Minimized physical hardware; maximized efficiency

Server virtualization is the creation of virtual versions of your servers which are then run on just one single physical server. This act of consolidation can reduce hardware costs dramatically and means servers can be accessed by users in ways that are unrestricted by physical configuration or geographic location.
Many companies are choosing a virtualized environment for their IT infrastructure to bring down the cost of hardware and because they are environmentally-aware. Power consumption by servers is huge so consolidating to just one server can radically reduce your carbon footprint and the level of power consumption at your site.
This option allows those responsible for managing your server to manage your entire server farm from one single central console, improving efficiency and productivity.

Virtualization Technology

The term virtualization is a word used by the IT industry to describe a number of complex technologies. From a business perspective the key benefits of using virtualization are:

• Run multiple operating systems on a single hardware platform
• Improve business continuity and reduce downtime
• Faster deployment of desktop and laptops with fewer support calls
• Deploy software applications that need to run on older operating systems
• Use a virtual environment to develop and test new software to minimize risk to live systems.
• Reduce space utilization and use less hardware
• Consolidate and secure your data storage using snapshots and replication When you work with IT Champion we ensure that virtualization technology is part of your business computing strategy if it’s appropriate. Our systems engineers are certified to deploy and support Hyper-V from Microsoft and the suite of VMware virtualization products and tools.

Our portfolio of virtualization solutions include:

• Infrastructure Virtualization
• Storage Optimization & Virtualization
• Network Virtualization
• Desktop Virtualization
• Application Virtualization
• Datacenter Consolidation
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• High Availability
• Installation & Support

Why Would My Organization Need Virtualization?

With virtualization you can create a more agile and adaptive IT infrastructure, reducing costs and minimizing downtime. There are many benefits with virtualization and they apply to all the elements of your IT infrastructure, including:

• Server Consolidation – Run multiple operating systems on a single server.
• Simplified Back-Up and Improved Disaster Recovery – Improve business
continuity and provide a high availability infrastructure to reduce scheduled and unscheduled downtime.
• Improved Desktop Management and Control – Faster deployment of desktop PCs, laptops and notebooks
• Hosting Legacy Applications – Deploy applications that need to run on older operating systems.
• Reduced Testing and Development Costs – Use a virtual environment to develop and test new applications, minimizing risk to live systems.
• Consolidate Your Data Storage – Use snapshots and replication with the latest storage area network (SAN) and data storage virtualization technology.

How Can IT Champion Help?

The first step in assessing your specific virtualization requirements is to book a capacity report with one of our accredited virtualization engineers. Planning and scoping a virtualization project can be a daunting task for any IT professional. We can help you to conduct a capacity planning exercise to gather and analyses your current computing environment, network infrastructure and performance data to determine your specific virtualization requirements.
We help you to collate the following key information when we undertake a virtualization capacity plan:

• IT infrastructure assessment
• Network and storage requirements
• Hardware consolidation report
• Implementation costs
• Business case and return on investment analysis
• Recommendations and next steps Virtualization technology can deliver high levels of availability, fault tolerance and provides disaster recovery protection that is suitable for even the most mission critical environments. We are authorized to supply and build industry leading virtualization platforms for cloud infrastructures and on premise business computing environments. With virtualization technology we can help your business to manage its IT resources and business applications efficiently and effectively.

Virtualizing your IT resources increases scalability, optimizes performance, improves security, and significantly reduces costs. You can quickly and easily virtualize servers with best performance while managing all resources from a single, easy-to-use console.
There are several options when it comes to choosing virtualization, and with the help of our technical knowledge and expertise we can advise and provide impartial advice as well as vendor agnostic solutions which fit your business requirements.
Desktop Virtualization
The idea behind what is called a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is to run desktop operating systems and applications inside virtual machines that reside on servers in the datacenter. Desktop operating systems inside virtual machines are also referred to as virtual desktops.
 One of the most significant benefits of desktop virtualization is that it gives IT administrators an easy and centralized way to manage employees’ computers. Instead of each computer being separate, administrators create just a handful of virtual machines (VMs) or VM templates for different roles within a company.
Server Virtualization
Server virtualization enables multiple ‘virtual servers’ to be run on a single or reduced number of machines, dramatically reducing the number of physical servers in an organization. Each virtual server has its own operating system where applications are run as normal and users have access via the network as usual. By consolidating servers and creating a more efficient storage solution there can be significant operational cost savings and process efficiency can be greatly improved, and for some businesses this can mean saving thousands of pounds a year as well as reducing routine IT tasks to a fraction of the time.
Storage Virtualization
Storage virtualization refers to the pooling of physical storage from multiple storage devices within a network into a centrally managed single storage device. Virtual servers and converged virtual storage working together make it easier for businesses to lower costs, respond faster and deliver flexible and consistent services from their IT departments.
Is your business looking for high-quality, reliable virtualization solutions?  today to speak to our experienced professionals about how our solutions can lower your costs whilst increasing your productivity, agility, efficiency and responsiveness.
Reduce Costs with a Virtual Infrastructure:
Lower your capital and operational costs and improve operational efficiency and flexibility.  Go beyond server consolidation and deploy a standard virtualization platform to automate your entire IT infrastructure.  Acentric IT customers have harnessed the power of virtualization to better manage IT capacity, provide better service levels, and streamline IT processes.  We coined a term for virtualizing the IT infrastructure–we call it the virtual infrastructure.

A virtual infrastructure consists of the following components:

• Bare-metal hypervisors to enable full virtualization of each x86 computer.
• Virtual infrastructure services such as resource management and consolidated backup to optimize available resources among virtual machines.
• Automation solutions that provide special capabilities to optimize a particular IT
• process such as provisioning or disaster recovery.
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