The Well Managed, Secure and Optimized Data Center

IT organizations face the challenge of increasing data center efficiencies while ensuring maximum uptime, performance and security and still allowing for scale and growth. Many customers are looking at server optimization and open source and virtualization technology to consolidate their current IT infrastructure. While reducing the number of physical servers enables a more cost-efficient infrastructure and lowers the security risks associated with managing a sprawling server environment, optimizing for peak performance and reliability also remains top of mind for IT managers.

Leverage Akibia to Improve Data Center Efficiencies and Performance

With in-depth knowledge and expertise across a wide range of data center technologies and platforms, Akibia’s Consulting team leverages proven industry best practices to enable companies to optimize the utilization, performance, availability and security of their data centers.

Akibia’s Data Center Optimization Services help customers analyze, assess, architect, implement and support a highly available, reliable, secure, scalable and cost-efficient data center. Our Services include Systems Consolidation, Capacity Planning, Performance Enhancement and Vulnerability Management.

		Our Data Center Expertise Akibia has deep technical expertise across the following platforms and technologies:   • Operating Systems - Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, Novell SUSE Linux and Windows Server   • Hardware – Sun, HP and Dell   • Virtualization – VMware, Xen, Virtual Iron and Microsoft Virtual Server   • Security – Check Point, Nokia, RSA Security, eEye, Blue Coat, Ciphertrust, Infoblox, Tipping Point, Big Fix Our Customers With 20 years experience supporting mission-critical data center environments, Akibia has worked with some of the most demanding, high-availability data centers in the world. Independence As an independent services provider, we serve as the customer advocate, offering objective consulting, integration and support services – ensuring a well managed, highly available, secure and optimized data center environment. Focus on Service We are focused on providing the best possible customer experience and highest standard of service. Proven Methodology and Best Practices Our methodology ensures both current and future requirements are met, leveraging technology, people, processes, policies and procedures.

Akibia Optimization Services Overview

Consolidation

As IT organizations are challenged with increasing efficiencies many are looking to consolidate server and storage systems - thereby improving utilization while reducing hard-to-manage server sprawl. Akibia’s vendor-agnostic approach to consolidation provides an independent and objective perspective and is designed to ensure our customers achieve the maximum value and ROI from their current infrastructure.

Akibia’s Consolidation Services help customers to analyze and assess their overall environment to identify where they can reduce the total number of servers, thereby lowering hardware and software costs and simplifying support. We determine if deploying or migrating to Linux, or leveraging virtualization makes business and technical sense. As part of the assessment we also provide a comprehensive ROI analysis. Following the assessment phase our Consulting team will architect and implement the new consolidated infrastructure design utilizing our proven methodology.

If the customer is consolidating data centers and needs to move part of their current infrastructure, Akibia’s Data Center Relocation Services will seamlessly and efficiently move, test and bring back online all critical systems. Akibia also provides Data Center Support Services for all ongoing hardware maintenance and operating system support.

Capacity Planning

Akibia’s Capacity Planning Services are an integral part of data center optimization, enabling companies to plan ahead for future growth and ensuring that future business services and compute processing needs can be supported and are in line with availability and service level goals.

Our expert consultants analyze the current data center environment and provide a detailed report on utilization rates, capacity bottlenecks and “breaking points”. We also work with the customer to analyze their future requirements and develop “what-if” scenarios that provide a capacity growth plan including upgrade alternatives.

As customers evaluate their hardware and upgrade alternatives many of them turn to Akibia’s objective Hardware Procurement Services to see if they can maximize the capacity and performance of their existing systems by reconfiguring hardware components.

Performance Enhancement

Maximizing the performance of each server is a key element in efficiently operating a data center. As consolidated servers become heavily loaded up with applications, optimizing performance across all workloads becomes an increasingly difficult challenge.

As part of Akibia’s Performance Enhancement Services our Consulting team works closely with the customer to conduct a comprehensive assessment of their data center environment to identify current and potential performance issues and make recommendations on how to maintain optimal performance across their entire data center infrastructure.

We evaluate and report on current and planned server hardware and operating system configurations and patch levels, utilization rates and workloads. We analyze processor speeds, memory, storage and infrastructure applications such as data protection and data recovery systems, virus scanners and other high-processing applications. All data is analyzed over peak and valley workload times to ensure a holistic view of the client’s environment. In addition to analyzing key performance data we provide recommendations on how to optimize performance levels across current and future workloads while ensuring maximum availability.

Vulnerability Management

As companies strive to create a well managed, secure and optimized IT infrastructure environment many customers rely on Akibia’s extensive security expertise to develop and implement a comprehensive vulnerability management framework and process.

Akibia’s Vulnerability Assessment and Management Services are designed to help companies identify their current level of exposure and risk and to create an on going process whereby new threats are monitored, detected and prioritized, as well as develop security policies on how to respond to and mitigate these risks. In addition to Akibia’s in-depth security consulting expertise we have 20 years security engineering and integration experience where we leverage best-in-breed security technologies to deliver a total solution to the customer.