If you are considering desktop virtualization, a key area to address is how your users will access and interact with the system. Will their user experience be good or bad? What if they are accessing from different locations or when mobile? What do new developments such as zero clients and cloud PCs offer? Wyse Technology have been leaders in this market for many years and, with this presentation, can help you make more informed decisions in this fast moving technology area.

If you are considering desktop virtualization, a key area to address is how your users will access and interact with the system. Will their user experience be good or bad? What if they are accessing from different locations or when mobile? What do new developments such as zero clients and cloud PCs offer? Wyse Technology have been leaders in this market for many years and, with this presentation, can help you make more informed decisions in this fast moving technology area.A Wyse Technology customer may be joining David Angwin in this session.

Server load balancing technology has been augmented beyond the core availability and scalability advantages. The change in functionality and the demands of cloud computing has resulted in the emergence of the advanced Application Delivery Controller (ADC), offering traffic optimisation, acceleration, security and management improvements.

Monitoring and optimizing the virtual infrastructure is a complex challenge for IT. This presentation will take the attendee through how to marry virtualization automation technology with state of the art monitoring capabilities to achieve specific business goals. Sessions in this category will cover business benefits and real world examples

Monitoring and optimizing the virtual infrastructure is a complex challenge for IT. This presentation will take the attendee through how to marry virtualization automation technology with state of the art monitoring capabilities to achieve specific business goals. Sessions in this category will cover business benefits and real world examples.

Join in this exploration of the various facets of Cloud Storage and learn about the potential of the Cloud evolution. The discussion will provide an overview of the Cloud Storage landscape and the major use cases and requirements. Hear how Cloud Storage can strategically anticipate today’s IT needs and prepare for tomorrow’s automated IT.

This session examines how next-generation file storage architectures will see a convergence of server and storage virtualisation in a way that will use technologies available today to integrate primary storage, file archive, and the cloud.

This session presents an overview of Ethernet-based storage networking technologies and solutions. It examinesthe relevant storage protocols, features and benefits of storage systems using those protocols, and where they aredeployed in a typical IT environment today.The presentation goes on to examine the latest developments in Ethernet standards, and storage protocols, including DataCenter Bridging, FCoE and pNFS, and how they may change the storage landscape over the next few years.

Dell’s Efficient Datacenter provides open, capable, and affordable solutions that maintain your ability to choose the best new technology and protect your existing investments. This session will help you apply technology to efficiently manage and operate your data centre, and in the process free up 50% of your IT budget.

By using virtualisation significant savings can be made, but Allied Telesis have even more ways to squeeze the OPEX costs, further reducing both electricity and air-conditioning costs.

Datacentre sprawl is largely driven by inefficiency, one source of which is the inability to fully utilise CPU’s due to the latency of persistent storage. Fusion-io provides a building block upon which innovative application design and service provision can be delivered to unprecedented density and efficiency levels.

A New offering providing scalability, manageability and enterprise-level capabilities that meet both your business needs and IT budgets. - Reduce management complexity with an easy-to-use interface- Improve storage utilisation and system availability with integrated software functionality- Reduce space and energy requirements with compact packaging.

IBM is focusing attention on public, private and hybrid cloud storage. What is it, what can it be used for (or not), and what benefits accrue for the user from implementing IBM cloud storage technology.

In this session, Gordon Graylish will review how Intel is playing a leading role to enable internet expansion through the embedded internet and enabling Cloud computing to be realized through the evolution of infrastructure capabilities that hold the promise of greater efficiencies, less complexity, improved asset utilization and reduced TCO.

In this session, Gordon Graylish will review how Intel is playing a leading role to enable internet expansion through the embedded internet and enabling Cloud computing to be realized through the evolution of infrastructure capabilities that hold the promise of greater efficiencies, less complexity, improved asset utilization and reduced TCO.

"Most network managers are aware that 80% of network outages are caused by change. What they don't know is perhaps even more simple :- When a change is made, was it in keeping with best practices?- Did the change introduce a gremlin that will cause an outage in a few days' time ?- Regardless of whether it was a 'good quality' change or not, what was the impact - did it actually make things better, or worse?"

A growing list of tools need network access but often lack visibility due to SPAN port and TAP shortages, high tool costs (and questionable ROI), and shortages of staff skillset or staff size. This session will review the problem in detail and outline techniques available today to address the situation.

In 2008, security researcher Dan Kaminsky highlighted a long-standing bug that could allow attackers to compromise the integrity of the Domain Name System with relative ease. In this session, Paul Roberts will explain the bug and why it is still prevalent 2 years later. He will then introduce the DNS Security Extensions, which can be used to mitigate the problem, and discuss ways of monitoring the DNS environment to help identify potential attacks.

Virtualisation is a critical component within today’s IT infrastructure. This presentation will illustrate how, by implementing Overland’s SnapServer SAN S2000, users will never need to learn an additional storage management tool, provisioning is easy and important data protection features like mirroring and replication are simple to implement and manage.

As technology continues to evolve, some data centre challenges become more complex even while new opportunities emerge. Learn how Hitachi Data Systems is taking storage to the 3rd dimension helping turn data centres into information centres.

IT optimisation used to be a luxury ticket for the big spenders. With eroding budgets and carbon reduction regulation already on the statute books, CIOs have to think again. Intergence offers energy efficiency in your office, server room, network and cloud, enabling you to do more business with less IT.

This session examines the second wave of the virtualisation tsunami to hit the shores of the data centre: that of network and application infrastructure. It looks at the architectural implications of Application Delivery Controller virtualisation in the data centre with a view to maintaining appropriate levels of reliability and scalability.

As adoption of cloud computing takes hold, the need to control what, how, and when the cloud provides services to the consumers of those services arises. This session will describe how this new dynamic computing architecture might look like and what is required — above and beyond the standard tools we have today — to qualify as a “cloud”?

This session will look at some of the challenges facing organisations in delivering the storage infrastructure for new applications and projects against a backdrop of limited resources and budget constraints. It will show how, with the right approach, storage efficiency can be dramatically improved.

Learn how VA Technologies utilize Nexenta and ZFS to create hybrid storage appliances combining SSD and Hard Drive technology to dramatically improve performance in your virtual environment whilst maintaining effect control of storage to stop Virtual Machine sprawl.

Learn how VA Technologies utilize Nexenta and ZFS to create hybrid storage appliances combining SSD and Hard Drive technology to dramatically improve performance in your virtual environment whilst maintaining effect control of storage to stop Virtual Machine sprawl.

Building next generation datacenters through IO virtiualisation.

ApplianSys offers a range of hardware network appliances, including solutions for: * Simplifying DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management, and * Enhancing VoIP by streamlining available capacity and radically improving QoS Customers include Global 100, governments/public sector, ISPs and SMEs in 60+ countries. For more information visit www.appliansys.com

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Founded in 1996, Claranet has evolved from being a pioneering ISP (Internet Service Provider) into an MSP (Managed Services Provider) with annual revenues of around €100 million. We have 520 employees with an international footprint in six countries and although Claranet has grown internationally, the focus has always been on local service, out of local offices, using local data centres. Claranet brings together the best people, process and technology to provide flexible, secure and cost-e...

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MTI is a trusted expert in the provision of information infrastructure solutions to more than 1200 customers across EMEA, successfully supporting 2000+ installations. From global enterprise companies through to local specialist businesses, MTI delivers solutions and services across all Continents from it’s European base. MTI diagnose, design and delivers full data center projects working with companies like EMC, VMware and Cisco.

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SGI®, a trusted leader in technical computing, is focused on helping customers solve their most demanding technology challenges by delivering: clustered computing and storage solutions, high-performance computing and storage solutions, Eco-logical™ datacenter solutions, software and services. Our products and services are used by the scientific, technical and business communities to solve challenging data-intensive computing, data management and visualization problems. Data center products...

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Since 1988, VSPL, a VAR and Systems Integrator based in Marlow, has helped many of the UK's most demanding government, scientific and corporate organisations solve their IT requirements. During that time, we have worked on some really exciting projects and have solved often complex IT problems with innovative solutions.

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Quest Software - Server Virtualization Management Group – Stand 858 (Formerly Vizioncore) On the 30 August 2010, Vizioncore, the leader in virtualization management, rebranded to be Quest Software, Server Virtualization Management Group, providing solutions and expertise to simplify virtualization management. Also see the Quest Software company profile. During this show you will have the opportunity to see, hear and discuss feature rich solutions for P2V, Data Protection, Monitoring...

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The London Borough of Hillingdon’s IT team approached Fordway to find an effective and greener way to handle the Borough’s rapidly growing data storage requirements. They needed a solution that would provide effective data prioritisation and management and drive down costs, while also providing increased resilience and reducing power consumption. The Borough’s existing five year old storage area network (SAN) could not handle the expanding level of data, and the associated IT infrastructure was unable to support the IT team as it struggled to manage growth and prioritise data manually.

Fordway designed and implemented a migration to a new storage area network (SAN) solution combined with a virtual server environment. This has provided substantial cost savings, improved data prioritisation and an effective business continuity solution. As well as providing disaster recovery for the Borough, the solution has been extended to provide disaster recovery for the local health authority, Hillingdon Primary Care Trust, and will enable the Borough to recover its operating costs in the not-for-profit agreement with the trust.

A major component in reducing ongoing cost of IT infrastructure by 25% annually while meeting business objectives, improving business efficiency, resilience and maximising return on investment

London Borough of HillingdonV2.pdf 174.76 kB

Cambian Group is a leading UK healthcare and education provider, working closely with PCTs and LAs to provide specialist services over a widely dispersed geography.

Organisations gain the best value from IT services providers that have experience in their vertical, sector or niche, and Cambian Group is just one of a number of social welfare and multi-site organisations that choose Atlanta as a technology partner.

Cambian’s internal IT team of four provides IT services to 2,500 staff. This case study shows how running lean in-house IT with Atlanta is cost effective and efficient without any compromise of high standards of service.

Atlanta’s family of case studies illustrates its experience in a diverse range of areas. Please go to atlantatechnology.co.uk for the full family of case studies.

Cambian Group Case Study.pdf 1.32 MB

Matt Harris, IT Director of the Championship-winning Brawn GP F1 Racing Team, explains the virtues and merits of their award-winning NCE Data Storage and Virtualisation Solution.

Brawn GP case study.pdf 822.58 kB

Fishburns Solicitors implemented a PlateSpin Forge® appliance from Novell to increase the speed and reliability of its disaster recovery capabilities. The Novell® solution enables the recovery of all servers within two hours of a disaster, and allows Fishburns to test data and server recovery at any time, giving the company and its clients full confidence.

Fishburns_en_GB.pdf 136.26 kB

Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has upgraded its storage platform as part of an initiative to create centralised access to its library of more than 200,000 images. The new SAN has reduced time and costs associated with sourcing images and created an additional revenue stream for the charity, as well as improving its disaster recovery capabilities.

RHS.pdf 196.84 kB

Well-known charity Comic Relief needed a new solution to tackle its ever-growing volumes of information. Like many organisations, data volumes were growing exponentially, but Comic Relief faced the additional challenges of an annual influx of new data arising from its flagship campaigns Red Nose Day and Sport Relief and the need to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs to ensure the maximum budget was spent on charitable projects.

Comic Relief.pdf 159.28 kB

New storage and disaster recovery infrastructure has reduced Hammersmith and Fulham PCT’s server count by 60% while ensuring 24/7 availability, scalability and faster delivery of new services.

When the IT department at Hammersmith and Fulham PCT decided it was time to implement a new storage area network (SAN) solution, they turned to their network support partner Fordway for a solution. The new SAN needed to handle significant data growth while reducing the number of servers required - reducing power consumption and facilities costs –while also providing cost effective data recovery.

In response Fordway designed and implemented a resilient SAN combined with a virtual server environment which has enabled the PCT to reduce its number of servers by 60 per cent. It also provides straightforward expansion, reduced downtime and faster delivery of new services.

Hammersmith & Fulham PCT.pdf 155.96 kB

Turner Studios is the full-service production division of the Turner Entertainment Group and the largest production company of its kind. Turner Studios produces entertainment shows, commercials, documentaries and live sports for leading providers such as CNN, TCM, TNT, Boomerang and Cartoon Network. Its commitment to entertainment excellence is exemplified by the 50 awards its work has averaged annually over the last four years.

Turner Studios success led to a critical challenge - safeguarding its work. Every week, the studio’s users generate large multimedia files that must be stored and backed up. Relying on robotic tape libraries for back-ups due to their low cost per-GB presented a challenge. With their limited I/O capabilities, the tape drives ran constantly to keep pace with the flow of production data. Moreover, restoring files was arduous. To retrieve a file, the entire monthly back-up of the file’s directory had to be restored followed by incremental restores of snapshots until the day the file was last saved. Administrators tried virtual tape libraries which provided faster I/O speeds, but retrievals of files still remained difficult…

A proposal based on ZFS, 20 off JetStor® SATA 516F 16-bay RAID Arrays and QLogic FC switches linking the arrays was selected.

TurnerStudios.pdf 2.56 MB

UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service) processes more than 2 million applications every year for courses at Universities and Colleges in the UK. The UCAS IT team explain how NCE helped them find the right solution to handle their ever increasing storage requirements.

UCAS Case study mod.pdf 910.75 kB

This MTI Case Study explaines the success that MTI had at Cobweb with providing them with a scalable Enterprise Public Cloud Infrastructure based on a Vblock 1 design from MTI and the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) Coalition.

CobwebVblock19072010v2.pdf 201.06 kB

Server and storage virtualisation helps to simplify data management and ensure business continuity. Reducing the data centre’s carbon footprint through lower power and cooling requirements, leading to a reduction in capital and running costs.

gm2's ageing storage system was struggling to support growing demands for capacity, constantly shuffling data from one place to another, which was very labor-intensive and made it impossible to predict and prepare for changing data requirements. High availability across the company’s 80 servers was also a growing need. Since the company sells around £1.5M of paper a day it could not afford any downtime.

GM2.pdf 102.18 kB

The global recession, increased competition requiring just-in-time processes, squeezed information technology (IT) budgets, explosive data growth, and new regulatory requirements have all increased the importance of disaster recovery (DR). As a result, organizations are now under pressure to create, re-evaluate and update their disaster recovery plans.

Looking across the DR industry today, there are hundreds of solutions whose value should be measured in three ways: cost, performance and risk.

DR Planning WP_en.pdf 34.05 kB

Virtualising Storage along with Servers and Desktops - Essential to Realise Expected Benefits

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In Fall of 2009, Microsoft and Novell commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises who use choose to use Windows and Linux together in their data center, may realize by standardizing on SUSE as their Linux platform of choice to work with their Windows server environment. In 2006, Microsoft and Novell entered into an agreement focused on improving the interoperability between their respective platforms and bringing tangible benefits to customers who choose to manage a mixed data center environment. Specific areas of improved interoperability included enhanced virtualization support, systems management, document management, and identity management.

In conducting in-depth interviews with six existing customers that had standardized a portion of their data center footprint on both SUSE Linux and Microsoft Windows Server, Forrester found these organizations achieved tangible improvements in operational and capital cost efficiency, IT administration cost savings, increased system availability, as well as higher levels of end user productivity.

Forrester_Interop_WP.pdf 425.42 kB

Overview of why you need to validate performance prior to deployment, and how network emulators can help you minimize risk once you deploy applications on the production network.

Winning on the WAN White Paper.pdf 1.14 MB

ANT-32000 HD Video server can encode or decode PC screen images or Video in various formats and send this over an IP network. Remotely the video or PC images can be decoded using either a PC (Internet Explorer) or another ANT-32000 acting as a decoder. End to end video and audio plus control signals can be sent at various data rates and quality settings over a 10/100 network or the internet.

ANT-32000_article_small.pdf 182.95 kB

Today, a lot of organizations have to address key strategic challenges impacting the future of their IT infrastructure. To support them in their decision making process, Bull has developed a pragmatic customer-centric approach based on its long and well proven experience in infrastructure migration. Bull’s approach is based on a complete methodology that covers the migration landscape (e.g. HP-UX or Sun Solaris) upstream (e.g. with an assessment of the existing environment) and downstream (e.g. with the deployment of the new architecture, in sync with the overall project objectives). Bull has helped many organizations in their rationalisation and consolidation projects, in the public and healthcare sectors, in the Telcos and in the industry.

T-flyer_Smart_Move program eng v3[1].doc 413.00 kB

Codestone are a leading provider of IT solutions. Established in 1997 and with UK coverage via 3 offices in Poole, London and Manchester, we provide turnkey solutions based on leading technologies. We design, implement and support a wide range of vendor products in the virtualisation space including Citrix, VMware, EMC and Microsoft. Rather than being a vendor led organisation Codestone’s autonomy means the right solution is proposed from the beginning depending on the clients requirement. We provide impartial advice to ensure that our solutions are perfectly tailored to your requirements and your budget. Codestone have been accredited to deliver virtualisation solutions for over five years, and have implemented virtualisation technology at over 150 customer sites including backing up to the Codestone Cloud.

Converged Infrastructure:
A converged infrastructure enables an organisation to do more with fewer resources. Converged Infrastructure solutions drive business agility, innovation and performance improvements, while reducing risk, complexity and cost.
IT proliferation has stretched many businesses to breaking point, and business agility is severely constrained. Converged infrastructure, a holistic solution that enables all end user sub systems to work in tandem on a single IP network, offers new and more effective ways of working which address the following typical challenges:

• Escalating IT management and administration costs
• A desire to move mission-critical environments to standards-based infrastructure
• Limited datacenter space; need to improve server consolidation, virtualisation, and utilisation
• Risk associated with older legacy systems
• A need to grow and scale capacity in line with shrinking IT budgets
• Break free of proprietary solutions to achieve true inter-operability through the adoption of open industry standards
• An approach to unifying multiple communications methods: voice, e-mail, messaging, video etc
• Security threats

Bringing together an organization’s core expertise and its most sensitive data, critical applications are vital to its growth and productivity. The key to staying ahead of the competition, such systems require ever-present security and unfailing reliability, as well as heightened availability. Everything has to be accessible, all the time and as fast as possible, even during maintenance operations.

BROCHURE_BULLION_VA_060410_HD.pdf 4.80 MB