Tim Stephenson, Senior Sales Engineer a First National Technology Solutions, visited the theCube during EMC World 2013 to discuss the current state of his company, managed and cloud hosting services with host Stu Miniman, Senior Analyst, Wikibon. Full Video below.

Stephenson began his discussion on his company profile and briefing on First National Technology Solutions (FNTS) by stating FNTS provides hosted and remote managed IT services to customers worldwide. FNTS had built a solid business based on its IT services skill sets, top client services and advanced technologies. FNTS hosts the servers, systems and hardware required for Hosted Virtual Desktop.

To help improve client satisfaction and enable business growth, Stephenson stated FNTS uses best in-class cloud infrastructure based on Brocade, EMC, Cisco, and VMware. The company leverages this infrastructure to provide with an array of remote managed IT and hosted services such as application services, infrastructure-as-a-service, disaster recovery and storage.

When asked about the firm’s data center and disaster recovery technique used in FNTS, Stephenson explained his company added all flash-based EMC VMAX enterprise storage to support most critical databases and applications and EMC VPLEX local storage also resides in data centers to enable centralized management and sharing of resources. The Virtual Desktop server is hosted in the First National Technology Center in Omaha, a tier IV 195,000-square-foot data center that that is recognized as a world-class facility.

Stephenson then explained the advantage of fiber channel network by stating, “Fiber channel gives the rock solid performance every time, all the time and there is no bottleneck.”   Stephenson goes on to highlight ” the bottleneck is in the storage platform or server side but not in the fiber channel network.”

Lastly, Stephenson provided some insight advantages of moving the infrastructure and services to hosted environment. He said “the big benefit customers will get is not spending on the capital, not investing in additional technology, skills, training and people.”

See Stephenson’s entire segment below: