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Virtualization is a form of partitioning allowing multiple virtual machines to be run on the same physical platform, unaware and, essentially, unaffected by each other's presence. The end result is less hardware, more stability and lower operational costs.
Data Center and Server Solutions
Virtualization dramatically improves the efficiency and availability of resources and applications in your organization. Internal resources are underutilized under the old "one server, one application" model and IT admins spend too much time managing servers rather than innovating. An automated datacenter, built on a VMware virtualization platform, lets you respond to market dynamics faster and more efficiently than ever before. VMware Infrastructure delivers resources, applications, even servers, when and where they're needed. VMware customers typically save 50-70% on overall IT costs by consolidating their resource pools and delivering highly available machines with VMware Infrastructure.
- Reduce capital costs by requiring less hardware and lowering operational costs while increasing your server to admin ratio
- Ensure your enterprise applications perform with the highest availability and performance
- Build up business continuity through improved disaster recovery solutions and deliver high availability throughout the datacenter
- Improve desktop management with faster deployment of desktops and fewer support calls due to application conflicts
- Create a "greener" approach to computing by minimizing power consumption by powering and cooling fewer servers
Sentinel also offers Vmware's latest entry into their family of virtualization products, Vmware vSphere. VMware vSphere is the industry's first cloud operating system, transforming IT infrastructures into a private cloud, a collection of internal clouds federated on-demand to external clouds,delivering IT infrastructure as an easily accessible service. Enable the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services with the efficiency and low cost of cloud computing, featuring uncompromising control over service levels.
For more information, go to: http://www.vmware.com/virtualization/
Desktop Virtualization - Vmware VIEW
Deliver rich, personalized virtual desktops to any device with all the benefits of centralized enterprise desktop management. The VMware View portfolio of products lets IT run virtual desktops in the datacenter while giving end users a single view of all their applications and data in a familiar, personalized environment on any device at any location. Get greater flexibility, reliability, efficiency and security managing desktops and applications from the datacenter.
- Lower costs by centralizing management, administration and resources
- Increase security by moving data from desktop devices into the datacenter
- Improve business agility with faster provisioning and user flexibility with universal access
For more on VMware View, go to: http://www.vmware.com/products/view/
Server Consolidation
Server Consolidation is more than just reducing the number of servers in your environment - It's about spending less, using fewer resources and improving service levels via virtualization. Server Consolidation puts customers back in control of their IT environment with:
- Reduced hardware costs by as much as 80% - better hardware utilization reduces server expenditures and server space requirements by 50% or more. Maintenance costs on older servers with expired warranties are also reduced as virtualization allows for easier refreshment of server hardware.
- Lower disaster recovery costs - disaster Recovery Planning can be an expensive endeavor for most companies because of the hardware costs and facility space required to replicate an entire environment offsite. By moving to a virtualized environment, these costs are drastically reduced.
- Reduced System Management Costs - a common interface to access and monitor all operating systems combined with less hardware to monitor and support results in significant yearly savings.
- Rapid centralized deployment - properly implemented, server deployment is reduced to minutes rather than weeks, making IT truly on demand. In an optimized environment, creating and maintaining a standard image is not time consuming because the image is detached from the hardware platform.
- Ease of manageability for system administrators - A complete Server Consolidation project ensures that all servers virtualized or standalone are easily managed, reducing administrator costs or freeing up your staff to focus on projects important to your business.
For more information, go to: http://www.vmware.com/solutions/consolidation/
Unified Computing System
The Cisco Unified Computing System is the next-generation data center platform. Designed to improve IT responsiveness to rapidly changing business demands, it accelerates the delivery of new services simply, reliably, and securely, through end-to-end provisioning and migration support for both virtualized and non-virtualized systems.
The Cisco Unified Computing System delivers the next step in the Data Center 3.0 vision. It unifies network, compute, storage access, and virtualization resources in a cohesive system to:
- Reduce total cost of ownership
- Increase business agility
- Improve productivity
Based on industry standards, the Unified Computing System is designed to:
- Streamline data center resources
- Scale service delivery
- Radically reduce the number of devices requiring setup, management, power/cooling, and cabling
For more info, go to: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns944/#~product
To see how Cisco is changing the economics of the data center, click here: http://www.cisco.com/web/solutions/data_center/unifiedcomputing_promo.html
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