4sl Group

Virtual Infrastructure

Are you seeing the major benefits that a virtual infrastructure can provide?

You should expect cost savings in capital and operational expenditure, faster provisioning times, centralised management, improved availability and operational efficiency and productivity gains. In today’s operating environment where IT services need to contribute to business value, many organisations have yielded business benefits from their use of server and desktop virtualisation.

4sl have significant experience in the design, delivery and management of infrastructure solution have developed a number of value propositions to leverage virtual infrastructure solutions.

We adopt a service-oriented approach where characteristics such as performance, price, availability and capacity are of primary importance.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Our VDI solution offers cost savings upwards of 20% and a payback period within 18 months. Download our short summary deck on VDI to find out more -> Click Here

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Through 3 discrete and well-defined stages, we can accelerate the benefits of desktop virtualization by either leveraging your existing in-house solutions or through the structured migration onto more appropriate solutions. The first stage is a rapid viability assessment to identify & quantify exactly what benefits can be expected for your organisation.

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Click here to arrange a Rapid Viability Assessment to discover what benefits a VDI solution could bring to your organisation.

Most popular backup service awards - November 2011

Every month Online Backup Directory UK rank the 25 most popular companies offering managed backup capabilities.

The list is based on the number of votes a company receives and the amount of times their profile page has been viewed each month. This ensures that every month an up to date list of companies offering reliable is provided.

Click here to see the full results for November 2011

Latest thinking and IT insight with 4ideas

4ideas is a regular bulletin with four articles of topical subjects across the IT industry.

In this edition:

  1. How to cut IT costs (with free advisory guide download)

  2. Help yourself to IT support

  3. Do you know a failed project when you see one?

  4. Be an effective team member

Click here to read the the latest edition.

4sl appoint practice lead for IT service management business

With increased activity in our IT Service Management practice, we are pleased to announce the appointment of Shelley Hood as practice lead.

Shelley started her IT career developing bond trading and banking applications for Canada's financial sector. Since then her career  as an IT consultant has served a broad range of clients providing expertise across the technology spectrum. Her industry expertise extends from financial services to manufacturing, publishing and utilities in both the public and private sectors. She works with enterprise executives to design IT strategies that provide business results. She is equally successful working with back office and application teams to implement the processes and solutions to execute on those strategies. Shelley excels at balancing the often divergent perspectives of technology, end-users and business sponsors.

She was managing partner at one Canada's top independent consultancy firms, serving clients across North America.. Clients included Ford Motor Co, Motorola, Farm Credit Canada, Norwalk Furniture and Primedia.

Shelley has a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Toronto, is a Charter Information Technology Professional (CITP) and currently working toward a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) at Reading University.

4sl sign up 6th FTSE100 client

We are delighted to announce winning our sixth FTSE100 client, demonstrating an increased awareness in the market of the value of 4sl's services.

Fortune 500 IT company requests data protection consultancy

Fortune 500 IT company requests data protection consultancy

An industry-leading US data protection company has asked 4sl to provide consultancy and solution implementation for their clients, re-enforcing our credentials as the recognised specialist in backup and recovery services.

Our client list now includes 11 FTSE100, Fortune 500 and Fortune Global 500 companies.