MTI Datacentre Deployment Design: Overview
MTI provides you with the best practices required to achieve an efficient, scalable and flexible implementation of your storage, backup, servers and network environments. This ensures that your new infrastructure will run at an optimal level and deliver best level of services.
Our implementation consultants are in charge of assessing each customers particular environment needs in order to implement and integrate new technologies whilst ensuring business continuity. All MTI’s experts are extensively trained and certified on products they implement. MTI’s experts involvement guarantee the whole compatibility and homogeneity of the new system and the existing one.
Each implementation is planned, documented and validated by a process that is designed to eradicate the risk factor that is implicit to any change. Implementations are carried out by abiding to strict “best practice” rules that are available from the most reliable sources.
Due to the growing complexity and the technological diversity of the environments it is vital for any business to put their trust in the hands of the most qualified and reliable partners such as MTI who has a proven track record.
MTI Datacentre Infrastructure Install
The “Build” phase of an integration project is composed of three main phases which are all linked together: Installation– Implementation - Tests. Installation is the first phase. This phase is the foundation of the whole system. Indeed, bad physical installations and configurations are part of the main causes of failure of any new system, despite the quality of the implementation and the applications running on it.
An installation is in all cases the most important part of the life of your hardware as crucial decisions are to be made at that time before it can given to the business ! It is therefore vital to be able to rely on the industries experts to make the most suitable decisions for your particular configuration and make it easier for future changes.
A typical installation is made of a site survey from which a list of pré-requisites will be issued to the customer who can be assisted / advised by our teams on all aspect of the installation, from power cabling to configurations.
Installations are carefully planned and co-ordinated respecting a thorough process that involves the following steps:
- Understand the client's expectations and needs
- Hardware systems : perform a site audit (power supply, cooling, floor space and loading, low voltage cabling)
- Validate configurations that are to be deployed - Statement of work
- Decrease risks and impacts by using a proven project management process and tools.
- Install the solutions
- Test and validate
- Create or update installation and architecture documentation
MTI Datacentre Infrastructure Implement
Deploying or implementing a new solution such as storage platform, server farm, network or applications, is a daunting operation and high risk task. As part of the whole infrastructure, the implementation of new system can affect the global infrastructure. Within the “build” phase, the implementation tasks just follow the physical installation of the different systems.
The “implementation” is the part where the solution you bought will be tailored to your environment needs. It must be therefore carried out in close collaboration with the customer to respond to their exact expectations.
The implementation must take into account the whole environments performance, perational goals and business objectives. Implementation is key operation and must absolutely include unitary and integration tests, tuning and performance analysis. Failure or lack of performance are most of the time the result of a poor implementation.
MTI Datacentre Infrastructure Deployment: Key Benefits
Implementing a new system, takes specialised skills and resources that many organisations do not have internally. MTI deliver a consistent and cost-effective catalogue of standard and predefined implementation services such as servers and storage consolidation and virtualisation, VTL solutions, backup and restore, de-duplication, LAN and WAN optimisations. However MTI are used to implementing customized environments according to the customer’s requirements and expectations.
By taking advantage of the skills of experienced MTI’s experts, you will obtain the following key benefits:
- A cost-effective implementation of your assets at a fixed price
- Take advantage of more features and benefits of your solutions
- Minimize time to production and in-house staff involvement
- Decrease risks and impacts by using a proven project management process and tools.
- Achieve a rapid Return On Investment (ROI)
- Ensure continuity among all phases of integration project
- Ensure improved ongoing global performance
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