MTI Practice

The IT infrastructure is fundamental to the business needs of all companies and must provide the levels of service required by the business line to achieve their required levels of productivity. Beyond this aspect, infrastructures must meet the following requirements:

• Decrease the cost of ownership as much as possible

• Allow best performance, flexibility and scalability

• Ensure full data availability, security and resilience

• Take into account all IT risks and associated impact

• Provide business continuity in case of disaster

• Have a centralized and efficient management

Infrastructure Practice

MTI, acting as an integrator, delivers a range of infrastructure solutions that enable customers to get the right infrastructure according to their own business needs. MTI’s infrastructure solutions are based on the best network technologies, storage platforms, servers, desktops and MTI’s integrator know how. This allows customers to manage organisational and technology growth, getting best performance and data security with a lower TCO. MTI’s tailored solutions focus on the key areas:

• Business and technical assessments

• Global infrastructure architecture

• Design and build of Local Area Networks (LAN) supporting best in class protocols (IP, iSCSI, FC, FCoE)

• Implementation of servers, desktops, and virtualisation

• Design & build of Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Attach Storage (NAS), Content Addressed Storage (CAS)

• Wide Area Network (WAN) implementation and optimisation (WAFS)

• Cabling design and implementation

• Consolidation and data migration

• Application deployment (P2V)

• Test plans and optimisation

• Operational procedures

Business understanding is key to a successful implementation and MTI’s ability to deliver these services comes through the investments MTI has made in staff, technology and business competence.

Customer Business Needs & Issues

MTI’s customers are all managing rapid change in terms of business and technology requirements. The global economic situation which businesses face, means IT solutions have to address all the historic scalability and performance issues, coupled with managing costs and employee productivity. MTI delivers the following benefits to customers facing these demanding issues:

• Class leading hardware and networking products

• Low TCO and cost savings

• Lower bandwidth requirement and utilisation

• Resource efficiency - staff and technology

• Green IT ( heat, light and power)

MTI Expertise

MTI’s core expertise is based upon its manufacturing heritage and 25 years of operating in the Infrastructure 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

• Proven track record

• Unique business processes

• Customer focus and service (24x7x52)

• 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.

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