The Challenge
Reduce datacenter running costs by up to 70% and enhance business agility for more profits and better growth.
Most IT departments spend 70 to 80 percent of their time and budget on 'keeping the lights on', leaving little time or money to innovate or support strategic business initiatives.
The challanges accociated with the 'traditional' approach to IT are shown below:
- Under-utilization and over provisioning of resources
- Inefficent Storage - unable to cope with big data
- Inefficient data recovery mechanisms
- Limited or No disaster recovery for some systems
- Inefficient power utilization
- Limited scalability
- High OPEX (maintenance and warranties) and continual CAPEX required
- Various points of management with poor visibility of issues ahead of time
- Inelastic and slow to respond to business requirements
OSN 'Go Virtual'
The Project: Virtualized the entire OSN Datacenter and provided a Unified Compute and Consolidated Storage Platform.
Following this project, then OSN wanted to launch OSN Play, they did so on a Go Virtual Platform.
Bas Wijne, Director of IT, OSN (Media) had this to say:
“Following the merger of Orbit and Showtime we needed a new strategy of how to manage the OSN infrastructure. BIOS came with some great ideas about virtualization and helped us realize our goals for the business.”
Meeting Your Needs
So that organizations can transform their IT from a cost center to a strategic asset that energizes the business, BIOS developed a concept called: Go Virtual. Go Virtual is a solution that uses Virtualization on a Unified Computer Network and a Consolidated Storage platform.
Go Virtual is a technology application that will help companies achieve the following goals:
- Dramatically reduced costs: companies who 'Go Virtual' can see savings in running costs of up to 70%.
- Get more out of existing resources: Go Virtual allows companies to pool common infrastructure resources and break the legacy 'one application to one server' model with server consolidation.
- Improve Business continuity through increased availability of hardware and applications: Go Virtual allows companies to securely backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no interruption in service.
- Gain operational flexibility: When companies 'Go Virtual' they will be able to respond to market changes with dynamic resource management, faster server provisioning and improved desktop and application deployment.
OSN 'Go Virtual'
The Project: Virtualized the entire OSN Datacenter and provided a Unified Compute and Consolidated Storage Platform.
Following this project, then OSN wanted to launch OSN Play, they did so on a Go Virtual Platform.
Bas Wijne, Director of IT, OSN (Media) had this to say:
“Following the merger of Orbit and Showtime we needed a new strategy of how to manage the OSN infrastructure. BIOS came with some great ideas about virtualization and helped us realize our goals for the business.”
How Does It Work
Go Virtual is an approach to IT that leverages the efficient pooling of resources to create an on demand, self‐managing virtualization application infrastructure that can be allocated dynamically as a service. This approach abstracts applications and information from the complexity of underlying hardware infrastructure.

OSN 'Go Virtual'
The Project: Virtualized the entire OSN Datacenter and provided a Unified Compute and Consolidated Storage Platform.
Following this project, then OSN wanted to launch OSN Play, they did so on a Go Virtual Platform.
Bas Wijne, Director of IT, OSN (Media) had this to say:
“Following the merger of Orbit and Showtime we needed a new strategy of how to manage the OSN infrastructure. BIOS came with some great ideas about virtualization and helped us realize our goals for the business.”
Why BIOS
Why you should consider working with BIOS
1. Ranked #1 in Dubai and the UAE:
- ITP's 2011 System Integrator of the year
- VMware Premier Partner with specializations in all competencies, namely; Business Continuity, Virtualization Application and Desktop Virtualization.
- Citrix and Microsfot Gold Partner
- NetApp gold Partner & EMC Premier
- Cisco Data Center Architecture Accredited
2. Unique tools and project accelerators: We have developed specific tools and project accelerators to get the job done faster at the highest quality.
3. We have a record of delivery successes: we have done this for hundreds of customers.
4. Peace of mind: Support is offered up to 24x7 from a fully ITIL Compliant helpdesk with rapid onsite support available. Alternatively, our solutions can be wrapped up into a managed service.
5. Finance: We work hard with finance partners to provide our customers with the option of financing their solution. Our financing is Sharia complaint and can include; hardware, software and warranties.
OSN 'Go Virtual'
The Project: Virtualized the entire OSN Datacenter and provided a Unified Compute and Consolidated Storage Platform.
Following this project, then OSN wanted to launch OSN Play, they did so on a Go Virtual Platform.
Bas Wijne, Director of IT, OSN (Media) had this to say:
“Following the merger of Orbit and Showtime we needed a new strategy of how to manage the OSN infrastructure. BIOS came with some great ideas about virtualization and helped us realize our goals for the business.”
Next Steps
We take pride in our technology, and we are equally proud of the Professional Services solutions we offer companies in Dubai and across the UAE to help customers get the greatest return on their IT investment. Our engagement process begins with:
- A discovery process so we can understand your existing setup and a needs analysis.
- Provide you with a Return on Investment analysis
- Present you with a High Level Design and an technology and application Investment Summary
This process is designed to give you, the customer, the information you need to make an informed decision.
Call us toll free on 800 BIOSME (246763) or int: +971 4 6070800 to start the conversation.
OSN 'Go Virtual'
The Project: Virtualized the entire OSN Datacenter and provided a Unified Compute and Consolidated Storage Platform.
Following this project, then OSN wanted to launch OSN Play, they did so on a Go Virtual Platform.
Bas Wijne, Director of IT, OSN (Media) had this to say:
“Following the merger of Orbit and Showtime we needed a new strategy of how to manage the OSN infrastructure. BIOS came with some great ideas about virtualization and helped us realize our goals for the business.”