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Use Virtualization to deliver significant cost savings and add agility and green credentials to your business
What is Virtualization?
In a nutshell, virtualization is the creation of one or more operating environments that functions separately from the host system it is running on. Each operating environment can then run an Operating System and applications without clashing with other virtual or physical operating environments.
"Use of virtualization technologies in servers will dramatically improve server utilization rates, increase server flexibility and reduce the overall spending required for servers."
– Gartner Group
What Problems does it solve?
- Too much time spent on managing existing infrastructure
- Removal of legacy hardware platforms - do you still have NT4 or Windows 2000?
- Underutilized servers
- High hardware maintenance costs
- Need to reduce power and cooling costs
- Need to reduce server sprawl
- Lack of agility when deploying new infrastructure
- Inconsistent approach to disaster recovery
How Virtualization can benefit your business
Virtualization can help all businesses no matter how large or small. Here are some of the ways in which virtualization can help you:
- Better Utilize Existing and New Hardware
Hardware improvements over the last few years have meant that most server systems are currently underutilized, with applications and operating systems sometimes only using a fraction of the hardware capabilities. Virtualization allows businesses to better utilize their existing hardware by hosting multiple virtual machines on a single physical server. - Increase Production Server Consolidation
Server Consolidation provides businesses many benefits, reduced power and cooling costs and less money spent on maintenance contracts are just two examples. Virtualization increases server consolidation by running multiple virtual machines on a single physical server without sacrificing performance or reliability. In some organizations a reduction in physical servers by 60% or more has been seen. - Improved Business Continuity
Virtualization delivers improved business continuity by removing the mapping between production and disaster recovery hardware. Businesses no longer have to maintain DR contracts for legacy hardware, reducing the cost of business continuity. Virtualization can be used to provide high levels of continuity even if multiple physical servers are unavailable. - Migrate Legacy Applications and Operating Systems
Does your business have legacy applications running on old operating systems and hardware? Virtualization can help you migrate these applications onto newer, more reliable hardware without the need to rebuild servers. Do you have trouble finding hardware which supports legacy operating systems? Virtualization removes this problem by providing emulated hardware with drivers for legacy operating systems. - Streamline Test and Development Environments
Virtualization can help businesses consolidate test and development environments onto fewer physical servers reducing the footprint of each environment. The use of self service portals for developers or test environment owners reduces the cost associated with building test and development environments and alongside a proper Automated Deployment infrastructure automated provisioning of environments supporting multiple operating systems is possible. - Provide Applications their own operating environment
If you have applications that can't co-exist, if you want to run multiple versions of the same application or you want to stream applications to the desktop on demand then application virtualization will solve these issues and streamline your application lifecycle.
Why Work with Squeeze
Squeeze Technology has valuable experience delivering Virtualized infrastructures from server to applications, but just importantly we are used to implementing the mission critical systems and applications that will run in your virtualized environment. Which is the whole reason you are virtualizing!
