MTI Services

Assessment

In today’s business world, IT departments face two significant challenges:

Improve the Global Level of Service delivered to the Business lines,
Decrease annual IT costs.

Thus, every business should periodically review and evaluate its Information Technology department infrastructure and operations for making modifications to improve performance and effectiveness, as well as availability and reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

The Infrastructure Assessment process may be summarized by the following questions:

Is the Infrastructure to be available to the Business at all times ?
Is the Information provided by the system always be accurate, reliable and timely ?
Is the Infrastructure optimized in term of hardware and Software utilization to achieve the organization’s goals or objectives ?
All the risks covered and Impacts managed ?
Is my infrastructure efficiently managed with respect of the SLAs ?

	IT Infrastructure life cycle is based on 4 main Phases:
	ASSESSMENT PLAN: Detailed Architecture, operations definition, step by step blueprint BUILD Installation, Implementation, Integration, Migration RUN Optimisation, IT management, Customer services
	All of them are driven by the level of services required and the financial aspects.

ASSESSMENT phase is a key phase within the Infrastructure Life Cycle and must be considered before any optimisation, architecture upgrade or technology refresh. This is the way to get a clear view of the existing systems and then define the best architecture to support the Company's Business. ASSESSMENT is the bridge between Business requirements and IT infrastructure department.

MTI’s Assessment Services

Infrastructure that supports business processes are vital to your organisation’s mission, health and success. MTI’s experts has the capabilities to understand Business’s priorities and ensure that the Infrastructure is aligned with them.

MTI’s Assessment Services provide a suite of services to help you understand and optimize your existing architecture and get a holistic view of your global Infrastructure, provide you with many possible scenarios of new architectures or recommended optimisations to get the best return on your investment. MTI has already a set of predefined assessments which reflect the actual common issues met on Customer’s infrastructure. Beyond these offers, MTI can realize a customisable assessment to address specific issues using proven methodology.

MTI’s experts will work closely with your organisation to assess your infrastructure and deliver the best innovative solutions.

Key MTI’s Assessments Portfolio

ASSESSMENTS	OBJECTIVES
STORAGE STRATEGY	Optimise your SAN & NAS Storage environment Deploy Storage Virtualisation in your own infrastructure and get better storage utilisation Define possible Data Classification Use of SAN / NAS Convergence, FCoE Reduce Storage TCO Automate Storage management
BACKUP STRATEGY	Ensure that your valuable data is protected and available for recovery. Optimise your backup systems: Use of Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Use of Data Deduplication
EMAIL ARCHIVING	Deploy efficient Email archiving system Reduce volume of Email storage Secure Email system within the Company Be in compliance regarding regulatory rules
SERVER VIRTUALISATION & CONSOLIDATION	Improve Server utilisation Deploy virtualisation solutions such as VmWare to gain efficiency, operational flexibility and reduce servers costs Consolidate farm of servers Optimise & automate servers management
NETWORK LAN / WAN	Consolidate your network environment Deploy WAN acceleration (WAFS) system to consolidate branch office infrastructure Optimise Network management
CONTINUITY DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN	Check for your infrastructure continuity required for the applications Defined Continuity plan and disaster recovery architecture Manage and test your DRP
COMPLIANCE	Assess the infrastructure relating to compliance rules such as Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) or BALE 2
RISKS & DATA PROTECTION	Identify and classify risks and impacts relating to: Infrastructure: hardware / software failure, intrusion, anti-virus, spyware, firewall People: failure or non-familiarity of staff to comply with the operational procedures Process: process failure, inadequate controls in the operation processes

MTI Assessment Methodology

MTI Expertise

MTI’s core expertise is based upon its manufacturing heritage and 25 years of operating in the storage and technology industry. Over this period, MTI’s staff have developed key Infrastructure Solutions and the service philosophy which is at the core of MTI’s business operation. MTI’s business is built on the following key capabilities:

Specialist In House Expertise & Knowledge
Project Management capability
Managed Services capability
Proven Track Record
Unique Business processes
Solution Testing Capability
Customer focus & service (24x7x52)
Vendor Independence
Industry Best Practice
Highest level of certification with our key partners

These skills, knowledge base and work practices enable MTI to understand a customers business and IT problems. Then design, implement, test, service and maintain the right solution for the right business requirements.

Key Partners

MTI’s key partner relationships with the leading Infrastructure technology companies, allows MTI to extend its key competence and capability to deliver infrastructure solutions that enhance the storage and storage related solutions it delivers to its EMEA customer base. These relationships capitalise on the partners market leading positions, world class technology, geographical coverage and services led solutions. The combination of these skills ensures MTI delivers world class solutions designed to meet its customers unique requirements.