Virtualisation

Consolidate your server infrastructure and reap the rewards

If you are looking to refresh your server hardware then virtualisation can bring you a plethora of benefits. Virtualisation lets one physical server do the job of multiple servers, by sharing the physical resources of a single “host” across multiple virtual environments.

Virtualisation leads to improved resource utilisation, reduced power, cooling and real estate requirements. This results in reduced costs and improved environmental impact. In addition to this virtualisation also provides high availability, high scalability, increased security, and improved disaster recovery processes in a platform that is much easier to manage then disparate physical servers.

• Cost control - Reduce operation costs for your infrastructure. Rollout new services without the need for additional hardware.
• Consolidation – Reduce your physical hardware requirements and in-turn reduce your power, cooling, space, and support requirements.
• Resilience - High availability and business continuity are an inherent part of virtualisation.
• Efficiency – Virtualisation provides a highly efficient and scalable infrastructure.
• Scalability – Virtualisation allows your infrastructure grow as your business does.
• Green IT – Reducing your power consumption with virtualisation reduces your carbon footprint.

Virtualisation technology does not just apply to servers. You can now virtualise your fleet of desktops with similar benefits to above. Imagine being able to update a single virtual desktop image and have that instantly accessible to all your end users. With your desktop fleet operating from images based in the datacentre, support and maintenance requirements go down and productivity goes up.