THERE'S A NEW SHERIFF IN STORAGE TOWN…
LOGICALIS LAUNCHES NEW STORAGE PRACTICE AT STORAGE EXPO 2005
Strategic Architects deliver business benefit through core and context storage expertise
LONDON, 12 October 2005. Logicalis launched its new Storage Practice and associated four-point Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) planning methodology, at Storage Expo, London Olympia, 12-13 October 2005.
Logicalis' new Storage Practice consolidates the company's extensive existing storage expertise and includes the skills, personnel and partnerships acquired through its recent purchase of Notability Solutions, Hawke Systems and TBC, along with the existing capabilities within the group.
According to John Hammond, Logicalis Computing Solutions' Commercial Director, "Our new Storage Practice is a strongly IT-driven consulting operation that is focused on delivering to customers the information and data management benefits of the real innovation that is currently happening in the storage appliance and application space."
Logicalis' Storage Practice already serves a broad range of blue-chip and mid-market customers including: Diageo; AWE; Tarmac; Camelot; ITV; EADS; Astrium; Corus; Merthyr CBC; Coats; Suffolk CC; GE Amersham; Budget Rent a Car and Portman Building Society.
Platinum and Gold partners
Logicalis' partners include: EMC; IBM; HP and NetApp as well as Cisco Systems and BT; Veritas; VMWare; Legato; KVS and Sun. Logicalis Storage Practice's storage solutions cover the full spectrum of storage requirements, including: SANs; NAS; Backup and Recovery; Storage Resource Management; Disk and Tape Solutions; Disaster Recovery; Email archiving and emerging technologies such as enterprise ATA and iSCSI SANs.
The formation of the Storage Practice significantly strengthens Logicalis UK operations, emphasises Hammond. "This enables us to take another big step forward in building further breadth into a business that offers not only networking but also significant enterprise and storage solutions."
Storage Architects
"We now have an unrivalled group of Strategic Architects able to develop storage architectures for customers with deep expertise in a minimum of two key brands in the storage environment," he emphasised. "But their expertise extends much further than the core storage devices themselves into a detailed understanding through the capabilities of Logicalis of the surrounding context of networking, server, database and application environment and how to combine these to provide complete solutions."
Four point Information Lifecycle Management plan
In order to address the fundamental issues of business efficiency and competitiveness, before undertaking any project, Logicalis' Strategic Architects work with customers to develop a four point ILM plan. This establishes their storage needs based on the business and legal requirements for their data. By identifying the data that is important to an organisation, and understanding how to manage, share and protect it, companies ensure that they can use data effectively - from its point of creation right through to its archiving and retrieval.
Such an approach delivers real business value while simultaneously helping to achieve the best practice which underpins conformance to much of today's compliance regulations.
Adds Ian Cook, CEO of Logicalis' European operations, "the formation of the Storage Practice is another example of how Logicalis intends to become a dominant supplier in its sector - delivering secure, converged computing and communications infrastructure and services for ambitious and innovative organisations."
"These developments mean that Logicalis will differentiate itself further from its competitors by not only having a superior understanding of the increasingly complex end-to-end information flows in an organisation, but by using that knowledge to design, install and manage and optimise systems and system components," he continues.
Such information flows are increasing in complexity because more devices and technologies are being added to the infrastructure, and business concepts such as e-business, web enablement and on-demand computing are being adopted.
"The launch of Logicalis' Storage Practice is further evidence of the rapid additional value for customers Logicalis has been able to generate from the series of acquisitions it has made during 2005", adds Cook. "It's the latest testament to our ability to seamlessly integrate each new company into a rapidly expanding organisation."