Suffer from unsustainable server sprawl?
Have to manage vast amounts of power consumption and cooling costs?
Experience pain when hardware fails resulting in downtime and reduced productivity?
Server virtualization is among the most common uses of the technology right now in data centers. There are few IT headaches that virtualization can't help address and if the technology is employed properly, it should be undetectable to most end-users, unless they're noticing convenient capabilities they didn't have before or better service from their IT department.
A large problem that data centers experience is server sprawl - hosting a large quantity of servers to run applications. As companies grow, their need for more applications and more servers grow also. These physical assets not only have acquisition and maintenance costs but they also take up a lot of physical space.
RSPEED can help to offer you a solution to this server farm. Server virtualization. Allow us to help your company to consolidate the majority of the physical servers onto "virtual machines". These virtual machines allow your servers to be fully utilized, reducing the need for 1-to-1 server and application. For example, you are able to run the work of up to 4 servers on one physical machine. This not only solves the issues of hardware acquisition but also reduces your physical space needs.
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The other issues associated with server sprawl are the extra management and maintenance needed to control vast amounts of power consumption not only by the physical machines but the power required to keep the center thermally balanced.
Taking full advantage of virtual machines allows your company to reduce the physical machine or server sprawl. The fewer machines you'll need to utilize, the less power will be needed by each machine and in turn less thermal output to worry about.
Our experience with Disaster Recovery has been that the term disaster could have several different meanings. To our customers a disaster doesn't need to be a catastrophic natural disaster it could be as local as a server's motherboard crashing. If a motherboard were to crash in your data center, what amount of downtime would you encounter? What would that downtime cost your company per hour?
The benefit of our server virtualization solution is that your virtual machines behave more like software. Therefore, in the event of a hardware crash, the virtual machine can be easily moved from one server to another. The system can even be programmed to do this "fail-over" automatically, helpful in the event of a disaster.
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