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Virtualisation

Virtualisation for your business allows you to make the most of your existing infrastructure and respond to business requests in a fraction of the time it used to take.  

Let Carat Computer Systems show you how a virtual infrastructure can be your key to delivering more for less.   

Virtualisation addresses inherent inefficiencies in the physical IT infrastructure and reduces hardware procurement and maintenance costs. 

Because applications are bound to a specific operating system and complex application dependencies they are usually deployed on a dedicated infrastructure resource, regardless of whether the application uses all the available processing power provided by the resource or not. 

In addition, most enterprises plan and implement IT infrastructure for peak demand, regardless of the frequency or duration of those demand surges.

Ultimately, the cost of maintaining this complex infrastructure can go beyond the initial hardware outlay, sometimes by a ratio of 3:1. 

Therefore the infrastructure optimisation which virtualisation provides is a primary area for cutting costs without putting your productivity at risk.  

To discuss your virtual requirements further, please call or email and one of our team will contact you.

Virtualisation helps you take back control of your infrastructure

That’s because virtualization enables you to see and manage your computing resources in ways that offer more flexibility; you’re not being restricted by implementation, location or physical packaging. With virtualization, you have a logical rather than a physical view of data, computing power, storage capacity and other resources. By gaining greater control of your infrastructure, you can improve cost management.

While cost saving is a primary driver for initial virtualisation deployment, the full value of virtualisation lies in its ability to:

  • Improve total cost of ownership (TCO) — Virtualisation offers a rapid return on investment (ROI) through decreased management costs and increased asset utilisation. You can enhance system availability and help lower cost and complexity of disaster recovery solutions by virtualizing resources for a flexibility, dynamic infrastructure.

  • Increase flexibility — By enabling vendor choice, virtualisation supports the pooling of resources that can be centrally managed through an enterprise hub to better support dynamically changing business requirements.

  • Enable access through shared infrastructure — Virtualisation provides a resilient foundation and shared infrastructure that enables better access to infrastructure and information in support of business applications and services oriented architecture (SOA).

Companies of all sizes are aggressively adopting IBM virtualisation solutions to help with:

  • Infrastructure simplification — Virtualisation can help eliminate infrastructure sprawl through the deployment of virtual servers and storage that run securely across a shared hardware environment. Consolidating to a virtual infrastructure can enable you to increase server utilization rates from 5 - 15 percent to over 70 percent, thus helping improve your ROI. And a simplified infrastructure can help you lower management costs with a common management platform and tooling.

  • Rapid application deployment — Virtualisation can help enable rapid infrastructure provisioning (minutes compared to days). It can help developers to speed application test and deployment, enhance collaboration and improve access to the infrastructure.

  • Business resiliency — Virtualisation can help IT managers secure and isolate application workloads and data within virtual servers and storage devices for easier replication and restoration. This added resiliency can provide IT managers with greater flexibility to maintain a highly available infrastructure while performing planned maintenance, and to configure low-cost disaster-recovery solutions.

  • Managing a virtualised infrastructure —  IT managers can address configuration, deployment, monitoring, workload management and additional management functions in a consistent and common way across their infrastructures. This can help simplify problem determination, increase productivity and lower management costs.

IBM takes a holistic approach to virtualisation by working across all resource types, leveraging decades of mainframe experience, embracing diversity of resources and integrating the virtual and physical worlds. We can help you virtualise not only your broad physical infrastructure, but your application workloads and information as well.

Virtualisation allows you to freely mix and match technologies through common management tools for managing distributed heterogeneous resources. This added freedom offers capabilities to lower switching costs, add flexibility and freedom of choice, and mask complexity. Not having to manage each computer or resource separately — but managing them together, virtually — allows for significant improvements in utilisation and administrative costs.
  

Storage Virtualisation

Virtualisation can help optimise the utilisation and resources within your company's IT infrastructure.

If you are looking to improve systems management and contain IT costs

Carat Computer Systems can help. We can assist with all aspects of Virtualisation from strategy and planning throught to implementation and migration.

Working in partnership with IBM

IBM has more than thirty years experience in virtualise technologies, with more than 2,000 virtualise systems installed worldwide and more than 100 customer references.

IBM virtualise solutions can help you to consolidate storage resources, thus simplifying your IT environment and lowering your total cost of ownership.

Does your data fill all available space?

Many companies are overwhelmed by the explosion of data growth and lack storage management strategies and disciplines to ensure effective disk utilisation.

Increasingly, customers want to organise their storage environment into tiers of storage based on the value of the data.

Download our whitepaper here for more information on how IBM Tiered Storage Management helps reduce cost and complexity of managing your data

Call us now to discuss Virtualising your Storage further on 01223 499150

Server Virtualisation

Consolidate multiple servers into fewer, more powerful systems &mdasg; with server virtualisation, create multiple virtual servers on a single physical server. Streamline the management of your computing environment and reduce maintenance and support costs by consolidating your infrastructure.

IBM Systems Director platform management family - supported across IBM Systems — offers a comprehensive, flexible and consistent approach to managing both physical and virtual resources, enabling you to provide higher availability of the infrastructure and lower TCO.

For more information - download the case studies and brochures below

Server Services 

Our Server services can help assess, design and implement virtualised server resources. We help our clients focus on optimising capacity, cost, availability and security of their data centers and distributed environments.

IBM Tivoli products help a consolidated, virtualized environment reach beyond simplified management to support billing, chargeback, provisioning and other tasks that align with additional business value goals.

For more information on Virtualisation

Email us at: sales@carat.uk.com   or Call 01223 499150 for more information

Attached documents

  1. Enhance IT Efficiency (PDF 114 Kb)
  2. Tiered Storage Management (PDF 63 Kb)
  3. Whirlpool Virtualisation Case Study (PDF 124 Kb)