I NEED...
- A lower total cost of
ownership
- Smarter server and storage solutions
- Enhanced asset utilization
- To know what virtualization service can do for me
Logicalis’ Virtualization service can help you transform your IT
department from a cost center to a competitive advantage.
Server and storage virtualization can provide huge savings in
maintenance, power and cooling, allowing you to take advantage of
under-utilized hardware. Logicalis’ specialists can help you with a
plan that can save you money and provide “green benefits” to the
environment as well.
A study Logicalis completed for a large enterprise in the financial
industry showed that virtualization could reduce the total cost of
ownership of its IT environment from $12.8 million over five years
to $5.2 million.
On a smaller scale, another Logicalis customer found that it was
able to reduce the three-year cost of its infrastructure from
$740,000 to $595,000, a vital saving for a small firm!
Complexity of the overall IT infrastructure is the most common
problem tackled via virtualization. In our experience,
virtualization of servers allows organizations like yours to reduce
the number of physical servers you need by an average ratio of 12:1
with a potential of more than 20:1.
Issues driving the need for virtualization
service:
- IT infrastructure growth over the past decades has been based
on getting an application into production as rapidly as
possible.
- The relatively low cost of Wintel-based servers enabled a major
change in producing new applications. Wintel IT was justified on
the basis of one application/one server. That approach was then
extended to UNIX, Linux, and other platforms.
- The one application/one server model eliminated the due
diligence required for sharing resources. Applications that ran on
their own server no longer had to work together.
- Low utilization of resources has been the inevitable result.
The average utilization of a Windows server during normal business
hours is under 10 percent and the average utilization during peak
hours is under 15 percent.
- Managing, maintaining and supporting the proliferation of
Server and Storage devices, in turn, has become increasingly
expensive and complex—and asset management, from a both technical
and a financial standpoint, has become increasingly difficult.
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Return from Virtualization
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Case studies
 | Conseco partners with Logicalis on a comprehensive virtualization strategy to insure high-level data center performance. |
 | Logicalis Shapes Up Targanta's IT Infrastructure to Meet Pending Demand for Worldwide Pharma Distribution |
 | Logicalis teams with Valassis on a total data center transformation including a major in-sourcing migration |
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