MTI Services

OPTIMISATION

In today’s business world, the IT infrastructure is a critical key factor for success. Infrastructures are based on dynamic architectures which are constantly evolving. Many IT infrastructures are currently not optimised. The result of which is a decrease in the global level of service granted to the customers and a significant increase in IT costs. Indeed, when infrastructure performance slows down, the typical reflex is to buy and add more components such as servers, storage, network devices. Some of these new investments may be unnecessary. “Optimisation” is a real cost effective alternative to new investments and allows you to get the best from your existing infrastructure. An objective study of your infrastructure components and operational procedures can identify areas where your system is underutilised. Nevertheless optimising it is a significant challenge:

Where do you start?
Can my infrastructure be optimised in terms of hardware, software, processes, people to achieve the organisation’s goals?
How can I be sure that these changes will deliver real improvements and not make matters worse?
How to manage these changes with scalability, flexibility ?
What is necessary to optimise ? Hardware & Software ? Processes ?

MTI’s Optimisation Services

MTI’s Optimisation Services provide a suite of services to help you understand and optimise your existing architecture. Based on a proven methodology, MTI’s experts can help you to determine performance issues, identify infrastructure weaknesses and associated bottlenecks and then implement the best changes. MTI’s experts have the capabilities to provide you with insight, health check, assessment, diagnostic and implementation services needed to develop a strong improvement plan for your infrastructure. Theses services will bring to your organisation the capabilities to plan deployments of new applications that may require infrastructure performances, scalability, flexibility, resilience and cost–effective.

MTI has a set of predefined optimisation areas that reflect the common issues which meet customers experiences with their infrastructure.

MTI’s Optimisation Services will provide you with recommendations that can help you make improvements that suits your business priorities and the insurance that the infrastructure is aligned with them. Through our experience, we identify underutilised assets or non optimised operational procedures. Then we may suggest that you focus on optimising what you already have instead of buying more equipment or adding operational human resources. MTI can assist in developing your infrastructure automation. In cases where new equipment is needed, we will help you fine tune your spending so you acquire what you need, and no more, while taking into account your growth in the medium and long terms.

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

Key MTI’s Optimisation domains

Optimisation service for infrastructure must be seen as a whole. Nevertheless due to a wide experience, MTI’s experts have defined interventional scopes that allow them to determine major parts of efficient optimisations.

DOMAINS	OBJECTIVES
HARDWARE & SOFTWARE ASSETS	SERVERS Improve server utilisation Rationalise virtualisation Enhance server farm consolidation STORAGE—BACKUP & RECOVERY Improve storage utilisation Reduce data redundancy Provide efficient data protection Revise data positioning & classification Improve clone / snap strategy Deploy storage / backup virtualisation Setup deduplication and Virtual Tape Library NETWORKS Optimise LAN / WAN switching and bandwidth, VLAN / VSAN Enhance branch office infrastructure consolidation using WAFS Optimise SAN switching Use of SAN / NAS Convergence, FCoE Enforce assets management / automation Improve infrastructure global security Enhance assets homogeneity and interoperability Rationalise Licences management
OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES	Improve operational procedures relating to assets optimisation in accordance with business requirements. Enhance processes automation Validate crisis and escalation processes Accelerate the use of best practices such as ITIL
HUMAN RESOURCES	Improve people knowledge Define clear job description and positioning within the organisation Optimise internal workflow Explain business initiative and objectives for better understanding.

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 storage and virtualization companies, allows MTI to extend its key competence and capability to deliver optimised solutions that enhance the datacentre and all related solutions that MTI deliver 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 and provide professional advice designed to meet our customers unique requirements.