Virtualization technologies enable you to dramatically extend your hardware resources. Server virtualization allows you to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same computer at the same time. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) enables fast and efficient desktop deployment with high availability and superior security. With storage virtualization, you can unite multiple storage devices into a single, centrally-managed pool. In either case, the result is unmatched flexibility of your hardware resources, coupled with reduced infrastructure costs and simplified management. Virtualization is transforming today's information technology landscape and being implemented by enterprises, large and small, to address numerous business objectives - including green data center initiatives. By enabling corporations to reduce equipment and power consumption, virtualization has become a fundamental strategy in helping organizations implement green practices and lessen their impact on the environment. Combine the green advantages of virtualization with a long list of IT benefits - including consolidation, improved information systems management, and lower data center TCO - and it's a win / win proposition for your business and the environment.
With Virtualization solutions from EMC and VMware, you can consolidate servers by a 20:1 ratio - increasing capacity utilization while eliminating unnecessary infrastructure, power consumption and management. Here are just some of the additional benefits EMC and VMware have to offer:
- Server Consolidation and Optimization: Virtualization enables organizations to get more from every server and break the one application to one server model.
- Physical Infrastructure Cost Reduction: With virtualization, you can reduce the number of servers and related IT hardware, and possibly delay or eliminate the need to expand data center facilities as your organization grows.
- Reduced Energy Costs: Fewer physical servers can dramatically lower real estate requirements, as well as power and cooling costs.
- Improved Operational Flexibility and Responsiveness: Virtualization offers a new way of managing IT infrastructure and can help IT administrators spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time being responsive to business requirements.
- Simplified Management: With virtualization, IT administrators are able to support, manage, and provision computer resources independent of the server platform, making management simpler and more efficient. Storage virtualization helps storage administrators perform the tasks of backup, archiving, and recovery more easily and in less time.
- Improved Desktop Management: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solutions for VMware reduce deployment time and operating costs, increase utilization of existing storage, and streamline desktop maintenance and upgrades.
- Reduced Disaster Recovery Costs: With virtualization, disaster recovery hardware requirements and costs are reduced significantly because of the ability to use one server for multiple applications. Additionally, recovery operations are simplified and recovery time objective (RTO) becomes minutes, rather than hours or days.
Learn how your EMC data center optimization expert can help you take advantage of Virtualization solutions.