Infrastructure Solutions


In today's competitive business world, your IT infrastructure must be highly stable yet flexible enough to help you react quickly to changing business conditions. You understand that an ultra-responsive, adaptive infrastructure needs to be consistently available, widely scalable, readily manageable, and extremely secure to minimize system disruption.

At Cnetics, we understand it is increasingly challenging for IT organizations, focused on running the day-to-day business, to continually keep up with the latest advances in technology as well as find the skilled staff to master the operational requirements.

We've researched industry trends and built relationships with top manufacturers of strategic solutions to help you meet your critical business demands. As your IT business partner, Cnetics will work to understand your IT environment. We will keep you informed of the latest developments in the industry and help you implement those solutions which could positively impact your competitive edge and ultimately your bottom line.  We'll help you implement infrastructure solutions capable of cost-effectively supporting your business goals today and into the future.

Whether you need to extend your existing network, tighten enterprise-wide security, or expand your storage capacity, our experienced professionals can reduce the time and money it takes to get results.

 

 

Server Consolidation With HP’s c-Class Blade infrastructure, you can reduce some of the day-to-day operational costs in your IT department with easy deployment, migration, and monitoring of a consolidated environment. Quickly update all your blade system resources (including servers, networking devices, and storage) whether physical or virtual, from a single management toolset. To help maximize the flexibility of your IT operations and to ensure the compute resources meet application demands, HP delivers a powerful set of virtual machine management capabilities built into the c-Class Blade Platform. This intelligent infrastructure provides details on critical issues such as power usage, thermal outputs, potential security vulnerabilities, and performance bottlenecks.

Read a case study on a recent implementation of server consolidation and security management services.

 

Virtualization 

Server Consolidation and Virtualization go hand in hand. Server Virtualization architecture creates multiple secure virtual machines on one physical server. Each of the virtual servers is configured with its own virtual hardware and runs its own OS and applications. The many advantages of virtualization technology include simplifying server consolidation, making application workloads more flexible and mobile, and providing cost effective high availability.

Virtual servers running Microsoft and Linux based applications show as much as a 75% improvment in productivity, a reduction in IT acquisition costs of up to 63%, and as much as a 66% reduction in yearly maintenance and operational costs.To monitor your virtual environment on HP hardware, HP has developed a solution that manages both VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server environments called Virtual Machine Manager.

 

Data Backup Solutions 

HP Data Protector Software automates high performance backup and recovery, from disk or tape, over unlimited distances, to enable 24x7business continuity and improve IT resource utilization.

HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Software provides host-based replication for Enterprise and Midrange customers seeking a low-cost alternative to fabric or array-based replication. Patented replication and failover technology continuously captures byte-level data changes as they occur and replicates those changes to one or more target servers in any location without geographic limitations. By replicating only the bytes that change, Storage Mirroring Software uses the absolute minimum bandwidth required to replicate a customer's data.

 

Storage Technologies 

iSCSI and Fibre Channel are the two dominant storage technologies in the market today. Deciding which is the best fit for the requirements of your small to midsized enterprise can be challenging. While most SMEs don't have the storage requirements to justify a full-blown SAN, you could be an ideal candidate for Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. iSCSI is a popular standard for NAS devices. Along with cost, another important consideration for deploying an iSCSI network vs. Fibre Channel is its size. Networks with under 100 users are ideal for the limitations of iSCSI. An iSCSI solution is also well-suited for departmental servers and networks. A review of this comparison chart (link here)can help you better understand the differences between two.

 

Integration Management Making these disparate technologies work for your organization can be a daunting task for even the most experienced IT administrators. Our engineers have decades of experience integrating a broad range of technologies and can successfully merge your existing infrastructure into a new, consolidated environment that is easier to manage, secure, and grow as your business requirements change. Whether you need help with blade server integration, Microsoft Exchange migration, SAN implementation, HP-UX, Linux or Windows application migration, or other challenging tasks, we've got you covered.