Virtualisation

What is Virtualisation?

Virtualisation dramatically improves the efficiency and availability of resources and applications in your organization. On average, servers are only 20-25% utilised, which would mean that you have more physical servers than you need, and therefore more hardware to fail, more management time and more capital costs.

Virtualisation allows you to run multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine, sharing the resources of that single computer across multiple environments. But that is only the start of the benefits:

• Get more out of your existing resources
• Reduce costs and increase energy efficiency by reducing physical infrastructure
• Improve business continuity by increasing availability of hardware and applications
• Easily respond to market changes with dynamic resource management.

Virtualised Solutions from Node4

Our Virtualisation solutions bring together multiple elements of the Node4 portfolio to give you a complete end-to-end offering.

• Make the virtual solution a hosted one by using one or both of our N+1 Data Centres
• Integrate a high performance SAN from our storage offerings
• Connect your sites together or connect to our Data Centre with cost effective high speed Ethernet.

As a VMWare Professional Partner and Authorised Hosting Partner, we are well positioned to deliver the right solution. Our virtualisation offerings range from simple, single physical server setups to multiple servers with shared SAN storage using VMware Infrastructure 3 to manage the virtual environment. A second SAN can be hosted at one of our other Data Centres to mirror all your business data and virtual machines and provide a robust disaster recovery solution.

To find out more just contact one of our sales team who will be happy to discuss your requirements.