Data Center Infrastructure Practice
Data Center ServicesTransforming the Data CenterThe Next Generation Data CenterThe "Next Generation Data Center" is modular, adaptive and highly virtual to allow organizations the freedom to focus on new business while dedicating less money, time and resources on existing operations. Technologies and services are shared, highly automated and delivered consistently across the IT infrastructure to help you accomplish more with less.Comprehensive Data Center PracticesSHI's principal competency is the design, implementation and optimization of data center strategy, operations, security and infrastructure. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of customizable, scalable data center solutions focused around five practices that streamline operations, lower costs and reduce risk and complexity so your organization can focus on business growth:Infrastructure - These services provide a critical step in data center transformation by reducing complexity and increasing asset utilization through modularization and virtualization.Information Security & Risk Management - From asset protection and regulatory compliance to managed security, SHI offers a comprehensive portfolio of services to help you maintain a secure and efficient data centerManagement & Automation - Data Center Management & Automation builds on Infrastructure Design & Implementation services by creating a data center management platform that transforms a modularized and virtualized infrastructure into an “adaptive” infrastructure with increased flexibility and responsiveness.Strategic Consulting - Strategic Consulting provides a catalyst for improving asset utilization, addressing risk management requirements and improving the alignment of IT infrastructure with customers' business needs.Operations Optimization - Operations Optimization enable customers to reduce cycle time and improve service quality and productivity by optimizing processes and tools with service delivery roles and responsibilities based on the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) industry standard.
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Application Deployment Architecture Networks Server Storage Virtualization Backup, Recovery & Archiving High Availability
Transforming the Data Center
SHI’s Data Center Infrastructure Offerings
` Application Deployment Architecture ` Networks ` Server ` Storage ` Virtualization ` Backup, Recovery & Archiving ` High Availability
The Next Generation Data Center
Today’s CIO and supporting staff are faced with substantial cost pressures combined with the challenge of positioning IT to support business initiatives and drive the next cycle of growth. Organizations are responding to these demands by developing initiatives to dramatically transform their IT infrastructure into a modular, highly virtual and adaptive “Next Generation Data Center.” Many services will be shared, highly automated, optimized and delivered consistently by this new data center infrastructure. The end result is a simplified and agile IT infrastructure that consumes less time, money and fewer resources so your organization can focus on business growth and innovation.
Application Deployment Architecture
SHI’s senior level data center consultants assist in developing application deployment architecture for key application infrastructures including SAP, Oracle, Outlook and SharePoint. Utilizing best practices and translating business requirements into technical specifications result in an application infrastructure that is highly available, resilient and scalable.
Focus on Infrastructure
The need for increased processing power and greater storage capacity has led to substantially larger and more complex data centers. Demand now outpaces the supply of power, cooling and floor space in the data center, resulting in a shift towards a more efficient and streamlined IT infrastructure.
Quick Facts:
Networks
Highly focused Local Area Network design and implementation services are critical to a successful data center transformation program. SHI’s team of consultants provides the expertise, tools and best practices that support a wide range of networking technologies.
` By 2011 more than half of organizations’ workloads will be deployed in virtual machines ` Blades will account for 29% of server sales by 2012 ` Data center power and cooling will be the focus of most organizations and spending during the next five years ` One out of every five servers runs on Linux – the adoption rate of Linux servers is expected to increase by almost 8% by 2012
Server
Effective server design and implementation helps achieve simplified management without sacrificing robust, enterprise-class functionality. Combined with our host installation and configuration services, SHI’s server solutions provide the design of a complete, highly available and redundant server platform suited for either virtual or host operating environments.
Improved Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance
Driven by industry and government requirements, IT organizations must provide improved business continuity and data retention capabilities.
Acceleration of Consolidation and Virtualization
The shift toward highly modularized and virtualized infrastructures is accelerating due to rapidly increasing demands on IT resources.
About SHI’s Data Center Practice
Infrastructure Design & Implementation is an integral part of a successful data center solution and sits within SHI’s overall Data Center practice. SHI’s team of experienced services professionals is dedicated to helping our customers achieve their data center transformation goals to make the Next Generation Data Center into a reality.
Storage
Reliability, flexibility and scalability are essential to a storage environment. SHI’s wide range of storage array, storage network and backup design and implementation services help maximize the value of your data center investment.
Virtualization
As the adoption of consolidation and virtualization accelerates, SHI data center consultants are ready to work with you throughout the entire solution lifecycle. From planning and business case development to architecture, design, build, testing and deployment, SHI offers the expertise and best practices to help you accelerate your program and its associated benefits.
Backup, Recovery and Archiving
Business and government regulations are the driving demand for greater application availability, requiring more robust capabilities for back up, recovery and data retention. SHI’s data center consultants have the experience required to help you design and implement high availability, backup, recovery and archiving solutions to meet the critical demands of business and government regulations.
Dedicated Practice
To address our customers’ needs, SHI developed a dedicated infrastructure design and implementation practice with a comprehensive portfolio of products and services, backed by a team of dedicated and experienced consulting services professionals.
Strategic Partner Alliances
SHI partners with industry leading information technology solution providers to enhance our knowledge base and offer expertise on all aspects of Infrastructure Design & Implementation. We leverage a vast partner network to ensure our customers benefit from the most experienced and knowledgeable resources available in the industry today.
High Availability
The “Next Generation Data Center” adapts quickly and fluidly to rapidly changing computing demands. SHI provides clustering design and implementation solutions to deliver high availability in the data center, accommodate changing initiatives and prepare your organization for future cycles of growth.
Strategic Vendor Relationships
SHI provides a best-in-breed approach to infrastructure design and implementation to ensure our customers can create a solid foundation for data center transformation. Our strategic relationships with leading software and hardware vendors are key to supporting our customers’ efforts through all aspects of the design and implementation of the Next Generation Data Center.
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Why partner with SHI:
SHI takes a business-centric approach to infrastructure design and implementation, where our customers’ business goals drive their IT requirements. From accelerating consolidation and virtualization, to addressing the business and regulatory demands for high availability, backup, recovery and data retention and “going green,” SHI can help. The value we provide is based on the knowledge we possess, the partnerships we have formed and the experience we have acquired. From planning and architecture to design and implementation, we take a full lifecycle approach to addressing our customers’ data center challenges. SHI has made a significant investment in people and technology to bring to market a leading edge data center design and implementation practice that can guide our customers through these challenging times. In order to provide our customers with data center services they require, we offer total solutions that include SHI Infrastructure Design & Implementation Services and a broad line of technologies from the industry leaders. Our decision to incorporate these technologies into our services offerings is based on customer needs, industry analyst recommendations and overall marketshare. Our relationship with these industry leaders is more than just resale, it is a relationship based on mutual investment to provide comprehensive IT solutions for our customers.
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SHI’s Data Center Infrastructure Practice
33 Knightsbridge Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854
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