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

Techie Brekky February 2008

VMware Infrastructure 3: the Next Generation in Virtualization

Harbour IT Techie Brekkys are free seminars which are run in the offices of Harbour IT nationally. Sessions are designed to keep you updated on the latest technology and movements in the market.

VMware hosted the first Techie Brekky of 2008 with great results for those who attended. The seminar covered the amazing financial and technological benefits of adding VMware into a business's infrastructure.

With virtualisation, you can spend less on IT and put more on your bottom line. It's as simple as that!

The session covered the ability to:

• Dynamically provision, migrate and manage computing capacity across resource pools to changing business requirements.
• Provide high service availability by automatically restarting virtual machines on live production servers in the event of server failure.
• Simplify drag-and-drop management capabilities with topology maps and centralized configuration.

Attendees heard cases from VMware infrastructure users that evidenced exactly how savings are achieved and why 100% of the Fortune 100 companies use VMware to go beyond the boundaries of traditional IT infrastructure, and significantly lower their costs.