Business Solutions

OPC IT has been supplying industry leading product and professional services solutions since 1995. In that time we have developed skills that allow us to expertly recommend the best-valued solutions for your network environment or application.

A strategic alliance of business partners ensures that we can deliver these solutions based on the latest technologies in a timely and efficient manner.

For smaller purchases, our online shop contains a host of products from leading vendors that you can purchase any time for delivery right to your door.

• Sizing & Design
• Support & Maintenance, Performance Tuning
• Server & Storage Solutions
• Integration
• Planning
• Asset Management

Sizing & Design

Many years of experience with our vendors products has given OPC IT extensive knowledge and excellent intuition in sizing and designing suitable server configurations.

OPC IT can recommend a suitable configuration that will meet your expectations i.e., reliability, manageability and flexibility. We specialise in the design and sizing of Application, File and Print, Communication based servers utilising high availability features like Hot-Swap and Hot-Plug Active PCI technology.

Support & Maintenance, Performance Tuning

OPC's server specialists have undergone extensive manufacturer training to ensure that your IBM Server can be optimised and tuned to obtain the best possible performance at all times. OPC provides warranty and out of warranty service on all our servers and we have electronic links to manufacturer’s support centres and spare parts to ensure that we receive the most up-to-date information in a quick and timely manner. We also provide casual or preventative maintenance programs that ensure your equipment is kept running optimally throughout its useful life.

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Server & Storage Solutions

Information is your most valuable asset. Unfortunately, while the amount of valuable data that is being collected and the amount of time it is being kept online are increasing rapidly, the resources to manage this vital information are not maintained at optimum retrieval and performance levels.

OPC IT can provide you with an integrated approach to your storage and design a solution to fit your business requirement. By consolidating storage management, integrating functionality and automating administration OPC IT can reduce the complexity of information management across your entire information infrastructure.

Our focus is the implementation of:

Storage Area Networks (SAN)
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Direct Attached Storage (DAS) and
Storage Resource Management (SRM)

Additionally we offer a comprehensive range of reliable and cost-effective tape drives, disk storage devices, email archiving, virtual storage, and backup software solutions.

We take great care in designing a solution that will scale, be cost effective and grow with your business requirements.

Integration

The Integration Centre has the capacity to preparation and build anything from a single PC to up to 150 units per day.

Professional server experts and specialists perform all server hardware integration and a build sheet is provided for each server detailing the configuration, BIOS levels and testing results.

Our Integration Centre services include:

 

• Imaging – The design, build and replication of images for single PC’s or major production rollouts.
• Systems Assurance – Documented Quality Assurance procedures for all work performed.
• Server Build – The design and build of server hardware and operating systems by qualified System Specialists
• Asset Management – Asset labeling of hardware and electronic recording of asset information

Planning

An OPC server specialist will conduct an installation planning session with you to discuss your organisation’s server and network operating system needs.

Installation - We will provide installation of your server network operating software, including management tools, and tune your server and operating system for maximum performance.

Operational Verification - OPC will verify that your options are installed and correctly configured, and your servers’ operating system is operational to manufacturers recommendations.

Installation Record - We will provide you an installation record that documents your Server configuration and installation

Asset Management

Keeping track of your substantial investments can be time consuming and complicated.

OPC can provide management and recording of your investments as they pass through our Integration Centre by logging serial numbers with orders and matching them to customer specific asset labels.

The process is quite flexible and can be tailored to suit individual customer requirements. Asset information can be electronically and securely accessed via the Internet or sent directly to a customer in a variety of formats.