Virtualization & Consolidation

Internal server resources are too often underutilized, especially when every business application is using a single server. This model floors your IT innovation by forcing your IT staff to focus on managing servers instead of bringing new ideas and solutions to help your business compete.

As IT consultants we often see quad-core CPUs running a tiny business application with less than 1% CPU utilization. This same server could be much better utilized by running several virtual instances each housing a legacy business application. It is not uncommon these days to round up all the legacy applications and place them on one server with several virtual instances.

Imagine being able to reduce your server infrastructure by 50% or more. By consolidating all of your low yield servers into a single virtualized environment you will reduce you both operating and capital costs by using less hardware, requiring less power and less cooling.

"Virtualization Will Be the Highest-Impact Trend in Infrastructure and Operations Market Through 2012." (Source: Gartner)

Top 5 Reasons to Adopt Virtualization Software

Everybody's talking about virtualization, and for good reasons. It can secure your data, simplify compliance, and mitigate risk. And it can give your business new levels of agility and continuity. You'll also save money, energy, and datacenter space like never before.

Virtualization gives you more efficient ways to quickly deliver dramatic business advantages. And the opportunities extend throughout the enterprise.

1. Get more out of your existing resources: Pool common infrastructure resources and break the legacy “one application to one server” model with server consolidation.
2. Reduce datacenter costs by reducing your physical infrastructure and improving your server to admin ratio: Fewer servers and related IT hardware means reduced real estate and reduced power and cooling requirements. Better management tools let you improve your server to admin ratio so personnel requirements are reduced as well.
3. Increase availability of hardware and applications for improved business continuity: Securely backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no interruption in service. Eliminate planned downtime and recover immediately from unplanned issues.
4. Gain operational flexibility: Respond to market changes with dynamic resource management, faster server provisioning and improved desktop and application deployment.
5. Improve desktop manageability and security: Deploy, manage and monitor secure desktop environments that users can access locally or remotely, with or without a network connection, on almost any standard desktop, laptop or tablet PC.

Talk to us about how we can help you achieve a leaner IT footprint in your datacenter and reduce your operating costs and capital expenditures.