Qualcom has years of experience providing customers with leading virtualisation solutions. We’re experts in this field with established partnerships with the leading virtualisation technology providers such as VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. Our Professional Services team can design and deploy a virtualised solution that meets your business needs now and as they evolve and change. In essence, virtualisation can help to ‘Future-Proof’ your IT infrastructure.
Our understanding of Managed Services ensures that any virtualisation solution, we deploy, will benefit from our emphasis on quality and customer satisfaction. We’ll provide the best advice and support so that the most appropriate operational management is in place either via your in-house IT team, our Managed Services team or a combination of both.
What is Server Virtualisation?
Virtualisation allows a single physical server to run multiple server instances in isolation from each other as ‘virtual machines’ instead of the previous model of ‘one server, one application’.
Your servers, storage and networks can be aggregated so that each application can run across multiple virtual machines. This allows an application to dynamically utilise this shared resource pool, securely and reliably, as and when it’s required.
Automated management tools can allocate any amount of a physical server’s capacity to a virtual machine, allowing it to scale up and down as necessary and allowing your IT infrastructure to become self-optimising.
Virtualisation is so cost efficient that many companies have found that their investment can be recouped within one year, with some companies breaking even within a few months*.
How Server Virtualisation Benefits Your Business?
Cost Reduction (CAPEX) | Your IT infrastructure capital expenditure decreases as fewer servers are required to run your applications. With lower numbers of servers you'll also have improved data centre capacity. |
Reduced Operational Overheads (OPEX) | Virtualisation management tools reduce the amount of time your team needs to spend provisioning, configuring, monitoring and maintaining your servers freeing up their time to focus on other business priorities. |
Energy Efficiency | Reducing the number of servers and only using resources when/where you need can dramatically reduce your energy consumption leading to a ‘greener’ IT infrastructure. On average, a single server has the same Carbon footprint as a small car so reducing this footprint is becoming more and more important |
Improved Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery | Virtual machines can be quickly migrated between physical servers, allowing maintenance on the server without disruption of service. In addition, if a physical server fails, its virtual machines can ‘fail over’ onto another system. Virtual machines can be easily replicated to a ‘hot’ site. |
Improved Performance | Workloads can be balanced across your entire IT infrastructure, scaling up and down resources, as required by your applications. |
Dynamic Infrastructure | Easily scales up and scales down to meet business needs. |
* July 2009 -The Business Value Of Virtualization. A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of VMware