Data Center Transformation and Outsourcing - Virtualization and Consolidation

Drive Down Costs in Your Data Center

There can be significant cost savings realized in the consolidation and virtualization of your infrastructure. The Unisys experience in the data center, when combined with our understanding of the underlying technologies, enables you to achieve the cost benefits while mitigating the associated risks.

Our Portfolio

Unisys virtualization and consolidation solutions enable you to aggressively capitalize on the benefits of consolidating and virtualizing your infrastructure.

Virtualization and Consolidation Services

• Data Center Server Optimization Assessment

  The server infrastructure architecture and the decisions supporting its optimization are the focus of this service. The existing server farm is assessed, modeled, and analyzed. Business goals and constraints are factored into the analysis. Unisys best practices for consolidation and virtualization of servers are applied to the model and recommendations are reviewed with you.

• 3D Blueprinting™ for Virtualization

  Creating the virtualized infrastructure architecture is the objective of this service. Critical decisions required for the change are identified and discussed. The infrastructure elements are examined in a best practice context, and alternatives are explored. A blueprint reflecting the plans is developed and reviewed. This blueprint provides the architectural basis for the transformation of the infrastructure.

• Virtualization Operational Readiness Assessment

  We work with and facilitate your team in examining your existing operations processes and the potential impact of virtualization. In a workshop setting, discussions on existing critical processes most impacted by virtualization are conducted in the context of ITIL. Following the discussions, the Unisys team captures findings and develops a roadmap with recommended actions.

• Consolidation and Virtualization Design Services

  We provide you with a detailed design for the infrastructure, including server, network and storage configurations, driven by business and critical workload requirements. Migration and testing strategies are defined for moving the application workloads. We partner with you to efficiently plan the change while minimizing the risk.

• Infrastructure Implementation Services

  We assist you in implementing an optimized infrastructure and migrating your applications to it. Specific migration and testing strategies for application workloads are executed during the implementation. In conjunction with the design service, this enables you to efficiently migrate while minimizing the risks.

Unisys Consolidated Desktop Solution

Virtualization is a new approach for the desktop; one that radically simplifies overall management, improves data security and resource utilization, and above all, brings soaring IT costs back down to earth. Unisys Consolidated Desktop Solution addresses the growing—and expensive—challenges associated with managing and protecting Windows desktop environments.

Unisys Consolidated Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server

Through rigorous analysis and testing, Unisys has developed a differentiated approach for deploying Microsoft Exchange Server that significantly reduces the number of required servers through various consolidation methodologies, including virtualization. Capitalizing on our extensive experience with both enterprise-class, large scale email environments and virtualization, this solution enables you to capitalize on the benefits of virtualization while mitigating the risks.

Unisys SQL Server Database Consolidation Solution

Do you have lots of Microsoft SQL Databases? Unisys combines scalable technologies and deep consolidation expertise for real benefits. Benefits like reducing the cost of your business information infrastructure by nearly 50 percent, with up to 99.995 percent availability to support an “always on” transactional environment.

Self-funding Server Virtualization

Lower your TCO up to 67 percent by implementing virtualization on a Unisys Enterprise Server and eliminating the expensive and redundant hardware, software, power, cooling and management costs associated with server sprawl. Unisys virtualization decision framework will help you make the right deployment decisions to optimize results in your environment while minimizing your TCO.

Storage Virtualization Solutions

Are you preparing for the virtual data center of tomorrow? Then you should look at the Unisys Storage Virtualization Solutions of today. Unisys solutions reduce costs, increase flexibility, expand service levels, and improve resource efficiencies.

Enterprise Virtualization Suite

Unisys Enterprise Virtualization offers comprehensive architectural and implementation services, supported by industry-leading technologies, to give you the best possible start in addressing these complex challenges. This allows companies to address agility, economics, and quality of service requirements by eliminating the boundaries between IT assets and pooling resources for sharing and dynamic allocation. In this way, Enterprise Virtualization enables business requirements to drive the dynamic allocation of IT resources.

Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite Solutions

Want to reduce your IT operational and capital costs by automating and optimizing many key processes? Unisys offers a comprehensive suite of services and technologies addressing many complex IT processes.

• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

  Do you know if your Disaster Recovery Plans will work? Can you test with the push of a button, or does a test take several man weeks of effort? This Unisys solution reduces business downtime, staff time, and recovery failures by as much as 90 percent with an anticipated payback of less than 12 months. We automate the entire failover and failback process, eliminate human error in a time of crisis and enable frequent testing of an otherwise prohibitively onerous procedure. This solution is applicable for a wide variety of applications, for example SAP.

• Orchestrated Resource Provisioning

  When you get a request to provision a new system, does it take longer than a few minutes to complete? Unisys automates provisioning of both virtual and physical machines, reducing administration by more than 75 percent. This reduces cycle time from days to minutes, and 95 percent of requests can be completed with no administration needed, resulting in savings of approximately $3M in operational costs over three years.

• Automated Repurposing

  Are you frustrated with the money you’ve spent on servers sitting idle and the constant need for adding new servers? Unisys reduces IT capital up to 50 percent and operational costs up to 60 percent, by better utilizing existing infrastructure. Our solution automatically repurposes servers for development and testing, disaster recovery and varying production workloads.

• Automated Configuration and Compliance Management

  Do you have downtime or compliance issues caused by poor configuration management? Unisys reduces administration time spent on configuration and compliance management by approximately 97 percent. We eliminate repetitive manual steps, by automating processes and providing a standard approach across all operating systems and both physical and virtual servers, decreasing IT operating expenses by at least $1M – $2M per year.

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For more information about this Solution, please contact us or call 800-874-8647 or +1 585-742-6780.

Our Products

Unisys Solution Architects work alongside industry-leading virtualization partners to deliver a robust portfolio of software and management tools that provide our clients demonstrable economic, operational and competitive advantage.

Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite Software

Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite software helps you implement a data center that can expand and contract based on business needs, operate with high availability and flexibility, run with peak efficiency and high utilization, and reduce capital and operational expenses. This is a family of products designed to automate complex IT operations, which can work together, independently, or in conjunction with what you already have. The Suite forms the basis of many Unisys services management solutions.

• Unisys uAdapt™ Software

  uAdapt manages a heterogeneous environment of IT resources as a single fabric, automatically provisioning and repurposing servers, including their network and storage connectivity, to meet demand, eliminating the risks and errors associated with manual configuration. It repurposes servers in seconds across various workloads, including: development and testing, disaster recovery, production, QA, and virtual and physical systems.

• Unisys uChargeback™ Software

  This product creates visibility and insight into the IT costs associated with business processes across physical and virtualized heterogeneous server environments, allowing you to distribute your costs to your various user communities.

• Unisys uOrchestrate™ Software

  uOrchestrate automates IT processes across all IT infrastructure components, providing the ability to define, build, orchestrate, manage, and report on IT workflows, enabling real-time, policy-based control. These run books are used in automating complex IT processes such as disaster recovery, development and testing, automated system provisioning, workload management, and more.

• Unisys uProvision™ Software

  This product automates critical operations related to server and application configuration, compliance, change, and virtualization management.

Storage Virtualization Products

Storage Virtualization successfully reduces costs, improves utilization of IT assets, achieves more consistent service levels, and increases efficiency.

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For more information about this Product, please contact us or call 800-874-8647 or +1 585-742-6780.

Our Insights and Trends section provides a venue for current articles, podcasts, analyst reports, and Thought Leaders to help your organization stay ahead of the trends and issues that affect operations.

Articles

• Assuming the worst

  Business-continuity planning has become standard in big firms in recent years. But most plans are designed to deal with short-term events such as hurricanes or terrorist attacks. Preparation for these sorts of emergency can be fairly straightforward…

• Computing climate change

  According to a report published by the Climate Group, a think-tank based in London, computers, printers, mobile phones and the widgets that accompany them account for the emission of 830m tonnes of carbon dioxide around the world in 2007. That is about 2% of the estimated total of emissions from human activity.

Thought Leaders

• Jody Little

  Jody Little is vice president of Data Center Solutions and Services in the Systems and Technology Portfolio Management and Marketing group at Unisys.

• Mark Feverston

  Mark Feverston is vice president of Microsoft Solutions in the Systems and Technology group at Unisys. His responsibilities include the identification of IT market trends and issues that can be addressed economically with Microsoft assets and Unisys innovation.

• Michael Salsburg

  Dr. Michael Salsburg is the chief architect for Real-Time Infrastructures within Unisys Corporation's Systems and Technology group. His responsibilities include establishing the strategic technical direction for future products and solutions, and the overall architecture for the Unisys strategic initiative of Real-Time Infrastructures.