Virtualization

Virtualization is more than just a concept – it’s a concrete business strategy that can provide tangible value. Executives are constantly looking for ways to slash operating costs and increase revenue. Through the establishment of virtualized services, organizations can save substantially on IT administrative costs associated with server management and maintenance, server purchases, data center costs associated with power, cooling, and real estate. Executives can drive performance with virtual server workloads – often 5 times that of physical servers.

KEY BENEFITS

• Reduce hardware and operating costs by up to 40%

• According it IDC, a server utilization rate is 5 – 15% of capacity. Through virtualization, server utilization rates can increase by up to 5 times server capacity.

• Increased reliability and management of downtime for end users by reducing the number of physical points of failure and enabling immediate failover during system outages.

• Dedicated virtual systems reduces trouble tickets and alerts – lowering system administrative expenses.

• Increased resiliency which helps reduce recovery time when faced with a major disaster usually from a matter of days to minutes

• Substantial savings on datacenter space, power, and cooling costs.

Saved time and money on maintenance costs

KEY STATISTICS
According to IDC, in a recent paper entitled “ Enterprise Class Virtualization 2.0”, some interesting statistics emerge concerning operational IT infrastructure costs:

$8 is spent monitoring legacy IT for every $1 invested in new IT infrastructure

$.50 is spent to cool and power servers for every $1 in server spending today – may increase to $.70 by 2010

Constructing a new data center costs approximately $1,000 per sq. ft. – this is approximately $40,000 per rack or $2,400 for a typical server

Gartner Group says energy costs may increase from 10% of the IT budget today to over 50% in the next few years