Virtualisation for the data centre

External regulatory influences combined with the internal requirement to provide a reliable and cost effective service to the business puts an increasing strain on the IT infrastructure, administration and budget. Providing a solution to reduce cost but increase functionality would prove difficult with current infrastructure.

IT infrastructure challenges:

  • Cost to maintain and replace the server infrastructure with the budget available doesn’t allow for the investment in the overall server landscape required.
  • Ability to maintain and upgrade the server infrastructure with the resources available results in outsourcing elements of support and upgrade.
  • More and more data within a decreasing backup window
  • Critical systems running without the appropriate high levels of redundancy
  • Ancillary systems run on non-server hardware or systems out of warranty / support period making systems vulnerable to avoidable failures

Key business continuity issues:

  • Too many differing systems to implement and support any level of required redundancy / business continuity
  • Impact on testing reflects on the service to the business during this period

Potential effect to operating:

  • Business is at risk from all (LPHI & HPLI)levels of downtime
  • Business may be operating outside regulations
  • Areas of the business, are from an IT criticality viewpoint potentially overlooked

Take control of your IT infrastructure with VMware vSphere. Cut capital and operating costs while increasing IT service delivery without being locked into limited choices of operating systems, applications, and hardware.

  • Reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50% and energy costs by 80%,
  • Reduce the time it takes to provision new servers by up to 70%
  • Decrease downtime and improve reliability with business continuity and built-in data disaster recovery
  • Deliver IT services on-demand now and in the future, independent of hardware, OS, application or infrastructure providers

Reduce costs by consolidating hardware & increasing server utilization

By consolidating your server hardware with VMware vSphere, the most robust software suite in the industry for server consolidation, your organization can:

  • Increase utilization of existing hardware from 5-15% up to 80%
  • Reduce hardware requirements by a 10:1 ratio or better

Our Professional Services team can help you assess your IT environment to identify consolidation candidates and to calculate the potential savings from using virtualization.

Manage your virtual infrastructure from a single point of control

While most vendors offer only single-point solutions for server virtualization, VMware gives you the power to manage an entire virtual infrastructure from a single point of control. Using the production-proven VMware vSphere, your organization can:

  • Accelerate provisioning time by 50-70%
  • Manage virtual machines from a central location
  • Monitor the performance of virtual machines and their hosts

These and other benefits have enabled more than 85% of our customers to use VMware virtual machines in production environments for a wide range of applications.

Automate your virtual infrastructure for peak performance

Deliver levels of performance, scalability and availability that are not possible with a physical infrastructure. Using VMware vCenter Server in combination with our VMware VMotion and VMware DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) products, your organization will be able to:

  • Avoid planned downtime with live migration of virtual machines
  • Enable dynamic policy-based allocation of IT resources with automated load balancing
  • Eliminate many repetitive configuration and maintenance tasks