You can take control of your IT and data centre by building a virtualised infrastructure.
With virtualisation, you can see immediate, quantifiable cost savings, whilst ensuring true business agility—the ability to rapidly respond to the changing market environment.
With virtualisation you will:
- Reduce capital expenditure through consolidation
- Improve operational expenditure through automation
- Minimise lost revenue due to downtime
What are the results of virtualisation?
Virtualisation works in delivering exceptional savings and efficiencies. The results of virtualisation are:
- Cost savings - a significant reduction in financial resources is required to build and manage your network.
- Personnel savings - a significant reduction in the human resources required to manage your network.
- Environmental savings: Virtualisation solutions can reduce your data centre energy costs by 80% and reduce your combined hardware and operating costs by 50%. This is because in conventional data centres, servers sit idle for 92% of the time. While they’re idle, they continue to consume 50% of their total power needs. [VM Ware]
How does virtualisation work?
Virtualisation is best described in three phases:
Phase One: Reduction in Complexity
- Virtualisation separates your hardware from the software
- Instead, it creates pools of capacity that are suited to your needs
- The pools of capacity are then managed in terms of the applications and your needs
Phase Two: Increased Automation and Lower Costs
- Due to the pools of capacity, more automation is built into your network
- This results in lower IT capital required
Phase Three: Agility going forward
- Your virtualised system allows you more responsiveness as your needs grow and change
Virtualisation Benefits in Summary:*
- Run multiple operating systems on a single computer including Windows, Linux and more.
- Let your Mac run Windows, creating a virtual PC environment for all your Windows applications.
- Reduce capital costs by increasing energy efficiency and requiring less hardware while increasing your server to admin ratio.
- Ensure your enterprise applications perform with the highest availability and performance.
- Build up business continuity through improved disaster recovery solutions and deliver high availability throughout the datacentre.
- Improve enterprise desktop management and control with faster deployment of desktops and fewer support calls due to application conflicts.
* www.vmware.com/virtualization/what-is-virtualization.html
IMC Virtualisation
IMC has been converting business applications running on dedicated server hardware across to virtual server platforms since 2005. IMC are specialists in designing, implementing and managing virtual server environments. We have performed these services for some of Australia’s largest and most recognised organisations.
We have developed extensive capabilities around virtualised solutions, working with the most mature, reliable and cost-effective virtualisation solutions on the market.
