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The Largest 10 Benefits of Virtualization for Your Business

ManagedConsolidation, Cost reduction, automation or move of complete applications from one physical location to another – these are some of the advantages of the virtualization technologies.

It is appropriate briefly to recapitulate the benefits achieved so far with virtualization.

Energy savings

It may be just a few drops in the ocean, but still fewer physical servers in data center mean less power during operation. The creation of virtual machines (VMs) is a de facto contribution to a better climate balance and a greener environment.

Smaller data centers

With the saving of energy and the reduction of data center goes along, fewer servers mean less floor space, less cabling, and racks. In any case, with fewer physical servers enough space here to grow within the existing data center walls.

Own lab

What to do with the servers that you no longer need? You could use right for the establishment or enlargement of its own test center to test new applications and tools in peace and without major additional costs. VMs can be used for testing and development.

Faster server provisioning

VMs are easily installed, so that the cumbersome and time-consuming requests for a server omitted if a corporate department needs a new application. Everything that requires can be provisioned in minutes. The same applies to clones of existing applications or to try something new.

Reduce vendor lock-in at hardware

To engage in a specific hardware vendor is not necessarily bad. They know each other, has experience with the product lines, the maintenance, the service and the SLAs, get with the times and conditions.

In a virtualized server environment, you have the freedom of choice whenever a new server is required as the VM runs independently of the underlying hardware layer. On this basis, you can negotiate well with the original server suppliers when it comes to the delivery of new equipment.

Increased availability

No matter how loud the names of the various vendors of server virtualization, now almost all have identical functions that can improve availability and business continuity. This includes live migration, storage migration, fault tolerance, high availability and resource management. Virtual machines can thus be easily moved and protected from unwanted downtime.

Virtual disaster recovery

Virtual Disaster Recovery is not really virtual, but very real. This is achieved through three components of the virtualization infrastructure: The first relates to the abstraction of the hardware. VMs can be independent of a special server manufacturer or a particular server model install.

Second, one needs on a physical level, a smaller-sized DR site, which also leads to cost savings. Third, server virtualization provides software tools that automate the failover process for most platforms.

Isolated applications

In the physical world, it has been customary to assign a separate server for each application. The concern for this approach is that individual software programs were clean isolated from each other. But that also resulted in a jumble of computers, many of which were still not optimally utilized. And the cost of this server landscape quickly ran out of control.

In virtualization model, the necessary features and tools are available to VMs and the applications clearly distinguish between CPU, memory and storage can be exactly utilized, reducing costs in such a model.

Extend the life of legacy applications

Almost every company still has old applications either developed a long time ago or shopped for specific purposes. They do their services but do not run on modern operating systems or need completely dedicated hardware requirements.

The VMs can be used to run the legacy applications resulting in hardware and cost reduction. The VMs can be built with the older operating system and with minimum hardware configuration.

The cloud

Who virtualized its server and abstracted from the underlying hardware layer, has been a bit towards cloud moves. Here and there you have parts of the IT infrastructure in the outsourcing process outsourced to external service providers.

DedicatedSolutions provides seamless infrastructure solutions that draw on the best of on-premise, hosted and private cloud environments. Based on our efficient services and solutions at the best price, DedicatedSolutions offers private cloud hosting platform, software, tools, hardware, licensing and support required for a ready-to-go virtual environment accessible anytime, anywhere.

The Key Latest Trends to Watch in Server and Virtualization

Businesses demand ever more computing power. For whoever wishes to remain competitive, more and more data needs to evaluate in the shortest possible time and adapt its business model to these results. To meet these requirements, inexpensive standardized Server systems in conjunction with virtualization technology is an effective way.

But, more and more companies have turned to use specially adapted workload systems, called Hyper-converged infrastructure. These systems combine high power density with additional storage and networking functionalities. The scalability and reliability of such IT infrastructures, including centralized management play a crucial role in defining businesses today.

An IT manager must now ask especially how to operate existing infrastructure cost efficiently and make them future-proof. The dynamic changes of business processes require agile, flexible infrastructure. At the same time, companies have to increasingly stringent compliance requirements. This leads to a bimodal IT, which consists of two different platforms. However, these need to be managed on a single management tool to achieve cost efficiency.

It can be, for example, by the second major trends in servers reach: Converged and Hyper-converged infrastructure. Using building blocks of the server, storage and network virtualization can solve traditional infrastructures by converged solutions as the basis from a private cloud. It gives them a sophisticated, coordinated and tested design.

The third major theme, with which an IT manager should employ in the Server field is the use of open source software.  IT managers can be able to operate its server environment with an open source solution to provide agile infrastructures that are independent of proprietary approaches. This open platform is not easy to use and requires excellent IT skills. But here too there is validated designs or assistance of well-known providers so that the IT administrator can install the solution itself and operate.

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The Other Major Trend – Converged Infrastructure

One of the major IT trends in server and virtualization in the coming months is Converged Infrastructure. By increasing dependencies and complexity, coupled with diminishing resources in the data center and the desire for greater flexibility, Converged Solutions sees a further upswing.

This can be in the data center for a higher performance and efficiency achieved at lower administrative expenses. This trend is also towards hybrid cloud solutions that are already full stack to provide management and allow customers to provide flexible placement of workloads.

Topping the agenda for the coming months are tools such as the automation of data center operation, ideally integrated into the management of the virtualization vendor. Many companies are already thinking and prepare their internal IT on future hybrid cloud models. They fit the infrastructure and processes to the cloud to keep self-service portals and so pave the way for a smooth and easy transition.

Reducing the Cost

The significant challenge for IT will be primarily to increase the efficiency while minimizing the cost in the coming days; this can only be through the consistent use of new technologies.

With hyper-convergent infrastructure, you can not only consistently use new technologies, but also the faster the development of memory technology progresses. It should be noted that only the use of the new infrastructure technologies does not lead to success. Even in the organization of the data center, the condition must be created. The currently available server, storage, and network silos must be resolved for business-oriented processes of the customer.

The desktop virtualization is also likely to reach the last remaining niches where physical workstations are still dominated. NVIDIA technologies like Grid vgpu cause the acceptance of VDI is also increasing in the sectors that previously still relied on dedicated workstations.

Your Enterprise Grade Ready Private Cloud Platform

ManagedCloud computing represents a new, flexible way for users to use infrastructure. In this model, users access to a pool of configurable computing resources to which they share with others. The users put these resources an hour and pay only for what they actually use. The provider manages the underlying server, storage, and other components so that users can focus on creative added value activities such as new applications or run existing applications.

Transform your business with available on-demand, secure, reliable and flexible cloud services. DedicatedSolutions provides cloud infrastructure services on demand, simplify the creation and scaling of applications. Moreover, these services are designed to meet the usual corporate requirements in terms of security, governance, and data ownership.

The private cloud includes various computing, storage, and network services. Combined with our powerful management interface, the Control Portal, users can manage hundreds of servers quickly and seamlessly.

Why DedicatedSolutions Cloud

DedicatedSolutions Cloud is a complete platform that allows you to manage your entire business application portfolio through private cloud infrastructure – from development to mission-critical workloads.

  • The cloud is focused as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
  • Exceptional customer service 24/7/365
  • Continuous investment in the latest in physical infrastructure and support equipment
  • Built in performance, reliability and redundancy
  • A fully redundant multi-gigabit network connects all nodes and SANs provide fast and high-performance network, storage access and Internet access.
  • An easy to use and easy to manage cloud infrastructure with controlled and predictable billing.
  • Pre-configured templates CentOS, RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. and Microsoft Windows Server and Windows 10/8/7, installing servers, batteries and applications are as simple as one click!
  • Built on a massively redundant architecture with no single point of failure.
  • Snapshots and backups on demand ensure data integrity.
  • High quality stacking SAN with power recovery providing a high level of I/O, low-latency storage
  • All machines in the cloud live in secure virtual networks with firewalls that prevent vulnerabilities such as sniffing, spoofing or crosstalk.
  • Implementation of virtual machines in minutes.
  • Pay only for the resources you need.
  • Increasing and decreasing resources demand for virtually unlimited resources.
  • A control panel easy to use with full stats, permanent console, reboots, rebuilds and more affordable.
  • Reinstall, retrieve, create an image or clone your machine at any time.
  • Live migration of VMs between all Hypervisor Nodes due to Shared SAN Server
  • Enterprise Cloud Compatible such as OpenStack, CloudStack, onAPP, VMware vCloud and more!

When using hosting solutions in the DedicatedSolutions cloud, you are not limited to particular technologies. Unlike other cloud providers, DedicatedSolutions has the advantage of platforms like 3PAR, Cisco, EMC, HP, Xen, KVM, and VMware, etc. providing true virtualization.

From Startups to SMEs to Enterprises, we offer different virtualization options including Private VPS Cloud, Private Cloud Starter, Private Cloud Pro, Private Cloud Enterprise and Dedicated Own Cloud.

Control Portal and API

Our intuitive control panel management interface reduces the time required for the administration of cloud environments. Besides, our comprehensive API enables integration into existing IT systems.

Pre-configured Templates

Use pre-configured cloud blueprints and templates to automate deployments and create your own customized templates for future replication.

Automated Routine Tasks

Patching, disaster recovery, and other activities are carried out within a short time through the Control Portal.

Set up Server to Your Specifications

Instead of selecting prearranged server variables, you have the option of CPU, storage and memory to combine arbitrarily and according to your requirements.

Managed Services

Our team managed operating systems and a range of other applications for you, so you have more time for strategic activities.

You Only Pay for What You Use

Flexible billing for cloud resources, invoicing once a month. Or you sign a long-term contract to benefit from greater savings.

Fulfillment of Business Needs and Promoting IT Innovation

ManagedYour IT organization falls in terms of operational processes in your strategic business role. The business managers expect new, innovative solutions from you that give the company a competitive advantage. What new solutions and offers they could deploy in presence of an agile, flexible IT infrastructure?

You have to deal with different obstacles. The rigid and isolated infrastructure that your business is running for years forcing your IT organization to be more reactive than proactive, which makes it difficult for business to anticipate proactively new development. The need for new solutions evolves faster than the responsiveness of your IT organization, which means that business managers and the IT department turn with their requests directly to the service provider.

Such shadow IT projects increase the complexity, risk and cost of their IT. And since most of your IT budget probably is used for maintenance and manage your existing systems, little room remains for more value-creating initiatives.

DedicatedSolutions can support your IT infrastructure at a lower cost. We offered simplified management, security and managed custom solutions that enterprises need to respond quickly to the business needs of today and future innovations of tomorrow.

Increase Flexibility

The virtualization technologies from DedicatedSolutions will allow rapid development and provision of new services, applications, and resources. Thanks to modern management tools through a central interface control, all your virtual IT resources, including multiple hypervisors process even faster response and simplify and optimize requirements.

In addition, DedicatedSolutions technologies are based on open standards, which allow you always to use those tools and to choose applications that best meet your business needs without having to take the lack of flexibility of proprietary IT environments.

Reducing the Virtualization Cost

DedicatedSolutions technologies based virtualization benefit from a high subscription model that costs less than royalty based solutions. Moreover, you can use our custom solutions to increase VM density, so you need fewer systems for your operations. In fact, the virtualization costs by using our solutions can increase your budget for Innovation.

Increase Security

The virtualization technologies from DedicatedSolutions have the same security features as found in most of the leading vendors, making sure your entire virtual infrastructure is secure and robust. Also, our monitoring features prevent the spread of unauthorized access to protect your processes even more and the vulnerability to reduce further.

Promotion of Innovation

DedicatedSolutions offers you a flexible, secure and cost-effective virtualized infrastructure that can be more proactive and use the latest technological innovations and progress to satisfy business requirements. Our cloud management platform delivers private, public and hybrid cloud as per your company needs.

To meet your company’s needs for new solutions and to prevent shadow IT projects, you need a flexible, cost-effective IT infrastructure. DedicatedSolutions virtualized infrastructure ensures an increase in agility and cost reductions and allows you to focus more on innovation. Please contact our sales team to discuss more of our offers and their contribution to the promotion of IT innovations.