Consolidation & Virtualisation

With over 25 years of practical experience in the data centre, 2e2 is helping companies to take advantage of consolidation and virtualisation. As organisations add systems to their data centres this has resulted in a proliferation of problems – including increased complexity, space shortages, and rising power and cooling costs.  In addition, the vast majority of today’s data centres are still running one application stack on one server, perpetuating server sprawl. Data centres are operating at a fraction of their total capacity and organisations need solutions to address the following challenges:

• Insufficient power, space and cooling capacity
• Rising data centre costs including personnel, hardware, space, power and cooling
• Overly complex integration across the service stacks

2e2 offers a complete range of consolidation and virtualisation services that help clients assess the current state of their infrastructure and then make recommendations on how consolidation and virtualisation can be most effectively applied. 2e2 does not underestimate the changes that have been brought about by virtualisation of the enterprise environment.

Server Consolidation and Virtualisation

With proven methodologies 2e2 enables our customers to:

• Select appropriate technologies – taking advantage of our in-depth understanding of current technologies and our vendor independence
• Increase application availability, improving service levels to the business
• Reduce server provisioning time with rapid deployment of virtual machines
• Automate the management and provisioning of physical and virtual resources

Storage Consolidation & Virtualisation

We combine expert knowledge in both hardware and software-based storage technologies and apply it within a proven best practice engagement process to ensure that customers meet their storage requirements in an optimal way:

• Increase utilisation by combining capacity of heterogeneous platforms into a single pool
• Improve productivity by enabling the pool of storage to be managed from a single interface
• Standardise storage management, backup management and copy/replication services
• Automation of resource-intensive operations improving data lifecycle management