Infrastructure virtualization is proven technology that delivers the business value it promises

Taking the road to virtualization will result in significant cost savings, greater manageability of your environment, more uptime and provide better protection for your data

Virtualizing your IT infrastructure lets you reduce IT costs while increasing the efficiency, utilization, and flexibility of your existing assets. Companies of every size benefit from virtualization. Thousands of organizations—including all of the Fortune 100—have adopted virtualized solutions. While there are many reasons to virtualize your environment, here are five of the most compelling ones.

1. Reduce operating costs through server consolidation
Reduce datacenter costs by reducing your physical infrastructure and break the legacy “one application to one server” model with server consolidation. Fewer servers and related IT hardware means reduced real estate and reduced power and cooling requirements. A report from Gartner research stated that “the effective use of virtualization can reduce server energy consumption by up to 82 percent and floor space by 85 percent” (Gartner: “Energy Savings via Virtualization: Green IT on a budget”; Nov.12, 2008

2. Improve manageability
Manage and monitor virtual machines from a central location. Reduce the time it takes to provision new servers by 50-70%. Use virtualization to streamline IT management costs and allocate shared IT resources with greater flexibility and agility.

3. Increase availability of hardware and applications for improved business continuity
Simplify backup and recovery of your systems using virtualization. Eliminate planned and unplanned server downtime by providing a resilient N+1 architecture. Move servers and applications by dynamically allocating resources. Eliminate the cost and uncertainty of traditional disaster recovery by adopting a flexible and robust virtual infrastructure.

4. Virtualize business critical applications
Use virtualization to deliver business critical applications such as Exchange, SQL and SAP with the highest levels of availability and performance. Accelerate the delivery of applications to end users by dynamically provisioning servers, storage and network services while minimizing the costs associated with a physical infrastructure. You can also consolidate application servers to reduce infrastructure costs while providing IT that is always available.

5. Improve desktop manageability and security
Deploy, manage and monitor secure desktop environments that users can access locally or remotely, with or without a network connection, on almost any standard desktop, laptop or tablet.
Provide uniform, secure desktops to mobile professionals in the field and at home. Keep corporate resources and data secure by virtualizing the desktop environment. Maximize application uptime by employing application virtualization to deliver applications that run independent of the OS and other applications.

More value in virtualization – high availability, business continuity, disaster recovery
Virtualization is a powerful technology that is transforming the IT landscape by bringing unparalleled efficiencies to the datacenter. Advanced management tools give administrators better control and visibility into the infrastructure. All applications and servers are made highly available and resilient in the new virtualized infrastructure. Virtual servers can be moved while operating from one physical platform to another and from one datacenter to another. Downtime for routine equipment maintenance and patching is no longer required. The high availability that virtualization brings to the datacenter is the new business continuity. Virtualization allows businesses to develop and build highly effective disaster recovery plans that can be tested in a non-disruptive manner.

Why choose Insource

To optimize the use of virtualization Insource brings in-depth expertise and practical experience to the process to maximize the return on your investment. We have assisted clients with virtualization projects that provide immediate and significant benefits. And we can help you choose the most appropriate technology for your organization from the three key virtualization providers: VMware, Microsoft’s Hyper-V, and Citrix Xen. Insource can also help you by designing the most effective and efficient system possible and help you deliver a truly successful project.

For more information contact Steve Miller at 281.774.4002 or steve.miller@insource.com