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Vincent Khanyile, HP South Africa`s Infrastructure Consulting Manager, discusses how businesses should leverage technology consulting services to get the best out of their infrastructure investments.


Johannesburg, 25 Nov 2010

Business requires IT to provide services as and when required. As a result, IT and business alignment is becoming more and more important. To produce positive business outcomes, today`s marketplace demands that your IT infrastructure be efficient, flexible, dependable and compliant while optimising your IT return on investment.

Technology services can help organisations achieve these outcomes by making the IT environment safe, secure, efficient and adaptable.

Customer trends

An observation in key trends points towards customers consolidating and optimising their IT infrastructure. They are investing in their IT to grow their businesses and or to save.

In order to achieve these objectives, customers are reviewing their IT strategies and analysing their environments. The role of HP`s Infrastructure Consulting Services assists organisations to assess their environments, define the roadmap and look at the design services that can assist them in consolidation and virtualisation, as well as how they can recover in case of a disaster.

Technology consulting services help customers transform and align their technology infrastructure for maximum efficiency and performance, and enable them to effectively meet the requirements of the business that the technology serves.

Customer benefits of infrastructure consulting

* Service provisioning: Customers will be able to quickly deploy new services.
* Disaster recovery: Being able to run the operations from an alternative/secondary system or data centre.
* Instilling confidence in your workforce by training users on latest technology being used: When your workforce knows and understands the technology they are using, it also reduces human error.
* Proactively manage faults: When you have all the management tools, you can pro-actively manage faults and therefore increase system and application availability to the end-user.

Looking ahead

What we are witnessing now is that customers are looking at building roadmaps for the next three to five years. They are also looking at how they can begin building an environment where they can automate daily routine tasks, manage disasters and how they can share their infrastructure to better support the business. As customers introduce new complexities into their environments, infrastructure management and monitoring becomes a key component of the IT organisation. Technology consulting services can assist customers meet their objectives.

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