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What is Virtualisation?

Virtualisation is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the I.T landscape and fundamentally changing the way that businesses manage and support I.T infrastructure.

Today's powerful x86 computer hardware was originally designed to run only a single operating system and a single application, but virtualisation breaks that bond, making it possible to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same computer at the same time, increasing the utilisation and flexibility of hardware.

Why Virtualise your infrastructure?

Virtualisation is a technology that can benefit anyone who uses a computer. Millions of people and thousands of organisations around the world use virtualisation solutions to reduce I.T costs while increasing the efficiency, utilisation and flexibility of their existing computer hardware. Deployment of virtualisation technology will also significantly reduce businesses CO2 emissions due to a reduction in power and cooling demands.

What Virtualisation platform?

There are several different flavours of Virtualisation technology available. Highlander partner with the key players in this sector as below...

Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V, the next generation hypervisor-based server virtualisation technology, allows you to make the best use of your server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical machine. With Hyper-V, you can also efficiently run multiple different operating systems- Windows, Linux and others- in parallel, on a single server, and fully leverage the power of x64 computing.

Citrix XenServer™ enables IT organisations to deliver dynamic data centres. It couples a powerful platform managing virtualisation as a flexible aggregated pool of computer and storage resources with rapid, cost-effective provisioning capabilities for both virtual and physical servers. Leveraging the high performance and quality of the Xen hypervisor, the Citrix XenServer delivers an open, proven and supported solution for server virtualisation, and the only solution that unifies virtual and physical servers into a dynamic virtualisation infrastructure.

Using VMware Infrastructure, your organisation can significantly reduce the amount of I.T hardware in the data centre. Each instance of VMware ESX Server can support more than 100 virtual machines, and the vast majority of our customers are able to run as many as 10 or more applications on a single piece of hardware.

VMware Infrastructure 3 is a feature-rich suite that delivers the production-proven efficiency, availability and dynamic management needed to create a responsive data centre.

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