ABOUT VIRTUALIZATION

Virtualization is software which allows you to run multiple servers performing varied functions and different operating systems simultaneously on a single machine. In effect, a single server can now perform as if it were many different servers and do it more cost-effectively and efficiently. Virtualization can help businesses of most any size or type. 

THE BENEFITS of VIRTUALIZATION
First, the cost saving, let’s say an IT company says you need a new server, you happen to talk to us and we say we don’t think you have to do that. Your existing server may be a good candidate for re-tooling through virtualization. Once virtualized, you'll be able to stretch your dollar further by putting off costly purchases for months or possibly years, with the added benefit of not wasting your existing hardware.

Second, a good many servers are under-utilized. For example, you may have a server running at only 25% efficiency, this is an obvious waste of resources. By virtualizing your network, the physical servers, applications and services they provide can now be consolidated on a single machine. Now you are getting the most and the best from your servers(s) with a lot less waste.

A virtualized system knows how to maximize your resources – diverting and scheduling usage only when and where needed. Very little technical resources (hardware and software) are lost or wasted in a virtual environment.

Services and applications that previously needed to reside on separate physical machines are consolidated into one machine via virtualization, for example:
- File Server - Replication Server
- SQL DB Server
- Email Server - Web Server
- SharePoint Server
- Terminal Server
- Other services and applications you may be using

Once virtualized, you can stretch your dollor futher by putting off costly purchases for months or possibly a few years. Plus the benefit of not wasting your existing hardware.

Once virtualized, you can stretch your dollor futher by putting off costly purchases for months or possibly a few years. Plus the benefit of not wasting your existing hardware.

Third, you save a lot on physical space, a lot less real estate is used, a lot less wires and servers sitting around, which means a lot less things to maintain, so you can spend more time on conducting business.

Fourth, you save on resources including energy usage because multiple servers have been consolidated into one server to do the things you need to do. Waste is mitigated, efficiencies dramatically improve. Should you elect to make a move towards a “hosted” virtual solution,
(see below, Virtualization: Hosted Solution) you save even more on resources and power.
Plus, you’ll have more energy dedicated to your office’s bandwidth so your people can stay comfortably connected wherever they are, spending more time on business than worrying
about staying connected.

Fifth, you’ll be spending a lot less money on hardware, you won’t need to, because the two to three (or more) servers that you had are now consolidated into a single machine. Again, should you select a hosted solution, hardware costs would be just about zero. If you currently use only a single server virtualization can help that single machine do more for you.

Sixth, changes and upgrades to your server(s) can be made much quicker and sometimes even “on the fly” because everything is consolidated in a single “host” machine. Everything is right there, in one place. Changes such as inserting a DVD or installing memory can now be made from virtually anywhere with an Internet connection.

Seventh, reduced downtime. Restoring data after a server failure is much faster and the data comes back exactly as it was. Before virtualization, restoration was very time involved and something was always missing, and it’s always something that you really needed.

Virtualization Benefits Overview:

• Lower costs.
• Reduce downtime.
• Drastically reduce hardware costs.
• Significantly reduced maintenance costs.
• Increased efficiency and productivity.
• Intelligent allocation of resources.
• Significantly simplified maintenance procedures.
• Significantly improved business continuity and crisis management procedures.
• Data restoration after a server failure can be accomplished in hours instead of days or weeks.
• Improved bandwidth, data moves faster.
• Space savings.
• Significantly improved upgrading ability. Dramatically improved scalability.
• “Green” technology.

SIMPLIFYING YOUR LIFE THROUGH VIRTUALIZATION

Virtualization consolidates. So it helps you better control costs, energy usage, mitigates the need to continually add more storage space for hardware, increases efficiencies and productivity while making your organization “green.”

VIRTUAL SOLUTIONS to FIT YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS

Virtualization is geared for customization to fit whatever your business needs are. After the initial installation of your Virtual environment, updates, upgrades, additions, (future needs) are now accomplished much easier, faster and at much lower costs. You’ll also realize significantly reduced maintenance expenditures in tandem with across-the-board productivity increases.

Virtualization: On Premise Solution
Phoenix group can implement, maintain and support a Virtual environment at your office with a Virtual server housed on-site, at your facilities.

Virtualization: Hosted Solution
As more organizations look to save on almost everything they can by outsourcing non-core functions, a hosted approach may make sense. A hosted solution provides you almost zero hardware costs and literally nothing for you to maintain. With PBTG your Virtual server would run in a highly secure physical location at Expedient Data Center located in Pittsburgh Pa.

Our partnership with Expedient provides our clients fortress type quality bricks and mortar protection for their data while employing the digital security needed to mitigate cyber threats from criminals, terrorists and other.

A hosted solution allows for all mobile user traffic to route through the data center, reducing the strain on your office bandwidth and maintenance procedures.

Virtualization benefits for the CEO:
- Cost and energy savings through simplification.
- Reduce complexity.
- Quicker recovery in the event of crisis or unplanned downtime.
- Increased productivity.
- Increased efficiency.
- Improved customer service.
- Improved reporting procedures.
- More effective management and tracking of resource usage.
- Increased and more effective measurement ability through consolidation.
- Improved business agility, respond quicker to change.
- Going “green.”

Virtualization benefits for the CFO:
- Slash costs.
- Energy savings
- Simplification.
- Increased transparency through consolidation of technical resources.
- Improved and easier oversight through consolidation.
- Hardware, software and upgrade costs are reduced to almost zero. (Hosted solution)
- Reduced hardware costs including upgrades. (On premise solution)
- Reduced equipment monitoring.
- Significantly reduced maintenance costs.
- Improved back-up systems and procedures saving time, money and headache.
- Significantly reduced support costs.
- Physical space savings.
- Reduced inventory costs.

Virtualization benefits for the CIO (IT Professional):
- Expedite IT initiatives much quicker.
- Increased flexibility and control.
- Less oversight of hardware and software.
- Increased transparency.
- Recovery time from a crisis is much quicker/ data restoration is exact.
- Spend more time on innovation.
- Lessen time spent putting out fires.
- Simplified security procedures.
- More efficient reporting capacity.
- Improved restore capabilities and efficiency.

Virtualization benefits for the Office Administrator:
- Time savings.
- Less hardware to worry about.
- Improved business continuity in the event of a crisis.
- Increased productivity.
- Spend less time putting out fires.
- Significantly decreased upgrade concerns.
- Centralized file and application location for easier access.
- More efficient and productive bandwidth usage by office and mobile employees.