Server & Storage Solutions
Advent One bases its infrastructure solutions on IBM's POWER, BladeCenter and xSeries servers to reduce complexity, improve systems management and increase flexibility whilst driving down total cost of ownership. We also have extensive storage and storage management solutions based on IBM technology to help combat challenges concerning storage growth.
Power Systems
Advent One is capable of delivering solutions to manage today's IT landscape for mid-size companies and large enterprises. This landscape is evolving rapidly and new measures of performance means delivering services faster, with higher quality, and with superior economics. Power Systems provide servers and software that are the foundation for an enterprise infrastructure that can help businesses manage rapid change, reduce business risk, and meet higher service levels - all in the most cost-effective manner.
Our technical team have a strong background in AIX, Linux and i, and through their experience continually deliver successful Power solutions to our clients.
System x & BladeCenter
Advent One's IBM System x experts are able to configure and install servers bringing innovative technology and a broad portfolio of tested business solutions to industry wide clients.
System x servers are based on the IBM X-Architecture blueprint. This means mainframe-inspired technologies designed to deliver exceptional availability, simplified manageability, outstanding performance and revolutionary scalability. These advantages can help you build a cost-effective, flexible IT environment for your business. In this way, Advent One can help you with improved service, whilst lowering your costs and mitigating risks.
System Networking
Utilising IBM System Networking, Advent One offers lossless, low latency, low power and low cost top of rack and blade switches, as well as innovative network virtualization and management solutions. These solutions are designed to power optimised workloads, such as public and private clouds, analytics, financial services, Web 2.0 and other high performance computing applications.
Storage
Nearly all organisations are facing the uncomfortable issues concerning storage growth. With data ever-growing, Advent One can implement individualised storage solutions, where valuable data can be stored, whilst reducing space through deduplication and thin provisioning.
Advent One has significant experience in integrating storage solutions based on IBM technology:
- Disk Systems including entry, midrange and enterprise level solutions such as the DS8000, XIV and Storwize v7000, a powerful and easy-to-use innovative midrange disk system allowing businesses to improve scalability and performance whilst simplifying management.
- Tape Systems also as entry, midrange and enterprise level solutions, allowing flexibility and choice to clients to appropriately meet businesses storage needs
- Storage Area Network (IBM SAN) products and solutions provide integrated SMB and enterprise SAN solutions with multi-protocol local, campus, metropolitan and global storage networking
- Network Attached Storage (IBM NAS) products provide a wide-range of network attachment capabilities to a broad range of host and client systems
- Storage Software including Tivoli Storage Manager which improves scalability, eases administration and enhances the security of your backup data.
Advent One's well equipped storage experts are able to deliver successful storage solutions for a wide range of clients, essentially providing a wide range of storage management capabilities from a single point of control, helping companies ride the information tidal wave.
Advent One can help:
- simplify the protection and management of your data, even as it continues to grow exponentially
- address business continuity by helping to shorten backup and recovery times
- employ data de-duplication and a hierarchy of storage to help increase efficiencies and conserve resources
- enhance data security with innovative access and encryption features
- adapt to changes within the IT infrastructure to minimize service disruptions and speed restorations and backups
- control storage management costs with ease-of-use features and integration with IBM network attached storage (NAS) products
- increase visibility into the data protection environment by providing advanced features for operational monitoring and historical reporting.
