KIS has found that many clients have very old hardware supporting upgraded Operating Systems and application servers.The problem is normally that the newer software (while compliant in many cases) requires resources that the hosting hardware cannot support efficiently.To leverage the software investment, KIS developed a practice area that specializes in evaluating, designing, implementing, and customizing new hardware to host these upgraded or newly implemented operating system or application software solutions.The process includes physical hardware, resource limits, performance indicators, future usage, increased resource metrics, and the end-user community to evaluate what hardware needs to be included and exactly where improvements and/or resource changes need to occur.
KIS will develop a design and plan that will include the best overall solution for any particular hardware based on the client’s needs and expectations and not pressure from our vendors.Questions such as physical or virtualization, SAN or local storage, and partial replacement of server components or full server replacements, are all evaluated.
Manufacturers used by KIS to create solutions in this Practice Area:
·Dell
·HP
·IBM
Features:
·Updated and current technology
·Added component features and capabilities
·Increased reliability
·Increased Fault-Tolerance / High-Availability
·Reduced space and peripheral costs
·Increased performance
·Increased support offerings and capabilities
Business Benefits:
·Implement technology that will allow for current and future growth will reduce costs
·Ability to build on the new solution for Business Continuance / Disaster Recovery
·Reduce costs by reducing space and energy requirements
·Higher reliability due to newer and supportable hardware and components
·Ability to stay current and implement newer business applications on optimal hardware with resources that can be scaled out as necessary.
Consultants/Principal Experts: Sean Canevaro, Allan Hurst, Craig Miller
