Built on Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 with Hyper-V, this proven hypervisor allowed for consolidation of services as well as a robust and easy-to-manage platform to build the virtualisation and Exchange 2010 infrastructure.
"Ease of management and bulletproof availability has been achieved through the deployment of Microsoft Hyper-V, not to mention the hardware consolidation which resulted in us being able to have increased utilisation of our hardware," says Mike Goode, Group Head of IT.
The Microsoft Exchange 2010 solution was designed to leverage the database availability group (DAG) functionality, which ensures there are no single points of failure in the messaging environment. Scheduled maintenance and unplanned failures cause no downtime as the e-mail connections automatically transfer to the remaining members in the DAG configuration.
Prior to the deployment, the environment suffered the normal pain points of hardware failures, maintenance disruptions and decreased availability.
"This highly available and low-maintenance solution has ensured that reactive support is decreased, allowing us to focus on more important tasks such as system improvement and optimisation," says Gerhard Conradie, MD at evolv networks.
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evolv networks was founded in 2005 with the goal of supplying superior IT consulting and support services to small (one to 50 computer users) and medium (50 to 250 computer users) size companies. Equipped with industry leading technical skills, it has remained committed to this strategy. It strives to better understand its customers and through this it is able to align technology with their business needs and processes.
As an IT service partner, it also knows that technology never stands still, and through its own evolution, it has brought value-adding technologies to its customers. Through careful maturity testing and entrenching new technology in its environment, it ensures the solutions it supplies are business ready. This methodology comes from deep technical roots in ensuring that solutions are tried and tested.
evolv networks also has skills in the enterprise management field utilising Microsoft System Center technologies such as System Center Operations Manager and Configuration Manager. These skills have unlocked benefits for its small/medium and large customers who utilise its skills with these systems as well as enabling small/medium customers to have truly enterprise management solutions without the need for in-house skills.
As experts in the design, deployment and support of IT infrastructure, evolv networks continues finding innovative ways to use technology to add value to its customers.
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