Mitigating Infrastructure and Energy Challenges

Mitigating Infrastructure and Energy Challenges Through Cloud & Managed Services Aidan Keates – Presales Manager

What are the challenges?

Infrastructure

• Support Business?

• Manage the costs?

• Disaster Recovery

Energy

• Minimize Energy Costs

• Improve Availability

• Energy hungry, dated

equipment

Mitigating Infrastructure

“Reducing the infrastructure footprint of the organization will lead to lower spend on computing, storage, and network

hardware and software, as well as labour, services and utility costs to deploy, operate and support that infrastructure”

Cloud and Managed Services Value Proposition

Infrastructure

• 80% Reduction of Total Cost of Ownership – says Microsoft

• 86% Reduction in Cabling and Cabinets– says Cisco

• 85% Increase in Computing Efficiency – says VMware

Energy

• 80% Reduction in Energy Consumption

• Reduction in Cooling Demand

• High Availability

Huh? What are…..

Cloud Services?

“The delivery of computing as a service whereby shared resources, software and information are provided as a utility over a network on a pay-as-you go basis”

Managed Services?

“The practice of transferring day-to-day related management responsibilities to a service provider for improved effective and efficient operations.”

What Services are Available Today?

Cloud Services • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

– Virtual Servers

– Virtual Desktops

– Remote Storage

• Software as a Service (SaaS)

– CRM, ERP, Exchange, Oracle, SAP, HR, Payroll, Web services – Filtering, AntiSPAM, Caching,

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)

– Development Environments

• Communication as a Service (CaaS)

– Hosted Voice over IP

– Audio/ Video Conferencing Facilities

Managed Services

• Local Area Networking (LAN)

• Wide Area Networking (WAN)

• Hardware and Software Support

• Voice/Communications Systems

• System Monitoring and Reporting

• Security – Firewalls, IDS & IPS

• IT Help Desk

• Document Solutions & Printing

• WAN optimization

• Application Development

Seamless Access to Services

• Partnership with Utande IS

• Fibre & Wireless based, High

Speed, Reliable Connectivity

• Tier 3 Data Centre

Seamless Remote Access to Services

• Partnership with Q-KON

• 23 Years of sound engineering

expertise

• Zero Latency VSAT

• Business Broadband

Xcellerated (BB-X)

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Who are we?

Realtime Africa

• Large ICT Conglomerate

• 31 Years of Service Excellence

• Regional Service Coverage

– Harare

– Bulawayo

– Lusaka

– Kitwe

Bytes Technology Group • Largest SA owned ICT

Company in RSA - $1BN Turnover

• Proven track record in Managed Services

Enterprise Networking

ITIL Based Service Delivery

• 90 Points of Presence in in Sub-Sahara Africa

Why Realtime Bytes

• Realtime Bytes is a TRUE Systems Integrator

Alliances with “BEST of Breed”

Ability to INTEGRATE Multi Vendor Solutions

Solution FOCUSED not Product Centric

Strong SERVICE ethic

Industry Proven Track Record

Sappi

Existing Customers Include…

Product Credentials

• Cisco Gold Partner

• Oracle Gold Partner

• VMware Enterprise

Partner

• Microsoft Gold Partner

• SAP Business Objects

Partner

• Juniper Networks

• DELL Certified Partner

• SUN

• HP

• 3Com / Tipping Point

Gold Partner

Questions?