Why it exists
Vendors demonstrate their own products under conditions they get to choose. That is a useful thing to watch, but it is not the same as knowing how something will behave in your environment, against your workloads, next to the systems you already run.
The Solution Center closes that gap. It is a working lab where proposed solutions get put in front of realistic conditions, with vendors, our engineers and your own team in the same room. What comes out is either a solution you have watched work, or an early answer that saves you the cost of finding out the expensive way.
What you take away
Vendors, consultants and engineers in one place, pooling what each of them knows. You get a straight account of how the technology actually works, including the parts a sales deck leaves out, weighed against your requirements rather than a generic use case.
Current-generation equipment set up for hands-on evaluation rather than demonstration. Your team can explore it, push it and break it, ideally with your own workloads, before anybody writes a purchase order.
Every project starts with a clear picture of the problem, and the Solution Center is where that picture gets built. It is usually what separates a solution that fits from one that merely works.
Practice areas
Sourcing, configuration and lifecycle support for the platforms your environment runs on, from the first quote through to end of life and disposal.
Assessment, migration and ongoing management for public, private and hybrid workloads, with the costs established before the move.
Consolidation, virtualization and modernization from compute through storage and network, planned around the systems that have to stay up.
Most conversations start with an inventory and a problem. Bring both and we will tell you, honestly, whether we are the right people for it.
