Infrastructure Optimisation

The Business Case

You might have acquired a new business. You might have started using new applications which need to be rolled out to your staff in multiple locations. You might have completed a recruitment drive or won a new contract, and need to make new staff productive immediately, hitting the ground running. You need your technology to work for you, and yesterday.

Virtualisation is about giving people access to the applications they need, quickly. The quicker this happens, the sooner the headaches go away. Imagine being able to do this without any technical expertise, but just simply a click of a mouse. HR can set up a users access as part of the induction process.

The Technology Solution

Businesses have been doing the same thing for the past ten to fifteen years. As the business requires a new application, they go out and procure a new server. They install the operating system or install an application on it. More servers are added, more applications are added, and an increase of real estate happens upgrade on upgrade, new feature on new feature. This leads to increased complexity, manageability and a whole array of problems, all of which make IT’s life more difficult!

What virtualisation does is allows you to re-write those rules. You can do a lot more with a lot less. You can provision applications and servers on the fly, going from weeks of set up time to minutes. You can provide a much more effective disaster recovery and business continuity system for your whole IT infrastructure.

In the past it was IT’s dirty little secret whether they had a DR plan or not, but if it ever went to action no one was very sure whether it was going to work! Virtualisation provides the certainty. The DR plan can even be tested daily!

So Infrastructure 2.0 or Virtualisation technologies allow us to really deliver on the promise of what a dynamic IT infrastructure should look like.

To speak to a technical Virtualisation expert, please call Belfast +44 (0) 28 9081 7171 or Dublin +353 (0) 1 2455 114