Virtualisation & Cloud Computing:
The Economy's Superheroes

How to slash costs and improve IT in the economic climate

"Cloud computing, the idea of software and services that live on servers 'in the cloud' rather than individual computer hard drives, is going to be a mainstay of 2009... with people increasingly expecting to access their crucial data, software and information wherever they are." The Telegraph, 30 December 2008 View Article

Virtualisation is a key infrastructure priority for top CIOs looking to reduce costs and increase energy efficiency in 2009. Far smaller companies have also discovered virtualised, fully managed, IT environments to deliver enterprise level IT systems without the financial outlay of hardware. The credit crunch has a solution it seems.

So who is spearheading this revolution - or is it an evolution that was bound to happen? And where are the cost savings to be made, without costing the company its IT integrity? Intercept explore the reality of virtualisation for you...

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Rescuing the Enterprise

Enterprise companies can now reduce purchase, deployment, and support costs by complete virtualisation of their desktops, applications and storage facilities. This new infrastructure can show additional improvements in user experience and flexibility, business continuity, reduced data loss potential, and extend the life of their PC fleet.

This server-centric computing model is designed to give system administrators the best of both worlds: the ability to host virtual machines, to easily manage and upgrade software, and secure data in the data centre, while giving end users a full PC desktop experience - from anywhere, at any time.

Intercept have have virtualised over 100,000 desktops in the UK using Citrix, Microsoft, VMware and other software vendor solutions to suit the client.

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"Reducing costs by consolidating servers is the number 1 priority for the world's leading CIOs in 2009. Intercept have virtualised over 5,000 servers saving our clients £18 million in hardware costs and over £2.3 million in annual energy costs." Intercept IT 2009

Rescuing the SME & Workgroups

More than anyone, small/medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are feeling the pinch in their pockets at the moment. But costs can be reduced, efficiencies found, and a better computing environment achieved though their largest asset expenditures - namely rental and IT equipment. Now staff can work from home or clients' sites without huge overheads and office technology costs can be slashed - delivered virtually on an as-needed basis. Fully hosted IT facilities for which you pay an affordable per month, per user price plan is here from Intercept.

No longer do SMEs have to invest huge up-front costs in the technology their customers expect. They can achieve enterprise quality computing, telecoms and voice communications at a fraction of the price, upgrade their technology, and free their users.

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"Due to the nature of our business we needed a system that provided extreme levels of data security and business continuity. OnlineDesktop provides us with everything we need and we believe we are saving in the region of £200,000 a year." David Seaton, Managing Director, Rowanmoor Pensions

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Crisis, What Crisis?

Intercept Connects with the Homeless

Intercept, in partnership with the Aimar Foundation, supplied 130 online desktops from its cloud computing service to London charity group Crisis, for its Christmas initiative. The project enabled Crisis to offer essential IT skills, as well as access and use of the vast information available on the web as a resource for building a better life.

James Tedman, board trustee of the Aimar Foundation says: "Intercept already provide us with its online desktop solution as a cost-effective alternative to purchasing our own IT infrastructure. We were tremendously pleased to be working with them to provide this service to Crisis over the Christmas period. Online desktop is perfect for this type of deployment as low cost equipment can be installed in the Crisis Centres with all the applications and data stored centrally at Intercept's data centres."

Intercept works with many non-profit organisations such as Barnardo's, Help The Aged, New Philanthropy Capital, RSPB, and a number of Housing Trusts.

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You Will Comply

New remote access gateway technology

In today's complex network and IT environments, more and more people need access to corporate servers, applications, databases and management tools. While trying to minimise human intervention with these critical services, IT managers need to consider how to allow the remote access and management of these services: Who to allow access; How to secure and audit access; How to record all actions that are performed on these servers.

ObserveIT, an Intercept partner, empowers companies to demonstrate Compliance, augment Security Administration and reduce mean-time-between-failure for systems administrators. The software visually records and replays all Terminal, Citrix, and Console sessions, providing detailed insight into all activities on your network.

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What is Cloud Computing

The way ahead for your computing environment.

Gartner defines Cloud Computing as computing where massively scalable IT capabilities are provided 'as a service'. The benefits of such an approach can be to lower IT operational costs, increase business continuity needs, reliability and easier flexible working for employees.

Cloud Computing is changing not just the technology landscape but also the entire nature of business models. With cloud computing, you put no cash down for your own data centre, but instead pay as you go. There is no penalty for scaling up and ensures no dead or idle CPUs, and no provisioning requirements.

The combination of Cloud Computing with a virtual environment delivers better user and administrator experiences along with less energy consumption and wastage - a greener technology.

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Pants to Data Centre Costs

Intercept helps Figleaves.com reduce costs.

Online lingerie firm figleaves.com selected Intercept to deliver Citrix NetScaler providing load balancing and secure accelerated web application delivery to its site. "The NetScaler Platinum boxes reduce datacentre costs, balance out peaks in site demand and accelerate application performance by up to five times," said Kristofer Spikereit, account manager at Intercept IT.

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Reduce your Telecom Costs

Save around 30% of your annual bill

We have set up a partnership with leading telecoms expense management experts Veropath. Using their unique software platform, we can help you to stop wasting your valuable IT budget on unnecessary telecoms costs by identifying savings of around 30% or even more on your annual telecoms bills. And if the saving we identify turns out to be less than 10% then there is no cost to you at all, making the whole process completely risk-free.

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From the Inside Out

Looking at the IT industry from the Intercept IT point of view

UK businesses are going through a period of change, re-evaluation, and in some cases 'taking cover' to avoid the economic uncertainty. Budgets have never been so squeezed, plans scrutinized and making the right decisions in choice of technologies is 'a must'.

As Will Brooks, General Manager at Intercept says "the computing industry is now more complicated than ever, and about to undergo massive change due to the current economic climate. At Intercept we can see these business changes taking place to many of the companies we come across. Budget cutbacks and nervousness inevitably affects IT and often gives rise to cheaper, less effective choices being taken. I'm pleased to say Intercept are growing in this environment. Not only because virtualisation is the latest 'buzz', but because of the real difference it can make to companies in the way that they work - with more flexibility and efficiency. It is also noticeably reducing our customers' overhead expenditure on a daily basis and satisfying the environmental requirements of many organisations."

From the complete virtualised infrastructure of large businesses to managed services for smaller companies - Intercept is playing its part to reduce cost, build better solutions and benefit the environment.

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Law into their Own Hands

Kennedys Legal Firm take control of their systems

Kennedys is a global law firm headquartered in the City of London. Accelerated business growth has resulted in new offices and an influx of lawyers and other staff worldwide. Relocation of its three London offices to a central headquarters provided the ideal opportunity to upgrade its core IT infrastructure to meet the firm's evolving demands.

Working alongside Intercept, Kennedys overhauled its global data centres, implemented a resilient disaster recovery (DR) plan and improved remote working capabilities. Not only that, but they were able to do it without disruption to their employees and customers, complete it within budget and to the deadline. The new facilities are projected to save the firm upwards of £350,000 a year.

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