| What is Virtualization? |
Virtualization is a technology strategy, empowering organizations with the flexibility to utilize technology assets as business needs develop and improved ROI of technology investments. Virtualization can open the door to strategic initiatives, reducing cost and complexity, while improving business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities.
Virtualization can greatly reduce Total Cost of Ownership for servers, storage, desktops and networks. A whitepaper featured in CIO Magazine on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reports customers "reduced their server TCO by 74% on average and realized an ROI of over 300% within the first six months of deploying" server virtualization software. Request a Copy of the Virtualization TCO Whitepaper
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| Why and what should you consider for Virtualization? |
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Traditionally the first technologies considered in a virtualization strategy are the servers. Server virtualization provides clear ROI benefits, allowing you to place multiple applications on the same server, taking advantage of the server capacity already purchased. However server virtualization should be considered one phase within the overall strategy. A virtualization plan should consider desktops, storage and datacenters to achieve the greatest financial ROI, business agility and green benefits.
The green benefits realized from technology virtualization include reduced power, cooling and real estate expenses associated with datacenter space needed to house the systems. The green benefits associated with virtualization directly impact reduced operating expenses, providing real value to the bottom line.
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| What are the key benefits of Virtualization? |
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The basis of most of the financial benefits is the fact that virtualization enables consolidation, doing more with less. Operational efficiencies are achieved with Virtualization’s high availability features. With these two principles you are able to realize the following benefits: |
- Reduce Hardware TCO
- Reduce Power and Cooling Costs
- Increase Uptime
- Increase Disaster Recovery Capabilities
- Reduce Maintenance and Support Costs
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- Reduce Operating System Costs
- Provide Rapid Server/Desktop Deployment
- Provide Capacity-on-Demand
- Provide Cost-effective Development/Test Environments
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| How does Virtualization enhance the ROI of existing IT? |
You may be thinking, “what about my existing server hardware, can I still use those servers, or do I need to buy new servers to take advantage of virtualization?” You do not necessarily need to buy any new server hardware, other than perhaps a few servers to get started with. Once you’ve virtualized a few servers off of existing hardware to the new hardware, you can then reuse the old hardware by repurposing it, or adding it to the new virtualization pool.
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| NSPI can help with your Virtualization strategy! |
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NSPI provides the depth and breath of technology and services to design install and support virtual server environments. We can help you answer which of your servers, workstations, and applications can or should be virtualized, whether your network robust enough for virtualization, and what, if any, storage array type makes the most sense for your environment. We can also help you understand your current TCO, plan for reduced TCO, and understand the ROI your company can achieve via virtualization. |
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- Virtualization Impact Assessment
- Virtualization Design and Architecture Services
- Implementation, Deployment & Support of Industry Leading Solutions
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NSPI can also source new software and hardware that may be required in your virtualization deployment, such as OS and virtualization software licensing, servers, storage networks, and storage arrays. Leading technology Partners Include: VMware, Microsoft , IBM, EMC, HP, Dell EqualLogic & VizionCore.
Ready to Get Started? Request an NSPI representative to contact you today!
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