Mitigating Infrastructure and Energy Challenges Through Cloud & Managed Services Aidan Keates – Presales Manager
Nov 12, 2014
Mitigating Infrastructure and Energy Challenges Through Cloud & Managed Services Aidan Keates – Presales Manager
What are the challenges?
Infrastructure
• Support Business?
• Manage the costs?
• Disaster Recovery
Energy
• Minimize Energy Costs
• Improve Availability
• Energy hungry, dated
equipment
Mitigating Infrastructure
“Reducing the infrastructure footprint of the organization will lead to lower spend on computing, storage, and network
hardware and software, as well as labour, services and utility costs to deploy, operate and support that infrastructure”
Cloud and Managed Services Value Proposition
Infrastructure
• 80% Reduction of Total Cost of Ownership – says Microsoft
• 86% Reduction in Cabling and Cabinets– says Cisco
• 85% Increase in Computing Efficiency – says VMware
Energy
• 80% Reduction in Energy Consumption
• Reduction in Cooling Demand
• High Availability
Huh? What are…..
Cloud Services?
“The delivery of computing as a service whereby shared resources, software and information are provided as a utility over a network on a pay-as-you go basis”
Managed Services?
“The practice of transferring day-to-day related management responsibilities to a service provider for improved effective and efficient operations.”
What Services are Available Today?
Cloud Services • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
– Virtual Servers
– Virtual Desktops
– Remote Storage
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
– CRM, ERP, Exchange, Oracle, SAP, HR, Payroll, Web services – Filtering, AntiSPAM, Caching,
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
– Development Environments
• Communication as a Service (CaaS)
– Hosted Voice over IP
– Audio/ Video Conferencing Facilities
Managed Services
• Local Area Networking (LAN)
• Wide Area Networking (WAN)
• Hardware and Software Support
• Voice/Communications Systems
• System Monitoring and Reporting
• Security – Firewalls, IDS & IPS
• IT Help Desk
• Document Solutions & Printing
• WAN optimization
• Application Development
Seamless Access to Services
• Partnership with Utande IS
• Fibre & Wireless based, High
Speed, Reliable Connectivity
• Tier 3 Data Centre
Seamless Remote Access to Services
• Partnership with Q-KON
• 23 Years of sound engineering
expertise
• Zero Latency VSAT
• Business Broadband
Xcellerated (BB-X)
ICT is Transforming……
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Pay as you grow ICT Services!!
Who are we?
Realtime Africa
• Large ICT Conglomerate
• 31 Years of Service Excellence
• Regional Service Coverage
– Harare
– Bulawayo
– Lusaka
– Kitwe
Bytes Technology Group • Largest SA owned ICT
Company in RSA - $1BN Turnover
• Proven track record in Managed Services
Enterprise Networking
ITIL Based Service Delivery
• 90 Points of Presence in in Sub-Sahara Africa
Why Realtime Bytes
• Realtime Bytes is a TRUE Systems Integrator
Alliances with “BEST of Breed”
Ability to INTEGRATE Multi Vendor Solutions
Solution FOCUSED not Product Centric
Strong SERVICE ethic
Industry Proven Track Record
Product Credentials
• Cisco Gold Partner
• Oracle Gold Partner
• VMware Enterprise
Partner
• Microsoft Gold Partner
• SAP Business Objects
Partner
• Juniper Networks
• DELL Certified Partner
• SUN
• HP
• 3Com / Tipping Point
Gold Partner
Questions?