Richardson Eyres IT Solutions & Services
Richardson Eyres Overview
Formed in the UK in 1986
Grown steadily through reputation and hard work, not through acquisition or private equity
We are a privately owned UK company and debt free
A ‘top ten’ technology integrator for:
HP (Gold Partner)
vmware (Enterprise Solution Provider)
We provide datacentre technology infrastructure solutions and services that solve complex business challenges for corporate clients in the UK and Europe.
What we do: Solutions
We deliver solutions from leading vendors, such as HP and vmware to achieve maximum impact in the shortest time for the least financial investment.
Server & Storage Consolidation
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Infrastructure Virtualisation
Project led Consultancy & Services
Infrastructure Fulfilment & Value add
IaaS
BaaS
Disaster Recovery supporting infrastructure
Desktop as a Service
Desktop Virtualisation
What we do: Services
Richardson Eyres Technology Services Group consists of some of the UK's best-qualified and most experienced IT Professionals.
HP Services (HP ServiceONE Enterprise)
Support Contract Management Services
IMAC (Infrastructure Moves, Additions and Changes)
IMMS (Infrastructure Monitoring and Management Services)
Implementation Services
Assessment Services
Training Services
RE Cloud Convenient, scalable, reliable cloud with 99.9% availability
• An on-demand, flexible, dependable, scalable and low-cost cloud infrastructure• Create a virtual machine from the ground up or use the prebuilt catalogues• Create your own internal network topology• Add more storage when you need it• Use VPN gateway or access via a VPN Client• Move virtual machines between your own virtual infrastructure and the re cloud
What we do: RE Cloud
RE Cloud is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. Providing reliable IaaS is about using the right technology and running things well. if you are considering an infrastructure refresh but want to avoid the capital expense you should consider RE Cloud.
NaviCloudAn enterprise-level, 99.999% availability IaaS platform
• A pay-per-use, production-ready, reliable and scalable robust virtualised infrastructure, with just a 30-day commitment.
• Eliminate redundant infrastructure and cut capital expenditure• Create highly available and affordable on-demand services• Rely on SAS 70 Type II compliant data centres• Create a cloud optimised for running business applications
What we do: NaviCloud
For customers who demand the highest availability on the cloud with full compliance, NaviCloud is the answer.
Truly pay-per-use, NaviCloud reduces operational costs and improves business agility, giving you complete control of your applications.
RE Cloud BaaS Replace traditional backup with cloud-based backup and DR in one
• A simple catch-all managed service for onsite and offsite backups• Files are staged locally on a BaaS appliance and then backed up to RE Cloud• Replaces tape, tape systems, backup software, vendor support, offsite tape storage and even disaster
recovery contracts in a simple pay-as-you-grow arrangement• Low cost when compared to traditional approaches of backup and DR• Restore files, images, whole servers, laptops, mailboxes or sites locally or in the cloud• All data is encrypted at source, while in flight and at rest with military-grade encryption• Supports a multiplicity of operating systems, applications, databases and virtual environments
What we do: RE Cloud BaaS
RE Cloud Backup as a Service (BaaS) is a cost-effective managed cloud backup and restore solution for physical and virtual environments on customer sites.
Our BaaS service provides an easy way to restore critical data in the event of hard drive crashes, power surges, dropped or stolen laptops, accidental deletes and even full-blown disasters.
Why work with Richardson Eyres
Effective Execution
Operating as an extension of HP
Some of the most qualified and experienced technical resources in the industry
Consistency in the resources aligned to clients
Our HP Accreditations
A comprehensive understanding of complex server, storage, networking, virtualization and application solutions.
Years of experience in the deployment of HP’s server technologies.
We work with businesses to create a storage strategy that manages protects and optimizes data
Accredited to deliver HP solutions across the entire lifecycle & HP portfolio
Our vmware Accreditations
vmware Authorised Consultant (VAC) Richardson Eyres is a vmware Authorised Consultant. Our vmware accredited sales professionals and technical consultants are some of the most skilled in the industry.
Infrastructure Virtualisation
The Infrastructure Virtualization Competency recognizes partners for their demonstrated ability to virtualize and consolidate server environments using a vmware virtualization solution from IT production through to IT as a Service.
Our EMC Accreditations
VNX Storage Richardson Eyres deliver storage solutions based on EMC’s market leading VNX storage platform. We have experience designing, deploying and configuring Enterprise VNX storage systems for businesses across a range of industries.
Data Protection and Availability
Richardson Eyres specialise and are fully accredited in EMC’s Data Protection and Availability Division (DPAD) portfolio, including Avamar and Data Domain. We deliver solutions based on these technologies to some of the worlds largest companies, delivering cost savings across multiple countries.
Our CISCO Accreditations
Unify your Data Centre
Cisco Unified Data Centre changes the economics of the data centre by unifying compute, storage, networking, virtualisation and management into a single platform
Richardson Eyres hold Cisco Advanced Unified Computing Technology & Cisco Advanced Unified Fabric Technology Specialisations enabling us to provide expertise in design, deployment and management of Cisco Data Centre Architecture.
Unified Computing
Cisco UCS is the smart, innovative, fabric computing infrastructure that simplifies operations and speeds deployment.
Unified Management
The Unified Management component of the Cisco data centre architecture features end-to-end management software solutions providing intelligent, automated approach to IT management.
Richardson Eyres clients
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Case Studies
Business Objective
Business Pain Points RE Solution Customer Case
Infrastructure Refresh & Move
- Acquisition & Merger- Office Moves- Upgrades, EOL & Migration
IMAC from RE Mourant
BC & DR - Growth in business critical data- Operational Maintenance
Disaster Recovery, Resilience and HighAvailability
SiSPlastic LogicLiberum
Phase 1 Virtualisation (IT Production)
- Rapid business growth leading to inefficient IT infrastructure- Multiple sites/ locations- High Support Costs
Virtualise IT production SiSMolton BrownASOS
Phase 2 Virtualisation (Business Production)
- Improvement / update to existing virtualenvironment.- Expansion of acquired virtual environment- Rollout virtualisation to business critical operations.
Virtualise Business production SiS
Professional Services
- Highly complex and unique solutions.- Bespoke level for data centre and storage
Professional Services Consultation
Molton BrownVALSPAR
Pain Points we have solved & the businesses we have helped
Business Objective
Business Pain Points RE Solution Customer Case
Infrastructure Services
- Business requires pre-configured server builds.- Trusted supplier to fulfil our infrastructure requirements meeting our delivery time, configurations and build quality standards.
Infrastructure Fulfilment & Value Add.
WyethGSK
Professional Services
- Multi regional storage and access capabilities.
Multi Region Project Fulfilment WyethGSKLilly
Storage consolidation
- Company has outgrown physical storage capacity/ vastly underusedstorage facility and needs to maximisecurrent available storage capacity.- Company requires a more unified storage facility.
Centralise & Consolidate Storage SiSMolton BrownASOSVALSPAR
Professional Services
- Company requires specific server builds. Bespoke services around server builds
Telstra
Pain Points we have solved & the businesses we have helped
Boardex – RE Cloud Platform accelerates test and development capabilities
ChallengeOver 250 BoardEx Analysts work with highly specialised data from multiple sources.
BoardEx is seen as the industry gold standard for quality and reliability.
Consequently, itest and development capabilities for internal information systems and external production applications must deliver optimal quality, agility and high performance.
“RE Cloud has reduced the time the team was spending on implementing and managinginfrastructure. Now BoardEx team have more time to develop new skills needed for managing virtualised environments – skills that align more closely to managing applications and operating systems. All of which helps to increase long-term job satisfaction and employee retention.”
RE Cloud 99.9% availability on it’s IaaS platform
Flexible, robust platform that could also free my team from some of the administration duties our on-premise solution required
SolutionSince the (IaaS) was commissioned BoardEx has experienced a number of far-ranging benefits, including;
Greater agility
Shortened product lifecycle
Considerable cost savings by reduction in server deployment time
More time for the team to align their skills to business objectives
Results
Harvey & Thomson – RE Cloud Platform lends H&T Pawnbrokers room for growth.
ChallengePeriod of significant growth with increased store opening hours/days – so ITs ability to scale was critical
Ageing Server & Storage infrastructure
“Richardson Eyres understood the board’s concerns and helped me build the business case for Cloud…”
RE Cloud offered Harvey & Thomson the best all round deal: affordable pricing, scalable, secure IaaS with 99.9% availability, robust Service Level Agreements, including IT performance reporting and contract flexibility
SolutionReduced TCO - due to lower CapEx investment & savings on in-house support, IT housing costs and utility bills
Agility – H&T’s IT team is now free to spend time developing systems
Flexibility – services can be deployed dynamically
Availability – RE Cloud has delivered 99.9% availability
Risk and support – H&T now utilises Richardson Eyres’ support
Results
ASOS – Richardson Eyres gives ASOS infrastructure for success
ChallengeASOS needed a more flexible development environmentto replace its on-premise infrastructure
The online retailer’s 30% annual growth meant its new test/dev environment had to be highly scalable
“Richardson Eyres delivered everything we expected and more’ concludes Michael Sheehy. ‘They were open and honest, listened to what we wanted and delivered it.”
After speaking to T1 vendors, ASOS chose NaviCloud IaaS from NaviSite and its UKpartner Richardson Eyres
NaviSite uses best of breed infrastructure to deliver enterprise-grade performance along with the flexibility of cloud
SolutionCreating test/dev environments now takes one day instead of two weeks
ASOS has now moved two of its key production systems onto NaviCloud
Results
Mourant – Richardson Eyres takes the headache out of datacentre move for Mourant
ChallengeAs a growing organisation, Mourant needed to move to a new data centre to accommodate its plans to expand its IT infrastructure
To move Mourant’s complex blade server and storage environment without damaging it
The move had to take place over a set period of time, so a strict plan of action was necessary
“We see Richardson Eyres as an extension of our own team. We have been planning this move with them for the best part of 12 months and they have been able to offer advice at both a strategic and tactical level.”
Mourant enlisted the help of one of its trusted IT partners, Richardson Eyres to assist with the design, then plan and orchestrate the move of its blade and Storage infrastructure
Richardson Eyres prepared for all eventualities and provided round-theclock support for the move
SolutionThanks to the skill and assistance of the Richardson Eyres team, the move was successfully completed within the fixed time frame
The hardware was successfully rebuilt without any major issues
Mourant is now benefiting from a larger, best-of-breed facility
Results
Molton Brown – Richardson Eyres design and integrate cost effective storage area network
ChallengeA scalable and resilient IT infrastructure was required to support Molton Brown’s core business systems
It was looking for a new cost effective SAN that could provide increased storage capacity
The new SAN also needed to support vmware
“Richardson Eyres made the whole deployment process pain free and delivered within our required timeframe and budget. In the past we have used many third party partners to support our IT and I consider Richardson Eyres to be one of the better partners we have used. I can’t say enough good things about them.”
Molton Brown needed a partner who could design, integrate and provide training for vmware. It chose Richardson Eyres
Richardson Eyres deployed an HP P4000 SAN
HP P4000 SANs are optimised for virtual environments
SolutionSignificantly increased storage capacity and scalability
Enhanced network performance
HP P4000 SANs provide resilience and redundancy
Snapshots feature enables minimal downtime
Molton Brown has introduced email archiving due to increased storage
Richardson Eyres provides business critical support for both hardware and software
Results
Plastic Logic – Plastic Logic creates Enterprise class infrastructure to launch electronic reading phenomenon
ChallengeWhen Plastic Logic created a new manufacturing plant in Dresden it needed an Enterprise class infrastructure to support critical manufacturing and business systems.
For disaster recovery, it also wanted an identical system at its datacentre in Cambridge, UK with replication between the two.
“Since we are a comparatively new company that is poised for rapid growth, we needed an infrastructure to support that growth. That is what Richardson Eyres has created for us and their enterprise-level IT systems will give us essential support for the future.”
Plastic Logic needed a partner who could provide a total design and implementation service
Each of the two identical environments includes an HP Storage Area Network (SAN)
Backup is done on HP StorageWorks MSL tape libraries.
Data is replicated between the two sites using HP Continuous Access software.
vmware has also been used for extensive virtualisation of the server landscape.
SolutionThese enterprise class infrastructures form a solid foundation for significant growth between the two sites ensures business continuity and high availability.
Virtualisation has enabled Plastic Logic to reduce physical servers and still achieve an enterprise environment at a lower cost.
Reducing the server landscape lowers power consumption, saving further costs and reducing carbon emissions.
Results
Telstra – Telstra International meets growing customer demand for managed services
ChallengeTelstra International wanted to introduce blade technology into its London hosting centre to resolve Power and Cooling issues, increase performance, reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and simplify manageability
“HP BladeSystems with virtualisation technology are more cost-effective, less power hungry and easier to manage. Server utilisation has typically increased 600 per cent, downtime is minimal and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) continues to fall as we introduce more highly reliable server blades. However, most importantly, they allow us to deliver effectively the managed services demanded by our Customers.”
HP ProLiant BL460 c-Class G5 server blades
vmware virtualisation software
HP Insight Control management software
SolutionHigh-performance, high-availability, scalable infrastructure.
Reliable HP blade servers increase compute power and ease manageability.
High-density infrastructure saves space & lowers Power and Cooling requirements
Server utilisation increased by 600%
Service levels have increased to 99.9%
TCO continues to fall
Rapid deployment of applications boosts profitability.
Results
ASOS – ASOS increases its virtual shop front with HP Blade Servers
ChallengeASOS is the UK’s largest online fashion and beauty store, attracting more than one million visitors a week. Due to a growing team of web developers and slowing servers, the team’s progress was being affected.
“Scalability is the actual key for us. Going forward, if we double or triple our development team, we need a scalable solution. And, compared with standalone servers, HP’s Blade Servers are easier to manage, upgrade and support.”
HP Blade Servers
vmware
HP Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 6100 storage array
HP Storage Area Network (SAN) fabric
SolutionNew servers solved a major problem for ASOS. The fast-growing website development team can get on with developing new features without risking any interruption to the live ecommerce site.
The new system is flexible enough to support the company’s growth and future plans.
HP Blade Servers and virtualisation enabled the developers to test and work on the site without any interruption to the live ecommerce site.
Huge savings have been a massive benefit for ASOS.
Results
Valspar – Centralising Business Critical IT
ChallengeRationalise a sprawling server and storage estate accumulated as a result of multiple company acquisitions.
“Having a virtualised environment means we have been able to retire approximately 30 physical servers and haven’t needed to buy more. I estimate we’ve saved at least £50,000 and, when we’re finished, that could be £100,000, perhaps more.”
HP BladeSystem c-Class Blade Servers
HP StorageWorks 4000 Enterprise Virtual Array
HP EVA SAN switches
vmware Enterprise Edition and Virtual Centre software
HP MSA Storage System
HP MSL 6030 SAN-attached Tape Library
Richardson Eyres Consulting Services to install and configure
Riverbed WAN acceleration devices
SolutionReduced maintenance
Reduced power requirements
Cost avoidance of £50-100k through reduced server purchasing and retirement
£40-50k saving in backup devices
Improved business continuity
$2 million in bandwidth savings
Results
SiS – Virtualisation breaks barriers for outside broadcaster
ChallengeRefresh existing technology to provide greater agility, scalability, resilience and availability
“Richardson Eyres showed a really innovative approach to designing a solution that met our specific needs. They were able to draw on their experiences with other customers, which was very helpful. In addition, they proved they have the ability to deliver what they promise, which is worth its weight in gold.”
HP BladeSystem c-Class chassis with Gig E switches and pass through modules
HP StorageWorks 4000 Enterprise Virtual Array
HP SAN Fabric: 32 switches with powerpack
vmware Enterprise Edition and Virtual Centre software
HP Data Protector Backup software
HP MSL Tape Library
HP CarePack for 24x7 support for 3 years
Richardson Eyres Consulting Services to deploy and optimise
SolutionReduction in hardware & power requirements
Return of one computer room to the business
Improved availability and resilience
Easier system management
Faster commissioning
Increased development productivity
Proactive response to potential problems
Significant reduction in disaster recovery time
Results