consolidate and reduce costs and energy
Requirements
Business currently has the major challenge to do more with less, both in the context of shrinking budgets and environmental requirements to reduce power (and in turn costs). Once major answer to this comes in the form of virtualisation.
With virtualisation your business can move away from the ‘One Application, One Server’ model and start to allow multiple applications that previously couldn’t run together to share hardware. This reduces your investment in server hardware, with it’s reduction in power, cooling and space requirements, but also increases your flexibility in application availability for improved business continuity and increases your overall return on investment (ROI).
keep your business running
Another area in which virtualisation is able to help your business is in keeping your IT systems available for your staff. Computers are always liable to hardware problems from disk failures to power issues. The way to protect from these issues has always been to add redundancy such as spare power supplies, disk arrays, teamed network connections, but all of these solutions requires additional hardware, and that hardware doesn’t come cheap.
With virtualisation we are able to reduce keep the amount of hardware to a minimum, and instead use intelligent software to provide the same high levels of availability at a fraction of the cost.
selecting the solution that fits your needs
Currently there are a number of different vendors on the market who offer virtualisation technology, including VMWare vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenApp. Consilium has been helping our customers understand the different offerings from the vendors, and recommending and implementing solutions for many years. As always our breadth of experience positions us to uniquely recommend a solution that is best for you, regardless of which vendor that may involve.