Consolidation

Many organisations vastly under-utilise their existing server hardware so the cost of consolidation can be much less than most organisations think.

Perceived by many to be extremely complicated or uneconomical, the expertise of the LDD group will bring the benefits of consolidation appreciated by Government Bodies, NHS Trusts, Charitable Organisations and the worlds Fortune 100 companies, directly and efficiently to your business.

The LDD group are consolidation specialists having delivered countless live solutions and backed by a wealth of accreditations.
The 3 main areas of IT Consolidation are storage, applications and servers.

Storage

Whilst the cost per Gb of data storage is coming down the cost of managing, processing and utilising this data is increasing. Data may be stored across many servers that are not able to share resource or where a single management overview is not possible.

Storage consolidation uses NAS, iSCSI NAS or SAN technologies to consolidate storage into a single shared resource with a common management platform that allows quick and easy allocation and re-allocation of storage resource. Many servers have access to storage that can be dynamically allocated to meet user demand.

Application

Industry regulations, industrial espionage, confidentiality requirements, protecting intellectual property, reduction of helpdesk costs or just allowing users to work from home or other remote locations might be the business driver but application consolidation could be the answer.

Computing power continues to increase paving the way for viable application consolidation solutions. Simply put this means today’s technology allows users to ‘dial in’ and run applications or even entire desktops on secure centrally installed, managed and maintained server farms.

Even on low bandwidth connections the experience is just like being sat on your PC in the office. All applications, upgrades, application roll-outs, licences, application support and general administration can then be done at head office drastically reducing the need to travel to remote locations.

Server

Many organisations could benefit from server consolidation which effectively allows an organisation to ‘virtualise’ its computing hardware meaning one physical server can host a number of virtual servers.

This opens up a number of solutions that are simply not possible in the traditional server environment such as cloning of servers, dynamic re-allocation of server hardware, migrating from one physical server to another physical server with no downtime to the hardware or application.

This inherent ability of server consolidation to sweat your assets along with the ongoing cost saving introduced by server consolidation from areas such as server administration, computer room size and cooling as well as hardware power requirements is a compelling benefit in itself.