The recent system upgrade was implemented exactly as planned, on time and on budget. Bremmar have proven to be completely reliable, prompt and very good at communication.
Paul Marshall, RiverStone
Virtualised server environments reduce the number of physical servers required to run your organisations IT systems. One or more Virtual Server ‘Hosts’ is implemented, each replacing perhaps four physical servers. Each ‘guest’ server runs within the single Virtual Server Host, however operates completely independently of other guest servers hosted on the same host.
Server Virtualisation provides significant benefits in several areas.
- (click to expand)Get more out of the IT Investment you have already made
- Allows reallocation of server hardware resources including processing power, memory and storage space between different guest servers, depending on their workload, without the need for hardware changes or upgrades. Organisations with multiple physical servers often have one or more physical servers sitting idle, whilst others are at 100% load and impacting staff performance. Virtual Server environments can reallocate free server resources on the fly to improve overall server efficiency.
- (click to expand)Lower maintenance costs
- Fewer, larger capacity servers require less space, less cooling, lower maintenance costs and a lower investment in equipment.
- (click to expand)Increased flexibility
- Virtual Server Environments provide a huge flexibility benefit. If in 12 months following your IT infrastructure solutions investment your organisation implements a new database or core business application, a Virtual Server Environment will allow the addition of a virtual server guest or increase in memory or storage allocation on the fly. Often without the need to buy new server hardware.
- (click to expand)Increased scalability
- If you expand faster than expected or open a new office, Virtual Server Environments can be scaled cost effectively.
- (click to expand)Increased redundancy and reliability
- Our Virtual Server Environments provide enterprise level IT redundancy to SMB at an affordable price. Our business continuity solutions range from replication of an IT environment to a large storage drive for quick recovery, through to half hourly replication of an IT environment to an offsite datacentre via dedicated line. A Virtual Server Environment allows instant server environment snapshots to be taken before making changes, updates or commencing software upgrades on your IT systems. If a problem occurs, your server environment can quickly and easily be rolled back to a point in time prior to the change.
Overall, with the right design and consultation, virtual server environments significantly increase our ability to maintain a reliable IT environment, reduce maintenance and running costs, provide increased flexibility, can cost effectively grow as you grow, allow you to add new applications and databases without large investments and are better for the environment. Server virtualisation technology is used in 90% of our IT Infrastructure Implementations.
