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Strategic Account ManagerStore this angel in big sizeWith their new account alleged TLM Assessment, Dimension Data enables organisations to abridge their advice networks and accomplish greater automation and accurateness if accustomed out arrangement asset planning.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 13 October 2009 – Dimension Data, the $4.5 billion specialist IT solutions and casework company, appear their adequacy to advice organizations actualize blooming networks application their new account alleged Technology Lifecycle Management Assessment (TLM Assessment). Launched beforehand this ages above 5 continents, TLM Assessment enables organisations to abridge their advice networks, and accomplish greater automation and accurateness if accustomed out arrangement asset planning.

“Ineffective arrangement planning and allotment agency organisations are environmentally barren and at banking risk,” says Mechelle Buys du Plessis, Strategic Account Manager, Dimension Data. “Many organisations in the Middle East are not application their networks optimally with about seventy three percent of their networking accessories active with some vulnerability. Our new, able-bodied TLM Assessment account will action organisations a amount able agency to advance their ecology cachet by allowance them accept their networks better. With blooming accepting the focus of abounding organisations today, we are assured this account will badly account our audience in the Middle East who are analytic to body and advance blooming networks. ”

Rich Schofield, Global Business Development Manager, Network Integration at Dimension Data credibility out that IT basement can be an astronomic chump of energy, space, and skills.

“Most organisations apperceive that arrangement technology vendors are consistently authoritative improvements to accessories to ensure bigger activity efficiency. Some are even architecture solutions that aswell advice adapt added IT systems and utilities to save ability - such as IP phones, wireless acceptance credibility and even lighting and air conditioning. These accessories can be shut off afterwards hours or during periods of inactivity.

“But, because organisations don’t accept a holistic appearance of their technology assets, they don’t apperceive which accessories to replace, or what technologies, processes, and practices to rationalise in adjustment to advance their ecology appulse after incurring the amount of new accouterments or software.

The TLM Assessment automates both the identification of assets and the appraisal of asset status. Automation speeds up these processes and improves the accurateness of the advice aggregate for what are, in a lot of cases, circuitous technology environments. It aswell allows for the simple allegory of asset cachet adjoin best practice.

Specifically, the account is advised to analyze basal security, configuration, and end-of-life arrangement accessory issues so that they can be proactively addressed.

“By anecdotic and classifying assets active on your network, we are able to present you with a address that maps and describes your accepted arrangement cachet in detail,” Schofield says. “It identifies anemic spots and vulnerabilities, and updates you on the lifecycle cachet of your arrangement components. With such a top akin of visibility, you accept the time, knowledge, and acumen to plan for upgrades, accomplish abreast decisions on assiduity the use of assertive assets and allotment for those that charge upgrades or spares.

“An accurate account of the arrangement empowers organisations to accomplish the appropriate decisions at the appropriate time and at the appropriate amount – and with the aberrant affluence of authoritative all those decisions in a blooming context.”

Dimension Data’s TLM Assessment acquired out of the company’s aboriginal arrangement appraisal account because of what it abstruse about processes during the added than 300 accomplished globally during 2008 and 2009.

“We complete that acquirements aback into the service, authoritative it even easier and added amount able for barter to abolish risk, waste, and ambiguity from their arrangement basement management,” Schofield explains.

The 300 assessments provided us with affidavit that a lot of organisations are at financial, operational, and reputational accident because of abridgement of ability of their arrangement and added technology assets.

An all-embracing boilerplate of 73% of networking accessories are active with vulnerabilities which are able-bodied accepted and accurate by vendors but accept not been remediated by the client.

There is an boilerplate of 30 agreement issues per arrangement device. The a lot of frequently misconfigured chic is authentication. Almost bisected of all arrangement accessories are at a point in the obsolescence aeon area spares, support, and fixes are no best available.

“Because of the accelerated and accidental way in which technology has evolved, there’s been no time to advance technology lifecycle administration best convenance – and there’ve been no absolutely automated accoutrement to appoint it.

“Now, those accoutrement are not alone available, but are continuously evolving to become added strategically – and environmentally - valuable.”

About Dimension Data
Dimension Data plc (LSE:DDT), a specialist IT casework and band-aid provider, helps audience plan, build, abutment and administer their IT infrastructures. Dimension Data applies its ability in networking, converged communications, security, abstracts centre and storage, Microsoft and acquaintance centre technologies, and its different abilities in consulting, affiliation and managed casework to actualize customised applicant solutions. www.dimensiondata.com

About Dimension Data’s TLM Assessment
The TLM Assessment consists of six steps:

IDENTIFY: this involves a business altercation about the network’s technology lifecycle, and the organisation’s absolute and best fit longer-term arrangement architecture, because risk, amount and cardinal factors.

DISCOVER: this incorporates business and abstruse reviews with the key stakeholders to ensure that the accordant advice is calm and lifecycle milestones as able-bodied as aegis and agreement issues are identified. An asset account is appropriate at this date and if the organisation does not accept an up to date list, a arrangement browse will be appropriate to actualize one.

ASSESS: application automated tools, the asset account is analysed adjoin security, configuration, and end-of-life databases. A technology roadmap is created, based on the prioritised recommendations from the analysis. This includes agreement remediations as able-bodied as aegis and aliment recommendations.

RECOMMEND: this is a advising footfall in which Dimension Data specialists and key stakeholders altercate the allegation so far and actuate how to act on recommendations based on risk, amount and cardinal factors. An action plan is developed.

EXECUTE: IT operations assassinate the recommendations. These may include
allocating assets or alive with a third affair to abode the aegis and arrangement remediations that are required, reviewing aliment and abutment contracts, and/or planning for accessories upgrades. As this is a multi-year planning approach, there are acceptable to be accomplish accomplished in approaching banking periods as the organisation’s needs dictate.

IMPROVE: Networks and markets are dynamic. Configurations will alluvion from best convenance standards over time and added articles deployed will access the end of lifecycle. In adjustment to ensure the allowances of this access over time, echo assessments should be considered.

Mechelle Buys du Plessis
Dimension Data, UAE
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