Virtualisation and Your ICT Infrastructure
Virtualisation is an important technology trend that businesses are incorporating within their ICT infrastructures. So what exactly is virtualisation and what benefits could it offer to you?
What is virtualisation?
Virtual environments are created when hardware is emulated, allowing you to run multiple operating systems and software applications on a single physical server.
The term virtualisation has become an IT buzzword, and as a result the term is now associated with a number of different computing technologies including:
- Platform Virtualisation
- Network Virtualisation
- Storage Virtualisation
- Server Virtualisation
- Operating System Virtualisation
- Application Virtualisation
- Desktop Virtualisation
Why would my organisation utilise virtualisation?
You can create a more agile and adaptive ICT infrastructure, reduce the total cost of ICT ownership and minimise downtime. There are many benefits that virtualisation can offer to your organisation and they apply to all the elements of your ICT infrastructure: servers, operating systems, data storage and software applications. Specific benefits include:
- Server consolidation - Run multiple operating systems on a single server to get maximum use from your hardware
- Simplified systems back-up and improved disaster recovery - Better business continuity and high availability helps reduce scheduled and unscheduled downtime
- Improve enterprise desktop management and control - Faster deployment of desktops and fewer support calls due to application conflicts
- Hosting legacy applications - For example software applications that need to run on older operating systems
- Reduced test and development costs - Use a virtual environment to develop and test new software to minimise risk to live systems
- Environmentally and financially friendly - Reduce capital costs by increasing energy efficiency
- Do more with less - Reduce data centre space utilisation and use less hardware to increase your server to admin ratio
- Consolidate and secure your storage using thin provisioning and snapshots with the latest SAN and storage virtualisation technology.
How can Nexus help me?
Nexus specialise in helping organisations to plan and deploy virtualisation solutions from VMware and Microsoft. The first step in assessing your specific requirements is to Book a Virtualisation Capacity Planning Report, which contains key information that is collected during an onsite audit by one of our accredited virtualisation engineers:
- Assessment of your current ICT infrastructure
- Outline of your virtualisation and storage requirements
- Hardware consolidation report
- Implementation and training costs proposal
- Business case and ROI analysis
- Recommendations and next steps
If you would like to find out how your organisation can benefit from virtualisation technology, please contact us to discuss your requirements.
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