supporting cloud infrastructure in the real world
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3’s a Cloud
MTI & VCE a unique combination
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Agenda
Our Company Our Commitment Our Solution Centres Our Success Our Differentiation
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Our Company:
MTI Europe
Pan European with a global reach
Almost 25 years of experience in datacentre
Experience in multi vendor compute, storage, networking and virtualisation environments
150 people, $ 80M revenue
1400+ Clariion installations in Europe (plus support)
Single point of value, contact, expertise around VCE
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Our Commitment:
• VMware
• Cisco
• EMC
• Virtual Computing Environment
• Unified • Storage• Computing• Networking
• Virtualization
• Journey to the cloud
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Our Solutions Centres
Vblock 0
Vblock 0
Vblock 1
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Our Solutions Centres:
Paris
London
Frankfurt
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Our Successes with Vblock:
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Our Differentiation:
Single Point of Expertise
Single Point of Service
Single Point of Contact
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MTI launches a range of Managed Services! MTI’s Managed Service portfolio provides your organisation with a
service that will empower you to react quickly in troubleshooting and fixing infrastructure issues before they hurt your business.
You save time and money by being able to focus on your core
business responsibilities.
No training, product procurement or installation to worry about—your
staff remain focussed on their core responsibilities.
You will be able to address infrastructure issues in a structured and
methodical way, with key intelligence generated by MTI’s monitoring service.
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MTI launches a range of Managed Services!
Network monitoring:
• Switches, Routers, Hubs, voice Infrastructures, Security appliances, Wireless and general networking equipment
• Applications, Printers, Gateways, Interface traffic, Syslog
• Networking and application connectivity to TCP-based services, including Telnet and HTTP
• Protocols and services, including
DHCP, DNS, ICMP, FTP, HTTP, SNA,
UDP, TCP and SNMP
Server monitoring:
• Availability, uptime
• CPU, memory, disk
• Processes, services, batch jobs, NLMs
• Event and application logs
• Message queues and screens
• Directory and file systems
• Network interface
• Performance counters and statistics
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MTI launches a range of Managed Services!
Storage monitoring: Monitoring of the health, performance
and capacity of the storage array,
Alerts to the storage management team in the event of failure or low free space
Creation, extension or change of Logical Units within the storage array,
Assistance in designing Business Continuity plans.
Back-up monitoring: Monitoring of the back-up process
Alerts to the data-management team in the event of failure to back-up
Tape-cloning service, where data is backed-up from tape to a remote storage facility
Assistance in designing assured Back-Up Solutions.
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Thank You!
MTI & VCE a unique combination
About Cobweb
• Established in 1998 as an ASP
• Largest provider in Europe of Microsoft
collaboration Software-as-Service
• 5,500 customers & 60,000 users
• Infrastructure-as-a service with hybrid cloud
monitoring, management & reporting
• On Premise Professional Services
• ITIL based 24/7 support desk
• Dual Tier IV data centers
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Challenges – The Dark Ages…
• Physically constrained with a mix
of vendors
• No control of vendor release
schedule
• Non multi tenanted software
• Continuous R&D
• Massive infrastructure requirement
• Delay in time to market of services
• The capex/opex challenge
Exchange 5.5/2000 Architecture Design
Enabling Platform
Rich APIs
Security
ResourceManagement
Network
Compute
Virtualization Storage
Cobweb Control Panel The Vblock
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The Evolving Private Cloud
VirtualizedData Center
PrivateCloud
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Barriers to the adoption of the Private Cloud
• Process Maturity
• Skills & Resource
• Tools
• Integration
• Politics & Culture
• Cost and ROI
12-18 months
Cobweb Virtual Service Container
• Tier 1• 99.99% SLA
• Boundary Definitions & Policy
• Encrypted Data
• DR within 4 hours RTO
• Replicated data
• 24/7 Monitoring & Support
• Tier 2• 99.99% SLA
• Boundary Definitions & Policy
• DR within 12 hours RTO
• 24/7 Monitoring & Support
• Tier 3• 99.5% SLA
• No backup or DR
• 9-5 monitoring
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Server ContainerDesktop Container
Container Groups
Session Summary
• The Vblock is enabling rapid growth and
reducing time to market
• The investment in the Vblock mirrors our
commitment to enterprise customers
• Cobweb is aligned to the customer cloud
journey and VCE are aligned to Cobweb
• MTI have been invaluable in configuration &
testing
• The FD is happy, the data centre team are not
sweating and customers want more…