Businesses nowadays face many pressures to provide, implement and manage best practice solutions to leverage optimal value within the business. Whether a business is a Tier 1 Global player or Tier 4 regional business, the pressures remain the same. In order to apply these industry best practices, many businesses have invested in Best of Breed IT solutions, which, often demand to be implemented on separate physical servers and disk arrays, because they either run on different operating platforms, or they demand exclusive processor or disk usage. The result, though not the business’ fault, is a disparate array of servers, disks and operating systems across single or multiple locations which give rise to increasing IT and IT infrastructure management issues and (ever spiraling proportionate costs).
This paper will discuss, in detail, the 5 areas of Virtualisation technology:
Server/Host Virtualisation
Storage Virtualisation
Application Software Virtualisation
Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery / High Availability Virtualisation
Data Centre Virtualisation
You'll also be introduced to a virtualized framework solution from Virtustream that will not only provide the maximum ROI, but will address issues from a business perspective as well as an IT perspective, with a constant eye on the all-important calculator for any business investment – Total Cost of Ownership.
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