From health trusts to education and transport departments, the public sector needs to be accountable for expenditure on all key resources, including those related to IT.
We can give the right advice and provide solutions that generate the best value for money:
- Hardware Supply
As an accredited business partner with IBM, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Cisco, we have the experience and technical expertise to advise you on, and supply, a wide range of hardware - servers, storage solutions and networking products. We can also provide all the related software, such as IBM’s Tivoli.
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- Server Virtualisation
It is not unusual for servers to be running at less than 10% utilisation, adding to the cost to an organisation of owning and managing its IT infrastructure.
Server virtualisation addresses this problem by allowing multiple, different operating systems and applications to run concurrently on the same physical hardware, in safety and isolation.
The benefits are numerous:
- capital expenditure and operating costs are reduced
- centralised systems management can be performed faster
- there is a common layer of control over hardware from different manufacturers
- hardware can be upgraded or replaced without downtime to end users
In practice, virtualisation enables utilisation to increase to 80% or higher, giving maximum value from each server investment.
Recarta offers independent, best of breed advice on running your virtualised environment, with products including IBM IVM, EMC VMware and Platespin.
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- Storage Virtualisation
The management of storage devices can be tedious and time-consuming. Storage virtualisation is to the SAN (Storage Area Network) what server virtualisation is to the server. It pools the physical storage from multiple network storage devices into what appears to be a single storage device that is then managed centrally.
Storage virtualization helps the storage administrator perform the tasks of backup, archiving, and recovery more easily, and in less time, by disguising the actual complexity of the SAN. There is also more efficient use of space and easy allocation and re-allocation of storage devices.
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- Storage Network Solutions
Storage is a complex and often confusing subject and Recarta will give you sound advice on a number of solutions that will benefit your organisation:
Storage Area Networks (SAN) improve system administration. By treating all of a company's storage as a single resource, disk maintenance and routine backups are easier to schedule and control. The SAN network allows data transfers between computers and disks at the same high peripheral channel speeds as when they are directly attached.
IP storage is another SAN option which enables data transfer via IP over a fast Gigabit Ethernet locally, or via the Internet. IP storage is an alternative to the framework of the traditional SAN.
Network Attached Storage (NAS) is hard disk storage that is set up with its own network address rather than being attached to a department computer which is serving applications to a network's workstation users. By removing storage access and its management from the department server, both application programming and files can be served faster because they are not competing for the same processor resources.
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- Data Encryption and Protection
With reports of security breaches and data losses occurring on a regular basis, the need to adopt data encryption and protection technology is becoming essential.
Large companies and government organisations are amassing enormous quantities of data in their networked storage environments, but due to lack of partitioning leave themselves vulnerable to unauthorised access.
Recarta can provide security products such as Decru DataFort supplied by Decru, a NetApp company, which address critical business requirements like data privacy, regulatory compliance, intellectual property protection and internal controls.
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- Catalist Purchasing Programme
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Public sector organisations can make substantial savings via the Catalist Programme and reap benefits in terms of buying power, economies of scale and strategic partnerships.
Procurement through Catalist eliminates the need to go through the lengthy process of OJEU tendering, whilst complying with EC procurement legislation.
Recarta is an authorised Catalist partner of Insight and with this partnership we can provide professional support when it matters, advising on technical issues, energy saving and environmental improvements.
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