VMware vCloud Suite Consulting Services
Today, companies face relentless change in markets, customers and stakeholders—along with ever-increasing competition. To thrive, they need to anticipate and adapt, and be constantly ready to shift direction to take advantage of an evolving business landscape.
IT organizations have played a key role in helping their enterprises navigate through that landscape—and they are now being called on to do even more. The demands of the business keep increasing, and companies need to transform IT to meet those demands. That means determining how to best redirect IT staff, redesign IT processes and exploit virtualization and cloud computing to deliver greater quality and speed, and ultimately drive business innovation and transformation.
VMware’s vCloud Suite enable a variety of approaches to creating more efficient, agile organizations and faster, more reliable business processes. With that wealth of options, however, you need to know how to best take advantage of the VMware cloud solution for your company. To help, VMware Professional Services consultants, advisors, architects and instructors work with you to uncover and exploit the unique opportunities presented by VMware’s industry-leading cloud solution. Our services team combines unparalleled cloud computing knowledge and real-life experiences to help you transform IT, and deliver outcomes that are positive, tangible and material to IT and your business.
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VMware Professional Services can accelerate the transformation of IT infrastructures to cloud computing and IT-as-a-Service computing models and enable companies to rapidly realize value from this new computing approach.
VMware vCloud Suite Consulting Services
| Cloud Operations Advisory Services | VMware Cloud Operations Advisory Services provide actionable insight, prioritized recommendations and financial guidance for major processes that generate cloud operations maturity and value. Flexibly designed, these service offerings holistically assesses the process maturity and financial impact across five key areas:
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| vCloud Suite Jumpstart Services | Focused on the accelerated transfer of knowledge about vCloud Suite technologies, vCloud Suite Jumpstart Services are used to help organizations that are in the early stages of adopting the vCloud Suite. |
| VMware vSphere Jumpstart | Provides a detailed knowledge transfer workshop on best practices and a fully functional demonstration of vSphere and vCenter in a pre-production environment. |
| VMware vCloud Director Jumpstart | Provides knowledge transfer workshops and hands-on product installation, configuration and usage demonstrations for vCloud Director and VMware security technologies using a customer provided vSphere installation. |
| VMware vCenter Operations Management Jumpstart | Understand how vCenter Operations Manager can help manage your virtual/Cloud infrastructure from a performance and capacity management perspective. |
| VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Jumpstart | Proof-of-concept, onsite installation and configuration of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager™ (SRM), demonstrating how to leverage SRM to prepare and execute an effective disaster recovery plan. |
| vCloud Networking and Security Jumpstart Service | Understand the broad range of networking and security services, including virtual firewall, virtual private network, load balancing and VXLAN extended networks for your cloud environment. |
| VMware Application Director Jumpstart Service | Gain a working knowledge of application provisioning in a cloud enabled environment with a demonstration of vFabric Application Director. |
| vCloud Suite Accelerator Services | Validate specific application use cases and provide solid business and technical justification for the vCloud Suite and the ability to explore the business impact of the cloud solution in a low-risk environment. |
| vCloud Accelerator Service - Standard and Advanced | Rapidly delivers a functioning VMware vCloud Director computing environment suitable for deploying applications in a limited scale, pre-production environment. |
| vCenter Site Recovery Manager Accelerator Service | Accelerates the delivery of a functioning vCenter Site Recovery Manager in limited scale, pre-production environment using best practices and methodologies. |
| Operational Readiness for Cloud Computing | The VMware Operational Readiness for Cloud Computing service examines a customer’s existing operational practices to evaluate their performance and identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and quality of IT Service Delivery. Performance is evaluated across more than 150 different attributes in five key areas to develop a comprehensive roadmap and maturity ranking. |
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| vSphere Plan & Design | Delivers a comprehensive logical architectural design for VMware vSphere that addresses your requirements, and leverages VMware best practices. |
| vCloud Plan & Design | Provides a comprehensive architectural design for VMware vCloud Director that addresses your unique business requirements and operational demands, helping customers pave the way to cloud computing. |
| vCenter Site Recovery Plan & Design | Using best practices, delivers a comprehensive architectural design for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager that addresses business requirements and VMware vSphere dependencies. |
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| vSphere Health Check | Delivers an in depth review of your VMware vSphere environment to optimize your virtual infrastructure with concrete and actionable recommendations. Fixed Price SKU: CON-ESX-HC-AW . |
| VMware vSphere Design Review | Optimizes your vSphere virtualization platform through a detailed assessment of your current vSphere environment design and provides a gap analysis against VMware best practices. |
