Cloud computing environments offer benefits to business and IT departments that aren't easily gained through the use of traditional IT infrastructures. Here are five of the most common applications for cloud computing right now.
Cloud computing may be a confusing subject because of the number of different businesses offering what they call “cloud computing,” but it's not as complicated as it sounds. There are three types of cloud computing infrastructures, each with its own benefits.
09ntc Server Virtualization Session SlidesPeter Campbell
Slides from the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference Session on Server Virtualization. These slides introduce the main concepts and suggest approaches for small, medium and large business scenarios. the latter set of slides are by matt eshelman of CITIDC, who presented with me.
RightScale Webinar feat. Redapt: How to Build a Private or Hybrid CloudRightScale
Organizations everywhere are looking for the best ways to leverage cloud technologies to maximize efficiencies, minimize costs, and increase agility. Research shows that a majority of enterprises are taking a hybrid cloud approach to leverage existing hardware or to meet performance, compliance, and security requirements.
During this webinar, RightScale and Redapt are teaming up to walk you through private and hybrid cloud environments and share their best practices on evaluating, designing, and deploying a hybrid cloud architecture. We’ll dive into the private cloud aspect and how to build a private cloud to meet your requirements.
You’ll walk away from from this webinar with a fundamental understanding of:
1. Requirements mapping
2. Private cloud hardware considerations
3. Private cloud orchestration software considerations
4. Connecting private and public cloud resources
5. Cloud security
Virtualization and Cloud Management SolutionsCloudSyntrix
Power to Change also spotlights specific gains achieved by Dow Jones & Co.’s adoption of VMware cloud automation software, including an 80% improvement in operational efficiency and substantial operational savings.
Learn how adopting cloud automation tools will provide a competitive edge to your organization.
Cloud computing environments offer benefits to business and IT departments that aren't easily gained through the use of traditional IT infrastructures. Here are five of the most common applications for cloud computing right now.
Cloud computing may be a confusing subject because of the number of different businesses offering what they call “cloud computing,” but it's not as complicated as it sounds. There are three types of cloud computing infrastructures, each with its own benefits.
09ntc Server Virtualization Session SlidesPeter Campbell
Slides from the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference Session on Server Virtualization. These slides introduce the main concepts and suggest approaches for small, medium and large business scenarios. the latter set of slides are by matt eshelman of CITIDC, who presented with me.
RightScale Webinar feat. Redapt: How to Build a Private or Hybrid CloudRightScale
Organizations everywhere are looking for the best ways to leverage cloud technologies to maximize efficiencies, minimize costs, and increase agility. Research shows that a majority of enterprises are taking a hybrid cloud approach to leverage existing hardware or to meet performance, compliance, and security requirements.
During this webinar, RightScale and Redapt are teaming up to walk you through private and hybrid cloud environments and share their best practices on evaluating, designing, and deploying a hybrid cloud architecture. We’ll dive into the private cloud aspect and how to build a private cloud to meet your requirements.
You’ll walk away from from this webinar with a fundamental understanding of:
1. Requirements mapping
2. Private cloud hardware considerations
3. Private cloud orchestration software considerations
4. Connecting private and public cloud resources
5. Cloud security
Virtualization and Cloud Management SolutionsCloudSyntrix
Power to Change also spotlights specific gains achieved by Dow Jones & Co.’s adoption of VMware cloud automation software, including an 80% improvement in operational efficiency and substantial operational savings.
Learn how adopting cloud automation tools will provide a competitive edge to your organization.
Today cloud hosting is rising in popularity as conventional hosting providers restructure their architecture for more authoritative performance and scalability.
Top 3 Reasons to Move Existing Applications to the CloudVMware
This slideshow presentation highlights the top three reasons businesses should consider moving their existing applications to public cloud with vCloud Air. The presentation features the business value benefits of using vCloud Air to move applications without change, gain seamless bi-directional application portability, and maintain full control of managing applications in the cloud.
A proper cloud vs. on-prem strategy is top of mind for IT leaders as they build systems to avoid problems, increase agility, and achieve modernization.
https://www.aberdeen.com/techpro-essentials/cloud-vs-on-premise-tale-of-two-infrastructures/
Disaster Recovery is an expensive proposition. But since the consequences of not being prepared for a disaster are so severe, it is an expense that organizations make. But that’s not to say organizations are not always looking for way to do DR better, faster and for less money. In this live webinar join Storage Switzerland and ClearSky to learn how organizations can lower the cost of DR preparation and execution.
The Path to Streamlining and Automating Data Center Operations VMware
The Taneja Group polled over 300 VMware customer organizations about their IT priorities, challenges, and adopted capabilities to determine effective paths to streamlining and automating data center operations.
http://DataCenterLeadGen.com How to Calculate Data Center TCO (SlideShare). Are you spending too much on your data center TCO? Or are you putting your business at risk by overly skimping? Get on track with these handy tips. Copyright (C) SP Home Run Inc. All worldwide rights reserved.
Introducing Cloudyn's new and holistic approach to Cloud business insights, including a new "Cloud Resource Allocation" capability enabling transparency and ability to attribute cloud consumption to specific users, effortlessly.
Extensibility: The Key To Managing Your Entire Cloud PortfolioDell World
As cloud adoption increases, cloud management becomes more and more of a challenge. No longer can you look at managing your clouds with a one-off management strategy. In this session, you will learn how forward-thinking organizations around the world are bringing cloud into their IT operations and integrating it with their existing tools, systems, and processes to simplify management for administrators and streamline provisioning for developers. We will discuss governance tools, like security systems and chargeback models, as well as policy tools, monitoring solutions, ITSM systems and more. Discover how applying an extensible management approach across all of your clouds, including SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, can increase scale, availability and performance.
Cisco Unified Computing System is built for the intensive demands of big data, cloud,
and IT as a service. Learn how unifying compute, networking, storage access, and
virtualization leads to:
• Greater scalability to keep pace with changing business needs
• Simplified infrastructure management
• Agility for serving up IT like an internal cloud broker
Katpro Technology, a IT solutions company, announced it has been selected by Microsoft Co-corporations as a windows Azure Circle Partner.The Partnership will provide katpro with the ability to service customers needs in the area of cloud, training and support material provided by Microsoft.
Webinar: Which Storage Architecture is Best for Splunk Analytics?Storage Switzerland
We discuss the pros and cons of the three most common storage architectures for Splunk, enabling you to decide which makes the most sense for your organization.
1. Leverage existing storage resources
2. Deploy a cloud storage and SaaS solution
3. Deploy a hybrid, Splunk-ready solution
Typical disaster recovery plans leverage backup and/or replication to move data out of the primary data center and to a secondary site. Historically, the secondary site is another data center that the organization maintains. But now, companies are looking to the cloud to become a secondary site, leveraging it as a backup target and even a place to start their applications in the event of a failure. The problem with this approach is that it merely simulates a legacy design and presents some significant recovery challenges.
XMission presents Hybrid Hosting: Making Colocation & Cloud Work for your Bus...xmission
XMission discusses the benefits of hybrid hosting: a flexible hosting option for businesses who do not wish to transition all of the critical data from colocation directly to the cloud. Hybrid works especially well for businesses who will have to maintain servers for security reasons, but still wish to capitalize on the power of the cloud.
We hope that you enjoy this slide deck. Please feel free to share it with others.
For a complete presentation, please contact Grant Sperry at grant@xmission.com.
Please visit xmission.com for more information about our colocation, cloud, and hybrid services.
Companies in today\'s challenging economy need to do more with less...see how the combination of Cisco, NetApp and VMWare can help you in your data center.
Cloud computing redefines the way we deliver and use services to support the creation of business value. This change in delivery shifts the way data centres provide applications and infrastructure support to users. Like any major IT project, migrating from a traditional IT Infrastructure to a Cloud environment is not an exercise to be taken lightly.
Whether you are planning to running a private, public or hybrid cloud service in your organisation this presentation will help you prepare a cloud ready data centre and enable you to assess & prioritise your workload migration.
Today cloud hosting is rising in popularity as conventional hosting providers restructure their architecture for more authoritative performance and scalability.
Top 3 Reasons to Move Existing Applications to the CloudVMware
This slideshow presentation highlights the top three reasons businesses should consider moving their existing applications to public cloud with vCloud Air. The presentation features the business value benefits of using vCloud Air to move applications without change, gain seamless bi-directional application portability, and maintain full control of managing applications in the cloud.
A proper cloud vs. on-prem strategy is top of mind for IT leaders as they build systems to avoid problems, increase agility, and achieve modernization.
https://www.aberdeen.com/techpro-essentials/cloud-vs-on-premise-tale-of-two-infrastructures/
Disaster Recovery is an expensive proposition. But since the consequences of not being prepared for a disaster are so severe, it is an expense that organizations make. But that’s not to say organizations are not always looking for way to do DR better, faster and for less money. In this live webinar join Storage Switzerland and ClearSky to learn how organizations can lower the cost of DR preparation and execution.
The Path to Streamlining and Automating Data Center Operations VMware
The Taneja Group polled over 300 VMware customer organizations about their IT priorities, challenges, and adopted capabilities to determine effective paths to streamlining and automating data center operations.
http://DataCenterLeadGen.com How to Calculate Data Center TCO (SlideShare). Are you spending too much on your data center TCO? Or are you putting your business at risk by overly skimping? Get on track with these handy tips. Copyright (C) SP Home Run Inc. All worldwide rights reserved.
Introducing Cloudyn's new and holistic approach to Cloud business insights, including a new "Cloud Resource Allocation" capability enabling transparency and ability to attribute cloud consumption to specific users, effortlessly.
Extensibility: The Key To Managing Your Entire Cloud PortfolioDell World
As cloud adoption increases, cloud management becomes more and more of a challenge. No longer can you look at managing your clouds with a one-off management strategy. In this session, you will learn how forward-thinking organizations around the world are bringing cloud into their IT operations and integrating it with their existing tools, systems, and processes to simplify management for administrators and streamline provisioning for developers. We will discuss governance tools, like security systems and chargeback models, as well as policy tools, monitoring solutions, ITSM systems and more. Discover how applying an extensible management approach across all of your clouds, including SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, can increase scale, availability and performance.
Cisco Unified Computing System is built for the intensive demands of big data, cloud,
and IT as a service. Learn how unifying compute, networking, storage access, and
virtualization leads to:
• Greater scalability to keep pace with changing business needs
• Simplified infrastructure management
• Agility for serving up IT like an internal cloud broker
Katpro Technology, a IT solutions company, announced it has been selected by Microsoft Co-corporations as a windows Azure Circle Partner.The Partnership will provide katpro with the ability to service customers needs in the area of cloud, training and support material provided by Microsoft.
Webinar: Which Storage Architecture is Best for Splunk Analytics?Storage Switzerland
We discuss the pros and cons of the three most common storage architectures for Splunk, enabling you to decide which makes the most sense for your organization.
1. Leverage existing storage resources
2. Deploy a cloud storage and SaaS solution
3. Deploy a hybrid, Splunk-ready solution
Typical disaster recovery plans leverage backup and/or replication to move data out of the primary data center and to a secondary site. Historically, the secondary site is another data center that the organization maintains. But now, companies are looking to the cloud to become a secondary site, leveraging it as a backup target and even a place to start their applications in the event of a failure. The problem with this approach is that it merely simulates a legacy design and presents some significant recovery challenges.
XMission presents Hybrid Hosting: Making Colocation & Cloud Work for your Bus...xmission
XMission discusses the benefits of hybrid hosting: a flexible hosting option for businesses who do not wish to transition all of the critical data from colocation directly to the cloud. Hybrid works especially well for businesses who will have to maintain servers for security reasons, but still wish to capitalize on the power of the cloud.
We hope that you enjoy this slide deck. Please feel free to share it with others.
For a complete presentation, please contact Grant Sperry at grant@xmission.com.
Please visit xmission.com for more information about our colocation, cloud, and hybrid services.
Companies in today\'s challenging economy need to do more with less...see how the combination of Cisco, NetApp and VMWare can help you in your data center.
Cloud computing redefines the way we deliver and use services to support the creation of business value. This change in delivery shifts the way data centres provide applications and infrastructure support to users. Like any major IT project, migrating from a traditional IT Infrastructure to a Cloud environment is not an exercise to be taken lightly.
Whether you are planning to running a private, public or hybrid cloud service in your organisation this presentation will help you prepare a cloud ready data centre and enable you to assess & prioritise your workload migration.
IDC Tech Spotlight: From Silicon To CloudJames Price
The topic of cloud computing has received a tremendous amount of attention in the last year. This whitepaper discusses some of the aspects of the delivery of IT Infrastructure as a service.
AWS June Webinar Series - Getting Started: Lowering Total Cost of Ownership w...Amazon Web Services
The objective of this webinar is to help customers understand how AWS can help them save money and resources by reducing Total Cost to Ownership (TCO). Comparing cloud costs and economics to on premises and colocation solutions is not always easy and there are multiple factors to take into consideration. In this webinar we will focus on the components of cloud economics, what to measure and we will cover the fundamentals of cost optimization.
Learning Objectives: • Understand the components of TCO analysis • AWS Pricing Fundamentals • Comparing TCO for cloud services vs. on premises/colocation
Who Should Attend: • IT professionals, CIO, Financial Analysts, Consultants
This session is for anyone interested in understanding the financial costs associated with migrating workloads to AWS. By presenting real cases from AWS Professional Services and directly from a customer, we explore how to measure value, improve the economics of a migration project, and manage migration costs and expectations through large-scale IT transformations. We’ll also look at automation tooling that can further assist and accelerate the migration process.
Software-Defined Data Center Case Study – Financial Institution and VMwareVMware
In this case study, a large financial institution engaged the VMware software-defined data center team to create a three-to-five year forward-looking strategy document for its IT department. The overriding business driver for the institution was the need for a drastic reduction in IT OpEx Costs, at least a 50% OpEx annualized cost reduction over a three-year period. This presentation explains how VMware Accelerate Advisory Services established the necessary strategy, including a look at the “cloud reference architecture,” which addressed the: application plane, control plane, infrastructure layer, and management plan.
Cloud computing helps start up companies get off the ground quickly without any capital investment with the ability to scale as the business grows. Established companies can cut cost with cloud computing.
Feasibility of cloud migration for large enterprisesAnant Damle
Analysis of conditions favouring movement to cloud for medium to large enterprises including checks for migration of existing application(s) from on-premise setup to cloud.
MGT220 - Virtualisation 360: Microsoft Virtualisation Strategy, Products, and...Louis Göhl
Learn about the Microsoft virtualisation strategy from the datacenter, to the desktop, to the cloud--and how it will help you cut costs and build value. In this session we review and demonstrate Microsoft virtualisation products and discuss how you can use them to solve today's IT issues (cost cutting, consolidation, business continuity, green IT), develop new computing solutions (VDI) and build a foundation for a more dynamic IT environment, including cloud computing. The session reviews all of the latest Microsoft virtualisation products, including Application Virtualization (App-V), Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server, as well as the System Center management platform (including Virtual Machine Manager 2008). Learn about the innovative pricing and licensing structure that allows further savings to lower both acquisition and ongoing ownership costs. Learn how you can enable IT to become a cost cutting mechanism with Microsoft virtualisation and management technologies.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Leading Change strategies and insights for effective change management pdf 1.pdf
Virtualize
1. The IT Dilemma I am supposed to do the same job, but with less budget and headcount?!?
2. Recent CIO Surveys Agree: Virtualization is the Top CIO Priority in a Tough Economic Environment Source: Merrill Lynch CIO Survey, Oct 28 th , 2008 Source: Goldman Sachs IT Spending Survey, Nov 2nd, 2008 “ The current environment has moved virtualization toward the top of the priority list for CIOs.” “ Total cost of ownership (TCO) reductions will be a key driver of the acceleration in server virtualization deployments as CIOs are forced to cut capital spending and reign in management, administrative and power/ cooling costs.”
3. Top 3 Reasons Why Virtualization is the Right IT Investment in a Tough Economic Environment Minimize Lost Revenue Due to Downtime 3 Reduce Datacenter Operating Cost (e.g. Power & Cooling) 2 Reduce Physical Infrastructure Cost 1
6. Sample Suppliers of Virtualization Widely Deployed – Different Needs, Strategies, Benefits Plus Many Suppliers of Tools, Monitoring, Deployment Methods … IBM Microsoft VMware Sun HP Cisco SWsoft Oracle Xensource Virtual Iron TenAsys (Real Time) Windows? Linux? RTOS? Tools? Monitoring? Management? Single OS Version? Multiple Versions? Type Of Virtualization? Scheduling? Hardware Mgmt? Performance? Hardware Requirements? Virtualization Software
7. Server Virtualization In the Enterprise Reduced CapEx, Increased Utilization Reduced Cost of HA and DR High Availability & Disaster Recovery Rapid Provisioning Server Consolidation Reduced Operational Costs Capacity Management Operational Efficiency Policy-based Automation Any app, any resource, any time Business Value Virtualization Use
Editor's Notes
IT is under significant pressure to create, deliver and maintain flexible IT services that enable the business to turn on a dime in response to changing business conditions. With economic uncertainty, IT budgets are being slashed. IT is facing a dilemma: how can they do the same job with less budget and personnel??
Even in tough environment, companies should still invest in virtualization technology and VMware, in particular. Recent analysts research with CIOs in Fortune 1000 companies all agree: virtualization, specifically VMware, is the best investment for IT departments in tough economic times. Analyst research show: Companies are aggressively planning to adopt virtualization in 2009 34% of servers to be virtualized within next 12mos (double the 15% virtualized today) 45% of companies expect to virtualize over 30% of their servers, up from 7% today UBS report “2009 IT State of the Union”, January 12 th 2009: “V irtualization projects are still expected to proceed in 2009 given the technology's cost savings benefits”
VMware provides tangible CapEx and OpEx cost savings. In this tough economy, with declining IT budgets, the Top 3 Reasons to adopt VMware virtualization software: Physical Infrastructure Cost Reduction: With virtualization, you can reduce the number of servers and related IT hardware in the datacenter. This leads to reductions in real estate, power and cooling requirements, resulting in significantly lower IT costs. VMware virtualization solutions makes it possible to achieve significantly higher resource utilization by pooling common infrastructure resources and breaking the legacy “one application to one server” model. Datacenter Operating Cost Reduction: Virtualization offers a new way of managing and automating your IT infrastructure and can help IT administrators spend less time on repetitive tasks such as provisioning, configuration, monitoring and maintenance. VMware virtualization improves your organization’s operational efficiency --- increasing flexibility & responsiveness Downtime and Risk Reduction: Eliminate planned downtime and recover quickly from unplanned outages with the ability to securely backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no interruption in service. VMware virtualization increases your Application Availability & improves Business Continuity.
www.burtongroup.com
We see customers deploying virtualization to solve the following problems. Most customers start with consolidation to improve average server utilization to get more out of today’s fast industry standard hardware Then users use virtual servers to quickly and cheaply set up development, test, and production environments Availability features allow users to recover from failures quickly, reliably and cost-efficiently (using N+1 hardware versus 2N) and simplifying reconfigurations for DR scenarios Match the capacity to workload (Optimize your equipment for efficiency) Reduce the human labor needed through policy-based automation (reduce human error, reduce # of human resources needed)
