Recent Blog Entries
Why Capex to Opex in the hosted solution is the best way
Hosting and infrastructure service providers rightly make a simple financial point: switching from traditional in-house IT to a hosted infrastructure service moves money from capital expenditure (Capex) to operational expenditure (Opex). Instead of paying large sums of capital for hardware and software, a business makes monthly operational payments to the infrastructure host.
For almost every business, this is an appealing option. Purchasing something outright ties up money. Monthly leasing keeps capital available for urgent projects and gives a business financial agility.
Why rent rack space with your own kit when you could use a hosted service?
If you’ve been looking into outsourced IT infrastructure services, you may be thinking about renting rack space. With this option, you buy your own servers and put them in leased rack space away from your office.
HP VirtualSystem for VMware accelerates the benefits of the cloud
Traditional IT is complex, slow to react when change occurs, and costly. Solutions offered by hosting and infrastructure service providers have overcome these problems.
But some early attempts to virtualise IT were short-sighted. They failed to account for integration and the evolution of technology.
The latest fully-integrated virtual infrastructures have addressed these issues. In this area, HP VirtualSystem for VMware leads the industry and accelerates the benefits of the cloud.
The top ten challenges hosted services overcome
Switching to a hosting and infrastructure service is a good move. The cost savings alone are a powerful incentive.
But a hosting and infrastructure service is still a new concept for many businesses. You and your colleagues may have concerns. These concerns are the challenges a hosting and infrastructure service provider must and can address.
Benefits of the HP 3PAR Utility Storage family
The amount of data the average business needs to store has outgrown traditional technology. Your business is probably no different. The restricted scalability and functionality of the old storage platforms forces companies to create complex infrastructures with layer upon layer of software and hardware.
Simplify and reduce IT infrastructure costs
“IT infrastructure costs are far too complex and expensive: discuss.”
If you were part of a management examination board, the above might well be a good essay topic to pose for candidates. The subject is timely and relevant. After all, many managers are likely to have regular problems with pricey and convoluted IT infrastructure costs.
HP: the next generation of servers
By virtualising your physical IT infrastructure, you:
• Reduce the power and cooling costs of servers
• Use the available floor space in your data centre to better effect
• Make server administration easier
These benefits are catching the attention of many businesses.
The virtual infrastructure - why virtualise?
Imagine you’re in a boardroom. A group of directors has asked you to give a presentation about virtual infrastructure and why you believe the company should virtualise. What should the presentation include?
Give your business a competitive advantage: move email to the cloud
If you’ve been in business for a while, you’ve probably built up a lot of email accounts. Some of these relate to the staff in your offices. Others provide contact points for customers, suppliers and partners. And yet more are the email addresses of those staff who use mobile phones, tablets and laptops for business. All in all, you have quite a bundle of emails you need to manage.
Workspace management and the independent user experience
At LETN, your hosting and infrastructure service is different. You can use RES software on top of Citrix to provide an independent user experience.
Why workspace management and independence matter
You might wonder why this matters. The answer lies in the complexity of modern desktops.
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