Today organizations adding large numbers of small and medium-sized servers to host their rapidly expanding IT application portfolios. The best practices involved deploying a single application on each x86 server to avoid crashes or performance problems. However, this approach led to very low utilization and higher support costs, the most obvious of which are the acquisition costs associated with needing to overprovision servers. Additionally, there are the ongoing expenses; for example, a server operating at 10% utilization still requires the same amount of power and cooling as a server operating at 75% utilization. In the current state of the market, for every $1.00 spent on new servers, the average enterprise spends $0.50 on power and cooling. Further, for every new $1.00 spent on infrastructure, the average enterprise spends $8.00 on maintenance and operations, assuming a server to admin ratio between 20 and 30 to 1.
To address these concerns, many enterprises have turned to virtualization as a way of controlling costs and increasing the flexibility of IT. The results of a recent IDC survey showed that most customers that have deployed virtualization were able to reduce their hardware costs by 20%. This reduction resulted in a savings of, on average, 23% over the past 12 months due to lower hardware costs, power and cooling savings, and real estate expense savings. In addition to the above cost savings, virtualization enables customers to react better to changing market conditions by reducing the time required to deploy new servers and applications.
ZILLIONe helps customers analyze, assess, architect, implement and support highly available, reliable, scalable and cost-efficient Server Virtualization and Presentation Virtualization solutions.
Server Virtualization
Server virtualization, also known as hardware virtualization, enables multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine as virtual machines (VMs). With server virtualization, you can consolidate workloads across multiple underutilized server machines onto a smaller number of machines. Fewer physical machines can lead to reduced costs through lower hardware, energy, and management overhead, plus the creation of a more dynamic IT infrastructure.
Our solution is based on following products, technologies and tools
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
Presentation Virtualization
Terminal Services (TS), one of the core virtualization technologies available in Windows Server 2008, makes it possible to run an application in one location but have it be controlled in another—presentation virtualization. With presentation virtualization, you can install and manage applications on centralized servers in the data center; screen images are delivered to the users, and the users' client machines, in turn, send keystrokes and mouse movements back to the server. Administrators can present users with the individual applications and data they require to complete their task, or the whole remote desktop. From a user perspective, these applications are integrated seamlessly—looking, feeling, and behaving like local applications.
Our solution is based on following products, technologies and tools
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services
