Virtualization is a term that is in everyone’s vocabulary these days. But what does it mean exactly and how could your organization benefit from it?
We, at SolidQ, know the answer. We have over 4 years’ experience in virtualizing our own internal services, and helping our customers benefit from virtualization as well. We offer our real life experience to you so that you can take advantage of the numerous benefits that Microsoft virtualization technologies have to offer.
We can help you:
Design and deploy a virtualization infrastructure for your organization with Microsoft virtualization technologies.
Migrate from your existing legacy virtualization technology or your existing non-Microsoft virtualization technology, to Microsoft virtualization technologies.
Convert physical computers to virtual machines. We can help you identify physical workloads for consolidation into the virtualized environment, and thus make an efficient use of your resources by consolidating underutilized computers into an optimized and highly dynamic virtualized environment.
Deploy a virtual machine into the Cloud. With the advent of cloud computing we bring you the opportunity of moving some of your VMs to the Cloud (Windows Azure Virtual Machine Role).
Some of the benefits that virtualization can offer your organization are:
Deploy Testing Environments for new Deployments. This is one of the main business benefits you can gain from virtualization technologies. This allows organizations to create and test a wide variety of scenarios in a safe, self-contained environment that accurately approximates the operation of physical servers and clients, without needing to wait for budgeting, ordering, delivery and commissioning of new physical servers. The same approach can also be used to build proof of concept models, in a self-contained and easy to deploy test environment.
Server Consolidation. Organizations are under increased pressure to reduce cost while retaining and enhancing competitive advantages (flexibility, reliability, scalability and security). Virtualization can help consolidating many physical servers on a single unified system while maintaining any required isolation among them. The main benefit is to lower total cost of ownership (TCO) by lowering hardware requirements, power consumption, cooling and management costs.
Branch Office Consolidation. Organizations can consolidate small remote site servers to virtualize low utilization infrastructure workloads, departmental applications or just simple branch office workloads. Apart from the advantages described in the previous point, like reducing power requirements, branch office consolidation can reduce space requirements as well as having just one server to manage and backup.
Hosted Desktop Virtualization (VDI). Virtualized Windows client operating systems running in a datacenter. VDI provides the best option for contract or offshore workers and users who need to access their work environment from home or from non-company owned PCs.
Microsoft Application Virtualization (APP-V). Converts applications into centrally managed services that are never installed on the users’ machines. Providing anywhere user access to applications that are dynamically available to any authorized PC without application installs.
Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V). Removes the barrier to windows upgrades by allowing organizations to deploy legacy OS (e.g. Windows XP) virtual environments to run legacy systems in a compatibility workspace.