Virtualization
Virtualization plays a key role in the “greenification” of your business and is advantageous for businesses of all sizes, even Small and Mid-sized.
Reduce Costs
By virtualizing, we eliminate the need to purchase and support expensive server hardware on a per operating system basis. This means we can deploy more systems at lower cost per system – cost savings to you!
Reduce Power Consumption
Having less server hardware not only draws less power to operate, but also reduces your cooling bill. Fewer boxes = less heat generation! Adding virtual machines onto a single physical server typically draws a minimal, if even measurable, increase in power. On the other hand, additional physical servers, of course, adds a significant amount of power consumption even for systems that are lightly used or used only occasionally.
Easily Protect Your Data
Virtualized servers can be backed up easily with traditional backup methods such as external hard drives or the image based backups, such as the MITC Backup & Disaster Recovery Appliance (BDR).
Quick Disaster Recovery
With virtualization, a snapshot can be taken of the entire system (not just the file server) for ease of restoration should disaster strike. (See Business Continuity for more information.)
Ease of Provisioning
By virtualizing your servers, new servers can be added for the cost of a few new hard drives. No new physical servers needed. Growing your business doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg!
Fast Server Deployment
New servers can be “provisioned” by server templates, thus decreasing the build time for new servers to minutes instead of hours. This is a difference of a few clicks as opposed to a significant server project. Building a new server operating system directly on hardware is a time consuming venture for most shops. Less time for us; cost savings for you!
Upgrade now - Keep your Legacy Software
Many companies have key line of business applications on legacy software that aren’t compatible with newer operating systems. By virtualizing an older operating system on your workstation, you can continue to run your crucial business applications and maintain increased productivity with and upgraded desktop!
Virtualization Pays for Itself!
- Increase server utilization from 5-15% to 60-80%
- Reduce energy costs by up to 80%
- Reduce the time it takes to provision new servers by up to 70%
- Reduce your carbon footprint -- every server virtualized has the same environmental impact as removing 1.5 cars from the road