Agile Infrastructure

The technologies behind building out large compute Grids and virtualization are now being applied to create agile infrastructures. These can host Grid, SOA and traditional Enterprise Applications onto a common computing backbone. 

Agile Infrastructure (white paper)

Agile computing means dynamically right-sizing your infrastructure to fit your business requirements - add more when you need them, remove them when you don't. Do this automatically and fast. We recommend a combination of well proven Grid, CMDB, virtualization and provisoning technologies to achieve this. 

Consultants at Citihub are recognized thought leaders in this area and have gained experience by creating some of the largest Grid and global online computing infrastructures. 

Operating System level Virtualization has been a good start, but it's become a "must have" and is no longer a differentiator. How else can you reduce cost? Rightsize your server farms using agile infrastructures. Grid's become just another execution environment which shares the common compute backbone along with your other applications. The economic savings from this approach can be huge 

Citihub provide a range of services to help you get started with Agile infrastructures, these cover: 

Agile economics
Developing the business case for Agile Infrastructures. Citihub has proven models for understanding the CAPEX and OPEX impacts of infrastructure changes across large estates developed from our experiences helping some of the world’s largest banks standardize, consolidate and virtualise tens of thousands of servers.

Virtualization and consolidation have positive effects on CAPEX spend but invariably increase per CPU OPEX costs. Agile infrastructures aim to add layers of automation and orchestration above these environments to further decrease capital expenditure, but most importantly, to produce big savings in operational cost bases. Citihub has the experience to separate wishful thinking from fact based decision making. 

Technology & architecture
An agile infrastructure uses loosely integrated management capabilities including CMDBs, Provisioning, VM management and Orchestration. These careal value is in applying these technologies to real business cases to deliver practical efficiencies in realistic timeframes to relevant application sets. pabilities are typically found today in every well managed data center. The difference is in how they are integrated together.

Citihub can help you make objective platform choices but our 
  
Implementation & management
Our core business is in the delivery of infrastructure programs that directly affect critical application platforms. Citihub can help you mobilise and execute implementation projects by seeding your teams with senior architects, engineers and program leaders.  
 
Sourcing cloud services
There are new utility or ‘Cloud’ services launching regularly. Citihub has deep experience in sourcing and can help you to:

- Develop your requirements and understand market readiness

- Work through natural trust and regulatory issues

- Run a fair and objective selection process to chose the right service provider

- Negotiate effective pricing, terms and service levels