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Open Source Strategy Assessment

MSI helps organizations understand how business and IT requirements connect and identify which areas are critical to the competitive marketplace. MSI will gauge the impact of an Open Source strategy for you and help determine your best course of action for critical IT components and business objectives. MSI can help:

  • Provide a written evaluation of client advantages, disadvantages, benefits and risks of server and desktop migrations to Linux in your environment
  • Leverage existing and/or create new tools for deployment and management
  • Provide platform evaluations and recommendations based on business requirements, total cost of ownership, existing expertise and projected skills
  • Provide Open Source TCO analysis and recommendations through existing environment performance analysis, TCO analysis tools, a server consolidation study, and executive presentation and reporting

Linux Enterprise Deployment

Based on the results from an assessment, MSI will implement a comprehensive solution which leverages expert architects and engineering teams to put the right foundation in place. MSI can help with:

  • Strategic and tactical Linux environment evaluations and design
  • Server configuration and deployment
  • Jumpstart server installation and custom implementation

Enterprise Clustering

As your business grows and changes, so will your IT infrastructure. MSI’s Architects and Engineers will help position you for future infrastructure requirements with:

  • High availability planning and implementation
  • Disaster recovery planning and implementation
  • Database and application clustering
  • High Performance Compute (HPC) Clustering

Virtualization Solutions

By harnessing the power of today’s servers, virtualization is a popular way to improve system utilization and management. MSI can help by using the following technology options:

  • Open Source Virtualization evaluation, planning and deployment using the latest in Open Source Virtualization Technologies
  • Linux on IBM System p and System i utilizing IBM Advanced Power Virtualization
  • IBM System z IFL and z/VM
  • VMware and Xen Integration
  • Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL)
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