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Server Vitualization

Today’s organizations need to be able to reduce costs while improving flexibility. Economic pressures are forcing IT organizations to do more with less, better manage their IT resources and automate service delivery. Virtualization and consolidation (VC) initiatives enable the pooling and sharing of resources to provide rapid provisioning and resource optimization. Virtualization is a critical component of a dynamic infrastructure, at the server, storage, network, application, and user levels, and is key to reducing cost. Benefits include increased energy efficiency, reduced management costs, greater utilization, and reduced capital costs.

Virtualization can help simplify, virtualize and consolidate your IT environment resulting in reduced operational costs of up to 50% and reduced energy costs of up to 40% a year. Often mid-sized companies spend the majority of their IT budget just keeping their IT infrastructure up and running.

By deploying virtualization and consolidation they can create a more efficient IT infrastructure, freeing up valuable people and budget resources to focus on the strategic goals of the company.

IT complexity and server and storage sprawl continues to worsen as IT organizations frantically try to respond to exploding customer demand and data requirements. Economic pressures are forcing IT organizations to do more with fewer capital and people resources, requiring organizations to better manage their IT resources and automate service delivery. Client infrastructure lacks agility to deploy new services, hampering organizations from capturing new users and revenue sources.

The benefits of Virtualization include:

▪ Reduce IT complexity and manage costs
▪ Underutilization of existing servers and resources
▪ Continually adding new servers for new applications – i.e. server sprawl
▪ Reduce time spend on problem determination and resolution

▪ Cost savings: The following represents typical savings :
-Hardware 33-70 %
-Maintenance up to 50 %
-Support costs by as much as 33 %
-Floor space and facility costs 33-50 %
▪ Increased server utilization
▪ Lower power and cooling costs