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Macwarehouse can help your organisation thrive with the right server and storage solutions

Macwarehouse Mac Solutions offer a wide variety of services to ensure customer's server infrastructures provide resilient, agile platforms for their business critical applications. Macwarehouse Mac Solutions offer end-to-end storage solutions, working to optimise your infrastructure and ensure that business critical data resides on robust, scalable, high-performance storage.

With a dedicated team of industry-accredited consultants, we have extensive experience in designing and deploying solutions based on the following technologies.

Server Solutions

Macwarehouse offers server solutions that not only provide services required now, but scale as application requirements grow. Our recommendations are based on industry best practice and experience gained from solutions we have implemented.

Macwarehouse are able to deliver the full range of server solutions including Xsan, Active Directory integration, configuration of Windows clients and even Windows servers. With a server solution from Macwarehouse you get the complete package.

• Design and consultancy
• Licensing and OS X Maintenance
• Configuration and deployment
• Xsan
• Active Directory integration
• Installation and configuration of Windows clients and servers
• Disposal of old equipment under WEEE regulations
• Maintenance and 24*7 support
• Networking including infrastructure, wireless, LAN & WAN
• Remote control and support

We will guide you through the design of the solution that is right for you – suggest a level of business continuity that is relevant to your business – install and configure the solution. Provide you with maintenance to ensure that it keeps performing – throughout its working life.

High availability

I.T. managers need to increase robustness of their systems and ensure continuation of service in the event of failure within the infrastructure. By investing in high-availability technologies, such as application failover and clustering, I.T. departments can mitigate risk to the business posed by hardware or application failures.

Storage area networks (SAN)

A SAN is designed to provide dedicated interconnection between disk arrays, host servers and backup devices. By moving data via the SAN rather than the Local Area Network (LAN), higher transfer rates can be achieved whilst removing contention from the LAN for other network traffic. By implementing this kind of storage design, an organisation can reap a number of benefits:

• Shared, consolidated storage with better scalability
• Improved fault tolerance
• Centralised management
• A platform for high-availability technologies
• LAN-free backups
• Support for heterogeneous environment
• Network-attached storage (NAS)

The dedicated nature of NAS devices means they typically offer performance levels far above general file servers. This opens the way to solutions such as file server consolidation where multiple file servers can be eliminated and replaced with a single NAS filer. This technology can also compliment SANs by using a NAS device as a “header” to present SAN storage to servers and clients.

Data Backup

Implementing an effective backup procedure across an organisation’s storage estate means that data can be reliably restored in a timely fashion in the event of unexpected data loss. However, with storage capacities growing year on year and e-commerce driving the requirement for 24 x 7 data access, storage administrators must implement a backup policy that does not impact on the overall performance of the I.T. infrastructure. Technologies such as data snapshots, continuous incremental data protection and moving backup data over fibre channel, can aid administrators in backing up an organisation’s data with little or no impact on the business..

Other consultancy services: Macwarehouse provides a number of additional consultancy services for its clients that allow efficiencies and cost savings to be sustained. Macwarehouse is able to offer customers a complete range of consultancy services on a chargeable basis.

Our consultants also specialise in the creative zones such as Visual media, Audio media and Design & Print. For more information, please contact your account manager.