Maximizing the Value of Existing Infrastructure While Reducing Costs

Challenged with increasing data center efficiencies and reducing costs, while still maintaining maximum uptime and reliability, many IT organizations are looking to optimize their existing infrastructure. At the same time, IT must ensure their data center infrastructure can support future business growth and is agile enough to scale accordingly. Akibia’s Data Center Consulting Services help our clients achieve these goals.

Assess Opportunities to Optimize & Reduce Costs in the Data Center

For most IT organizations supporting highly complex, distributed, heterogeneous infrastructure environments, the hardest part is figuring out where to start optimizing: How to identify the greatest opportunities for cost savings, efficiencies and optimization and therefore prioritize the most critical issues to be addressed.

Akibia’s Infrastructure Assessment Service enables organizations to analyze their infrastructure – identifying gaps, risks and opportunities for improvement, from the standpoint of performance, utilization, capacity planning, consolidation, security, compliance, and overall efficiencies. Akibia’s recommendations enable clients to prioritize key projects and initiatives.

Get the Most out of Microsoft Infrastructure Investments

Many Akibia clients rely on our Microsoft Infrastructure Consulting Services to help them get the most value out of their business–critical Microsoft environment – ensuring it is optimized for performance, reliability and scalability. Whether upgrading to Exchange 2007, or moving to Windows Server 2008 to take advantage of virtualization, Akibia’s Consulting Services helps clients realize their goals efficiently and effectively.

Leverage Virtualization to Consolidate Systems, Reduce Costs and Maximize Utilization

Akibia’s Virtualization Services team helps clients dramatically increase data center efficiencies by consolidating systems, leveraging the latest virtualization technology. Many of our clients have realized considerable cost savings as well as other benefits as a result of virtualization including:

• Increased utilization of existing servers
• Reduced hardware, software, support, maintenance and facilities costs
• Enhanced flexibility and speed in deploying new systems
• Improved security
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Citrix Gold Solution Advisor Partner Akibia helps clients realize the full benefits of server, desktop and application virtualization – leveraging Microsoft’s HyperV technology and Citrix’s Xen technology suite. Akibia’s Consulting team supports the entire technology lifecycle from planning and assessments to design and implementation, as well as training and support services. Akibia also provides in–depth training on how best to manage, support and optimize VMware virtualized environments.