The current economic climate has only intensified the pressure to reduce IT costs. Today, the emphasis is on consolidation, with companies determined to optimize capital expenditures while improving operational efficiency.
Achieving this goal will require a highly scalable, flexible network infrastructure that enables companies to respond dynamically and cost-effectively to everyday resource demands, however uneven or unpredictable they may be. For companies en route to using utility computing, the answer lies in virtualization; complementing or replacing dedicated networking appliances with a virtual resource to enable consolidation and optimal scalability.
Atos Origin virtual infrastructure services are one of the ways we are helping clients lower their infrastructure costs through network virtualization. These services enable companies to shift their workload from dedicated routers, firewalls and load balancing appliances to virtual service architecture capable of dispensing scalable capacity on demand. Resources are pooled across the virtual service architecture, making abundant capacity available at a much lower cost than dedicated solutions allow. When a surge or other unplanned increase in demand necessitates additional resources, more capacity is dispensed automatically. Resources are continuously managed so that the appropriate capacity is delivered when and where it’s needed.
In line of managing such issues, Atos Origin investigate whether the customer’s network environment and its utilization complies with the new business and/or technical requirements. This will enable a stable, reliable, cost-effective and manageable network environment that is in line with the customer's business and technical needs.
It provides the comprehensive guidance and management for transformation of customer's network environment to accommodate the new business and/or technical provisions by delivering:
- An objective view of the existing network infrastructure
- A firm business foundation for planning the future of network environment
- The proposal for an efficient and effective path to address all the existing and future business networking requirements
- Present in Europe, Americas and Asia, Atos Origin has deployed its Network Services successfully for more than 40 years, locally or globally for large international contracts and in all industry sectors.
Atos Origin is among the first European global service providers in Managed Operations and has a market leading position in the Netherlands. Atos Origin offers:
- Strategic committment to Mainframe services
- Flexible solutions
- Improved total cost of ownership for the Mainframe environment
- Committed service levels
- Experienced/skilled resources
Our services include:
IT Solution Consulting Services
The assessment services are a way of looking at the present mode of operations within an organization and helping business / strategic plans to be efficiently and lucratively focused upon. The assessment looks into the organizational focus, the IT organization, IT performance and the demand organization. It takes into account the customer's business ambitions and needs, compared to the customers’ existing IT environment.
The outcome of the assessment is a report stating the present mode of operation (PMO) and the future mode of operation (FMO) and contains a gap analysis. Indications are given on cost to “close” the gap. Assessment services can, if required, be addressed to particular aspects, such as security or contingency
LAN Services
The LAN Services provide the complete management of the active network components (mainly switches) in Local Area Networks.
The services may be based on different brands of switches and other LAN equipment, such as CISCO, Avaya, Enterasys, Nortel, 3COM and others.
The LAN services can be part of a complete Infrastructure Management Environment or can be part of a Desktop Management Environment
The LAN Connectivity Services portfolio currently include the following services:
- Network monitoring service, with network monitoring tools such as HP OpenView
- Network reporting service with reporting tools such as Concord Network Health on availability, performance and load trend analysis
- Network configuration services, with element managers such as CISCOWorks 2000, Spectrum, Optivity, Cajun View, based on automated processes
- Network analysis service, with advanced network analyzers such as Sniffer and HP analyzers
It is also possible to provide a Data Center LAN (DC-LAN) service that is part of the Managed Operation service of a Server Farm. In most cases these services are implemented in a High Availability type of service. The DC-LAN service can either be implemented in a dedicated way for each customer specifically or in a shared way on a common infrastructure basis. Compliance to security standards such as BS7799 is warranted at all times. The advantages of the shared
services are:
- Economy of scale: resulting in a lower price/port under most conditions
- Flexibility: resulting in shorter delivery times, no need for spare ports and flexibility of the actual data room/floor
- Easier and faster implementations of contingency provisions
- No need for customer specific innovations
Network Transformation
Network Transformation provides consultancy to investigate and analyze customer’s business and propose the replacement of a customer’s existing network infrastructure with a more appropriate alternative, which is either managed by Atos Origin or by the customer.
Within this service component, the guidance on future requirements against present operations is provided in order to produce plans, design new network infrastructure and services, and implement the enhanced network to deal with the business and technical requirements. The enhanced network will reflect customer’s present and future business and management needs.
The next phase will provide the analysis of information established or gathered in the previous phase, and investigate the gap (comparison and differences) between the present (PMO) network environment and the future (FMO) network solution requirements. If applicable, this phase will use the present network findings from the Assessment component. It will also provide the definition of the Interim Service Level Agreements (SLA), and the Migration Plan that will result in the future network solution.
The following phase provides the design and blueprints for the future network solution: physical and logical network design, and the design of the relevant network management solution, optional pilot environment to demonstrate the future network environment, the definition of the future IT network processes, and the finalization of the Interim SLA.