As an HP Gold partner, APSU provides solutions based on HP’s full range of x86 servers, including ProLiant ML, DL and SL. ProLiant is an x86 server architecture engineered and integrated to simplify deployment and ease systems management, allowing you to rely on your infrastructure to respond to fast-changing business needs and gain full value from your IT investments. APSU has a ProLiant server blade solution that will meet your needs, whether you are a small business or the large enterprise firm.

HP ProLiant BladeSystem servers support the latest AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors; a variety of I/O options; the innovative Virtual Connect technology; numerous network interconnect alternatives; Integrated Lights Out, multiple redundant features; embedded RAID controllers; and more.

Also an IBM Premier partner, APSU provides solutions based on IBM’s full range of x86 servers, including System X. With advancements in scalability, reliability and performance, System X takes your business where you want it to go. Together with IBM, APSU provides technology to help your business innovate and thrive.

At the same time, the IBM BladeCenter chassis helps form the IT foundation. It can be tailored to the different types of applications, environments and performance requirements in your business. Offering five choices, including chassis for data centres, stores or remote sites and non-traditional environments, you can easily tailor a solution to meet your needs; just choose the right fit. With IBM BladeCenter, blade servers and switch modules can be seamlessly moved between chassis, giving you incredibly flexible, mix-and-match deployment choices.

• Locally attached storage or multiple storage arrays are providing management and utilisation issues – APSU can offer storage consolidation and virtualisation solutions that help increase utilisation whilst also driving down the amount of storage infrastructure required, and hence the associated management.
• Lack of flexibility with disk storage – APSU offers leading disk virtualisation solutions from IBM and HP to help pool data and then provide the ability to migrate on the fly without interruption to users. This can significantly improve the flexibility, utilisation and availability of the storage infrastructure.
• A lack of data management has led to uncontrolled data growth – APSU works with leading solutions from our partners to help customers understand what data they are storing and where. This can then be used to help define an information lifecycle management process to best align the value of the data with the most cost effective storage.

APSU can also offer a wide range of solutions ranging from tape backup to ensure that data is available after an outage, to high availability to ensure your data and systems are always available when you need them.

• A reduction in server infrastructure to reduce Datacenter footprint
• Increased utilisation of IT equipment such that the assets can be more efficiently used
• Reductions in cost and inherent complexity of maintaining existing physical servers
• The ability to rollout new servers quickly and efficiently
• The option to provide High-Availability and Load Balanced services
• The drive to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint
• To improve their disaster recovery plan
• To drive down TCO and gain increased ROI

Our virtualisation projects include comprehensive auditing, hardware and network configuration services and physical to virtual migrations, all of which are underpinned by Prince2 project management principles to ensure successful delivery.

• Thin client Operating Systems – Windows Embedded Standard, Windows Embedded CE, Linux, Thin OS.
• Thin client form factors – All in one (screen built in) or stand-alone based systems of various specifications.
• Management – Separate or cooperative management software options are available for both stand-alone thin clients and/or fully integrated virtual desktop solutions.
• Thin client features and benefits – VESA screen mount compatible, PXE boot, Multi screen, software based options (fat to thin), graphics acceleration etc.
• Full support for server based apps – Microsoft Terminal Services, Citrix XenApp/ICA, Linux.
• Virtual Desktop Support – VMWare View, Citrix XenDesktop, Quest vWorkspace, Microsoft VDI-Suite (including RemoteFX), Parallels, IBM Virtual Desktop.