Virtualization
Just a few years ago, expanding the capacity of your IT organization meant you needed more of everything: more hardware, more software, more people, and more money to make it all work. Inefficiencies were overlooked because of a rapidly expanding bottom-line.
As organizations are increasingly asked to accomplish more while using fewer resources, IT managers look to virtualization to stay competitive. Scalable solutions open up the potential for a single machine to accomplish jobs previous assigned to a rack of servers. Tasked with addressing a growing number of challenges, organizations are recognizing that virtualization can provide:
- Flexibility to adapt to changing business needs
- Direct and measureable cost savings and cost containment
- Simplified infrastructure and IT management, resulting in re-allocation of technical staff
- Business Continuity through Disaster Recovery and High Availability
- Cloud computing capabilities
- Increased security
Datacenter Virtualization
Recent studies show that over two-thirds of medium to large enterprises have virtualized a significant portion of their datacenter. Truly maximizing the benefits of virtualization requires significant commitments of time, effort, and materials from your IT organization. From policy and planning to deployment and maintenance, the success of your virtualization efforts will be based on the coordination of these investments.
Legacy server rooms and datacenters were often inefficient, realizing only a portion of their full potential. A virtualized datacenter is one that consolidates server workloads, and reduces management and operational expenses, while eliminating time and space constraints.
The enhanced availability of a virtualized datacenter features real-time failover, Disaster Recovery, and end-to-end Business Continuity built into the overall solution. Flexible allocation of workloads and faster provisioning also help maintain optimal application delivery.
Desktop Virtualization
Enterprises today are continually looking for ways to provide business and operational innovation that can increase their productivity, flexibility, and agility, while better serving their users and lowering costs. Many IT executives looking for opportunities to reduce the cost and increase the security of their desktop environments are evaluating Desktop Virtualization technology. Virtual desktops in the data center allow users to access their applications through thin clients. Thin clients have minimal software and little intelligence, so they are less expensive, easier to administer, and more secure than personal computers. But the real payoff of a Virtual Desktop deployment is that each virtual desktop becomes an endpoint in the enterprise cloud. Absorbing desktops into the cloud architecture lets IT administrators deploy and provision new applications very quickly and at a reduced cost, while controlling access to corporate resources.
