Operating system support and management

With Windows Server 2012 R2 you can scale to run your most important workloads with robust recovery options. You’ll achieve value quickly with a wide range of cost-effective, high-performance storage options and simplified delivery of multi-tenant IT services. You can build, deploy, operate, and monitor applications on premises and in the cloud. Empower users with secure access to corporate resources on the devices they choose.

• Enterprise-class - Improve performance and scale capacity more efficiently to run your largest workloads while enabling robust recovery options to protect against outages.
• Simple and cost-effective - Deliver multi-tenant-aware storage and networking multi-tenancy capabilities for storage and networking on low-cost, industry-standard hardware.
• Application focused - With enhanced support for open frameworks, you can build, deploy, and scale applications and websites with more flexibility by unlocking application portability between on-premises environments and public and service provider clouds.
• User-centric - Deploy a virtual desktop infrastructure and lower storage costs significantly using a broad range of storage options and VHD deduplication.

Arix have experience of implementing Windows server technologies for over twenty years, from Windows NT through W2000 server, W2003 server and are currently managing and supporting enterprise wide implementations of W2008, W2008R2 and Windows Server 2012, 2016 across a wide range of industries.

Highlights:

• All versions supported
• Dedicated UK systems administrators
• 8x5 and 24x7 Coverage
• Remote and on-site
• Fully managed or a supplement to existing in-house staff
• Regular health check and audit
• OS patching and planned updates
• Proactive monitoring
• Free initial site audit and SI recommendations

When you need continuous computing for workloads vital to the enterprise, HP-UX is the answer. It provides a dynamic, highly secure and unified environment, built on the always-on resiliency demanded in mission-critical servers. The result is a proven infrastructure that accelerates business value and lowers your risk.

 Mission-critical application availability for continuous operations

• Stability and investment protection with decades of support
• Highly-integrated UNIX for resiliency and ease of management

 From retail banking to telecoms and manufacturing, customers who cant afford downtime trust HP Integrity Servers. They offer the broadest portfolio of mission critical servers, for the most demanding workloads. They have the world’s largest installation base of servers

The HP Integrity NonStop family of systems, designed for continuous application availability and extreme scalability now includes NonStop X, the only fully integrated, fault tolerant compute for the x86 architecture.

The HP Integrity Superdome line-up includes new x86 entry with 12TB of memory and up to 16 processor sockets to power the most demanding, critical, Windows and Linux applications.

In line with our philosophy of service driven support, we can provide a sales and support solution to meet your requirements, leaving you to focus on your business.

We offer Technical Support for versions 11i v1, v2 and v3 and have experience of all hardware variants.

Highlights:

• Dedicated UK systems administrators
• 8x5 and 24x7 Coverage
• Remote and on-site
• Fully managed or a supplement to existing in-house staff
• Regular health check and audit
• OS patching
• Proactive monitoring

Oracle Solaris is the worlds most advanced enterprise operating system. It delivers security, speed and simplicity for enterprise cloud environments.

Solaris provides the ability to build simple, compliant, secure and efficient clouds. With a locked down hypervisor and guest environments, malware is stopped in its tracks. Solaris incorporates a complete OpenStack distribution bringing OpenStack functionality to enterprise environments.

Deliver unique innovation and optimisation for Oracle Databases, Middleware and Application deployments.

Key Features:

• Bring enterprise quality to OpenStack
• Deliver a complete OpenStack distribution for both SPARC and x86
• The best OpenStack platform for enterprise DBaaS
• Easy installation with seamless upgrades

No compromise virtualisation for the cloud –

• Provides the most efficient enterprise cloud virtualization with no performance loss and the highest consolidation ratios
• Delivers the most scalable enterprise cloud virtualization running large-scale applications fully virtualized with no penalty
• Provides built-in virtualization with no additional software or costs and tight integration with lifecycle management, networking, and security
• Extends zone functionality to allow independent zone kernels with independent patch/upgrade and live migration, providing much more flexibility in moving workloads
• Provides unique read-only virtual environments, complementing Oracle Solaris security to provide protection for data at rest and in motion

Data at cloud scale with Oracle Solaris ZFS -

• Enables you to scale out design with unlimited capacity for future growth
• Provides integrated ZFS encryption, compression, replication, snapshots, and cloning that provide measurable savings in comparison to competitive offerings
• Built-in compression reduces storage requirements by up to 10X
• Provides the best storage performance through flash-aware, tiered storage pools

Network virtualization in the cloud -

• Enables you to build your virtual network through software-defined networking (SDN) support that uses network fabric where possible, and tunnel when needed
• Allows you to build services that meet organizational performance requirements through application-driven network SLAs
• Provides the ability to virtualize network topologies without buying additional networking hardware virtual networks, virtual NICs, virtual switches, as well as built-in load balancer, firewall, and router services
• Enables you to securely model an entire data center topology in a single OS instance or spread across virtual environments on different systems for the flexibility you demand

Engineered for cloud security at every level -

• Enables you to achieve compliance 6X faster with security features designed to meet the strictest compliance obligations
• Helps prevents threats through anti-malware protection from hypervisor to application; lock down virtual machines, or the global zone and make them read-only for further protection
• Provides the ability to sandbox applications, users, and virtual machines via centralized security requirements while delegating necessary access to business units for operational flexibility and centralized control
• Delivers hardware-assisted cryptography on Oracle’s SPARC systems for Oracle Solaris applications, Oracle Database, Java JCE middleware, or any application
• Enables Silicon Secured Memory that prevents common security attacks like buffer overreads and overwrites.

Easy Cloud Deployment with image packaging system and new software lifecycle management tools

• Enables fast updates and deployments through redesigned OS and software installation and lifecycle management tools
• Provides one-step firmware to application updates, plus easy rollback to the pre-change environment, reducing the largest source of downtime—human error
• Delivers unified archives for creating or deploying virtual machine instances to or from physical or virtual environments; these archives can be used for disaster recovery, cloning, and simple backups. VM cloning is the foundation for rapid provisioning of application environments in the cloud

Engineered for Oracle workloads -

• Take advantage of Oracle's Software in Silicon technology to boost application performance and prevent data corruptions
• Best for Oracle Database and Java applications
• Hundreds enhancements across CPU, memory, file system, I/O, networking, and security deliver the best database, middleware, and application performance when Oracle workloads run on Oracle Solaris

Guaranteed compatibility -

• Ensures application investment protection
• Enables you to run applications unchanged across Oracle Solaris releases
• Ensures that recompiled applications are guaranteed to work on both SPARC and x86 systems

Platform choice -

• Enables you to scale up or scale out on SPARC and x86 systems to match your organization's computing models
• Delivers value across a range of enterprise, general purpose, and specialized solutions on Oracle engineered systems, including Oracle SuperCluster

Highlights:

• Versions from 7 – 11.3 supported
• Dedicated UK systems administrators
• 8x5 and 24x7 Coverage
• Remote and on-site
• Fully managed or a supplement to existing in-house staff
• Regular health check and audit
• OS patching
• Proactive monitoring
• Free initial site audit and SI recommendations

In accordance with IBM’s eServer initiative, the AS/400 hardware was rebranded in 2000 to appear as eServer iSeries. In 2006, this became the IBM System i. After 20 years of production, in 2008 the System-i and System-p product lines were combined to become IBM Power Systems.

IBM iOS (formerly known as i5/OS) running on a IBM Power Systems offers a highly scalable and virus resistant architecture with a proven reputation for exceptional business resiliency. Running applications based on i has helped companies over many years to focus on innovation and delivering new value to their business, not just on managing their data centre operations.

It also integrates a trusted combination of relational database, security, web services, networking and storage management capabilities. It provides a broad and highly stable database and middleware foundation for efficiently deploying business applications.

Virtualisation and workload management are also built in to enable the running of multiple applications and components together on the same system, driving up system utilisation and delivering a better return on IT investment.

Automation - IBM Systems Director Navigator for i now can be used to manage target servers running IBM iOS 5.4, 6.1 or 7.1 from a single browser environment

Virtualisation - support with PowerVM is extended to enable IBM iOS 6.1 to host iOS 7.1 partitions and storage. IBM iOS 7.1 can also host iOS 6.1 partitions, enabling companies to keep an application that requires an earlier release.

Highlights:

• All versions supported
• Dedicated UK systems administrators
• 8x5 and 24x7 Coverage
• Remote and on-site
• Fully managed or a supplement to existing in-house staff
• Regular health check and audit
• OS patching
• Proactive monitoring

Linux is the premier value platform for enterprise workloads. It builds on this tradition by providing innovation, unprecedented reliability, scalability, flexibility, security and performance to customers. All of this is provided in addition to compatibility with your existing applications. In short, the Linux platform delivers customer value and the greatest flexibility in your infrastructure.

As a major technical force in driving hardware change, Linux delivers innovation in areas such as memory management, scheduling, storage and storage management, networking, power management, the tickless kernel and virtualisation.

The major Linux distributions have collaborative relationships with all major hardware companies, including processor, systems, peripherals, network and storage manufacturers. This includes the sharing of roadmaps and deployment schedules, joint development of solutions and joint support and problem resolution where customers encounter issues.

The decision to use Linux is a tactical decision based on the technical merits of the platform, and is based on a pragmatic decision to use a stable, well supported enterprise platform.  It is also a strategic decision based on the fact the operating system will be around for years to come.

Arix will support and improve your infrastructure based on the Linux platform and provide you  with maximum flexibility.

Highlights:

• Redhat, SLES, Centos, support (most other distributions also)
• Dedicated UK systems administrators
• 8x5 and 24x7 Coverage
• Remote and on-site
• Fully managed or a supplement to existing in-house staff
• Regular health check and audit
• OS patching
• Proactive monitoring
• Free initial site audit and SI recommendations