Innovations in Outsourcing 07 About this award
T e increasing need for organisations to look more closely at which parts of their IT they need to keep in- house and which parts they can outsource has combined with advances in both facility design
and cloud-based
technologies to revolutionise outsourcing services. While every organisation will have a diff erent opinion based on its own evaluation
of
the benefi ts and drawbacks of outsourcing, providers across the
spectrum have
outsourcing developed
new models to meet the growth in demand.
Sponsor
T e eVDC reduces costs by up to 60% compared to traditional two-site server and storage solutions. One Adapt customer made a saving of 26% on a three year TCO solution for 28TB replicated storage, compared to the cost of provisioning the same in house.
Norland is a leading provider of facilities management and support services in the built environment, operating from a strategic network of regional offices throughout the UK and Ireland. The Critical Environment Division delivers innovative mission critical solutions that reduce operational risk by up to 80% through our unique trademarked methodology CE360.
Adapt’s fl exible commercial models allow customers to fl ex between pure CapEx to fully OpEx depending on needs, budget and plans. T is fl exibility ensures that as customers experience rapid growth, or their services experience peaks in demand, payment and provision of services can be instantaneous. It off ers unrivalled performance with dual-site synchronous data replication, delivering near-continuous availability.
T e eVDC is designed to a world-class Flexpod reference architecture that is enhanced by a NetApp Fabric metrocluster to provide genuinely active/active near-continuous availability. T e solution resides in two Tier III data centers connected by diversely routed dark fi ber. In addition to connectivity and infrastructure provision, Adapt utilizes Cisco UCS and NetApp management solutions as well as trialling options for orchestration, self-provisioning and metering, which will support future ventures into the provision of Platform-as-a-Service.
T e solution provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service at enterprise availability levels with hypervisors provided by VMware and Citrix, depending on the use. Virtual servers can be migrated in real time between physical sites and synchronous replicated storage is also available to customers colocated within the data centers.
Finalists 2011:
Computacenter Computacenter uses nlyte software to deliver innovative outsourcing diff erentiation
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Fujitsu Uptime Institute Operational Sustainability – Fujitsu London North Gold Certifi cation
ScoLocate Scottish Data Center innovations in outsourcing
Adapt Enterprise Virtual Data Centre (eVDC)
T e enterprise Virtual Data Centre (eVDC) uniquely delivers high levels of performance together with dual-site synchronous replicated data for resilience to provide near-continuous availability. T is
enables the instantaneous migration of operational services from one physical data center location to another, eliminating the need for additional disaster recovery facilities.
“Having invested heavily in the development of the eVDC, it is hugely rewarding to see the hard work of the team formally recognized with this prestigious award. T e Datacentre Leaders Awards are both highly regarded and well-known” Simon Fisk, sales & marketing director, Adapt
Winner 2011: ADAPT
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