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Finally – Benefits Focused Information Technology

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The reason for Information Technology in your business is to make your business easier to operate. The technology used is actually secondary.

Information Technology should:

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• Generate Revenue directly into your business
• Eradicate repetitive manual tasks & reduce your operational costs

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Anything else is simply a waste of time and money!

Information technology is not complicated.

 

The most common reason for Information technology failing is because the solution selected was not designed to meet the needs, or even worse, no needs were defined.

At Trenchant Systems we provide Information Technology solutions around the best products in the industry. All our systems are Trenchant, that’s why we called the company [tooltip tooltip_content=”Adjective: vigorous or incisive in expression or style”] Trenchant [/tooltip] Systems.

Guess What ?

You don’t have to put up with:

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• Slow network performance
• Poorly performing Virtualisation platforms
• Bad Wireless Connectivity
• High communication costs
• Crippling licensing costs
• Poor VOIP quality
• No disaster recovery plans

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The list goes on of countless Information technology failures. We have expertise and partners with years of experience to eradicate these problems.

If you contact us before you implement your Information technology systems, we will work with you and advise you how to avoid these problems.

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A Bad Network Makes everything BAD !

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A slow network will effect everything you do. [highlight type=”light”] It does not matter which cloud product or service you use, It does not matter which  unified communications system you use, if you have a poorly designed and maintained network , your solution will not work.[/highlight]

A badly designed network leads to:

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• Blame disputes between VOIP Provider and network owner
• Frustrated staff who cant stay productive
• High levels of repeat work, unable to complete on first attempt.
• Poor performing Virtual Desktops and Virtual Servers.
• Failed BYOD projects

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One of our core services at Trenchant Systems is network design and installation. We understand the importance of this getting this right.

Regardless of your business objectives a solid communications network will be a key requirement to reach your goals. An under-performing or unreliable network will cost your business.

Before embarking on any major Information Technology project, please ensure that your network has the following key attributes designed into it

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• Performance
• Dependability
• Security
• flexibility

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We are experienced at designing and deploying dependable, fast, and flexible networks. Please contact us to discover how much your network is impacting your business.

Please Read: http://www.trensys.co.uk/network-engineering/why-you-have-slow-wifi/

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Save money, use VOIP, It is that easy!

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The typical understanding of Unified Communications is the merging of Analogue phone networks (ISDN, BT phone sockets) and Digital Internet Protocol networks (The internet). The merging of the networks is only the first step.

Most Unified Communications solutions merge at the network layer ( The internet), then they are still managed , purchased and installed separately. The phone system does not integrate with the email server, The CRM system does not integrate with the SMS mobile gateway. This is not Unified Communications.

True Unified Communications moves on from the network layer right into the applications. Every form of communication, Instant messaging, Fax, Voice calls, Emails and SMS messages. Each of these systems can integrate with each other and can be consumed on tablet, Laptop, smart phone or even a web server running your CRM system.

With this level of integration you will obtain greater visibility into how your business interacts with it’s customers and suppliers. The other major advantage is now that all forms of communication have been enabled onto the Digital Internet Protocols ( the internet) they can be used across the globe.

If you have insight into your business, you will now have the ability to make your Unified Communications system adapt to the way your business works. You can make it work for you, rather than just blindly deliver your email or phone calls. The same automation and insight that Google applies to information across all of it’s applications, you will also have the ability to direct and mine information that flows in and out of your business.

Unified Communications is more than just being able to make phone calls on your tablet and smart phone over the internet. It is the ability to model your communications requirements to the way your business works.

Summary of Benefits using True unified Communications

• Save money by making free voice calls over the internet.
• Adapt your communications requirements to suit your business.
• Work globally.

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Server Virtualisation, Not just for Cloud guys!

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Server virtualisation is not a new technology. It has been in use for many years on large mainframe computers. Just over the last decade it has become available to every day servers which you can buy from any computer manufacturer. You no longer have to purchase a large and very expensive mainframe computer to use virtualisation.
Virtualisation increases the average server utilisation rates from 5-15% to 60-80%. Running fewer servers frees up space and power. Virtualisation is a technique to run more than one server on one physical server.

This allows you to reduce the number of physical servers deployed to reduce operational expenditure on the following items.

• Cooling & Electricity
• Physical rack space
• Server capital expenditure

key factors to be considered before deploying a virtualisation project:

• Virtualisation Licensing costs
• New server requirement VS Server Reuse
• Operating system and application licensing costs
• Storage solutions
• Staff training and migration

Once these items have been quantified and compared to the current cost if you continued as you are. We can calculate at what point you will start seeing your business objective benefits. It also suggested that a staged migration be performed. This will give you a quicker return and arrest the continued sprawl of servers.

The cost of a virtualisation project varies greatly because of the factors mentioned above.
Before undertaking a virtualisation project it is vital that you have a good performing networking. Any network defects or performance bottlenecks will quickly be highlight and affect your ability to release the benefits you are looking for.

The first task is to review your business objective and work with you to perform a financial analysis. This will help you justify your expenditure and identify when you will see that investment coming back to you.

We will also help review your infrastructure and identify any areas which also might need investment to support a virtualised environment. It is important that this takes place as you are placing more reliance on fewer servers.

The applications that you wish to virtualise also need to be examined, the number of users, types of applications etc. This is done to determine the types of servers and shared storage type required. This is done to ensure that the environment performs and has room to scale. If you have a current environment, we also would like to see the performance profile of your current servers.