Aligning business and IT assets to transform your infrastructure

In the current economic climate, improving service, reducing costs and managing risk are no longer optional extras – they’ve become core business activities.

With full certification, IBM® solutions and advanced technology, Tardis provides the DNA your business needs to deploy Dynamic Infrastructure to help you thrive in this new, smarter planet. Our consulting expertise and proven best practices span both business and IT, integrating and managing them for a more intelligent, streamlined solution.

The specialist knowledge possessed by Tardis and IBM allows us to offer extensive, professional guidance on areas that can help your business become more dynamic. Whether reducing cost, managing risk or improving service is uppermost on your agenda, we provide the right mix of solutions and expertise.

Tardis delivers project-based, implementation and managed services that match your business needs. IT solutions evolve: solving your business problems relies on access to the most up-to-date information to make the best decisions.

To find out the difference that a Dynamic Infrastructure would make to your business, speak to one of our specialist consultants on (02) 8870 9000.

Do you know what your downtime really costs you?

Your data is your most valuable business asset. Without it, your business can’t function. And every minute your business can’t function costs you dearly, which is why disaster recovery planning – and testing – are so crucial. In TardisTalk’s Virtualisation edition we brought you information on VMware’s pioneering Site Recovery Manager for virtual environments. And now there’s a new version on the market with a whole host of additional benefits.

Featuring automated disaster recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager 4 also provides expanded storage support to allow users to leverage iSCSI, Fiber Channel and Network File System (NFS) based storage replication. It’s compatible with vSphere™ 4, which gives users better application performance and protection. And VMware Site Recovery Manager 4 can now protect multiple sites with simplified, automated failover into a single, shared recovery site. VMware Site Recovery Manager 4 reduces the complexity of protecting your virtual environments ... at the same time as it increases your confidence that your most precious assets are safe.

Let us review and analyse your SAN Infrastructure

The Tardis Services Storage Analysis is designed to perform a detailed analysis of the Storage Infrastructure and provide recommendations on your current deployment, including considerations based on overall design, performance and capacity.

Our analysis will:

• Discover storage devices such as RAIDs, tape libraries, tape drives, FC switches, HBAs, and host servers
• Report on your devices’ current status and health
• Capture sensor faults in power supply, temperature, fan, and battery
• Summarise inventory information such as:
1. Firmware versions
2. Capacity and utilisation
3. Storage breakdown and mapping
4. Detailed performance statistics
5. At a glance reports on availability and performance trends
6. Reports identifying over- or under-utilised elements
• Provide comprehensive recommendations on your environment‘s health

Once your review is complete, we analyse all of the information collected and supply you with a detailed report that provides you with:

• Inventory
• Performance
• Alarms and Alerts
• Recommendations

A business needs to know where it is before it can make practical plans for the future – our analysis will provide you with all the knowledge you need to make the best possible business decisions.

For more information, or to set up an appointment, call us on (02) 8870 9000.

Having met rigorous requirements around NetApp solution expertise, technical proficiency, staffing, coverage and joint business and marketing planning, we’re proud to announce that Tardis is now a NetApp Gold Partner.

This means that we’re now in a better position than ever to advise our clients on the benefits of NetApp ... and those benefits are legion.

NetApp made shared storage an affordable reality with the world's first networked storage appliance. With NetApp you may cut your IT costs in half, use up to 80% less storage, defer data centre expansion and accelerate your time to market.

Now you never have to choose between saving money and adding IT capabilities again.

NetApp infrastructure solutions provide cost effective storage and data management for the dynamic enterprise. The NetApp storage series provides versatility, scalability and reliability for your largest enterprise applications and most demanding technical workloads, achieving lower acquisition and operation costs compared to traditional, large-scale storage with innovative software technology and unified storage architecture.

• Maximise staff productivity with our integrated suite of application-aware manageability software
• Save power, cooling and floor space with comprehensive storage efficiency features
• Satisfy multiple needs - SAN, NAS, primary storage and secondary storage - with a single platform

Benefit from the high-bandwidth, highly scalable design of our full storage series to support your most demanding applications, then protect your mission-critical data with a full range of high-availability and disaster-recovery options.

Together, Tardis and NetApp give you the industry's best people, processes and products, working together to help you accelerate and maximise the return on your IT infrastructure investments.

Invest in your future by talking to Tardis today on (02) 8870 9000.

In the June edition of TardisTalk we took a look at one module of the IBM TSM FastBack suite. This time, we’re profiling the Rapid Recovery module for Microsoft Exchange users.

There’s no doubt that, for its users, Microsoft Exchange is a business-critical application, meaning that any downtime at all can have significant ramifications. Until now, restoring Exchange data such as individual email messages has been extremely time-consuming and costly.

This new generation solution gives administrators – and users – the ability to recover any Microsoft Exchange data object more quickly and easily than ever before – often in just minutes.

Not only is IBM’s TSM FastBack Microsoft Exchange Rapid Recovery state of the art, it’s a low cost solution that avoids deploying complex and expensive disk snapshot technologies. This new module:

• provides ultra-fast MS Exchange recovery
• complements your existing backup strategy and works seamlessly across your existing heterogeneous disk storage infrastructure
• performs near-instant item-level recovery of mailboxes, folders, calendar entries, contacts, journal entries and tasks without having to restore the entire Exchange Storage Group

We’d welcome the opportunity to discuss the benefits Microsoft Exchange Rapid Recovery could confer on your backup procedures. If you’d like to talk them over, please call us on (02) 8870 9000.

Outsourcing non-core functions is good business practice. These days, with the transition from CapEx to OpEx, it makes more sense than ever and increasing numbers of businesses are taking advantage of managed IT services as a result.

Tardis delivers customised, flexible, efficient and cost effective support to client environments ranging from the very small to the very large. We’re focused on proactive and secure monitoring of your core onsite hardware and software so that you enjoy seamless day-to-day operation.

By developing regular maintenance schedules, our engineering team, managed by dedicated team leaders and managers, is committed to ensuring that mission-critical systems are fully operational. Tardis builds thorough documentation of client networks, covering all IT equipment, software and system designs, so that we can make certain that all updates, patches and security measures have been applied effectively.

Our highly trained and dedicated engineering team will proactively manage your IT infrastructure from server to desktop, helping to ensure that potential problems are identified early and the necessary corrective actions can be taken.

If you’d like to hear more about our managed services and what they can do for your operational efficiency and bottom line, call us on (02) 8870 9000.