As organisations continue to adopt, and benefit from virtualisation technology, increasing attention is given to the return on investment (ROI) and value-for-money of ICT infrastructure. Many organisations are placing higher demands upon the midrange platform to provide flexible, low-cost, high performance computing services for both the data centre and remote site facilities.

Advances in midrange storage hardware and increased network bandwidth combined with the decreasing cost of physical storage has led to enhancements  in how block-level and file-system data can be transmitted, stored, replicated and archived.
The continued focus of virtualisation technology to improve utilisation, simplify ICT management, and decrease operational expense has led to the convergence of server, storage and network infrastructure to the point where an experienced architect with a sufficiently varied skill set is required to reliably design and implement successful end-to-end midrange solutions.

The market provides a large number of midrange solutions - all with pros and cons. We at agility praise ourselves to be vendor agnostic - our consultants will architect the perfect solution tailored to our clients requirements based on the different feature sets available on the market. We are in constant contact with all major hardware vendors to update our skill set and knowledge about the latest technology.

A typical design process will draw attention to areas like:

• Specific business requirements;
• Supportability and technology standards of the client organisation;
• Cost effectivness and Total cost of ownership (TCO);
• Independent and unbiased advice in the selection of Tier-1 midrange hardware;
• Architecture and specification of midrange server infrastructure solutions; and
• Scalable, reliable and effective storage infrastructure solutions.