Saving Money While Protecting The Environment

With budgets shrinking and business getting more competitive, you're under more pressure than ever to save money and contribute to your business's bottom line. The need for IT to provide a solid foundation and contribute to the bigger business picture has never been more crucial. But how can you save money without delaying or cancelling planned IT projects such as hardware refreshes or strategic software roll-outs?

The answer is taking advantage of new technologies such as virtualisation to enable your business to better utilise the IT infrastructure you already own. If you are using Microsoft then b2Lateral strongly recommends that you take a look at Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V and Microsoft System Centre Essentials 2007.

For example, a well known oil firm used the Windows Server 2008 Enterprise operating system featuring Hyper-V virtualisation technology to consolidate 22 servers to six servers, an 80 per cent reduction. They estimate that it will save approximately £100k in hardware and £33k in electrical costs over three years, saving them money while also doing their bit to protect the environment and reduce their carbon footprint.

Making the move to such technologies does not only make business sense, but it also makes IT sense. Time after time virtualisation products such as Hyper-V have proven to:

Save money — consolidating your IT infrastructure to reduce hardware costs, lower electricity usage and reduce data centre floor space

Provide a more stable environment — increase uptime with host-to-host clustering and failover in the event of a server going down

Respond effectively to changes in your business — simply create new virtual machines within your existing infrastructure as they're needed

Save time and work more effectively — proactively manage servers, clients, hardware, software and IT services - all from one easy-to-use console

When it comes to virtualisation, whether it be from Microsoft, Novell or VMware, b2Lateral have the highest level of expertise and certification in all of the technologies available. We can help you evaluate what is the most appropriate virtualisation solution for your company and help you to quickly and effectively implement it within your organisation.

To find out more about Microsoft Hyper-V or to get our advice on how best to introduce virtualisation into your organisation, contact us at info@b2Lateral.net or call our virtualisation experts on 0844 664 2565.