Novell Consulting: Data Center Consulting and Data Center Design
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If you're adding Linux to your data center, you don't have to go it alone. Novell Data Center Consulting is available to help you anticipate and avoid the mistakes and gotchas that can wreak havoc with your ROI.
With Novell Consulting at your side, you can shave months off your implementation plan, and start enjoying the many benefits offered by Linux, including the very important reduction in operational costs while maintaining or improving service levels.
If you're like most people, you've found that your data center system is expensive and inflexible, with applications bound to specific hardware. Your servers might be spread throughout the network, making them harder to manage. And your IT professionals are continually burdened with patching systems and implementing costly countermeasures against threats to corporate data and information assets.
If you're serious about fixing things, let Novell help you take advantage of the cost and reliability benefits of open source technologies.
How Novell Consulting Can Help
Novell Consulting helps you deploy Linux with confidence by delivering software and services that help you reduce costs, improve system performance and increase flexibility. We offer a mature, scalable and secure Linux operating system backed by industry-leading software and hardware vendors. We work with you on key initiatives: infrastructure administration, application deployments, application security and overall systems management. In addition, our flexible support packages allow you to choose the level of support you need. With Novell Consulting, you get the right results:
A Flexible, Open Foundation
- Accommodate a variety of server and data center workloads (e.g., edge and infrastructure computing, enterprise database deployment and mission-critical software applications)
- Leverage Linux and virtualization Technology to improve system performance and maximize resources
- Redeploy server assets quickly as your computing needs change
Security and Peace of Mind
- Build a reliable data center infrastructure based on open source and open standards
- Use centralized systems management to automatically deploy servers and keep them up to date
- Leverage our unique integrated security software to keep your data safe
Significantly Lower IT Costs
- Take advantage of commodity 32-bit and 64-bit hardware, including blades, clusters and other server architectures
- Reduce the number of operating systems in your infrastructure
- Use Linux to consolidate servers
Solutions and Services
The Novell Consulting team can help you implement a wide range of data center solutions:
Open Source Strategy and Planning
- ROI, TCO and Financial Justification
- Linux Readiness Assessment
- Open Source Availability, Applicability, Viability and Risk Assessment
- Package Selection and Image Creation
- Database Configuration (DB2, Oracle, Oracle/RAC, Sybase and 64-bit systems)
- Network Infrastructure Design and Configuration
- Web Infrastructure Design and Configuration
Systems Management
- Update and Patch Management Using ZENworks Linux Management
- Open Source Systems Management Tool Selection
- AutoYaST Configuration and Scripting
- Systems Management Integration
Migration Services
- UNIX-to-Linux Migrations (AIX, HP-UX, SCO and Solaris)
- Other Linux Distribution Migrations
- Script Migrations
- Windows-to-Linux Migration
- Migration to JBoss
- Migration to Open Source Databases (MySQL and PostgreSQL)
- ERP Platform Migration (Oracle, SAP and Siebel)
Application Development
- Development Environment Configuration
- Service-oriented Architecture Design and Implementation
- Developing .NET Applications for Linux
- Integrating Open Source with Application Development
- JBoss Application Development
Additional Services
- Security Assessment, Configuration and Lockdown
- Performance Analysis and Tuning
- High-Availability, Clustering and HPC Configuration
- PolyServe Implementation
- Asset Utilization (Through Server Consolidation and Virtualization and Grid Technologies, Including VMware, Xen, DataSynapse, Infiniband and Others)