Unisys has announced two new solutions for enterprise computing that enable clients to align business and IT more closely and reduce IT management costs.
These solutions are a significant component in Unisys's vision for a real-time infrastructure - a complete business lifecycle management capability that enables the monitoring and management of IT activities, in real-time, based on business requirements.
The new Unisys Enterprise Virtualisation and Enterprise Orchestration solutions create a flexible, real-time infrastructure that enables enterprises to manage increasingly complex IT environments more efficiently, enhancing the quality of services provided and driving down operational costs.
The new solutions feature business-driven resource automation capabilities, infrastructure discovery and implementation tools, and resource utilisation software for enhanced cost allocation.
"Today, more than ever, IT departments are under pressure to contribute directly to the bottom line - and Unisys Enterprise Virtualisation and Enterprise Orchestration solutions help them do that," says Bernard Donnelly enterprise solution services manager, Systems and Technology, Unisys Africa.
"Combined with Unisys services capabilities, our real-time solutions can enable enterprises to create the optimal business-driven IT environment, based on a combination of virtual and physical resources automatically provisioned and deployed through an intelligent infrastructure."
In a mature real-time infrastructure (RTI), strategic objectives and business key performance indicators (KPIs) drive the dynamic allocation of IT resources, allowing enterprises to achieve the highest utilisation of their computing assets. The Unisys RTI strategy takes a staged approach toward that goal, driving toward incremental and non-disruptive progress for today's IT organisations.
Enterprise Virtualisation
Virtualisation is a key technology driver for Unisys RTI solutions. The Unisys Enterprise Virtualisation solution leverages Unisys advanced technologies to enhance industry-standard virtualisation offerings, such as VMware.
The Unisys solution delivers knowledge-based virtualisation of existing IT infrastructures and rules-driven resource management for an optimised transformation in line with key business objectives. In addition, Unisys high-socket-count scale-up enterprise servers provide exceptional utilisation and management capabilities to reduce the cost of both the transformation and ongoing operations.
The Unisys Enterprise Virtualisation solution allows clients to quickly and securely implement a virtualised infrastructure and minimise server sprawl by taking advantage of optimisation for the Unisys ES7000/one Enterprise Server. The process is driven using Unisys IT Modeler, a Web-based application implementing the Unisys 3D Visible Enterprise (3D-VE) approach. Unisys IT Modeler enables enterprises to discover, categorise and store infrastructure assets and link them with related business assets.
Two new technologies give the Unisys Enterprise Virtualisation solution a distinct advantage. Unisys Real-Time Consolidation Accelerator provides secure, anywhere-to-anywhere automated conversions of applications and operating systems between physical servers, virtual machines, and image archives. Unisys Real-Time Chargeback provides visibility and insight into the IT costs associated with business processes across heterogeneous environments, both virtualised and non-virtualised.
Enterprise Virtualisation delivers key benefits, including rapid discovery of critical infrastructure components, identification of optimal virtualisation candidates based on utilisation data, automated physical-to-virtual implementation on Unisys ES7000/one Enterprise Servers using VMware Infrastructure 3.0 Virtualisation Server, and ongoing capture of resource utilisation metrics to create visibility into IT usage and costs.
Enterprise Orchestration
Unisys Enterprise Orchestration helps businesses achieve maximum service level performance and infrastructure efficiency - even in the most complex IT environments.
The core of the solution is new Unisys Orchestration and Provisioning technology - a rules-based software engine which allows organisations to set their own policies for resource use and performance, and which then automatically allocates resources based on the terms of the policies. This "hands-off" dynamic system optimisation lowers capital expenditures and operating costs and helps enterprises meet or exceed service-level requirements.
"Enterprise Orchestration is about IT being agile enough to stay aligned with dynamic corporate objectives, and efficient enough to maintain service levels while keeping costs low," says Donnelly.
Unisys Africa real-time infrastructure seminar
To complement the launch of these RTI Solutions, Unisys Africa, in conjunction with EMC and VMWare, is hosting a half-day RTI seminar for senior IT management and decision-makers to explore this highly topical subject.
The seminar will feature presentations by Gartner and leading RTI solution providers, as well as case studies from South African organisations which have implemented production virtualisation solutions and are reaping the benefits of RTI.
The free seminar, to be held at the Unisys Conference Centre in Sunninghill on Thursday 15 February, commences at 12h30.
* For seminar bookings, contact Jana Mathews on (011) 233 4120 or jana.mathews@za.unisys.com.
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