Next-generation data centers: simplify, unify, virtualize, and analyze

Next-generation data centers: simplify,
unify, virtualize, and analyze
Improve productivity and enhance business processes
Got your mind on delivering applications? Your head in the cloud? Are you
thinking about virtualization and the Internet of Things and your data center’s
need for speed and agility? Technology might be revolutionizing the data
center, but it is challenging you, the IT professional, causing you to figure out
ways in which to future-proof your operations.
With today’s users on the move, running an assortment of applications, and
demanding better BYOD experiences, new levels of innovation are required
just to keep up. And keeping up is not enough.
That’s where the GDT team comes in.
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GDT has teams of architects and engineers with a breadth and depth of
expertise across industry and in the multi-vendor architectures and services
that combine to create the most innovative and imaginative data center
platforms.
Design IT. Build IT. Deliver IT. ®
GDT is a Cisco Gold Partner with triple master certifications in Cloud Builder, Collaboration, and Security.
GDT attracts top-of-their-field experts—across industry and with certifications in CCIE, CCIE Data Center,
and CCDE, and other like-technologies—who work for us because they want to be a part of a company
and culture that promotes creative excellence. GDT privileges their ideas and solutions as integral to the
success of our company and yours.
What we will do for you
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We’ll start by
helping you
assess demands
on your current
data center
infrastructures,
paying close
attention, of
course, to ways
we might help you
increase worker
productivity and
improve customer
experiences.
We’ll help you
get up to speed
on new ideas
or technologies
involving IoT, Big
Data and analysis
as well as products
and services that
provide new ways
to engage and
interact with your
users.
We’ll plan for the
unification of your
IT systems, tools
and processes
across both virtual
and physical
environments and
discuss ways to
adapt and extend
your data center
to create a hybrid
cloud between
private and public
cloud providers.
5.
We
will
deliver.
4.
We’ll design
storage solutions
around unified
access, optimal
performance
and future
growth and make
recommendations
for a virtualization
solution based
on your server,
application,
and network
requirements.
GDT delivers best-in-class end-user computing with the applications and
infrastructures that serve users on the move and bringing their own devices:
▪ Converged infrastructures that come to you pre-tested, pre-validated
and ready on delivery for your applications.
▪ Next generation server deployments that reduce the required
infrastructure and drive down the total cost of ownership.
▪ ITaaS (IT as a Service) for your end user and your organization that
increase productivity through orchestration.
▪ Scalable, flexible data center solutions and application-centric
infrastructures that deliver the highest quality to your application.
Virtualized infrastructure +
Rapid implementation =
Reduced system downtime
less risk and greater return on investment
▪ Unified computing
▪ Storage architectures
▪ Virtualization & migration services
▪ Converged networking
▪ VDI
▪ Orchestration (VCAC, UCS Director, CIAC)
▪ Software defined
Where the Internet of Everything meets wireless
Agile, scalable, and purpose-built data centers meet current
▪ Unified data center & storage
and future needs, while connecting operations, people and
▪ Active/ active data centers
objects across physical and virtual boundaries and to the
▪ ITaaS (IT as a Service)
Internet. GDT designs data center solutions that allow your users
▪ Mobile users
access to information and lets you engage with and analyze
▪ IoT data gathering
user data to improve management, operations, and the overall
▪ Data analysis
user experience.
Navigating the new cloud ecosystem
Cloud services bring cost reduction and an array of
▪ IT as cloud service brokerage
technology solutions that simplify and streamline compute and
▪ Migration & cloud adoption services
storage resources, and a complexity of deployment. GDT’s
▪ Private cloud design & integration
comprehensive Cloud Services—IaaS/PaaS/SaaS—are inclusive
▪ Consultation & advisory services
of design, migration, adoption and partner development. GDT
simplifies integration, improves performance and refocuses IT
as the strategic enabler of technology.
Backing IT organizations 24x7x365
GDT offers a comprehensive set of managed support services
▪ Change & problem management
through our wholly-owned subsidiary GDT Advanced Solutions.
▪ Availability monitoring
With EDGE and INSITE—proprietary monitoring tools fueled
▪ Alert & incident management
by the highest level of Cisco Smart—and with state-of-the-art
▪ Vendor management
NOC support, GDT clients take comfort in knowing that expert
▪ Full service-desk support
engineers are watching out for their well-being.
Who
Social
GDT certifications
and awards
GDT is an award-winning,
Cisco Gold VAR providing
nationwide core routing and
switching, unified communications,
security, wireless, data center and
storage solutions.
Success
GDT exceeds national Cisco
growth averages, year
after year.
Cloud
business apps
52%
9% 13%
18%
infrastructure
storage
Locations
Data
Dallas, Houston, San Antonio
,
Austin, El Paso, Arkansas,
West Coast and Northeast.
GDT exceeds expectations
Mean Time to
Repair
21%
32%
Service Level Assurance
Improvement
183
NOC Customer Growth
Service Offering
Metro
media
Place
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Offices in
North America
05
International
Offices
485
Employees as of
August 2014
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Market Focus
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Green
LEED Certified Facility solar array, rain water system,
reusable products, low flow,
native plants, energy efficient.
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Why GDT
Founded in 1996, GDT is an award-winning, technology integration partner. GDT specializes in designing,
building, and delivering best-of-breed technology solutions for service providers, enterprise networks, data
centers, and more.
GDT partners for innovation and accelerates business outcomes.
GDT aligns itself with rising technology stars and industry leaders such as
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The GDT team of expert architects and engineers hold the highest level of certification and employ the
use of state-of-the-art, LEED certified facilities to translate the latest ideas and technologies into inventive
solutions that realize the goals of IT and the vision of business leaders.
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