Server Virtualization Solutions

"Delivering unprecedented levels of availability, flexibility and reduced operating costs for your server landscape."

There is a lot of talk today about server virtualization and the benefits that it can deliver for your business. For example, reducing physical floorspace footprint, energy costs, cooling costs, software licensing costs, introducing high-availability for your applications and services, reducing operational complexity are all the typical benefits that all our cusotmers experience when adopting a server virtualisation sttrategy. Server virtualisation can also be an enabler for delivering enhanced levels of disaster recovery capabilities for your business.

But where do I start? Is it even suitable for us? Which product should I look at? Will I really see a benefit? How much could I save?

These are all typical questions that our customers have when first looking at server virtualization. Thankfully, Origina has years of experience with server virtualisation platforms from IBM using their PowerVM and LPAR technologies for UNIX environments, through to VMware's ESX/vSphere and Microsoft's Hyper-V for Wintel environments. Origina have been an IBM Premier Business Partner specialising in RS/6000 and pSeries technologies since 1998, a VMware partner using the ESX products since 2001 and more recently with Microsoft's Hyper-V solution since 2008. We have numerous customers reaping the rewards of deploying these technologies from all three vendors.

Our virtualisation consultants help our customers to analyse, plan, design and implement your virtual infrastructure to achieve unprecendented levels of efficiency, flexibility and reduced infrastructure costs. There is not a "one-fit-all" solution, so our customers work closely with you to understand your existing IT environment, document the benefits to your business that virtualisation will deliver, perform rich server consolidation modelling showing you how many physical servers you can remove from your environment, and ultimaltely which of the server virtualisation suites is a better for your business.

Our server virtualisation solutions are complimented by parallel virtualsiation technologies from vendors such as Compellent, Riverbed and Platespin to deliver a truly world-class efficient infrastructure - that does not cost the earth!

In addition to server virtualsiation, Origina also has extensive experience with the virtualisation of desktop environments with VMware's VDI suite of products. Customers can replicate the benefits that server virtualisation delivers to their desktop PC environments. Our customers have experienced huge reductions in cost, operational expenditure, power, productivity, environmental cooling, and increased productivity by choosing to virtualise their desktop environments at refresh time.

Our virtualisation consultants work as an extension of your team providing much needed expertise and skills across the technologies that you rely on.

Origina's Server Virtualisation Solutions are for you if:

• Your servers are running at consistenly poor levels of utilisation (we see typical utilisation rates below 20%!)
• You servers are up for refresh and are consuming vast quantities of energy, power, cooling and valuable data centre space
• You have run out of room within your data center for new servers
• You have limited islands of high-availability within your IT server landscape and would like to increase this for all servers
• The availability of your applications is becoming an increasing issue
• Maintenance and the result of having to perform out-of-hours or weekend work in order to service your servers is proving too costly.
• Server provisioning for new or test/devevelopment environments can take weeks/days - you want to reduce this to minutes

Key Benefits of partnering with Origina:

• Help to develop a business case for the move to a virtualised environment, highlighting the servers within your environment that are suitable for virtaulisaiton, the power/cooling/energy savings, the "Green" advantages (i.e. reductions in carbon footprint), consolidation ratios, cost savings.
• Wealth of experience with all in server virtualisation platforms for AIX, Linux and Wintel environments.
• Recommend the most cost-effective and suitable server virtulisation platform for your business which ensures a low learning curve and delivers true measurable ROI.
• Increase service availability within your organisation
• Maximise the utilisation of your servers
• Reduce the amount of operational expenditure in maintining your server landscape
• Deliver maximum levels of agility and flexibility for your server environment
• Dramatically reduce your server provisioning times for new, or test & development environments.
• Align the benefits of server virtualsiation with your disaster recovery processes & procedures to minimise recovery time
• 24 x 7 Remote Support available