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Home Services Consult And Change Borderless Network Application Delivery & WAN Optimisation Service

Application Delivery & WAN Optimisation Service

Enterprise applications are at the heart of corporate organisations. Computacenter delivers services and solutions that accelerate the performance and increases the availability of web platforms, virtualised environments and networked applications

A service component of our Borderless Network solution.

What we do

Computacenter works with organisations to understand the web applications/portal services to build a business justification for application delivery and WAN acceleration, ensuring a tangible ROI is realised in addition to any technical solutions delivered.

As part of our application delivery and WAN optimisation service, Computacenter undertakes in-depth consulting workshops and discovery exercises with both application and network aware personnel within an organisation to determine the optimum solution to accelerate or resolve apparent application delivery problems.

This discovery exercises may include the following tasks:

• Monitoring bandwidth utilisation down to the protocol and application level
  
• Analysis of Web applications, port usage and services functionality
  
• On premise proof of concept of considered application delivery solutions to ensure customer real world data validates technology decisions.
  
• A customer specific report outlining the benefits and impact of optimising networked applications.

How it helps

By leveraging our application delivery and WAN optimisation service, we reduce reliance on expensive bandwidth and increase control of network capacity, spend and utilisation. Benefits will include:

Reduced costs:
By increasing utilisation of existing network links, the need to purchase additional expensive bandwidth is minimised. The volume of IT support calls will be reduced, as users realise fewer performance problems associated with network application throughput or reliability, also cutting the IT operational overhead.

Improve productivity:
Through the use of application delivery controllers to optimise the flow of network traffic, application reliability and performance is increased. This helps users work more efficiently due to improved response times, increasing user application throughput.

Increased agility:
With an optimised network, it will be less expensive to deploy applications, new information processing sites and additional users to the existing infrastructure. It will also be simpler to implement and leverage bandwidth-intensive applications that require real time collaboration, rich media or time sensitive network throughput.

Why we are different

Our Application Delivery and WAN Optimisation services are pragmatic and vendor- independent. They are based on trusted Computacenter foundations:

Breadth and depth of scope: Computacenter has a dedicated networking practice with more than 20 years' experience of implementing and managing network infrastructures. Our tested application delivery and WAN optimisation services are closely integrated with our datacenter and collaboration infrastructure services enabling organisations to take a unified approach to IT.

Quality of partnership: We carefully select our partners and work with a range of best-of-breed vendors offering application acceleration and network traffic optimisation solutions, including Bluecoat, Cisco, F5, Juniper and Riverbed. Computacenter and its consultants hold an industry leading range of accreditations from these and other vendors.

Innovation: Our unique multi-vendor Solutions Centre enables customers to prototype, test and prove new network technologies at no risk to the organisation's live environment. Our Datacenter Networking services are based on a series of processes, tools and best practices housed within our shared services factory, that mitigate risk and maximise quality without additional costs being incurred.

Where we have done it

Computacenter worked with an employment consultancy to troubleshoot application speed issues across their European (Wide Area Network) WAN. This involved a discovery stage to identify the problem, and an implementation stage to accelerate the application across the WAN.

Deployment of Computacenter's solution meant that the customer did not have to expand their WAN links, which would have been an expensive undertaking. The solution also enhanced the user experience of the consultancy's remote workers.