Virtualization
This very penetrating and insightful report by Clive Longbottom (Pacific Research and Analysis Specialist at Quorcica) invites us to take a fresh new look at client computing strategies. He notes that the development of virtualization and streaming mean that this is the right time to review the position of the desktop and other devices in the enterprise.
Enterprises that seek a successful move to virtualization have a number of hurdles to overcome. Not all are obvious. Virtualization offers a lot of benefits to the organization that implements it correctly — a reduction in power and cooling costs, fewer physical servers to manage, faster go-to-market with new services, and easier and more effective administration of computing workloads — but those improvements can be realized only when the lifecycle of virtualizing your mission-critical applications is managed properly. This paper identifies seven key things that you must know if your business is to be successful in virtualizing your mission-critical applications.
Current Trends and Challenges in WAN Optimisation
Asia is doing business with the world! Not only in the traditional areas of trade and commerce but increasingly also in the 'Knowledge Economy'. More and more Asian companies (or the Asian branch offices of Western multinationals) are performing business critical functions for clients or head offices half a world away.
Asia is doing business with the world! Not only in the traditional areas of trade and commerce but increasingly also in the 'Knowledge Economy'. More and more Asian companies (or the Asian branch offices of Western multinationals) are performing business critical functions for clients or head offices half a world away.
Virtualization improves the availability and efficiency of applications and resources in an organization significantly. Enterprises are looking for virtualization solutions for many reasons including freeing up IT resources to innovation, providing better infrastructure optimization, improving desktop management and increasing availability. Most importantly, virtualization helps organizations to respond to market dynamics more efficiently. A good virtualization solution helps an organization to reduce overall IT costs by 50-70%.
In the spirit of open source transparency, Red Hat has outlined its plans to significantly expand and enhance its server, client, and management products to enable ubiquitous adoption of virtualization across the enterprise.
Godfrey Philips India is one of India's leading packaged tea manufacturers that operates 10 manufacturing facilities that services 450,000 retailers. Alagu Balaraman, executive vice president of IT and Corporate Development, discusses the business drivers in their selection of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux solutions.
As organizations around the world embrace virtualization as a tool for driving capital and operational efficiencies, Paul Harapin explains why decoupling your software and hardware infrastructure can save thousands of dollars per workload, per annum.
Introduction
This whitepaper deals with a common problem experienced by CIOs. The financial and business returns of virtualization are significant but how do you relay this message to your business in a language that they understand and in a manner that relates to their particular interests and concerns? The answer to this question is typically based around the fiscal justification as well as evidenced business benefits but how do you go about obtaining and collating this information?
This whitepaper deals with a common problem experienced by CIOs. The financial and business returns of virtualization are significant but how do you relay this message to your business in a language that they understand and in a manner that relates to their particular interests and concerns? The answer to this question is typically based around the fiscal justification as well as evidenced business benefits but how do you go about obtaining and collating this information?
Over the last few years there has been a dramatic improvement in the availability of new data storage and virtualization products that are affordable for even the smallest of businesses. According to Forrester, 40 per cent of ANZ firms have implemented server virtualization And 52 per cent said that reducing the number of back-end operating system variants is either an "important" or "very important" priority.
In the last major IT buildout, we saw IT organizations adding large numbers of small and medium-sized servers to host their rapidly expanding IT application portfolios. During this time, the best practices involved deploying a single application on each x86 server to avoid crashes or performance problems. However, this approach led to very low utilization and higher support costs, the most obvious of which are the acquisition costs associated with needing to overprovision servers.
Getting more out of your x86 servers
It's no surprise that companies large and small are turning to virtualization. Traditional server environments typically operate at only 5 to 15 percent of capacity But organizations can increase their utilization rates with x86 server virtualization. What's more, they can achieve consolidation ratios ranging from 8:1 to 30:1 and dramatically lower their server provisioning and repurposing time.
It's no surprise that companies large and small are turning to virtualization. Traditional server environments typically operate at only 5 to 15 percent of capacity But organizations can increase their utilization rates with x86 server virtualization. What's more, they can achieve consolidation ratios ranging from 8:1 to 30:1 and dramatically lower their server provisioning and repurposing time.
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