The Need for Data Center Optimization
With a growing proliferation of servers and in-house business applications, most large organizations today are facing increasing problems of being able to provision the necessary logistics to house, power and cool their server estate.

High Availability
IT departments face ever increasing pressure from the business to ensure the greatest possible uptime for business critical systems and services. These services can be anything from a web farm to a back-end database and ERP servers, where loss of service can mean loss of revenue to the business.

Network Load Balancing & Clustering
The principal means to provide high availability in a Windows environment include Network Load Balancing and Clustering to prevent any single point of failure, either locally or geographically dispersed to multiple locations. Windows Server 2008 provides enhancements to the cluster services originally provided with Windows 2000/2003 and greater integration with storage vendor high-availability solutions.

Server Consolidation & Virtualization
Consolidation is the key strategy to making sure Windows servers will provide Enterprise level services. Consolidated servers cost significantly less in terms of time and effort to support, reduce the time it takes to implement a business service, and are an essential step to providing business continuity. Some of the principal means to help organizations achieve consolidation are Blade servers and dense-server technologies, but also through virtualisation and products such as Microsoft Virtual Server, and Windows Server 2008 (Hyper-V), plus Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 (SCVMM).

1E consultants have an unsurpassed level of Windows infrastructure, Storage/ SAN and networking experience to help you consolidate your Windows infrastructure, as well as implementing Windows systems management and virtualization technologies that significantly improve management of the environment.

Where Can 1E Professional Services Help?
Typical areas where 1E have helped previous customers optimize their server and data center environments include:

•	Design and planning of domain, server and data consolidation, backup and recovery optimization, plus availability and disaster recovery planning.
•	Our team of consultants boast a breadth and depth of knowledge regarding high availability solutions and experience of deploying Windows Server Virtualization solutions.
•	Additional areas of expertise include knowledge of Storage Area Networks (SAN), NIC Teaming and Network Load Balancing, plus Windows and Veritas Server Clustering Services.
•	Due to our close working relationship with Microsoft, 1E has a proven track-record of delivering advanced and complex solutions for over 10 years to some of the largest infrastructure deployment projects globally.

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