Techie Brekky August 2009

NetApp: Storage Strategies for Virtualised Environments

Storage Strategies for Virtualised Environments with NetApp, which continues the virtualisation theme by looking at the implications of your storage choices in a virtualised environment.

Too many organisations think of storage in a separate context to their overall virtualisation strategy. By doing this, you could be missing out on some of the more advanced features of VMware – potentially foregoing additional cost savings and provisioning flexibility that underpinned your business case for virtualising in the first place.

By incorporating a unified storage architecture, traditionally difficult areas such as backup and Disaster Recovery can be included as components of your virtualisation solution – without incurring huge additional costs.

So join Harbour IT and NetApp at this strictly fluff-free Techie Brekky… facts and demonstrations for technical people, given by technical people.

Gain an understanding of the issues and considerations around a unified storage architecture within a virtualised environment and find out how you can:

• Automate some of the most labour-intensive data management tasks

• Slash 50-90% off VMware storage requirements through deduplication technology

• Accelerate time-to-deployment by instantly provisioning servers and storage together

• Setup instantaneous backup and recovery processes.

ITIL Executive Briefing

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) continues to gain momentum in the Australian IT workplace as the preferred framework for best practice IT services. Once thought to be the domain of big business, ITIL is now finding strong support from all segments of Australian business.

During this Executive Briefing Session you will learn:

• The key elements that make up ITIL
• The differences between ITIL versions 2 and 3
• The benefits to your business of using the ITIL framework
• How to cost effectively implement ITIL in your organisation

Your presenter, Marcus Binet, has over 15 years experience working in, managing, training and consulting in IT. In the late 90s, Marcus commenced working with one of the first IT Service Management organisations in Australia. In this role, he managed teams of IT professionals delivering IT services using the ITIL process model as a framework. Marcus is considered one of the most experienced ITIL practitioners in the Australia.

Techie Brekky May 2009

VMware vSphere:The next generation in virtual infrastructure

VMware vSphere lets you leverage the power of virtualization to transform your IT infrastructure into private clouds, enabling IT to increase control through service-level automation.

VMware vSphere dramatically reduces capital and operating costs and maximizes IT efficiency - with the freedom to choose any application, OS, or hardware.

Now with new licensing structure and cheaper prices for SMBs, it's the best virtualisation offering on the market today.

Our Techie Brekky series is strictly fluff-free. It's facts and demonstrations for technical people, given by technical people. In this seminar find out how you can:

• Consider the advantages of upgrading to vSphere
• Optimise your IT infrastructure through server consolidation, automation, and high availability
• Decrease downtime and improve reliability with business continuity and disaster recovery
• Increase energy efficiency by running fewer servers and dynamically powering down unused servers with our green IT solutions

Harbour IT is a VMware enterprise partner. Our technicians are trained in the latest products from VMware, ensuring we can help you determine the best solution for your requirements, and deploy it rapidly and cost-effectively. Our early experience with new products means we can steer you away from potential pitfalls, and help you understand how things function "in real life".

Invest just 90 minutes of your time to come along to this event and we'll help you get up to speed on the latest in virtualisation. Then you're on the way to determining how it can work for your organisation. Now that VMware's new price points cover SMBs as well as larger enterprises, there's no longer any need to miss out on the benefits of virtualisation due to the cost of entry.

Techie Brekky November 2008

Harbour IT's November Techie Brekky was a joint session hosted by IBM and APC on green server environments and cooling.

Attendees benefitted from hearing about:

• How the overall efficiency of IT environments can be greatly improved
• The key to providing IT Infrastructure with the cooling reliability and availability levels required
• How to reduce the energy consumption from your IT environment with APC and IBM
• How to achieve maximum cooling and minimal floor space
• Scalable solutions including air distribution/fans, portables, and precision cooling systems
• Tailored solutions for environments of all sizes.

In today's high density IT environment, the landscape is ever-changing and unpredictable. Energy costs currently represent about 10% of annual IT budgets. This is expected to increase to 50% in the next five years. Not surprisingly therefore, a Gartner survey recently revealed that 70% of CIOs consider power and/or cooling issues as the single largest problem facing their data centres.

Techie Brekky September 2008

This techie brekky presentation was delivered by Liam Leaney of Harbour IT. Liam has worked in IT for more than years, and has spent the last three years advising upper mid-market customers at Microsoft on technology and licensing solutions, and advising on best practice deployment across the classic range of products, including Exchange Server 2007.

Liam's presentation covered:

• The advantages to your business of upgrading to Exchange 2007
• How Exchange 2007 & unified messaging can optimise your environment
• The licensing details around the product
• What you need to know when upgrading from 2000 or 2003