Information is today the most valuable asset in all organization. As knowledge management begins to play a bigger role in today's businesses, processing, storage, and managing a corporation's information is critical to business success. This in turn, is dependent on the IT infrastructure of the organization. It is therefore vital to have in place, the right IT framework that aligns with the business strategy, and offers the highest reliability and availability, and is able to take advantage of emerging technologies to gain competitive advantage. Yet, in today's heterogeneous enterprise, it is a real challenge just to select the right platform for key business-critical applications. With E-commerce and increasing demands of the Web, it has become essential to meet the needs for increased availability, resilience, and scalability.

Services Provided

Fujitsu being one of the industry leaders in system/platform integration, has a team of dedicated professionals, equipped with the technical know-how and years of hands on experience to provide custom solutions to individual customer's integration needs. The professional services the team offers includes:

• auditing and evaluating the existing systems for decision to build or restructure the IT infrastructure for maximum performance and high availability
• integrate new components into existing or planned infrastructure to take advantage of emerging technologies
• consolidate servers for more efficient management and reduced TCO
• provide architectural design work
• implement and configure
• run tests on the systems, recommend further systems development, ensure documentation
• provide user training

Fujitsu is also renown for its success in the integration of three major platforms: S/390, Solaris and NT. Their integration specialist is completely conversant in the products and services of these platforms, and this makes Fujitsu the vendor of choice in the data center environment. In addition, their connectivity experience also extends to disciplines such as:

• Servers (Mainframe, Open Systems and their Intel Base)
• Storage - EMC, HDS, SUN, Fujitsu and JBOD
• Fibre Infrastructure Management - ESCON, FICON, O/S Fibre, SCSI-Fibre Converter, DWDM
• Tapes Libraries - STK, IBM, DLT
• Software - Legato, Veritas, Softek

These services are delivered with a well-documented approach that:

• Identify and confirm business objectives and strategies for alignment of IT infrastructure
• Evaluation of the existing IT environment, with recommendations for areas of improvement
• Develop detailed project planning process listing: task, phases, resource requirements, critical dependencies and risks
• Develop solutions and design infrastructure
• Ensure solution/design supports/aligns with IT and business strategy
• Integration and implementation by working with organization's team, to assemble all the components in the solution. Provide hardware or software procurement, configuration, tuning, staging, installation, and interoperability testing, and integrate and deploy the system throughout the network.

Integration and implementation by working with organization's team, to assemble all the components in the solution. Provide hardware or software procurement, configuration, tuning, staging, installation, and interoperability testing, and integrate and deploy the system throughout the network.