Significant Cost Savings
Consolidating servers saves up to 50% or more in hardware costs and 80% in energy expenses.
Many firms are implementing server virtualization as a viable strategy to maximize their considerable IT investments. Server virtualization allows more than one server to operate on the same piece of hardware. Server virtualization allows for more powerful, yet pliant infrastructure by centralizing management of your IT assets.
There are several choices in server virtualization platforms and more than one way to create them, so we will provide expert insight and professional advice on which product and architecture will work best to meet your business needs and budget considerations.
By effectively consolidating, leveraging, and maximizing your hardware resources, such as web and email servers; software applications; databases, and file or print servers onto fewer physical workloads, you’ll reduce expenses and increase productivity.
With virtualization, servers can be deployed in minutes instead of weeks to source, receive, rack, cable and configure. Spin up time is lightning fast, reducing the ramp up and tear down time of test lab environments.
Server virtualization allows you and your staff to free yourselves to focus on business innovation and revenue generation. In most cases, server virtualization is quick and easy to implement, use, and manage and allows you to deploy new applications or implement change requests in just a matter of minutes.
By consolidating servers through virtualization, you can save more than 50% in hardware and operating costs and up to 80% in energy and cooling costs.
With virtualized servers, workloads exist as files, making them more easily and seamlessly transported or migrated to new environments, new virtualization platforms, or newer underlying physical servers.
Most virtualization platforms provide several business continuity options and can automatically restart business-critical applications when a server failure occurs. In addition, with server virtualization, disaster recovery can be automated across varying physical locations.
We Offer Server Virtualization in Three Platforms …
VMware is the undisputed pioneer in server virtualization and is the standard by which all others are judged. They offer the highest level of hardware and vendor support and provide the most advanced virtualization products.
While VMware licensing is costly, it offers an unmatched feature rich platform, with the greatest level of flexibility and a wide selection of add-on products.
Microsoft Hyper V R2 is bundled with Windows 2008/2008 R2 so virtualization is “right out of the box”. Microsoft offers attractive incentives such as free Windows licenses when running virtual machines on top of a physical server that runs Hyper-V R2 making it a viable option for businesses on a tight budget.
Citrix XenServer is VMware’s largest competitor on the market and offers many of the same features, but for a fraction of its licensing costs. Considered by many as the “bridesmaid” of the virtualization industry, it’s a practical and workable option for organizations that might not require the full virtualization feature set. One of the other major advantages to Citrix’s XenServer is its ability to seamlessly integrate its XenApp application and XenDesktop desktop virtualization products.