Virtualise, Consolidate, Protect
Using virtualisation technologies we are able to offer our clients highly scalable infrastructures which offer immense levels of availability.
You may be fully aware of virtualisation, you may not, you may have heard of it but not have a true understanding of exactly what it is and how it can help your business. In a nutshell Virtualisation is
"Running multiple Operating Systems* on 1 piece of hardware"
This in itself sounds great and you can immediately see that there will be cost benefits available BUT unless you are somewhat technical you will struggle to appreciate some of the amazing benefits which this will give your business.
Virtualisation can be utilised for both servers & desktops and use of both technologies throughout your network will enable you to create a highly flexible and accessible working platform.
Some of the benefits of virtualisation are:-
- ability to run many servers on 1 single piece of hardware
- ability to deploy new virtual servers in short space of time
- ability to make major infrastructure changes in a short space of time
- ability to install highly resilient hardware ensuring there is minimal risk of a hardware fault
- ability to run the virtual servers across multiple hosts on shared storage - enabling high availability and load balancing
- ability to move servers from 1 host to the other in short space of time
- ability to implement highly resilient high availability & disaster recovery solutions
- ability to enable hot desking across multiple sites
- ability to host your infrastructure in a data centre
Clearly the benefits are most noticeable for businesses with a relatively high number of servers or desktops however significant cost savings and operational benefits can all be realised by businesses who only run small numbers.
The major factors which have interested our clients in this technology have been ability to reduce the amount of hardware they have and also how easy and cost effective it is to implement an enterprise style disaster recovery solution.
If you would like to discuss virtualisation as an option for your business or would like to see the types of things which are possible the one of our consultants would be happy to discuss the options with you. To find out what we can do to help or how virtualisation could revolutionise your IT infrastructure please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , fill in the contact us form below or call 0845 094 8895
* in most cases which we deal with, the operating system would be Microsoft Windows of some description (server, xp, 7 etc).