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 - April 2012

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

The list is based on the number of profile visits a company receives and the amount of times their details are 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 March 2012

Read our new case study - reducing delivery times by 50%

Providing a global Investment Bank with an action plan to cut fulfillment times for infrastructure services by 50%

 

Landscape Profiling Assessment

The client recognised that its IT service delivery process was inefficient, with projects taking too long to complete when compared with its competitors. 4sl was commissioned to identify these inefficient working practices and make clear recommendations on how to resolve them.

Click here to read the case study.

DPaaS - introducing the new backup machine

Data protection has traditionally simply meant ‘backup and recovery’ which in and of itself, has often been viewed as offering no tangible business value.

But with increased threat levels from external and internal data loss, security breaches and greater demands on compliance and risk management, that view has changed. Also, recent pressure for IT departments to offer more pay-as-you-go utility services using virtualisation and cloud computing techniques is forcing many organisations to think differently about backup & recovery.

Click here to see how the traditional backup has become Data Protection as a Service.

4sl welcomes new joiners in April 2012

Supporting our continued growth 4sl welcomes new joiners.

We are delighted to welcome new menbers to the 4sl team including Isabel Smythe (financial accounting), Ryan van der Wielen (backup consultant) and Robert De Piano (new business account manager).

 They are joined during April 2012 and are based in the London office.