Welcome
The IT infrastructure landscape has changed rapidly in recent times. New on-premise technologies such as Server, Desktop and Storage Virtualisation have been a paradigm shift in the way organisations develop their IT infrastructure and achieve efficiency, performance and business continuity from it.
Virtualisation technologies have enabled the viability of Private Cloud technologies which allow organisations to take the next step of dispensing with the capital expenditure and write-offs associated with IT infrastructure, replacing it with the flexibility of paying for resources as they need them, with their systems and data hosted in highly robust data centres.
The Experts
Virtualisation and Cloud technologies have created massive challenges for organisations in defining the right approach and then the right “flavour” of technology.
We at Castle are experts in Server, Desktop and Storage virtualisation, working with VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and IBM, HP & Dell. We have devised analysis tools and have our own employed team of specialist consultants who assess organisation’s suitability for each technology and work closely with customers to align the technologies to strategic goals.
Why Choose Castle?
We have worked with the team at Castle for several years and they have always provided a high standard of support for our business.”
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On-Premise Virtualisation
The advantages of Desktop, Server and Storage Virtualisation include the potential for major cost savings.
Organisations also benefit from improved automated business continuity, high availability of resources, easier management or systems, organisational agility, increased life span of hardware, space savings, infrastructure update testing during working hours and optimised performance of storage media.
Cloud Hosting & Replication
Castle's Cloud services range from supporting your existing virtualised or non-virtualised on-premise server infrastructure with automated off-site replication and a Disaster Recovery invocation plan, to completely hosting your server, data and application infrastructure.
Cloud computing provides you with all of the benefits of on-premise virtualisation, with the added security of replication within our data centre infrastructure; all managed by our skilled team and proactive toolset.
Managed Services & Support
Castle provides the only dedicated Virtualisation Support Service, focused on the specific requirements of virtualised infrastructure.
The Castle Virtualisation Support Service includes regular healthchecks, performance optimisation, capacity management and forecasting, host monitoring, update management, SAN management and monitoring plus other virtualisation specific services.
Castle Partners
(Castle) has really been oustanding in terms of their interaction with the Scottish Marketplace"
Gillian Docherty, System Sales Manager - IBM
