Virtualisation

What Is Virtualisation?
Virtualisation is the means by which you are able to utilise a single computer to perform the same tasks that normally would use many computers to do. In the data centre, virtualisation enables you to run multiple environments and multiple applications on a single machine, effectively enabling you to achieve the same IT objectives for a reduced investment by pooling resources across fewer machines.

In the office or field, virtualisation enables you to provide individual user desktops hosted on a centralised server, reducing the cost of providing desktop-based PCs or laptops, reducing management overhead and improving the availability and performance of your user’s environment.

And in more complex environments, where your users require multiple applications running under different operating systems, these can be provided on a single machine running multiple virtual machines.

What Benefits Can Virtualisation Offer?
Virtualisation offers many hard and soft benefits to organisations. The most compelling reason to consider virtualisation is the cost savings that it can provide. For example, in many cases where organisations utilise virtualisation software to create a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, the project investment is recouped within 3 months and the return on investment is normally in excess of 200% over 3 years.

Virtualisation also provides greater control of your IT environment, improved security, increased reliability & availability, improved mobility, reduced power consumption and most importantly, improved service to your IT users.

What Technology Is Available?
Virtualisation is a software solution that when designed, implemented and configured, provides you with all of the associated soft and hard benefits.

Key Virtualisations components include:
Virtual Server Infrastructure
Desktop Manager/Broker
Virtual Desktops

Key technology vendors include:
Microsoft, Novel, VMware,

How Can b2Lateral Help?
We are the experts in virtualisation. We hold the highest level of certification with Microsoft, VMware and Novell, as well as many other suppliers of virtualisation software. This enables us to provide impartial advice to our clients on what solutions are available and how best they can serve their businesses.

We can work with you on a no-obligation discovery exercise. We will understand your business and requirements, we will advise you of the options available, work you through the investment and TCO figures and help you do the return on investment calculations.

We can help you evaluate, design, implement, configure and manage a virtualisation solution. To find out more please request more information on Virtualisation