| Optimised applications | |
| “By taking the platform approach to procuring IT systems you reduce the time to market to days/weeks rather than months” |  Codec-dss Ltd : Richard Nolan, director |
| The new way to provision infrastructure to run an application is to simplify the process by placing an order with your IT business partner for a fully converged system. This is when the application provider has worked with a hardware vendor to engineer a system – using commodity-based components – that will run at optimum performance levels to meet the business needs. So if your application is processor heavy questioning the availability of an engineered converged system for this app is a good starting place.Codec-dss has pioneered this type of high-performance system in Ireland starting with the HP/Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse appliance (now called APS – Analytics Platform System). We now provide converged systems across a range of applications, ERP, CRM, XRM, Business Analytics & Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). We can optimise applications from software companies, Microsoft, Oracle, Infor and SAP running on high performance HP converged infrastructure. By taking the platform approach to procuring IT systems you reduce the time to market to days/weeks rather than months. We have seen a 90% plus reduction in the provisioning times with far better performance outcomes than the old way of rolling out applications. | |
| Centralised management | |
| “Organisations are starting to explore the concept of delivering IT as a service driven by the need to contain costs, accelerate time-to-service and enhance flexibility” |  Trilogy Technologies : Siobhan Cusack, sales manager, Ireland |
| Organisations are starting to explore the concept of delivering IT as a service driven by the need to contain costs, accelerate time-to-service and enhance flexibility. Trilogy’s managed IT as a service gives organisations the benefit of a depth and breadth of expertise beyond the reach of in-house teams. By availing of this service, organisations have experts with skills and specialist knowledge covering the entire IT estate, overseeing the performance of the IT around the clock and dedicated to the continual management and monitoring of the company’s IT. The service also leverages converged infrastructure which allows organisations to reduce complexity and risk in architecting solutions, mitigating interoperability challenges in the planning phase. It also ensures design complexity and swift deployment of applications and services gaining a competitive edge.The managed IT as a service approach allows organisations to centralise the management of IT resources, consolidate systems, increase resource utilisation rates and lower costs. It also allows businesses to massively reduce the risk around infrastructure architecture, reduce time to service delivery and man hours involved in maintaining the infrastructure. It will provide both technical and business efficiencies by combining server, storage and networks into a single framework that helps to transform the economics of running the data centre and accelerating the transition to IP storage to help build infrastructures that are ‘cloud ready’.Trilogy designs, implements and manages agile infrastructure helping clients to enhance their operations, mitigate risk and enable business strategy. The company incorporates expertise in both infrastructure transformation and Managed IT as a Service to deliver business-wide IT services. | |
| Reducing footprint | |
| “If the business had a large number of applications that IT needed to manage, chances were that each application had their own physical server assigned – which was then racked into cabinets inside the data centre” |  Ergo : Kevin Greene, cloud and data centre management MVP |
| These days, everything in IT seems to be mobile, connected, interactive, seamless and with a ‘right-now’ requirement to be up and running. To keep up with these demands, organisations need to implement cost-effective infrastructures that give them the flexibility to scale up or down at a moment’s notice – all the while keeping costs at a minimum.By converging their IT infrastructures, organisations can deliver greater speed and agility to their end-users as they move away from the old ‘technology silo’ mentality of assigning physical pieces of hardware to individual applications and IT services.As an example of how converged infrastructure solutions are already changing how we manage our IT, remember back to only a few years ago when organisations would purchase a specific physical server to take the role of hosting a line-of-business application. If the business had a large number of applications that IT needed to manage, chances were that each application had their own physical server assigned – which was then racked into cabinets inside the data centre. If redundancy for network connectivity was needed, then multiple physical network connections and messy cables also required consideration.It’s easy to see why back then, that data centres for even medium-sized organisations became complex and costly to manage due to the large number of physical hardware that had to be maintained.
Step forward to today and those same organisations would instead probably only need to purchase a very small number of physical servers, assign those servers as clustered virtualisation hosts, then design a converged infrastructure implementation around them. This new design would host multiple virtual server instances with each one running their own line-of-business application at a fraction of the cost and with a better performance and high-availability story too. Using Ergo as a deployment partner to help you design and deliver a converged infrastructure environment will ensure that you maintain centralised control and management as well as reducing your overall cost and complexity footprint. 
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