Virtual Data Centre (VDC)
Respond more quickly to changing business needs, reduce costs, increase reliability and lower your carbon footprint
With a virtual networked IT infrastructure you can create, deploy, monitor and manage your own service on demand
Businesses have become more and more dependent on the availability and agility of their critical IT systems.
At the same time, they need to respond rapidly to changing business needs, as well as the challenges of convergence and the emergence of a global services market. This means that they must be able to launch new services quickly, reliably and cost effectively.
Maximise operational efficiency
The key to future success is an IT infrastructure that is agile, flexible and responsive. This is why we’ve developed the Virtual Data Centre (VDC) – a versatile service that helps drive your business. This innovative approach offers a wide range of powerful benefits, including:
- Lower total cost of ownership. With VDC, your costs could be reduced because you pay for what you use, your costs are aligned to your business needs.
- Increased speed and agility. Respond rapidly to new demands, building and migrating your services in days and weeks rather than weeks and months.
- Flexibility and scalability. New applications and services can be introduced when you need them.
- Enhanced service levels. VDC is a complete end-to-end service that covers the whole customer experience and delivers improvements across every aspect of the service wrap.
- Greater environmental efficiency. Reduce the footprint of the data centre in terms of the space required, the level of emissions produced, and the power consumed.
- Enhanced security and less risk. With no single point of failure, the latest technological advances ensure automatic failover and self-healing to maximise availability.
Further Information on our VDC services...
Download the VDC Product sheet (PDF 115Kb)
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Crabtree & Evelyn Case Study (PDF 602Kb)
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Virtually everything you need
As a new concept in service delivery, BT’s VDC gives you the assurance you would expect of an enterprise class infrastructure. You can create and manage the service when it suits you, while automated service delivery ensures changes happen quickly and efficiently.
By exploiting the latest advances in technology, VDC is self-healing and inherently resilient assuring you 99.9% availability, while offering significant TCO savings compared to traditional approaches.
The flexibility provided by VDC means that it can accommodate many application hosting requirements. It’s based on a virtualised infrastructure (server, storage and network), achieved through the consumption of standard components and capabilities.
Investing in innovation
To succeed in an increasingly competitive and rapidly changing world, businesses need to be more agile and responsive. BT is considered a leader in this market, developing new concepts including BT VDC that will help you stay in touch and stay on top.
BT’s Virtual Data Centre services enable you to consolidate and optimise your IT infrastructure, saving costs and energy. BT has extensive experience in communications, combined with outstanding expertise in consultancy, networked IT and service delivery.
To find out more about Virtual Data Centres submit a query and we’ll get back to you.
