Welcome to Sat Kav – the smartest route to a converged infrastructure architecture
A converged infrastructure matches the supply of IT resources with the demand for business applications; integrating existing technology silos and resources with unified management to deliver a virtualised, highly-automated infrastructure.
At Kavanagh we recognise that you have immediate needs and pressures and we have identified five core destinations to help you start your journey, meeting your short-term IT needs whilst keeping you on the right route and maturing your IT for the future.
Simply click the topics below to find out how Kavanagh can help you.
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Cost Reduction
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If your destination of choice is Cost Reduction then Kavanagh can help you to plan your infrastructure so that short-term savings don't compromise your future.
Opportunity:
- Improving infrastructure utilisation and creating service based charging.
- Creating an alignment between the true cost of IT service support and the amount that an end-user pays for the service.
- By implementing a monitoring mechanism and associating a charge (that includes the data volume, infrastructure, delivery and support) the user who stores less will pay less for the service. IT will only need to buy and manage the storage that is actually required resulting in cost savings. The same principle is not limited to storage and applies across the whole infrastructure.
Possible Routes:
- Asset audit and rationalisation will form the basis of a cost reduction programme by looking at third party support charges, software licensing and underutilised hardware.
- Virtualisation of servers and desktops breaks the tie between the physical hardware and the service, enabling the reduction and optimisation of infrastructure hardware.
- Service-based utilisation reporting describes exactly how much infrastructure each service is using.
- Centralisation of servers, particularly in a global environment, will lead to cost reductions in terms of hardware, support and manpower requirements
Reduced Environmental Impact
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Running IT infrastructure, either in the data centre or in the office environment, is expensive in terms of utility resources (power, cooling and floor space). This can be viewed from both a cost and carbon footprint standpoint. In addition, limited mobile workforce capability forces individuals to travel to their desks to access their applications. Kavanagh will work with you to create a roadmap destination which will enable you to reduce your environmental impact.
Opportunity:
A modernised IT infrastructure will require less utility resource. In making IT services remotely available, it will reduce the staff travelling time, cost and environmental impact.Possible Routes:
- Desktop and server virtualisation, in addition to centralisation, will increase the effective utilisation of IT infrastructure and reduce the amount of utility resources required to run the infrastructure.
- Asset audit and rationalisation will allow for optimisation. Inefficiencies will also be removed.
- Standardised infrastructure allows services to be aligned to the infrastructure rather than supporting multiple, and different, stand alone environments representing a diverse range of infrastructure components.
Improved Service
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Implementing best practice ITIL processes is a tried and tested method for improving service, quality and reliability. ITIL techniques help organisations to better align IT with the needs of the business. Improved Service is a must for those wanting to free up resource and focus on decisions that will impact the future of your IT infrastructure. Kavanagh will help you plan and implement a standards-based infrastructure.
Opportunity:
The support of a standard and consolidated infrastructure requires less manpower and this will release capacity to enable IT expertise to support the development and delivery of new services. Equally, optimised processes will ensure that service levels will improve.Possible Routes:
Each organisation is faced with unique challenges inherited as companies evolve to meet the needs of the business and its customers. A standards based infrastructure will reduce the diversity of infrastructure requiring support. The governance of the standards upon new projects will dictate the speed at which they can be deployed.Increased Resilience
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As business services become more dependent on IT, the impact of any IT failure increases. Incorporate increased resilience into your roadmap with Kavanagh and ensure that your exposure to risk is mitigated effectively, now and in the future.
Opportunity:
By creating a secondary data centre the risk of a catastrophic failure is reduced significantly. This could take the form of a hosted service or utilise disaster recovery services, supporting your business continuity goals. Through the use of infrastructure modernisation the need for a specific job role to be tied to a specific location will be removed. In the event that a user location is unavailable, staff will be able to access a complete set of IT services from an alternative location. The time it takes to recover virtual servers is reduced because the server is no longer as dependant on specific hardware.Possible Routes:
- Desktop and server virtualisation will enable users to work independently of location.
- A second data centre will significantly reduce the business critical recovery times, and a candidate facility to recover a complete data centre would need to be identified. This does not necessarily need to be a full investment in a new data centre as recovery sites and shared data centre options (partnerships) can be considered.
Workforce Mobility
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Workforce mobility is the destination for businesses who want to improve employee productivity. Kavanagh will work with you to ensure workforce mobility is on your roadmap and highlight the technologies required to meet this business goal.
Opportunity:
By creating an environment where all IT services are available at any time, any place, anywhere staff are given a more flexible working environment and a platform for higher productivity. The currency of information will be more immediate because staff will not be reliant on returning to their normal working location to add or update information.Possible Routes:
- Desktop and server virtualisation. This will break the link between the delivery of IT services and an individual's workstation. End-users with the correct level of authority and security credentials will be able to use IT services at locations that have internet connectivity.
- Network upgrade. More resilience is needed in both the local area network and also the extended network for more remote locations.