BT On Demand Compute A new and flexible IT infrastructure

BT Compute

Services that adapt

BT’s On Demand Compute is a

pre-provisioned hosted data

centre infrastructure that enables

you to create, deploy, monitor and

manage your own service through a

self service portal.

Businesses have become more and more dependent on the

agility and availability of their critical IT systems. At the

same time, they need to respond rapidly to changing

business needs, as well as the challenges of convergence

and the emergence of a global services market. This means

that they must be able to launch new services quickly,

reliably and cost effectively.

As the latest concept in service delivery BT’s On Demand

Compute service gives you the assurance you would expect

of an Enterprise class infrastructure.

The ability to self-service allows you to create and manage

the infrastructure you need, at your convenience.

Automated service delivery ensures changes happen

quickly and efficiently.

By exploiting the latest advances in technology, On Demand

Compute is self healing and inherently resilient assuring you

a service level of 99.95% availability, whilst offering

significant TCO savings (up to 40%) in comparison with

traditional approaches.

BT On Demand Compute’s extensive

benefits

One of the keys to future success is an IT infrastructure that

is agile, flexible and responsive. But traditional systems can

be unwieldy, inflexible and expensive. This is why BT has

developed On Demand Compute – a versatile service that

empowers you to enable your business.

At the end of last year, BT responded to

organisations’ cloud-based concerns by

introducing On Demand Compute across

Europe. Along with Private Compute this

is another major step forward in our

ability to address the complex needs of

our enterprise and corporate customers.

This is another clear demonstration of our

innovation, investment and commitment

to our customers to take them beyond the

hype to focus on deliverable business

benefits.”

Neil Sutton, vice president, global

portfolio, BT Global Services.

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• Lower total cost of ownership. Within the service, your costs could be reduced by up to 40%. Because you pay for what you use, your costs are aligned to your business needs. • Increased speed and agility. You can create or change your service rapidly. As a result, you can respond to new demands, building and managing your service in days and hours rather than months and weeks. • Wide-ranging flexibility and scalability. With On Demand Compute, your computing power, network resources and data storage can be scaled to match changes in your business needs. New applications and services can be introduced when you need them and scaled as required. • Enhanced service levels. Our approach reduces your reliance on physical hardware and replaces it with an emphasis on service. On Demand Compute is a complete end-to-end solution that covers the whole customer experience and delivers improvements across every aspect of the service wrap. • Greater environmental efficiency. Our service exploits the latest advances in virtualisation technology. This reduces the footprint of the data centre in terms of the space required; the level of emissions produced; and the power consumed. • Enhanced security and less risk. BT’s On Demand Compute service has been architected to ensure the service offers physical and/or logical separacy at all times to maintain integrity. The service has been designed to maximise resilience, with self healing to maximise availability. • Local infrastructure and support. For added security and ease of use, our services are available in Europe with local infrastructure, and in local languages too.

BT’s On Demand Compute service

layers include: Computing layer – Customers can create, customise and control small, medium and large virtual servers via the portal. They will be offered options that include high availability and additional value add services. Storage layer – This enables the customer to allocate data space as required and includes virtual application storage (fast); virtual shared storage (slow); and snap backup and restore. Network layer – This includes the provision of firewall services; virtual ‘service’ load balancing; and virtual networks and switches. BT’s consulting services – Our Assess and Migrate services can help a customer assess, justify, plan and execute a strategy to deliver the maximum benefit in the earliest possible timeframe. In summary, BT Compute services offer the latest concept in service delivery, enabling you to create and manage services quickly, helping you save money and improve service. BT has a range of services to help you take advantage at the earliest opportunity.

BT On Demand Compute offered us a

number of advantages. It’s very flexible

and, with minimal setup time, we could

get to market far more quickly. No

significant up-front capital expenditure

was necessary, and the charging regime

is transparent.”

James Davies, Application Development

Manager, Norton Rose LLP.

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Making a difference Our BT Compute services enable you to consolidate and optimise your IT infrastructure, saving costs and energy. Here are a few examples of the benefits that can be achieved:

• A large UK financial institute was able to reduce its 22

production systems to just four virtual servers, with a physical infrastructure saving of 20%.

• One of our global financial customers reduced its servers

from 700 to less than 100, generating expected savings of 50%, with payback within a year.

• Virtualisation has boosted application performance and

reliability and has also improved business resilience for the City of Edinburgh Council.

Working with BT • Experience – we have wide technical expertise, with

highly professional people dedicated to managing servers and data centres around the world.

• Choice – with strong geographical coverage, global

service is consistent, with a choice of local infrastructure and support.

• Scale – proven consulting support, tools and methods

help you take advantage of the latest technologies, whilst managing the risk.

• Innovation – we invest millions in research and

development every year, so you don’t have to. Combined with our partnerships with industry leaders such as HP and Cisco, we help you get the benefits of the latest technology with minimal up-front costs.

• Greener – we have won awards for our green credentials,

including the Green Award at the 2010 World Communication Awards.

We chose BT’s On Demand Compute

because it has the lowest total cost of

ownership, lowest risk and most

flexibility.It also meets two of our highest

priorities in public sector spending

constraints and reducing our carbon

footprint.”

Paul Fisher, Assistant Director of

Education, Norfolk County Council.

If you have any queries, or need more details on any aspect of On Demand Compute, please contact your Account Manager. www.globalservices.bt.com/products/virtual_data_centre

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