Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing how computing is done.  Virtualization breaks the traditional x86 boundaries and allows a physical server to safely and reliably run multiple “virtual machines” at the same time, each with its own operating system and application – pooling system resources that can be dynamically managed with a high level of flexibility, availability, and reliability. 

Questions to ask regarding if Virtualization is for you? 

• Are you able to successfully manage IT with a reduced IT budget?
• Do you have time and budget for strategic projects or are you just
  “Keeping the lights on”?
• Are you able to adapt quickly to business changes?
• Can you provide services to your customers on demand?
• Are you comfortable that you can secure your data in a global environment?

Visit our Virtualization Products and Services tabs for more information.

Some of the direct benefits of Virtualization are: 

• Increase utilization rates from 5-15% to up to 80+%
• Achieve server consolidation ratios of 10:1 and greater
• Reduce power and cooling costs and associated carbon emissions by 80%
• Simplified centralized management and improve server to administrator ratio by > 50%
• Contain server sprawl and defer/reduce datacenter expansion costs
• Reduce the cost and complexity of availability and disaster recovery while speeding up recovery

Each of these vendor solutions provide our customers with virtualization options that are right for their specific needs and environments. Virtualization is quickly extending to the desktop for centralized user provisioning and management along with management tools to monitor, automate and manage across the virtual infrastructure.

Click on the Virtualization Products tab for detailed vendor and product information.