A strategy to simplify & reduce costs
Virtualization is the abstraction of computing resources across physical hardware, and is gaining rapid adoption in the marketplace, as organizations seek to expand capabilities while controlling complexity & costs. There are many virtualization products available, which complicates the process of developing a virtualization plan, but North American Systems International has the technical and industry know-how that can help you design a solution that best enables you to maximize control and manage costs.
“Virtualization decouples the application from the underlying hardware and allows customers to create service-oriented infrastructure whereby they can begin to manage services and employ policy-based automation to manage and deliver the underlying infrastructure.”
- John Humphreys, Analyst, IDC Research
Consolidate
Virtualization allows a single physical server to be divided into multiple “vitual servers” which can handle multiple workloads & applications simultaneously. Reducing the amount of physical servers simplifies your architecture by providing an architecture that can support various applications & operating systems. This strategy saves costs by reducing redundant hardware components while minimizing maintenance, power & cooling requirements.
Simplify
Minimizing the number of physical systems reduces complexity, enabling administrative staff to centrally manage & provision computing power. With a top-down view of resource utilization, staff can proactively approach potential issues before they become problems, and enact policies and procedures to monitor, anticipate and prevent administrative nightmares.
Maximize Availability
By being able to manage multiple workloads on a single physical system, organizations can afford to invest in high quality hardware that includes enterprise RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability) features. In addition, virtualization can figure prominently into your business continuity & resiliency planning by greatly simplifying the tasks of performing remote replication for disaster recovery scenarios, or having a mirrored failover system available for high availability requirements.
Gain Flexibility & Agility
Rapidly plan, test and deploy new applications with virtualization technology. A physical system split into multiple virtual machines allows new solutions to be developed and staged prior to implementation. In addition, by breaking down physical walls and allowing infrastructure to be managed logically, you can dynamically allocate computing resources, and align IT with business requirements.
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North American Systems International has an extensive amount of experience with virtualization technologies, using it for storage area networks (SAN) and server consolidation (SCON). Click the green button to have a virtualization expert contact you and help you review your current IT infrastructure, and determine how virtualization can be leveraged for your unique business needs, including:
- test & development environments
- high avability and disaster recovery
- storage virtualization
- IT simplifcation
- power & cooling cost reduction
- backup optimization
IBM’s System x model 3650 servers deliver a rock-solid platform for business critical applications in data-dense environments.
The System x 3650 model servers feature integrated hardware-based SAS RAID -0, -1, -10. You can also choose between RAID-5, -6, and -1E with a ServeRAID™-8k daughter card. Hot-swappable power supplies, fans, and hard drives further improves resiliency and simplify management.
