Virtualisation

Over the past few years, virtualisation has been transformed from a niche technology to a major tool in managing IT infrastructure. Virtualisation's ability to demonstrate significant cost savings for both hardware and associated management services means that most organisations are looking to deploy virtual infrastructure of varying scales.

Those organisations that have already made significant investments in virtualisation are now looking to both manage and extend the value of their virtual infrastructure through:

1. Self-provisioning development and test environments
2. Management of virtual machine lifecycles
3. Disaster recovery and site failover tools
4. Backup and recovery techniques

Solnet's Virtualisation Services

Solnet is able to assist your organisation with a range of tactical or strategic virtualisation solutions, including:

1. Advice on virtualisation technologies and strategies
2. Virtual infrastructure Architecture and Design
3. Migration from physical to virtual environments
4. Enhancing the value your existing virtualisation solution provides to your organisation

Green IT and Virtualisation

The concept of 'Green IT' acknowledges that computing often has a negative impact on the environment, and attempts to reduce these impacts by measuring success on a 'triple bottom line' of People, Planet and Profit. Businesses and government organisations are starting to view Green IT as a successful strategy under which to conduct their business.

Virtualisation and Green IT go hand in hand. Virtualisation is one of the most powerful tools and organisation can employ to reduce the energy requirements and carbon footprint of their IT infrastructure. A virtualisation consolidation and containment strategy will both reduce your organisation's environmental footprint and reduce operating costs by:

1. Lowering your organisations energy bills through reducing the amount of energy required to power and cool data centres.
2. Slowing the expansion of the data centre and the associated costs of building and renovating such facilities.
3. Reducing your carbon emissions through lower energy use.
4. Over time, lowering the environmental impact of redundant hardware as fewer systems are required to run the same infrastructure.

Talk to Solnet Solutions today to see how we can craft a virtualisation solution that meets the requirements of your organisation's Green IT policies.