Virtualisation

Virtualisation as a concept is nothing new, over the last few years the concept has gone from being greeted with a great deal of skepticism to now being regarded as a mainstay on Infrastructure designs for the smallest and largest of organisations.

Despite this there are still many organisations that have not virtualised any aspect of their infrastructure preferring to stick to the more traditional model based on physical servers or devices, this is sometimes through fear of the unknown and sometimes through a feeling that it will introduce an unwelcome level of complexity. Chapco IT Services can help identify the potential benefits to your organisation and simplify the decision making process, for almost all organisations we find that the benefits are significant and the risks extremely low.

The virtualisation arena has evolved over a period of time and now includes a multitude of solutions, these include:

Server Virtualisation

The most common virtualisation solution; a proven and reliable method of getting maximum performance out of your server hardware. Server virtualisation technology is scalable, resilient and with a lower total cost of ownership than a traditional physical server estate.

Application Virtualisation

The streaming of applications from a server to a workstation has been around for a number of years, however it remains a powerful approach to delivering centralized applications over a distributed workforce.

Desktop Virtualisation

This technology effectively separates the desktop platform from the hardware that it resides on, resulting in an easy to manage user environment that can be accessed from a whole host of device types. It provides significant advances in flexibility of delivery and often results in a lower cost estate.

Storage Virtualisation

Storage virtualisation can help to address the common problem of increasing levels of complexity within storage systems by bringing multiple arrays and devices into a single virtual pool that is significantly easier to manage.

Chosen carefully virtualisation solutions can significantly reduce the total cost of ownership for your organisation’s infrastructure, reduce business risk when aligned to a business continuity strategy and significantly reduce the capital expenditure involved in rolling out a modern desktop environment.

With considerable experience with all aspects of virtualisation, Chapco IT Services are ideally positioned to advise on which solutions are best suited to your organisation, design the solution and deliver it in line with our customised project management methodology.