Are any of the following challenges affecting your server environment, thus impacting upon the requirements of your business?
The Solution
Innovations in virtualisation have produced a powerful set of enabling technologies which are helping organisations drive capital and operational efficiencies.
Virtualisation has accelerated the movement away from single server systems, delivering much improved system utilisation, quicker application deployment, as well as benefiting from the built-in disaster recovery and business continuity advantages associated with it.
As confidence has grown in the technology, the pace of adopting virtualisation in organisations has intensified. In today's marketplace, the question is not "Why virtualise?" but "Why not virtualise?"
^ Back upThe Benefits
- Frees up valuable data centre space
- Reduces the costs of power and cooling, and has a positive effect upon an organisation's carbon footprint
- Allows for a built- in business continuity solution
- Increases server utilisation, typically from 5-15% to 60-80%*
- Allows for reusable hardware platforms, extending the life of assets and reducing capital expenditure
- Removes compatibility issues with older hardware
- Reduces hardware management and maintenance costs
*Source VMware
The BSG Approach
BSG has been working closely with organisations across many industries to improve their return on investment through the use of virtualisation tools and technologies.
BSG recognises that many organisations have implemented some virtualisation technologies, yet to date have not achieved all of the potential benefits available, often because of new challenges that typically arise through implementing a virtualised environment. These new challenges include:
- Conceptually different - Don't think servers, think workload
- Service oriented as opposed to Technology solutions
- Changes in Operational Procedures
- New training requirements
- Change to Central IT function as opposed to Business funded model
- Proving it will provide a "better" service
- Rapidly evolving technology - Choosing the right tools and knowing when to change
BSG understands many of the potential pitfalls and problems that organisations need to take into consideration. When planning a virtual infrastructure environment for its customers, BSG has developed a structured approach using the following process:
- Strategic Workshop - Providing Scope and Vision
- Detailed Workshop - Giving Justification and Scope
- Discovery - Assessment and Analysis
- Solution Planning and Design
- Deployment and Transition
Capacity planning tools are used to collect information to determine opportunities to consolidate and model a virtualisation plan. This service will assess current server landscapes to help determine potential savings by consolidating existing physical technologies onto a virtual infrastructure.
^ Back upWhy BSG?
Incorporated in 1987, BSG is an integrated IT practice, designing, deploying and operating IT solutions for its customers.
As a managed services provider BSG is already deriving benefit from the implementation of virtualisation technologies. Therefore, through working with BSG to design and deploy your virtual environment you will enjoy the benefits of working with an organisation who already embraces and has benefited from these solutions.
Through the implementation of a virtualisation strategy within the BSG data centre environment, BSG has:
- Reduced the amount customers pay each month for BSG's hosting services
- Been able to offer even higher availability, increasing the SLA on uptime to 99.999%
- Increased utilisation of peripheral elements of the infrastructure, such as firewalls and networking
- Lowered costs for customers wanting to expand their existing managed service agreement
- Saved customers money through decreasing the power and cooling requirements
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