ESG Services – Working with VMWare
VMware software is the world’s leading virtualisation platform used by enterprises large and small to increase IT efficiency, decrease costs and respond faster to changing business demands. VMware Infrastructure leverages a company’s storage, network, and computing resources by creating virtual services from the physical IT infrastructure, enabling on demand resource allocation.
Virtualisation was first introduced in the 1960s to allow the partitioning of large underutilized mainframe hardware. Over time, minicomputers and PCs provided a more efficient, affordable way to distribute processing power, so by the 1980s, virtualisation was no longer widely employed. In the 1990s, researchers began to see how virtualisation could solve some of the problems associated with the proliferation of less expensive hardware, including underutilisation, escalating management costs and vulnerability.
Today, VMware is at the forefront of virtualisation technology with its suite of products - helping businesses with server sprawl and containment, security, utilisation and management of their IT infrastructure as well as reducing their carbon footprint whilst providing the highest up time possible.
Virtualisation from VMware allows multiple virtual machines, with heterogeneous operating systems to run in isolation, side-by-side on the same physical machine.
Virtual machines are encapsulated into files, making it possible to rapidly save copy and provision them. These VM’s (fully configured applications, operating systems, BIOS and virtual hardware) can be moved within seconds from one physical server to another with zero-downtime and continuous workload consolidation, thus allowing small companies to have a Business continuity and disaster recovery plan that was only available to the largest of organisations.
VMware and ESG
ESG has been awarded the highest VMware status of VIP and VAC’s. Both engineers and technical pre sales staff are fully VMware qualified to help organisation’s plan, design and move from a physical to a virtual environment.
Customers who have adopted VMware virtual infrastructure solutions have reported dramatic results, including:
- 60-80% utilisation rates for x86 servers (up from 5-15% in non-virtualised PCs)
- Cost savings of more than £1,500 annually for every workload virtualised
- Ability to provision new applications in minutes instead of days or weeks
- 85% improvement in recovery time from unplanned downtime
- Reduce the number of servers and related IT hardware which leads to reductions in real estate, power and cooling requirements, resulting in significantly lower IT costs.