Cost Savings through Virtualization
In the current turbulent economic and technology scenario where due to recessionary pressure the cost savings through IT has become a task of paramount importance and at the same time corporate are faster moving to greener technologies, Open Source based Virtualization Technology becomes the most critical technology for any CIO to seriously focus on. Virtualization is designed to increase the level of system abstraction and enable IT users to harness the ever-increasing levels of computer performance.
At its simplest level, virtualization allows you, virtually and cost-effectively, to have two or more computers, running two or more completely different environments, on one piece of hardware. How can this be possible? To take a simplistic example, with this technology, you can have both a Linux machine and a Windows machine on one system. So, by dis-associating the bond between the software and the hardware one can use the same hardware to serve up the needs of the different software servers. In effect, you utilize existing resources like hardware, server-room space & system admin time more efficiently.
Why Should One Care about Virtualization?
There are multiple reasons. Following are few critical ones amongst them:
Underutilized Hardware - Even though a server machine typically utilizes only 20% of the processing capacity, it heavily wastes the computing resources, takes up the room space & consumes electricity.
Data Centers running out of Space - Huge numbers of servers (due to one application per server paradigm) have been put into use over the past decade, which is causing a real estate problem for companies: They’re running out of space in their data centers. Virtualization, by offering the ability to host multiple guest systems on a single physical server, allows organizations to avoid the expense of building out more data center space. This is an enormous benefit of virtualization, because data centers can cost in the tens of millions of dollars to construct.
Better Energy Efficiency due to less power consumption by less number of machines
System Administration Costs - More Sys Admins would be needed for more and more servers as it is a labor intensive job which amounts to higher costs. Virtualization can tremendously reduce this expenditure.
Our Advantage
EFENSYS has expertise in implementing a Virtualization solution using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform. We being a Red Hat partner, help you in assessing your server infrastructure, finding the exact business requirement. We also would track the types of applications currently in use and measure their use of computing capacity. Finally, we would present to you our Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) study which calculates the cost-savings potential of implementing Red Hat virtualization in your IT set-up.
What Red Hat says about Virtualization
- Blog: Linux Automation. Any application, anywhere, anytime.
- Blog: Looking for Huge Performance Gains? Virtualize With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Press Release: Red Hat Enables Virtualization for Millions of Servers
- Virtualization Product Flash Tour
- Navica: Open Source Virtualization Whitepaper
- The Red Hat Appliance Operating System
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