Presidio's Data Center Practice focuses on delivering advanced data center solutions to customers by implementing virtual data center architectures using VMware, Cisco, and EMC technologies. Presidio has extensive expertise in server virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, converged networks, unified computing, storage solutions, and backup/recovery, allowing it to rapidly deploy virtual data centers. It operates the first EMC Velocity Solution Center to demonstrate these technologies and help customers.

1. Presidio’s Data Center Practice
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Presidio’s Data Center Practice is focused on delivering Advanced Data Center
Solutions for its customers. The Virtual Data Center (VDC) allows customers of
any size to reduce cost, and complexity, while increasing service levels. The basic
architecture can be described in three core tiers, Servers/Software, Networks,
and Storage. To that end, Presidio specializes in VMware, Cisco, and EMC (VCE
Consortium) and combines key technologies to make the Virtual Data Center a
reality. Presidio is uniquely qualified to help customers rapidly deploy the Virtual Data
Center with extensive engineering expertise in all tiers of the Virtual Data Center.
Solutions from the Server Virtualization Presidio is helping customers
Server Virtualization is quickly becoming the successfully deploy VDI infrastructure,
Northeast’s Most de facto standard for the data center. The leveraging core technologies from
technology has enabled organizations to VMware, as well as complementary
Advanced and reduce the server sprawl that has overtaken technologies such as Wyse thin clients.
the data center and has allowed them to
Innovative Information get the most out of their technology invest- Converged Networks
ments by increasing utilization. VMware’s To further simplify the Virtual Data
Technology Team vSphere (ESX 4.0) software has accelerated Center, converged network technolo-
this momentum by increasing physical-to- gies have evolved leveraging 10Gb
virtual consolidation ratios and by providing speeds. Converged Network Adapters
new technologies like Fault Tolerance that (CNAs) are merging the functionality of
provide no-hassle, zero-data-loss solutions Ethernet cards and FC/iSCSI HBAs into
in a virtual environment. a single interface card running at 10Gb
speeds. Rather than continuing
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to run with 4 or more interface cards
The popularity of server virtualization has per server, we can now leverage 2
created an equally compelling business case CNAs and virtualize traffic across the
around desktop/laptop virtualization. With a redundant links. By combining CNA
greater number of desktops in comparison technology with Cisco’s Nexus
to servers, there is a larger opportunity to product family, the number of cards
reduce cost and streamline management and ports in the switch fabric are
tasks. VMware’s View 3 (VDI) software dramatically reduced.
Presidio Networked Solutions introduced new technologies such as linked
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ment of desktop images and allowing access platform is often overlooked. Much as
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Presidio’s Data Center Practice
Presidio – the definitive, System (UCS) has removed the configuration administration tasks by automating
settings and created truly stateless comput- storage expansion as needed. EMC
full-service, technology ing. With all the talk about cloud computing Storage arrays combine all of these
Cisco’s UCS is actually delivering on it. advanced technologies in an easy-to-
provider The latest addition to the VDC stack is manage unit with an intuitive user inter-
continuing to simplify the management and face. Presidio is certified across all areas
administration of the VDC by leveraging of EMC Storage Infrastructure, and is the
key technologies such as embedded top partner in the Northeast.
management, unified connectivity (FCoE),
extended memory support (384GB), and Backup and Recovery
virtual adapters. Presidio is the first UCS Virtualization is disruptive technology
partner in the Northeast. that forces us to rethink how we protect
our data. The dirty little secret of all
Storage virtualization products is that eventually
In order to support the Virtual Data Center, backup becomes a challenge.
Storage architectures need to be scalable, Organizations must now backup the same
flexible, reliable, and easy to manage. amount of data as before, but across
Storage arrays need to support not just the fewer hardware resources, causing backup
standard connectivity options comprising of windows to creep over agreed-upon
iSCSI, FC, NFS/CIFS, but also the connec- service levels. A next-generation backup
tivity options on the horizon like 8Gb FC strategy is needed to combat this
and 10Gb Ethernet. Equally as important as challenge. Through a series of free
connectivity are the varieties of disks that assessments Presidio can identify what
are supported. It’s no longer as simple as FC advanced technologies such as Data
and SATA. Enterprise Flash Disks (EFDs) are Deduplication, high-speed Virtual Tape
dramatically altering the storage landscape. Libraries, and Archive, can get those
Software functionality like Virtual Provision- backup windows back in check.
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What our partners are saying about Presidio’s Data Center Practice
“What Presidio can bring to the “Presidio is one of EMC’s most
table, as evidenced by this world- valued and long-standing partners.
class lab they’ve built here in They have extremely strong design
Woburn, is the ability to bring and implementation expertise, and
together multiple vendors who can when you couple this with the
really help solve customer problems investments they’ve made in the
when you put it together as a EMC Velocity Solution Center around
whole solution.” EMC and VMware infrastructures,
they’re going to be able to provide
Matthew Jonson their customers the maximum value.”
Adv. Tech and Vertical Lead
Sr. Systems Engineering Manager Gregg Ambulos,
US/Canada Channel Sales VP, Channel Sales
EMC Corporation

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EMC Velocity Solution Center Computing System (UCS), and a full
In Woburn, MA, Presidio has built out spectrum of Replication, and Backup
the country’s first EMC Velocity Solution and Recovery technologies. Presidio
Center. It is a state-of-the-art lab with over uses the lab not only to ensure our
$3 million worth of hardware and software. technical resources are experts on all the
The VDC includes the entire EMC storage technologies we sell, but also to perform
family of platforms (DMX, CLARiiON, product demonstrations and implement
Celerra, Centera) and Enterprise Flash customer Proofs of Concepts (POCs).
Drives, VMware software (ESX 3.5, 4.0), Let Presidio demonstrate the VDC in
Cisco storage and networking products person, or remotely, and put our lab to
(MDS, Nexus) as well as the Unified work for you.
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