Fast Track to PlateSpin Forge from Novell
PlateSpin Forge® from Novell is a great tool to have when you need rapid disaster recovery and workload protection. Like most solutions, if you don’t fully utilize its capabilities, you won’t get the most out of your investment. That’s where Fast Track to PlateSpin Forge comes in: This short, one-week consulting engagement can help you quickly and inexpensively implement PlateSpin Forge, giving you immediate return on investment and a secure data center.
PlateSpin Forge—Quicker, Smarter, More Economical Way to Protect Servers
There are many advantages that come from implementing PlateSpin Forge from Novell. For example, PlateSpin Forge revolutionizes the way disaster recovery solutions are deployed, tested and managed by offering an affordable and easy-to-use hardware appliance for protecting business-critical servers in the data center. It manages disaster recovery at workload level—protecting data, applications and operating systems as one unified stack. It leverages virtualization technology to protect up to 25 server workloads—within a single bootable recovery environment. And all the storage, applications and virtualization technology you need are pre-packaged, so once PlateSpin Forge is deployed, you can begin protecting your physical and virtual workloads in a matter of hours.
While these benefits are exciting, many businesses find the process of actually completing such an implementation less exciting; in fact, it can be downright daunting. Many IT managers are concerned—and rightly so—about whether their disaster recovery will work as planned. And it doesn’t stop there. Questions range from "What are the key factors to consider in planning my disaster recovery?" to "What business and technical requirements must be addressed to ensure my implementation succeeds?"
A Complete Implementation Consultation
To address these issues and ensure your PlateSpin Forge implementation delivers a quick return on investment, Novell IT Consulting offers a one-week engagement called Fast Track to PlateSpin Forge. During this engagement, Novell and our partners work onsite with you to assess the feasibility of using PlateSpin Forge as the disaster recovery software of choice in your business. Through a series of interviews within your organization, the Novell team helps define the appropriate path for your organization to achieve success with a more secure and flexible disaster recovery solution. The Novell team analyzes the current technical and non-technical elements of your environment and identifies the issues that need to be addressed to ensure the future success of your PlateSpin Forge initiative.
Project Overview
Fast Track to PlateSpin Forge delivers a fast implementation with full support from Novell. Here’s what you can expect:
- One week of consulting services. The Novell team will guide you through the steps of a basic deployment of PlateSpin Forge.
- Requirements assessment. The team will analyze your technical infrastructure and document information regarding your data center, your disaster and recovery site, and the identified workload. The findings will be presented to you in an assessment document.
- Solution design. During this two-day phase, we will determine the design and deployment plan and document and present our findings to you.
- Deployment of one workload. To give you a complete system on which to model future deployments, we will implement the PlateSpin Forge solution in your production environment, initiate the process for the one workload and demonstrate the fail-over and fail-back.
- One four-hour scheduled standby with Novell Technical Services. Novell Technical Services will be available to assist you as you go live with this implementation of PlateSpin Forge or implement your next workload. A Novell technical support expert may be scheduled to be available for a consultation phone call two hours before your implementation, allowing you to familiarize the engineer with your system and planned changes. During the four-hour standby, you will have a 15-minute response time guarantee from your assigned engineer.
Get on the Fast Track Today
By participating in Fast Track to PlateSpin Forge from Novell, you ensure that best practices are adhered to, resulting in a stable environment. You’re able to quickly deploy PlateSpin Forge, accelerating your return on investment. And you'll learn how you can deploy more workloads easily, either with another consulting engagement or with your own IT staff. To start your Fast Track to PlateSpin Forge engagement, contact your local Novell Sales Office today.