Akibia Optimization Services Help Companies Maximize their Investment in IT Infrastructure

Data Center Consolidation, Capacity Planning, Performance Enhancement and Vulnerability Management Ensure an Optimized Data Center

October 25, 2006

Westborough, MA – October 25, 2006 - Akibia, a leading independent IT services provider, today announced its expanded portfolio of Data Center Optimization Services. Developed to help organizations maximize performance and investment in their existing infrastructure, the services leverage Akibia’s proven methodology for analyzing, designing and implementing IT infrastructure solutions. Akibia’s Optimization Services include Data Center Consolidation, Capacity Planning, Performance Enhancement and Vulnerability Management.

Today IT departments are burdened with often conflicting goals - to increase overall data center efficiency, contain costs and improve security, while delivering maximum availability and performance of business applications, and ensuring the data center is agile enough to scale to support future business growth.

“Enterprises’ need to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment is resulting in increased pressure on the IT department to deploy and support additional technologies,” said Matt Healey, Senior Research Analyst for IDC’s Software and Hardware Support Services. “In many cases, IT does not have the budget or the resources to be able to respond to the business needs. As a result, companies are turning to data center services providers for help in maximizing the utilization and performance of their existing servers and systems.”

With in-depth expertise in UNIX, Linux and Windows, as well as Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and Dell, and virtualization technologies including VMware, Virtual Iron and Microsoft Virtual Server, Akibia enables customers to improve data center efficiency, performance and utilization, while reducing enterprise vulnerability and IT complexity. The new data center services include:

  • Consolidation Services – Akibia works with its clients to improve utilization rates, reduce hard-to-manage server sprawl and align the customer’s business to better support future growth. Following a proven methodology, Akibia’s engineers assess the customer’s infrastructure to determine if alternative solutions for consolidation, such as virtualization or migration to Linux, make business and technical sense. After a comprehensive ROI analysis to determine the impact of the design, Akibia architects and implements the new consolidated infrastructure.
  • Capacity Planning – Akibia’s Capacity Planning Services enable companies to plan ahead for growth by ensuring that future business services and compute processing needs can be supported and are in-line with availability and service level goals. Akibia provides a detailed report on utilization rates, potential capacity bottlenecks and system “breaking points” within the client’s existing infrastructure and then delivers a capacity growth plan, which includes recommendations for alternatives that will minimize spending on new systems.
  • Performance Enhancement – As consolidated servers become heavily loaded with applications, maintaining optimal systems performance across all workloads becomes an increasingly difficult challenge. Akibia assesses the client’s overall environment to identify current and potential performance issues related to processor speeds, memory, storage and infrastructures applications. Akibia’s consulting team then makes recommendations on how to optimize performance levels across the data center, factoring in current and future workloads, while ensuring maximum availability.
  • Vulnerability Management - As customers strive to create a well managed, secure and optimized IT infrastructure, many companies rely on Akibia’s extensive security expertise to analyze their environment for exposure and vulnerabilities and to deliver a total security solution that helps manage their risk and protect them from internal and external threats.

    “Our customers look to Akibia as their long-term partner and trusted advisor to help them obtain the most value from their existing data center infrastructure,” said Tom Willson, CEO of Akibia. “As a vendor agnostic services company, we are able to analyze our clients’ infrastructure and make recommendations to help them optimize their current systems in order to meet business demand and plan for future growth-- rather than purchase additional technologies that can result in server sprawl, space constraints and higher data center facility costs.”

About Akibia, Inc.

Akibia provides innovative IT solutions that enable leading companies worldwide to optimize, secure, manage and support their mission-critical infrastructure. As an independent advisor, Akibia partners with its customers to deliver solutions that improve the availability and performance of their data center and security infrastructure. Combining expert consulting, integration and support services with world-class customer service, Akibia helps IT organizations maximize the value of their existing infrastructure, while mitigating risk and reducing complexity. Founded as Polaris Service in 1988 and headquartered in Massachusetts, Akibia is an independent services company with offices throughout the United States and Europe.

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