Small and midsize firms virtualize IT infrastructure to meet real-world challenges: simplifying operations to focus on business issues, speeding up application rollouts to get more done, safeguarding data and operations to stay open and productive, and saving money for the bottom line. It’s a new way to think about IT—and getting started is easy, fast,
Server virtualization isn’t just for big companies. Entry-level virtualization tools are free or low-cost, and there are many benefits to virtualization (including saving money). It’s not a question of “if” you should virtualize your servers;it’s a question of “when.” In this article, I outline five steps you should take to determine when to virtualize your
Small and midsize businesses are making virtualization one of the hottest trends in IT. The reasons? Virtualization reduces the cost and complexity of technology, frees up time to make their businesses more responsive and improves their ability to rebound from disasters.
In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the key features of virtualization—specifically VMware virtualization solutions—that help defend your datacenter against disaster. Virtualization offers hardware independence—a huge time saver in recovering from a disaster. In addition to this core capability, virtualization provides several other ways to protect your business from server downtime.
Think of virtualisation as a strategy rather than a technology. When considering the benefits, don’t look just at the hardware and energy cost savings, but consider business uptime particularly as downtime is virtually eliminated. With these types of benefits, most companies find it easy to justify the cost.
Small and midsize businesses are making virtualisation one of the hottest trends in IT. The reasons? Virtualization reduces the cost and complexity of technology, frees up time to make their businesses more responsive and improves their ability to rebound from disasters.
Every IT manager knows the importance of having an effective disaster recovery (DR) plan. Hopefully your business will never have to experience a major disaster. But having an effective disaster recovery plan with sufficient documentation, adequate testing, and well trained staff will increase your chances of survival when faced with a minor or major catastrophe.
In this paper we take a look at some of the key features of virtualisation that help defend your data centre against disaster. Virtualization offers hardware independence – a huge time saver in recovering from a disaster. In addition to this core capability, virtualisation provides several other ways to protect your business from server downtime.
It’s not a question of “if” you should virtualise your servers; it’s a question of “when.” In this paper we outline five steps you should take to determine when to virtualise your servers. So, if you haven’t started using virtualisation or you haven’t fully virtualised your IT environment, following these five steps to determine when
Managing the desktop estate has become a costly distraction for enterprise IT teams – especially with the advent of Windows 7. Explore the advantages of virtualizing your desktop environment.