In today's business world, your organisation must evolve to keep pace with ever-changing market requirements. IT can support your business needs and help drive you forward faster - but how can you best make use of its potential?

Since our formation in 1999, SNS has become established as a committed and innovative provider of IT solutions. At the heart of all our services is a strong technical focus, which means we can offer you reasoned, trustworthy advice. We follow a highly consultative approach, delivered by way of technical seminars. They give you the information you need to determine the technologies that are right for you.

Virtualisation, Storage and Data Protection experts
SNS are experts in server and desktop virtualisation, and related storage, backup, and disaster recovery solutions
At the heart of all SNS virtualisation solutions are well integrated best-of-breed storage platforms

Best-of-breed partners
SNS partner with the market leading virtualisation, storage and data protection vendors - VMware and EMC
With engineers certified in both VMware and EMC technologies SNS has the expertise to accelerate any step of your virtualisation journey
Additional partnerships with Cisco, HP, Dell, Microsoft, Citrix and CommVault complement our core vendors

Affordable solutions
SNS provide a range of finance options that allow our customers to spread the cost of a solution to meet their budgetary needs
By working closely with the customer SNS solutions are designed to exactly meet both their technical and budgetary needs
SNS work with our partners to make sure that the customer is always getting the best price and where appropriate reduce the cost of the solution with buy-backs of legacy equipment

Proven track record
SNS have successfully deployed VMware and EMC solutions for a wide variety of commercial and public sector organisations
In-depth product demonstrations are available at the SNS demo centre and site visits are available to see the solutions in action
SNS solutions are based on reference architectures created by EMC and VMware to accelerate the process

First-class services
No project is undertaken without a documented planning exercise to ensure the solution is delivered on schedule and to budget
SNS provide helpdesk services that take ownership of environmental problems, including telephone support and remote diagnostics
Three months free telephone support is included as standard with all projects

Education
SNS host free seminars that give our customers the information they need to determine which solutions are right for them
SNS provide traditional class-room and tailored on-site technical training for administrators

Integration and ease of use
With over 60 technical integrations across storage, backup, security and management, EMC does the most to enhance VMware
VMware and storage administrators are 10x more productive - with fewer clicks for common tasks via unique VMware vCenter and storage array integrations

Efficiency
EMC storage arrays are 20% more efficient out-of-the-box - guaranteed
Turn on compression and deduplication to get 50% more and turn on EMC FAST for another 30%
Get 10x more performance at no extra cost with the VMware vSphere 4.1 vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
Enable EMC FAST Cache with VMware View to get 60% more performance

Data Protection
Get the fastest, most efficient backup for VMware and shorten backup windows by up to 90% with 20x less storage

Flexibility
Run any storage protocol - block, file, or object simultaneously and change anything non-disruptively

Availability
EMC is the only vendor that can federate storage between active-active data centres, unlocking the power of VMware vMotion and enabling non-disruptive storage migrations

Scalability
Storage scales from gigabytes to exabytes and makes your applications run up to two and a half times faster

“I must say that overall I am very pleased with the service SNS have supplied us. Once you understood our needs you made the process as painless as possible - the kit was as you explained and has performed as expected.

The engineer in particular was very helpful and with a great array of knowledge and confidence made the initial install look easy. It was also appreciated the flexible nature of the installation (i.e. just coming in for a day or two when we need it).

It makes a nice change to give some positive feedback, we spend a lot of time chasing people and getting a poor service, so we do recognise a good service when we get one.”

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