Virtualization Viewpoints
Our SMEs define benefits, management & orchestration of moving to a virtualized environment.
Enabling the Next Wave of IT
Moving to a virtualized environment allows enterprises to do more with less. With proper management and orchestration, virtualization has the potential to dramatically reduce the amount of physical space needed, cut costs associated with running bulky equipment, and enable greater flexibility by reducing server stand up time from weeks to hours. The flexibility that comes from virtualization also enhances business continuity and disaster recovery efforts, and even makes data centers “greener” and more efficient. This technology is a key enabler of the next wave of information technology (IT) and will eventually be part of every new IT solution. However, the benefits come with an increased complexity of an IT environment. That's why strong management and orchestration are vital.
Virtualization
We take an agnostic approach to virtualization, focusing not on hardware or software, but on proper management and orchestration, combining virtualization technologies and applying appropriate solutions to meet business needs.
Virtualization streamlines from many different angles, including server consolidation, server resource optimization, data center consolidations and migrations, application rationalization, increased operational excellence and uniform usage of capital expense and disaster recovery scenarios, just to name a few.
Virtualization: The HP Perspective
Virtualization is the abstraction of IT resources from their physical hardware or software-based constructs. The technology commonality is hidden technical detail via encapsulation.
Virtualization technologies open doors to different ways of working and doing business in today's rapidly changing world. With virtualization in place, as enterprises adapt to changing requirements, their systems and technologies will be able to keep up because they can change with a simple switch.
At the same time though, virtualization adds a new layer of complexity. As more players and more products join in the race to virtualize, each offers its own management systems. It can be difficult to determine what hardware and applications should and should not be virtualized and consolidated. The idea is to consolidate with sanity, and do so in a manner that is efficient. Enterprises need to be well versed in their own architecture and applications, or use a services provider with information and clarity to make those recommendations.
Server Virtualization Demo
HP Server Virtualization delivers compute services to support a utility-based service model within a virtualized server environment.
Moving to a virtualized environment has many benefits, but it's essential to have proper management and orchestration to make those ideals a reality. HP server virtualization services combine the right talent, industry knowledge and technical expertise that we have built in more than 45 years of client support.
