IT Infrastructure Planning

Demands on the data center continue to grow, even when physical space, system capacity, bandwidth and budgets do not. Data center management is a balancing act between meeting today's capacity and responsiveness requirements against future needs and space, power, cooling and cost constraints. Adding iron is usually an option, but rarely provides the best balance for efficient operations.

Tip the balance in your favor with server optimization services from DSI. Before we ever provide a server, we provide a strategy to leverage your current infrastructure with the latest server, storage, security and virtualization technologies to provide the performance, capacity and flexibility you need.

DSI has designed data center solutions for over 30 years. Use these DSI services as part of your planning, and use less hardware, support, space and power in your data center:

Total Cost of Ownership Analysis -- see how different IT architectures will affect your operating costs.
IBM System Analysis -- Using IBM's Consolidation, Discovery, and Analysis Tool and other industry-leading analytics resources we will analyze workloads and usage patterns to recommend specific servers, configurations and combinations of physical and virtual systems to meet your needs reliably and efficiently.

Don’t let assumptions lead to a business disaster.

Many business disasters result from assumptions. Companies assume they can't manage or afford disaster recovery (DR) or high availability (HA) systems. In fact, advances in hardware, virtualization, and managed services have made DR and HA solutions available and affordable for organizations of all sizes.

DSI makes it practical to protect your business with high availability and disaster recovery planning and implementation services. We bring together proven products, partners and services to provide:

Disaster recovery
High availability
Backup and recovery
Replication (multiple varieties)
Data protection
Automatic failover

Be a success story, not a statistic with disaster recovery and high availability solutions from DSI. We have the expertise to tailor a system to your business and budget, and we have partnerships with leading infrastructure, virtualization, HA and DR technology providers including IBM and Vision Solutions, the leading global provider of high availability and disaster recovery solutions for the IBM i5 and AIX environments.

Make sure your virtual infrastructure provides actual time and resource savings.

In the IT world, perhaps the only thing growing faster than virtualization is the hype surrounding it. While virtualization improves server utilization, confusion and concerns about virtual infrastructure design, security, and management can place new burdens on the IT staff. DSI's virtualization services bring certainty and reality to your virtual environment.

DSI has been helping companies design and optimize their data centers for more than 30 years, and has the products, partners and perspective needed to tailor a virtual infrastructure to your business needs. We partner with VMware and IBM to provide proven building blocks for your virtual foundation.

With virtualization solutions from DSI, you can run your business with fewer servers, less space, less energy -- and less worry. Enter our Virtual Impact Zone to calculate the energy savings and return on investment a virtual infrastructure can have on your environment.

Build security into all your systems to keep threats out.

Web-based applications, extranets, wireless networks and mobile & wireless computers extend the reach of your information systems -- and makes securing them more challenging. You need pervasive, consistent and coordinated security. DSI can help secure all your systems -- physical and virtual, networked, Web-based and wireless, from the data center to mobile workers.

DSI is a certified provider of the IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) suite. ISS addresses:

Security governance
Data security
Threat mitigation
Identity and access management,
Physical security
Endpoint data protection
Messaging security
And much more

Networks, web and wireless communication, plus PCs, servers and mobile computers can take your information anywhere. Make sure security always goes with it.