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POWERFUL PARTNERSHIPS: VMWARE
HELPING CUSTOMERS MOVE FROM CLOUD FIRST THROUGH CLOUD CHAOS TO CLOUD SMART
Computacenter and VMware help organisations enhance competitive advantage by laying digital foundations, accelerating transformation, enabling greater automation and efficiency and improving governance and security.
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With the rate of change accelerating, organisations need to be agile, resilient and competitive to succeed.
Computacenter and VMware help lay the digital foundations for the future with solutions that range from multi-cloud to app development platforms, security and networking and anywhere workspaces. The two companies have worked together for more than 20 years, and Computacenter is a highly accredited VMware partner across all portfolios.
VMware and Computacenter share a passion to help our joint customers avoid cloud chaos and accelerate their journey to cloud smart. By ensuring this focus on the outcome the customer is driving towards, our partnership has once again delivered significant value for our enterprise customers. Importantly VMware and Computacenter share a common vision of how to help customers through integrated technology solutions. This has seen Computacenter invest in VMware training and certification at the cutting edge of our capabilities and positions them as one of our most trusted and valued partners.
Andy Corcoran, VMware UKI Partner Sales Director
Holistic solutions that address today’s challenges
Computacenter and VMware offer holistic solutions based on best-of-breed technologies. To help organisations move from a cloud-first model to cloud-smart, our current focus areas include:
· Modern infrastructure: We help organisations take a more agile and automated approach to IT infrastructure with software-defined datacenters.
· Multi-cloud: With multi-cloud solutions from Computacenter and VMware, organisations can establish an efficient operating model that helps optimise resources.
· Employee experience: We help put employee experience first with services and platforms that support a user-centric approach to IT and enable them to work from anywhere.
· Developer velocity: Development teams can work more productively and consistently across cloud environments with a multi-cloud Kubernetes platform.
The combination of Computacenter’s trusted independent advice and expert services with VMware’s technology innovations enables customers to achieve their business objectives.
Our focus is always on the customer, making sure that we support them in strategically aligning solutions to their business objectives. This in turn means that VMware and Computacenter help our customers to achieve their goals faster by improving their employee’s working experience, helping them to solve cloud complexity and become cloud smart. Together, we also provide technology that allows them to deliver a more intelligent application experience for their own customers when launching and delivering new digital services, helping them to enter new markets whilst controlling and where possible reducing risk and cost.
Kevin Stavers, Computacenter Business Line Director
Computacenter’s VMware services include pre-sales consultancy and advice, implementation, integration, support and maintenance and managed services. With our global reach and scale, we help organisations leverage the most flexible and cost-effective procurement models for VMware solutions, while our skills and resources help customers get the most from their VMware investments.
Transforming Digital Forensics
Computacenter and VMware are working together to help police forces minimise suffering and empower frontline officers with enhanced digital forensics capabilities.
With the VMware and Computacenter partnership, officers can reduce workload backlogs in digital forensics through remote access to cloud-enabled forensic tools that help them work from anywhere. Our solutions help officers:
- Gain end-to-end security and monitoring, with digital forensics tools that work remotely in the most extreme of environments
- Start workflows remotely and even process devices while in transit
- Capture data, provide secure access for staff, audit changes, and transfer large volumes of information to a secure, central storage point
- Provide role and identity management, protect against malware and other cyberattacks
Together, VMware and Computacenter have the expertise to support individual forces in successfully modernising from wherever they currently are in their transformation journey. By providing critical digital infrastructure to enable new and smarter ways of working, we can help overcome the challenge of exponential growth of digital assets and data through the use of our digital forensics tools.
TEAMING UP FOR BETTER BUSINESS OUTCOMES
William Hill: Accelerating the path to cloud
CHALLENGE
William Hill needed a scalable, predictable cost structure to align with its cloud-first strategy and improve business agility. The bookmaker was faced with the challenge of moving all its in-scope applications and services to the cloud within an eighteen-month migration timeframe.
SOLUTION
Computacenter provided independent advice and support on how best to proceed with the migration, harnessing its experience of many successful projects. Computacenter was awarded a three-year contract to provide enterprise licence agreement, support and implementation of VMware Cloud on AWS, followed by application and service migration.
OUTCOME
William Hill achieved cost reductions early in the project, with VMware Cloud Health providing visibility of savings. The team developed and implemented a road map for migrating the rest of the eligible applications to the cloud, while the training is helping to demonstrate how the new solution supports business agility. William Hill has also improved visibility of its IT estate and enhance workload mobility. The new scalable and predictable cost structure enables the management team to better plan for future cloud expansion.
Enhancing agility and reducing costs for an international exchange group
CHALLENGE
The customer had grown significantly through mergers and acquisitions. It decided to work with Computacenter as the strategic partner to deliver a private cloud in order to increase efficiency and automation, in turn enabling their business to become more agile.
SOLUTION
Computacenter worked with the customer to provide a comprehensive business case for moving to a private cloud based on VMware Cloud Foundation. We worked with HPE to prove the performance of the solution and provide the ability to increase the levels of virtualisation within the organisation, plus a comprehensive services proposition to deliver the solution in lab, pre-production and production environments.
OUTCOME
The solution provided a 98 percent reduction in provisioning time, from between seven and thirty-nine days down to just three and a half hours. Computacenter helped deploy NSX and vSAN to improve the efficiency of the underlying infrastructure by up to 40 percent. The investment was justified on the back of moving just four key business applications into the private cloud.
A PARTNERSHIP BUILT AROUND CUSTOMER NEEDS
· Computacenter won the VMware UKI Partner Value Award 2022
· We won the EMEA Industry Award 2022
· We have more than 1,700 individual VMware accreditations across EMEA
· We source, transform and manage VMware solutions in 70 countries
· We hold five Master Services Competencies including Cloud Management and Automation, Data Center Virtualization 2.0, Digital Workspace, Network Virtualization and VMware Cloud on AWS