Infrastructure and Cloud Solutions

Unlock the power of state-of-the-art on-premise and cloud infrastructure

Take advantage of the latest security and processing advancements by upgrading your on-premise server infrastructure or move part or all of your business systems to a cloud computing infrastructure. Depending on the type of data or regulatory requirements you’re working with, you need to consider whether on-premise infrastructure or public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud will meet the levels of security and management required.

Infrastructure and cloud solutions we provide

By working with Anykey you gain access to our wealth of industry knowledge and experience. We can help you identify whether on-premise infrastructure, cloud solutions or a combination of both is the right fit for your business. We will work with you to create a bespoke migration and implementation plan. We have experience with IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Lenovo Cloud Computing.

IBM Power Systems

IBM Power Systems offer an open innovation platform for organizations of all sizes. They provide solutions to transform big data and analytics, cloud and mobile into a competitive advantage, in ways never before possible. Power systems support a choice of operating systems that grow with your business and are available on-premise or in the cloud.

Linux - choice and flexibility to scale your organization and optimize your workloads
AIX - the highest level of performance, security and reliability of any UNIX operating system
IBM i - delivers continuous availability, the latest security features, and easy integration with IoT, AI and Watson

IBM Storage Solutions

IBM Storage Solutions enable the data infrastructure needed to efficiently capture, deliver, manage and protect data with superior performance and economics. Optimising data storage with IBM allows your business to access the right data at the right time, providing the data foundation to propel your organisation into the cognitive era with confidence.

Enterprise storage across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments
A storage platform that delivers performance, scalability, and flexibility
Maximize backup storage efficiency, data security and performance

Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions

Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions With deep expertise and an end-to-end supply chain, Lenovo can design and deliver solutions that are pre-configured and ready to deploy. And with modular high-performance computing (HPC) solutions from exascale to everyscale, Lenovo makes sure compute is the least of your concerns.

Lenovo offers proven, ready-to-deploy infrastructure solutions which are optimised for industry-leading independent software vendors, designed for any size or scale. This allows for smarter production, smarter research. Make more informed business decisions with industry-leading analytics that bring critical insights into focus.

Lenovo-engineered big data validated designs on Lenovo servers provide highly reliable and flexible foundations for your business analytics solutions so you can unlock the value of your data and deliver insights faster.

CLOUD FAQs

A public cloud is basically the internet. Service providers use the internet to make resources, such as applications (also known as Software-as-a-Service) and storage, available to the general public, or on a ‘public cloud’. Examples of public clouds include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), IBM Cloud, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure Cloud.

For users, these types of clouds will provide the best economies of scale, are inexpensive to set-up because hardware, application and bandwidth costs are covered by the provider. It’s a pay-per-usage model and the only costs incurred are based on the capacity that is used.

There are some limitations, however; the public cloud may not be the right fit for every organization. The model can limit configuration, security, and SLA specificity, making it less-than-ideal for services using sensitive data that is subject to compliancy regulations.

Private clouds are data centre architectures owned by a single company that provides flexibility, scalability, provisioning, automation and monitoring. The goal of a private cloud is not to sell “as-a-service” offerings to external customers but instead to gain the benefits of cloud architecture without giving up the control of maintaining your own data centre.

Private clouds can be expensive with typically modest economies of scale. This is usually not an option for the average small-to-medium sized business and is most typically put to use by large enterprises. Private clouds are driven by concerns around security and compliance and keeping assets within the firewall.

By using a Hybrid cloud approach, companies can maintain control of an internally managed private cloud while relying on the public cloud as needed. For instance, during peak periods individual applications, or portions of applications can be migrated to the Public Cloud. This will also be beneficial during predictable outages: hurricane warnings, scheduled maintenance windows, rolling brown/blackouts.

The ability to maintain an off-premise disaster recovery site for most organizations is impossible due to cost. While there are lower-cost solutions and alternatives the lower down the spectrum an organization gets, the capability to recover data quickly reduces. Cloud-based Disaster Recovery (DR)/Business Continuity (BC) services allow organizations to contract failover out to a Managed Services Provider that maintains multi-tenant infrastructure for DR/BC, and specializes in getting business back online quickly.

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