower support costs
Enable effective future deployment & management
Enhancement of customer experience
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The Solution
Virtualized environment
Mobile customer betting kiosks/access points
Integration with desktops and mobile signage
Tailored, centrally managed applications
Scalability for future growth
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Case Study 2 – Beazley Group
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The Client
Result of Intercontinental M&A
Private to Public company in 2002
High growth velocity – resource, real estate, geography
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The Challenge
Sustaining growth
Offering a consistent international service
Weak and unreliable infrastructure
IT and the growth of the company mis-aligned
IT hindering the companies growth
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What was Needed?
New IT Management structure
Definition of strategic technology roadmap
Stable network for today and future-proofed
A strategic advisor and technology to meet these needs
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The Solution
Implementation of secure, reliable network foundation
“Going from a single point of failure on everything to no single
point of failure on anything” (Dave Boswell)
Wireless Network
IP Telephony on single Global network
Collaboration tools
Quality of Service support
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The Outcome
Confidence and increased use of network internally and
client facing
Direct Cost savings
Ease and efficiency
Seamless transition and expansion
Relationships growth through video
Future-proofing
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Key Themes
Consolidation and management of the legacy infrastructures
Access to a full suite of collaboration tools
New business benefits beyond replacement of old
technology
Business and technology working as one!
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The Logicalis Value
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Logicalis
Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed services provider
with a breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications and
collaboration; data centre and cloud services; and managed services.
Circa $1.2 billion in revenues.
Operations in Europe, USA, South America and Asia Pacific
Over 2,500 employees worldwide
Over 6,000 corporate and public sector customers
Strong global partnerships with technology leaders
- Cisco Systems, HP, IBM and Microsoft.
Centre of excellence for data centre services
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Strategic Global Partnership
• High-level accreditations with key partners
• 21 International awards in 2011
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Able to deliver solutions and services
across all models
Data Centre
& Cloud
Consultancy
Services Communications
& Collaboration
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Integrate solutions into a business-
based IT service
Data Centre
& Cloud
Consultancy
Services Communications
& Collaboration
Managed Services
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Why Logicalis?
“Logicalis is in something of a sweet spot with its focus on network infrastructure, data centre and related services, which it is no doubt putting to good use on client’s cloud investments. “ October 2011 “...a few companies will emerge as leaders over the next 2-3 years and, in our view, Logicalis is showing all of the signs of being one of these leaders.” (regarding Cloud Services) August 2011 “We see that Logicalis is well positioned to grab a share of the emerging cloud market, as well as growing in the more established datacentre services markets.” August 2011 From a recent Managed Services briefing, “This is a great time for Logicalis... the next ‘industry darling’ for managed services.” October 2011
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Any Questions? Thank-you! Henry Farahar, Logicalis [email protected]