Data Centre Solutions

Ideal Networks can help your business to find the best data centre solutions to meet its individual needs.

The data centre is a guaranteed gateway to opportunity, giving your business the room to grow and innovate. It should be a key part of your digital transformation strategy, offering flexibility, scalability and reliability.

It can be a huge challenge to find the right data centre solutions that are flexible enough to fit the changing landscape of your business. Applications need to be migratable, monitored and automated, while they remain on a secure network, protecting client or customer data and keeping your business secured against threats.

Ensuring your business requirements are met with simple and repeatable solutions requires that any platform is suitable and adaptable for the evolving business.

How Ideal Networks can help

The network infrastructure that runs and protects your business applications and data is the heart of your organisation. With the the right network infrastructure management and cloud platform, these requirements and demands can be met.

The team at Ideal will consult, design and support your business through its IT journey, and provide options and advice embracing a range of options, including private, co-location, Hybrid, X-as-a-Service models and the public cloud.

Our approach is always driven by clear business goals rather than a specific technology. Focusing on key requirements, we build data centre solutions that are fit for purpose, with specific features to underpin and enhance your existing IT network. The emergence and growth of the cloud presents new methods for the delivery of service, but it also enables new types of service, and unearths new opportunities.

Key drivers are:

Ensuring high performance of critical apps
Rapidly deploying infrastructure for development
Ensuring high availability, integrity and access to critical data
Maintaining visibility of operating performance, cost and location
Ensuring ease of recoverability
Protecting against disaster and ensuring business continuity

Our data centre solutions and product expertise includes:

Data centre technology design and implementation
Compute - Cisco UCS, high-performance computing (HPC)
Physical and virtual switching infrastructure - Cisco Nexus, Cisco MDS, Cisco Unified Fabric
Security - Palo Alto Networks
Virtualisation - VMware Enterprise Solution Provider, with Server Virtualisation and Network Virtualisation competencies
Storage - NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC
Disaster recovery, business continuity, replication and backup – Rubrik, Zerto, storage replication, Site Recovery Manager
Workload Flexibility and control (private/public cloud) - NetApp DataFabric, VMware Cloud on AWS
Converged stack technologies - Cisco Unified Fabric, NetApp FlexPod, EMC VSPEX, SmartStack, FlashStack
Hyperconverged platforms – Hyperflex, Simplivity

Who do we work with?

Organisations trying to determine how and when they should use cloud, hybrid or on-premises solutions
Organisations with critical apps that require infrastructure specific to their use cases
Organisations who require comfort and ease in relation to ensuring backups, data integrity, business continuity and disaster recovery
Organisations who want to simplify and consolidate their IT platforms
App owners experiencing slowdowns or performance bottlenecks
Organisations who experience slow or overrunning projects from beginning to end
Organisations that suffer multiple vendors and forklift upgrades of infrastructure with each refresh
Organisations whose end users complain of performance and availability issues
Organisations looking for non-disruptive operations for patching, maintenance, upgrades, and capacity expansions
Organisations with large diverse environments to manage, who would benefit from centralised control, standardised policies and simple deployment
Organisations that need to enable quick-to-deploy infrastructure to meet business demands