Ethan Group’s Virtualisation services can help organisations identify ways to significantly reduce costs and increase their efficiencies and responsiveness of their IT operations by virtual computing. Virtualisation allows an organisation to decouple the hardware it uses
from the operating systems it runs to delivery greater IT resource utilisation and flexibility.

Solution Overview

• Consolidation: The majority of servers in today’s data centres operate significantly below capacity (typically less than 20%). Virtualisation increases hardware utilisation and reduces physical hardware requirements. Put simply, it is the ability to create multiple virtual machines (VM’s) that run in complete isolation on one physical machine
• Management: Virtualisation decreases resource cost by simplifying and automating
  labour and resource intensive IT operations.
  
• Development and Testing: Virtualisation improves responsiveness to development, testing and business needs with instant provisioning and acceleration of application development and deployment lifecycles.
• Disaster Recovery: Virtualisation reduces the cost of hardware for Disaster Recovery and improves application availability.

Process Overview

Benefits of Virtualisation

1. Server Consolidation and Infrastructure Optimization: Virtualization makes it possible to achieve significantly higher resource utilization by pooling common infrastructure resources and breaking the legacy “one application to one server” model.
2. Physical Infrastructure Cost Reduction: With virtualization, you can reduce the number of servers and related IT hardware in the data center. This leads to reductions in real estate, power and cooling requirements, resulting in significantly lower IT costs.
3. Improved Operational Flexibility & Responsiveness: Virtualization offers a new way of managing IT infrastructure and can help IT administrators spend less time on repetitive tasks such as provisioning, configuration, monitoring and maintenance.
4. Increased Application Availability & Improved Business Continuity: Eliminate planned downtime and recover quickly from unplanned outages with the ability to securely backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no interruption in service.
5. Improved Desktop Manageability & Security: Deploy, manage and monitor secure desktop environments that end users can access locally or remotely, with or without a network connection, on almost any standard desktop, laptop or tablet PC.