Data Centre

Cisco unified computing

Cisco’s high performance switches, routers, servers and fibre solutions maximise your data centre potential combined with lowering power consumption needs for a greener environment, reducing your total cost of ownership (TCO) with virtualised solutions and centralised management.

Our expertise with Cisco products and experienced engineers will help you develop your unified computing needs.

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Cisco wide area application software (WAAS)

Cisco’s WAAS offers a WAN optimisation mobility solution for remote offices and remote workers by accelerating your applications performance, allowing you to centralise your business critical applications and data storage in a cloud based working environment.

Our specialised consultants will improve branch IT agility, lowering remote user costs, while improving the performance of your business critical applications allowing you to maximise the full potential of your workforce.

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Making it work

Cisilion’s SMART Services portfolio provides the resources and skills to access requirements, then define and implement highly cost effective data centre solutions for small, medium and enterprise sized organisations.

Riverbed

Virtualized WAN Optimization

Data transfer bottlenecks and unpredictability on the wide area network (WAN) can hurt application performance. In addition, the time required to migrate large volumes of data to and from data centers can be a serious concern to business continuity. These limitations can also negatively impact worker productivity, constrain disaster recovery capabilities, and reduce the effectiveness of IT consolidation and virtualization strategies.

Riverbed® WAN optimization based on physical appliances resolves most performance issues, but there are certain specialized deployments where it doesn’t quite fit. Hence the need for a Virtual Steelhead™, now available from Riverbed, which fulfills the remaining requirements.

 

Virtual Steelhead Advantages

Built on the same award-winning Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS®) technology that powers both Steelhead appliances and Steelhead Mobile, the Virtual Steelhead has all the same WAN optimization features and competitive differentiation, plus the advantage of server virtualization on VMware. Additional benefits include:

 

• Easily deploy and manage Virtual Steelhead into existing virtual server environments in data center and branch office environments, and use the same management tools IT administrators know and trust to standardize management, availability, and flexibility.

• Meet environmental requirements, including physical limitations on server space or the need for ruggedized hardware through custom manufacturing; the Virtual Steelhead fits any form factor.

• Enable managed service providers (MSPs) and system integrators (SIs) to more readily provide scalable WAN optimization as an ondemand product offering.

• Introduce capability to seamlessly scale WAN optimization capacity in number of connections and bandwidth with a simple license key upgrade; there is no need to replace boxes in racks or rewire the network to accommodate future growth.

• Use the Virtual Steelhead as the building block with server virtualization to ensure performance across the WAN for remote offices while maintaining a very small hardware footprint on premise.

• Allow for cost savings in common hardware platforms and higher utilization of pooled resources.

 

Are you centralising your remote or branch servers?

 

We have successfully helped many of our customers centralise and consolidate their branch server solutions, by providing F5 Networks, Riverbed Steelhead WAN & application optimisation solutions.

Accelerating application performance is essential for any successful IT centralisation project. Following centralisation, users perform many more transactions over the wide area network, data requests such as those for files or emails previously served by local infrastructure must now take place over the network. A WAN optimisation solution will accelerate applications, providing local server like performance without expensive bandwidth upgrades.

Contacts us now for competitive offers on WAN & application optimisation solutions.

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