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Get Moving with Server Virtualization
Save money while building an agile, efficient and resilient server infrastructure.
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Your Challenge
- Situation. The trigger for considering server virtualization typically comes from a need to purchase or refresh server hardware. Vendors position virtualization as a cost saver and utilization booster through consolidation.
- Issue. Beyond server consolidation, tangible cost savings are more elusive. Real benefits derive from server management which can be more difficult to determine.
- Solution/Answer. Consolidation with virtualization is a proven cost saver. This set shows you how virtualization saves money and will lead to a more efficient and responsive infrastructure.
Our Advice
Critical InsightVirtualization is typically not driven by strategy but rather by tactical considerations in server refresh. Save 40% to 70% in capital expenses now through consolidation, however, careful planning is critical for long-term benefit.
Server consolidation with virtualization is a proven money saver. Virtualization also enables a more agile and efficient infrastructure if managed effectively.
Get to Action
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Start virtualizing now
- Drive immediate savings while laying the foundation for nimble and efficient infrastructure
- Success in server virtualization balances achievement of immediate cost savings goals with creation of an efficiently managed virtual server infrastructure
- The need for management (and the return on that investment) grows as more servers are virtualized
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Base the business case on consolidation savings
- Capital expense savings of 40% to 70% are the most immediate and measurable benefits
- Consolidation as low as three physical machines to one virtual machine can can yield capital savings
- Maximizing consolidation is tempered by performance requirements and capacity requirements
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- Webinar: Strategies to Optimize the Internal Cloud
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Other Solution Sets in Server & Storage Virtualization
1. Get the Most out of Server Virtualization
Develop a strategy to move infrastructure from a virtual fantasy to a virtual reality.
Develop a strategy to move infrastructure from a virtual fantasy to a virtual reality.
2. Vendor Landscape: Server Virtualization
Server virtualization continues to drive value in infrastructure consolidation and management while laying the foundation of private and public computing.
Server virtualization continues to drive value in infrastructure consolidation and management while laying the foundation of private and public computing.
3. Avoid Server Virtualization Implementation Pain
Virtualization is not a magic bullet. Poor scoping of infrastructure and business needs will lead to implementation pain.
Virtualization is not a magic bullet. Poor scoping of infrastructure and business needs will lead to implementation pain.
4. Leverage Server Virtualization for DR Affordability and Agility
Virtualization is not just for consolidation - drive cost and complexity out of system availability and restore.
Virtualization is not just for consolidation - drive cost and complexity out of system availability and restore.
5. Build an Optimized Infrastructure-as-a-Service Internal Cloud
The best computing cloud is the one you've already started with server virtualization.
The best computing cloud is the one you've already started with server virtualization.
6. Use Cloud Computing to Achieve Small Enterprise Savings
Small businesses are in a unique position to gain advantage with cloud computing.
Small businesses are in a unique position to gain advantage with cloud computing.
7. Vendor Landscape: Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Control costs while expanding your infrastructure possibilities.
Control costs while expanding your infrastructure possibilities.
8. Manage & Plan Capacity for the Internal Cloud
You cannot afford to assume that the data center has unlimited capacity; this is even more true for the internal cloud.
You cannot afford to assume that the data center has unlimited capacity; this is even more true for the internal cloud.
9. Transform Utility Infrastructure into a Cloud Service
A utility infrastructure IaaS alone does not equal cloud.
A utility infrastructure IaaS alone does not equal cloud.
10. Vendor Landscape Plus: Cloud Orchestration
Virtualize servers for immediate savings and infrastructure efficiency.
Virtualize servers for immediate savings and infrastructure efficiency.
2 Comments
Your 'Get into Action' information is just the foundational support I needed to establish a 'virtualizations' planning know how. An excellent beginning point for me!
this is very interesting