BT’s Virtualisation Services leverage our core technical and business expertise to plan, build and help you manage your virtual infrastructure. BT takes an integrated approach to Virtualisation, looking at the effects on applications, the network, storage, the business groups, and security.

Today, almost all companies have used Virtualisation in some form, yet very few companies have taken full advantage of this technology. The “low hanging fruit” of virtualisation has been reached. The true promise of Virtualisation Technologies lay in the potential to transform the cost structure and flexibility within the production data centre. Virtualisation is a mature technology that will bring competitive advantage to modern organisations. These successful organisations are using virtualisation to provide scalability, security and effective management of global IT infrastructures, as well as realise significant gains including dramatic cost savings and operational flexibility.

BT offers end–to–end services that are designed to assist in the virtualisation lifecycle and the key areas that must be addressed in order to move forward. BT offers both a Strategic Virtualisation Program and Tactical Virtualisation services to ensure you can take immediate action towards achieving the anticipated benefits of virtualisation.

BT has the largest pure professional services consulting force that is focused and certified on Virtualisation, with over 100 VCPs worldwide. We are partnered with all of the leading vendors in the virtual infrastructure space.

You‚ve achieved some of the advantages of Virtualisation. BT can help you achieve the full results from Virtualisation:

Server Consolidation and Containment

• Reduce TCO
• Reduce acquisition, maintenance, and operational costs
• Reduce service interruptions
• Improve resource management

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

• Tie application and hardware independent recovery plans to your overall business continuance strategy
• Increase process automation, coverage and test capabilities
• Recover failed systems in seconds not hours
• Increase availability by clustering between physical and virtual machines, consolidating failover hardware

Business Flexibility

• Use Virtualisation to meet new business needs faster
• Provide greater transparency into cost allocation or chargeback models
• Create a virtual infrastructure that can dynamically adjust to meet business needs
• Provide your customers with higher availability at lower costs

Development Lifecycle

• Shorten development lifecycles
• Improve quality assurance and testing environments
• Reduce development systems costs
• Implement more powerful development hardware

The BT Virtual Data Centre Program involves the development of an organisation wide strategy to help you understand your current Virtualisation maturity vs. the industry, and then provide a prescriptive process to allow you to develop a mature virtual infrastructure that will align to the needs of your business units.

The BT Virtual Data Centre Program involves an in-depth investigation of all aspects of your IT by the best experts in the industry. For the first time, you’ll have a true view of how your IT is working to meet the needs of the business. We create workshops to understand how you approach business needs with your current processes. This program culminates in an executive level presentation on how you can leverage Virtualisation technologies to raise your business to the next level.

In partnership with VMware and Microsoft, BT also offers services to help you more quickly leverage the tactical benefits of Virtualisation:

BT Virtualisation Assessment – You’ve started the process. Let us help you make your Virtual Infrastructure a world class, best practices environment with an evaluation of your configuration, security, capacity planning, management, and deployment process.

BT Virtualisation Foundation – Build Virtualisation right the first time. BT will provide you with our Reference Virtualisation Architecture designed to match your needs, assist you with the build-out of your new Virtual Infrastructure and help you start with the initial Physical to Virtual server migrations (P2V).

BT Virtualisation Check-Up – Is your virtual infrastructure scaling and performing as your business has grown and changed? Let us identify architectural or performance challenges that may exist in your current virtual environment, updating your documentation to reflect current state of the environment. BT will review your virtual support processes and validate them against the industry best practices.

BT VI Modernise – We can help your virtual infrastructure enter the new era of Virtualisation. You built on an earlier generation of technology. Let us help you migrate to the latest generation, taking advantage of all the flexibility, disaster recovery, and reliability the latest generation has to offer. BT can help you migrate from VMware ESX 2.5 to the latest generation of VMware Virtual Infrastructure.

BT BCDR Accelerator – Virtualisation can help you achieve Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) capabilities that are now within your financial reach. Reliable, full time business capability is no longer limited to select, high revenue generating applications. BT can help you with a review of your BCDR business goals, capabilities, and metrics. We can take this information, and create a plan for leveraging Virtualisation technologies to achieve your goals at a much lower price point than traditional BCDR technologies.

BT Virtual Test/Dev – BT works with clients to determine the requirements for their test/dev environment, including integration with test environment tools. Leveraging VMware’s Lab Manager Platform, this service will allow the management of a rapid imaging library in conjunction with a VMware Virtual Infrastructure to reduce the test/dev cycle, and increase software development quality.