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VMware Solutions
"Virtualisation is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way people compute. With VMware companies save time and money through achieving more from the computer resources they own".
Overview
As the global leader in virtual infrastructure technology, VMware is committed to helping small, medium and large companies increase the efficiency and cost effectiveness of their IT operations. VMware solutions are used by more than 100,000 companies worldwide, (including all of the Fortune 100) to solve a variety of complex business challenges.
Virtualisation essentially lets one computer do the job of multiple computers, by sharing the resources of a single computer across multiple environments. You get higher availability of resources, better desktop management, increased security, and improved disaster recovery processes when you build a virtual infrastructure. In addition you can expect lower energy costs as well as reduced capital costs.
With our professional services and support, G-Computing Services can help you maximise the return on investment. As a VMware Enterprise Partner, we specialise in the design and implementation of virtualisation environments for companies looking to achieve:
1. Server Consolidation and Infrastructure Optimisation. Virtualisation makes it possible to achieve significantly higher resource utilisation by pooling common infrastructure resources and breaking the legacy “one application to one server” model.
2. Physical Infrastructure Cost Reduction. With virtualisation you can reduce the number of servers and related IT hardware in the data centre. This leads to reductions in server room space, power and cooling requirements, resulting in significantly lower IT costs.
3. Improved Operational Flexibility & Responsiveness. Virtualisation offers a new way of managing IT infrastructure and can help IT administrators spend less time on repetitive tasks such as provisioning, configuration, monitoring and maintenance.
4. Increased Application Availability and Improved Business Continuity. Eliminate planned downtime and recover quickly from unplanned outages with the ability to securely backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no interruption in service.
5. Improved Desktop Manageability and Security. Deploy, manage and monitor secure desktop environments that end users can access locally or remotely, with or without a network connection on almost any standard desktop, laptop or tablet PC
Server Consolidation
Through Virtualisation with VMware G-Computing Services can help you eliminate server sprawl and platform dependency in order to allow your company to achieve its goals by using a virtual infrastructure solution. We can help you:
• Reduce your hardware costs by up to 50%
• Reduce the time in building and configuring new servers by up to 70%
• Reduce hardware expenditure by thousands of pounds every year
You can exploit your business’s existing IT infrastructure by consolidating x86 servers with VMware Infrastructure 3 to create a virtual infrastructure delivering:
• Simplified Management through a single administrative interface, using the production-proven VMware Virtual Center management software.
• Built-in capabilities for resource optimisation, application availability and operational automation, bringing dramatic cost savings as well as better operational efficiency, flexibility and IT service levels.
• VMotion software that enables the live migration of virtual machines from one physical server to another with zero downtime, continuous service availability and complete transaction integrity. Live migration of virtual machines enables companies to perform hardware maintenance without scheduling downtime and disrupting business operations.
• VMware DRS that works with VMware VMotion to balance computing capacity more efficiently across the resource pools in your virtual infrastructure. VMware DRS continuously monitors CPU and RAM utilisation, allocating available resources automatically based on pre-defined policies that reflect business needs and priorities.
Desktop Management
Companies today must support a wide variety of mobile and remote users, from sales staff in the field to call center workers, consultants and contractors. These users access sensitive information on a range of equipment including laptops, thin clients and unmanaged PCs, making it difficult to support end users in a consistent and secure manner.
G-Computing Services can help you overcome these and other challenges with desktop management and security solutions based on VMware enterprise desktop virtualisation products. Our solutions offer a number of key advantages over traditional client-server and server-based models by:
• Improving Management: Configure, deploy and maintain hardware-independent desktop virtual machines from central locations for simpler management and more efficient desktop provisioning.
• Improving Control: Through encapsulating the desktop operating system, applications and user data as a set of files in a virtual machine that can be stored centrally, enable stronger policy enforcement and tighter data security
Most importantly, VMware desktop virtualisation solutions deliver a familiar desktop experience that does not require application sharing, software modifications or user training.
Virtual Lab Automation
Using VMware Lab Manager you can streamline and optimise your development and test lab infrastructure through Virtual Lab Automation. You can leverage the VMware Infrastructure to achieve significant cost savings and operational benefits by pooling servers, networking, storage and other resources that can be shared across development and test teams.
The table below highlights some of the main benefits available with VMware Lab Manager:
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IT Benefits |
Software Development Team Benefits |
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Create a centralised pool of virtualised servers, storage and networking equipment shared across software development and test teams and team members. |
Reduce server-to-staff ratios by over 75%
Slash equipment-related capital and operating expenditures |
Accelerate software development cycles |
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Automatically and rapidly set up and tear down complex, multi-machine software configurations for use in development and test activities. |
Reduce provisioning time/costs by more than 50% |
Increase the number of certified deployment configurations supported by new software systems
Find and fix more bugs, earlier in the software development lifecycle |
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Give every developer or test engineer the
equivalent of their own fully-equipped data center with dedicated provisioning staff. |
Remove the repetitive AD provisioning support burden from IT |
Eliminate the time and energy wasted begging for, re-configuring and protecting hoarded servers, storage and networking equipment
Enable "real world" unit testing |
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Maintain a comprehensive library of customer and production system environments. |
Enable self-service provisioning by lab users |
Eliminate upgrade breakage
Deliver better support to users of a software system
Rapidly troubleshoot customer production problems |
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Suspend and capture “live” multi-machine configurations to a shared library. |
Maintain a historical record of builds and test scenarios |
Reproduce bugs reliably and reduce time spent debugging software
Reduce the number of latent software defects that bring down production systems
Maintain a historical record of builds and test scenarios |
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Effortlessly move configurations between development and test facilities. |
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Lower the cost of communication between distributed software development teams |
With our expertise you can take advantage of VMware Lab Manager, VMware’s Virtual Lab Automation system. For more information please contact us.
Business Continuity
Can your business afford any disruption of IT services? While disasters and unplanned downtime get the big headlines, planned downtime for hardware maintenance and backups is the cause of the majority of service downtime.
Business continuity has become a vital ingredient of IT strategies in a world where businesses need to operate 24 hours a day. The disruption of IT services can be fatal to a business. VMware’s virtualisation products gives your business the means to eliminate planned downtime, deliver high availability, and be better prepared for disaster recovery.
G-Computing Services can bring a wealth of experience to help keep your business running non-stop. With VMware technology we build solutions that:
• Provides high availability through reduced planned and unplanned downtime
• Increases data protection including non-disruptive backup and restore processes
• Simplify disaster recovery with hardware independent recovery
For Small and Medium Sized Business
As a small or medium business, VMware virtualisation helps you in lowering the cost of your IT infrastructure, while ensuring higher levels of protection for business-critical systems and data. VMware is a scalable and cost effective way to optimise the use of your current IT equipment and to increase the productivity and output of your IT staff.
Optimize the Use of Your IT Investment
Drastically reduce your server hardware spend by increasing the utilisation of the hardware you already own while containing the number of servers you’ll have to buy in the future. With VMware virtualisation you can re-deploy existing hardware for other uses, increasing the effectiveness of your overall IT environment.
Improve Staff Productivity
Virtualisation lets you consolidate and centrally manage and monitor servers, reducing your IT costs while increasing the productivity of IT staff. Spend less time in managing the IT infrastructure, while providing enhancements not available without VMware virtualisation.
Protect the Data and IT Environments that Run the Business
IT companies of all sizes are concerned with improving server availability and disaster recovery. Through advanced technologies, VMware offers business continuity solutions that span the areas of improved disaster recovery, higher levels of availability and simplified backup and recovery. If you’re like most SME’s, you just don’t have the resources or hardware to replicate production systems for application and patch testing - Virtualisation will significantly simplify your server provisioning and allow thorough testing to take place quickly and without additional hardware expense.
G-Computing Services can help to lower the cost and complexity of Information Technology – for more information on virtualisation for small and medium sized businesses please contact us.
Remote and Branch Offices
Remote sites such as regional offices, branches, retail stores and warehouses present unique challenges for IT departments. Management complexity, inadequate infrastructure and a lack of administrative resources can make it difficult for companies to deliver consistent and scalable IT services to their remote offices in a timely manner. Virtualisation is a reliable and efficient way to address these issues.
Our team of highly experienced engineers specialise in delivering VMware solutions for remote and branch office management. Our solutions are designed to help you:
• Simplify IT management and accelerate provisioning of remote systems
• Ensure always-on availability and recover quickly from disasters
• Reduce IT hardware and operating costs for servers and desktops
Reducing Energy Costs - Go Green with VMware
Energy consumption is a critical issue for all companies today, whether the goal is to reduce costs, save the environment or keep your IT infrastructure running.
Fact: most servers and desktops today are in use only 8-15% of the time they are powered on, yet most x86 hardware consumes 60-90% of the normal workload power even when idle.
Fact: VMware virtualisation has advanced resource and memory management features that enable consolidation ratios of at least 15:1, increasing hardware utilisation to as much as 85%. VMware customers reduce their energy costs and consumption by as much as 80% through virtualisation.
Reduce the energy demands of your IT environment by right-sizing your IT infrastructure through consolidation and dynamic management of computer capacity across a pool of servers. VMware virtualisation delivers the resources your infrastructure needs and enables you to:
• Reduce energy costs by 80-90%
• Power down servers without affecting applications or users
• Green your environment, while decreasing costs and improving service levels
G-Computing Services can help you to calculate your potential savings and environmental impact. If you require more information please feel free to contact us. |
