Insight Data Center Practice

InsIght solutIons

Consolidate. Virtualize. Optimize.The explosive growth of data in organizations has created an explosive demand for innovation in the data center. But it’s not enough to simply add servers and storage; you must also consider total costs, critical data availability and environmental impact.

Insight’s Data Center practice offers the robust technical expertise and deep manufacturer relationships to deliver innovative and scalable solutions – server consolidation and virtualization, backup reliability, disaster recovery and continuity solutions – that reduce your data center costs and your carbon footprint.

The Insight Way to Solution ExcellenceThe way we help clients is unique. We see you as a “services provider” to your company, providing data, communications and security services. To help you deliver these services, we approach every solution with a three-pronged philosophy:

•STRATEGY – Gaining a full understanding of your organization’s structure and technical requirements, setting ROI and TCO benchmarks and developing reference architecture

•ASSESSMENT – Discovering what you have today against where you want to go, while evaluating the overall impact of the solution by reviewing your People, Technology, Processes and Metrics

•IMPLEMENTATION&OPERATIONS – Installing and configuring your environment to its finest state, followed by outsourcing the operations for a stable, secure network

By partnering with Insight, you are assured of our strategic and methodical capability merging to deliver leading, dependable and cost-effective solutions for your data center, backed by comprehensive lifecycle and IT management services.

Our solutions and services have been developed, tested and proven successful for hundreds of clients in North America and the United Kingdom. Whether your project depends on design engineers, implementation experts, professional consultants or project management, your qualified account manager – your go-to person – assembles a team of Insight experts and partner resources to serve you.

The result? Technological credentials and consultative expertise that combine to deliver profitable solutions and services to drive your success.

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Insight’s Data Center Expertise

• Cisco Gold Certified Partner

• Advanced Data Center Networking

Infrastructure

• Advanced Data Center Storage

Networking

• ATP – Data Center Unified

Computing

• ATP – Network Hosted Storage

• Cisco Powered Managed Data Center

• HP Platinum Business Partner

• HP BCS National Authorization

• HP Services Elite

• HP Software Gold Partner

• HP Storage Elite

• IBM Premier Business Partner

• VMware Authorized Consultant

Data Center Solutions To help you address present and future needs for your business, we offer several data center solutions and services.

Server SolutionsIt’s imperative to not only choose the right servers for your needs but to also leverage the latest server optimization technologies. Our ability to design, deploy and manage scalable server environments enables you to take advantage of clustered and grid computing, consolidation, virtualization and more.

Storage SolutionsWith data retention needs ever increasing, enterprise storage has never been more critical or complex. Today’s organization must consider business requirements for backup, archiving, disaster recovery and more – not to mention overall costs. From high availability backup and long-term archiving to disaster recovery and business continuity, Insight delivers a range of solutions to storage challenges.

Infrastructure SolutionsThere’s more to data center costs than hardware. Expenses related to power, cooling, connectivity, security and real estate could quickly erode even the most robust IT budget. In today’s environment, an optimized, efficient data center infrastructure is imperative to cost-effective IT operations. Insight delivers innovative and scalable solutions that reduce data center costs and your carbon footprint.

MultivendorInteroperabilityTestLabsandIntegrationLabshelping clients make sound technology decisions, Insight’s $8M solutions Center – featuring a multivendor interoperability lab – has proven to be a valuable asset to clients and partners. hosting 250-300 tours per year, the solutions Center outside Chicago, Illinois allows clients and prospects an opportunity for: • Multivendor testing with VMware, EMC, IBM and HP storage systems • Hands-on interoperability demonstrations • Proof of concept testing • Interoperability problem resolution in replicated client multivendor

environment • Remote testing via the Internet

As part of our Center, Insight’s IsO 9001:2008-certified Advanced Integration Lab is one of the few facilities qualified to perform complex customizations on UNIX, Microsoft rack or stand-alone servers. • Manufacturer-trained experts design, build, configure and test integrated Data

Center solutions. • Centralized lab environment provides the scale to handle massive deployments

and custom configurations. • Controlled environment provides flexibility to react quickly to issues and the

controls to administer quality assurance best practices not available on the client site.

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DataCenterPracticeTeam

The Data Center Practice is a

business organization that develops

and designs technical solutions for

you. It has individuals across the

country who are certified experts

pro-actively driving, implementing,

and managing your product and

service solutions. There are

four distinct roles: solutions

Sales Manager, Design Engineer

Architect, Design Engineer

Associate and Principal Consultant.

Each has their unique role in

assisting you in the pre-sales

process, whether it is navigating

a manufacturer’s special pricing

program, assisting with speeds and

feeds, or scoping an entire data

center from scratch, these are all

situations where this team will walk

clients through the process. This

team holds 200+ certifications

to not only enable Insight to sell

the product, but more importantly

to assist you in determining

the optimum solution for your

environment.

Enterprise SoftwareEnhance business productivity through messaging, collaboration and cloud computing, and simplify the deployment of core infrastructure technologies – from the desktop to the datacenter. Benefit from comprehensive product selection and proven global capabilities with unmatched global licensing, strategy and implementation and sAM services.

NetworkInfrastructureSolutionsTo ensure your network serves as the mission-critical platform for your business, Insight delivers a variety of complex Network Infrastructure solutions around core routing and switching, wireless, WAN application delivery and advanced network solutions.

CollaborationSolutionsstart achieving productivity gains and lower costs. Insight offers the advanced technical resources to design and deliver an array of business-related Collaboration solutions from IP telephony to TelePresence.

LifecycleServicesReduce acquisition costs, simplify deployment and tighten management throughout the key phases of the IT lifecycle. Our tools and resources include Product Provisioning, Warehouse/Integration, Maintenance/Warranty, Finance & Leasing, and Asset Disposition and Remarketing.

ManagementServicesTo effectively operate and support your network, selectively outsource your operations to save costs, whether it is with our state-of-the-art network operations center providing continuous coverage to keep your network operating at optimal capacity, Telecom Expense Management, Business Process Outsourcing or Connected Real Estate and Sports.

Visit our website at www.insight.com/solutions for our full offerings.

InsIght’s solutIons PortfolIo

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Insight Fast Facts• Cisco Gold Certified Partner

• HP Platinum Partner

• IBM Premier Business Partner

• Lenovo Premier Business Partner

• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

• Lifecycle Management Services

• ISO 9001:2000 Integration Labs

• Advanced Technology Labs

• IT Management Services with a

24x7 Network Operations Center

• 432,000 square foot Distribution

Center

• $130M ‘ready to ship’ inventory,

$3.3B virtual inventory

• 2,500+ technical certifications

AboutInsightInsight is a technology solutions

provider serving global and local

clients in 190 countries. Today,

thousands of clients, including

more than 80 percent of the Global

Fortune 500, rely on Insight to

acquire, implement and manage

technology solutions to empower

their business. Insight provides

software and licensing services

globally. In addition, we offer a

comprehensive portfolio which also

includes networking, hardware and

value added services for our clients

in North America and the U.K. We

are aggressively expanding our global

capabilities by introducing new

offerings, including hardware and

services, to meet emerging needs for

our clients worldwide.