It is rarely straight forward to understand just how your business can maximise the benefit from such a disruptive technology and transition. We support you to understand how the transition supports you overall business strategy and objectives. What the business impacts from a cost, risk and service perspective? Which of your applications are suitable candidates for Cloud Computing.

1. AVAILABILITY SERVICES Guiding you
along the path
VIRTUALISATION & CLOUD CONSULTING to virtualisation
You may be considering moving We appreciate that with a multitude of
potential IT configurations, each customer’s
from a physical to virtual IT circumstances are unique. That is why our
infrastructure for any number consultants will not prescribe an ‘off the shelf’
infrastructure design but, instead, work with
of reasons. Perhaps you you to develop flexible solutions that reflect
need the increased capacity, the realities of a multivendor IT estate.
Our experience of working with companies of
unprecedented flexibility and all types, sizes and with a variety of different
improved efficiency that only IT environments means we can help you avoid
potential pitfalls and fully realise the significant
virtualisation can bring. You may benefits of virtualisation.
want to cut power and cooling
How it works
costs or avoid the expense of If you decide virtualisation or a move to
replacing a physical server. the cloud is right for you, our consultants
will work with you through every step of the
Whatever your motivation for migration process.
change, SunGard Availability
Services can guide you through
the complexities of migrating to a
virtualised or cloud Infrastructure
as a Service (IaaS) environment.

2. VIRTUALISATION & CLOUD CONSULTING
Guiding you along the path to virtualisation
STEP 1 – DiscoVery
This powerful first step involves high-level The data analysed and gathered will provide
interviews and one-to-one meetings with IT your organisation with information to make
and business teams within your organisation informed decisions as to the benefits, risks
to gain a deep understanding of all layers and costs associated with the transition to a
of your existing IT environment and your virtualised or cloud environment.
business objectives.
At the end of the Discovery process, our
virtualisation specialists will have a clear idea
of your compatibility for virtualisation and
suitability for the cloud. We will present an
initial report detailing the business benefits
of virtualisation, the cost of your current IT
environment and the impact of keeping it
unchanged. The next stage in the process
is to conduct a technical Assessment of
your existing infrastructure.
STEP 4 – MIGRATION
Whether your plan involves
migration to physical to virtual (P2V)
or virtual to virtual (V2V) or, a hot or
cold migration, our expert consultants will
draw up a thorough bespoke strategy
migration plan in which they meticulously
cover every detail, leaving nothing to chance.
Our consultants will exhaustively test and
validate your virtual or cloud infrastructure
before working with you to execute against
the migration plan.

3. STEP 2 – ASSESSMENT
If feasible to transition to a virtual or cloud Analysis of your applications and the
environment, this step is designed to business risks associated with change
determine the true scope of what can and An understanding of what can be
can’t, or shouldn’t, be virtualised based achieved within your current environment
on both the prerequisites for virtualisation through virtualisation
and the predicted cost benefits. Our
consultants will conduct a thorough Considerations for change in your
assessment of your current state operational service model
infrastructure and applications and present: Identification of servers that can be
A customised report of resource virtualised and those that cannot
utilisation and consumption within your
An equipment adoption list for
current infrastructure
migration into a virtual environment
High level view of your future state
architecture
Additional recommendations for data
centre optimisation
A management summary presentation
to help gain buy-in across the business.
The results will provide you with a
comprehensive, fully costed proposal
incorporating automated and manual
methods of migration, together with the
recommended next steps.
STEP 3 – SERVICE DESIGN
Our consultants will design a bespoke
solution that maps your unique business,
technical and resource requirements to a
virtualised hosting infrastructure that is right
for you.
The design will encompass all the aspects
necessary to ensure a resilient virtual
environment including infrastructure,
network, security, backup and recovery.
Our consultants will present their initial
findings to you for validation and discuss
next steps. This involves comparing
conversion and migration options, discussing
the advantages and disadvantages of each,
their recommendations and the benefits you
can expect to realise.

4. VIRTUALISATION &
CLOUD CONSULTING
Guiding you along the path to virtualisation
Why SunGard
A proven track record – We have Best practice methodology – Our
a decade of managed service and consultants follow ITIL and PRINCE2
virtualisation experience informed by over methodology, VMware best practice,
three decades of being the world’s leading BS25999 Business Continuity principles
disaster recovery provider. and ISO/IEC 27031:2011 Guidelines for ICT
Bespoke solutions – We partner with you Readiness for Business Continuity. Given
to understand your goals and then work our heritage in Availability Solutions,
with you to design IT solutions to address uptime is the central consideration at the
exactly what you need. We can support heart of each consulting assignment.
you no matter where or how you want Removes the burden of infrastructure
to run and manage your systems - from management – Whether our
your floor to ours, from a secure cloud recommendation is for a virtual, physical or
to working with another of your service hybrid solution, we can free you to focus
providers. on your core business, whilst maintaining
Vendor-agnostic recommendations – complete control.
Because we are not tied to any one
manufacturer, we are free to scour the
market for best-of-breed solutions. Our
advice is objective and based on what is
best for you.
Find out more
To discuss how SunGard’s Virtualisation & Cloud Consulting service can help you shape your
IT infrastructure to achieve increased flexibility, availability and resilience, call 0800 143 413 or
email infoavail@sungard.com
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