Server Virtualization has changed the game:

 

Scenario 1-A: You come into your office on Monday morning. Over the weekend a water pipe in your building has burst. Your server(s) are no longer functioning. For all intents and purposes your business has come to a screeching halt. What do you do? Who do you call? The clock is ticking. A new Server(s) will have to be purchased and delivered. New Operating Systems and all Drivers need to be installed. All applications will have to be reinstalled along with your back up software. Your data then has to be restored from your back-up.         2 days? 4 days? Will your customers wait?

Scenario 1-B (Virtual Server): You come into your office on Monday morning. Over the weekend a water pipe in your building has burst. Your virtual server(s) are no longer functioning and are out of warranty. For all intents and purposes your business has come to a screeching halt. What do you do? Who do you call? The clock is ticking. In a Virtual environment you plug your external hard drive that stores your company backups into the fastest workstation or laptop you have available – copy and paste a file and you are back to work.

 

Scenario 2-A: You have 5 servers for your business. They range in age from 1 to 5 years old. Some are out of warranty.  They have been giving you problems and interrupting your day on and off for about 6 months. You can start replacing the older servers one by one. A very costly and time consuming  solution for your business.

Scenario 2-B (Virtual Server): You have 5 servers for your business. They range in age from 1 to 5 years old. Some are out of warranty.  They have been giving you problems and interrupting your day on and off for about 6 months. Take your best 1 or 2 servers. Add some memory and possibly some disk space. Consolidate your data center from 5 servers to 2. Keep your older machines for disaster recovery/business continuity. A virtual environment will save you a considerable amount of money on hardware and labor, not to mention your power/cooling savings from retiring several servers. Can you afford not to virtualize?

 Virtualization and consolidation of your servers is now a proven solution for companies that would like to drive significant cost out of I.T. while improving efficiency and Disaster Recovery capabilities

 BENEFITS

 

 

Drive cost out of IT spending to revenue producing areas

• Significantly reduce costs associated with power and cooling
• Reduce cost of purchasing server hardware and network components
• Reduce cost of labor for managing network
• Most servers use less than 20% of their processing power while consuming huge amounts of energy running 24/7. Harness that power without additional cost

Accelerate New Application Implementation

• Reduce new server deployment time to minutes rather than days
• Decrease costs associated with implementing new applications and services
• Decrease costs associated with implementing new applications and services
• Applications are independent of each other and do not have to work together

Data Center

• Control server sprawl by adding to existing servers instead of new machines
• Virtual Machines live in software not in hardware
• Create new virtual servers for testing and development that can later be removed from host

 

 

 

 

 Disaster Recovery

• Enables you to move virtual server systems from one physical server to another with little or no reconfiguration, allowing you to seamlessly fail over to alternate hardware as needed
• Allocate unnecessary hardware to disaster recovery

   

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Environmental - Going Green is great, especially when it improves your bottom line. Saving on purchasing new hardware, labor, space, time.  All while reducing C02 emissions and not introducing hazardous materials into the environment. It just makes sense..

• The number is staggering, an estimated 5 percent of global energy consumption (and global CO2 emissions) is attributed to computing services
• Servers in the U.S. and Europe comprise about two-thirds of the world's total electricity use
• More than 10 million computers dumped in landfills each year
• A single rack filled with high-density servers emits as much CO2 in its energy use as 285 cars driving across the country
• The U.S. Department of Energy has said that the datacenter is the fastest-growing energy consumer in the United States today