What is Virtualization?

Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute.
Today’s powerful x86 computer hardware was originally designed to run only a single operating system and a single application, but virtualization breaks that bond, making it possible to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same computer at the same time, increasing the utilization and flexibility of hardware.

Advantages of Virtualization 

Virtualization allow businesses to utilize several different virtual machines from a single physical machine. Instead of having to invest thousands of dollars in many physical machines; have in count that many time your servers are operating at a very low percentage of CPU utilization that can be shared among other servers; the business owner’s equipment investment is radically reduced by relying on virtualization products. Virtualization products are amazingly simple for the end user to operate as well, and disaster recovery options make it possible for businesses to save more money when and if disaster strikes.

The benefits offered through virtualization are truly extraordinary. Since Desktop virtualization applications permit isolation of various applications, the number of conflicts that may occur between applications is greatly reduced. In the meantime Desktop virtualization applications permit businesses to condense applications, lower hardware expenses, and do so without affecting the processing speed of the computer that the application is installed on.
Since virtual machines do not need many physical computers to operate, but can create a computing environment that is as powerful as many physical computers, the benefits to businesses around the world are tremendous. Office space issues and equipment storage needs are lowered, and the need to provide electricity to many physical computers is also lowered. That means that lower overhead costs are seen in terms of power – a fact that increases the profit margin a business generates. In fact, studies have estimated that a virtualization application can save a business as much as ninety percent in terms of the cost of energy usage and many virtualization platforms are now being considered “green applications,” since they offer energy-saving benefits to the environment.

Virtualization applications make it completely possible to move from one physical computer to another with tremendous ease. Less storage on the physical computers is required as well, allowing for increased processing speed as well as ease of restoring applications and mobility. With so many benefits delivered up by virtualizing it is really not surprising that businesses from all over the world are turning to it in order to improve the functionality of business equipment.

Top 5 Reasons to Adopt Virtualization Software

• Server Consolidation and Infrastructure Optimization: Virtualization makes it possible to achieve significantly higher resource utilization by pooling common infrastructure resources and breaking the legacy “one application to one server” model.
• Physical Infrastructure Cost Reduction: With virtualization, you can reduce the number of servers and related IT hardware in the data center. This leads to reductions in real estate, power and cooling requirements, resulting in significantly lower IT costs.
• Improved Operational Flexibility & Responsiveness: Virtualization offers a new way of managing IT infrastructure and can help IT administrators spend less time on repetitive tasks such as provisioning, configuration, monitoring and maintenance.
• Increased Application Availability & Improved Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Eliminate planned downtime and recover quickly from unplanned outages with the ability to securely backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no interruption in service.
• Improved Desktop Manageability & Security: Deploy, manage and monitor secure desktop environments that end users can access locally or remotely, with or without a network connection, on almost any standard desktop, laptop or tablet PC.
  

Savings by Virtualizing

• Hardware: By using optimaly existing hardware the expenses required to operate existing and aquire new hardware are reduced.  Less servers also mean less power and cooling requirements.
• Time: Setting up a new server is time consuming.  Just use a template you have already saved and have a new server running in minutes.  Also if you develop or have to try applications in cleand and reliable computers, with virtualization you can have this every time.
• Licensing: Many companies offer a differential licensing program if their software is run in a virtualizaed environment.

How can we help?

MVU Technologies  is an experienced virtualization implementator. From the desktop to the data center, you can virtualize your computing, storage and networking systems with our virtualization consulting experience.
From planning and design to implementation, you can rely onus to give you sound advice. Our experts can help you find a virtualization solution that leverages your existing technology to increase server and other resource utilization, improve performance, increase security and minimize system downtime, and reduce the cost and complexity of delivering enterprise services.

Currently we work with the following platforms:

• VMWare Infrastructure 3
• VMWare Server
• VMWare Workstation
• Microsoft Virtual PC Server R2
• Microsoft Virtual PC
• Microsoft Server 2008 Hyper-V