Servers

Servers > Business issues

The cost of supporting the vast array of servers is, for many organisations, unpredictable. The investment needed to provide comprehensive management tools that so many would like to deploy, is hard to justify.

The need to maintain greater levels of availability in today’s age of “always on”, 24x7 ecommerce is also hard to staff. Establishing shift patterns of experienced operations teams isn’t cheap.

And then there are those organisations that find themselves with a business requirement to support a particular server or application component that falls outside of internal core skills. Support becomes prohibitive, or is carried out by staff that are unfamiliar with those infrastructure components.

Increasingly, organisations are also looking for ways to deploy an application infrastructure as they need it, paying for what they use, as they use it. This might mean billing monthly per business transaction or per GB of storage used.

Servers > The Anix Service

Anix is able to monitor and manage most server platforms including the hardware components, firmware upgrades and the operating system.

We have the ability to detect incidents based upon the monitoring of numerous resources and by establishing rules around these metrics, appropriate reporting and action can be taken. Reporting can take place across a series of devices to provide an aggregated view of how a particular business service is currently performing.

Operating systems supported by Anix include:

• AIX
• HPUX
• Linux
• Microsoft Windows
• OpenVMS
• OS/400
• Solaris

Servers > Key benefits

• Establish known and predictable support costs for your server infrastructure
• Receive enterprise class management, reporting and analysis
• Obtain support for niche or non-standard application infrastructure
• Pay for the services as you use them