Virtualization: Is it right for me?
It seems like everyone in the IT field is talking about cloud and virtualization these days. What’s causing all the buzz? Is it really that good for your business? Cloud computing technology has disrupted the world of IT for the better by flipping change management on its head. IT managers no longer need to see infrastructure changes as a threat to their business tranquility. Through cloud and virtualization solutions from WebRunners, IT managers can embrace change positively. Large hardware refreshes and downtime are a thing of the past and now businesses can migrate applications and upgrade servers in minutes instead of days. All possible through the the benefits offered by the latest in computing technology.
Featured Customer: Gehry Technologies
As a leading software developer in the commercial building industry, Gehry Technologies enables thousands of industry professionals to create some of the most innovative building designs around. At the core of their philosophy is a focus on using technology and advanced methodology to help industry professionals take projects from design to construction more quickly than before. This flexibility allows building industry professionals to more effectively collaborate and reduce un-needed steps in the design process. Through Gehry Technologies’ software products, these professionals can design and construct buildings dramatically faster and with less complications than traditionally found in their industry while adhering to stringent industry standards.
However, Gehry Technology’s customers aren’t the only ones who required highly efficient and flexible environments. When it came to taking their existing on-line environment to the next level, Gehry Technologies’ IT director Bob Chen consulted with our engineers to implement an on-net, high-performance storage solution to serve their existing hybrid cloud architecture. Due to the resources required in deploying SAN architecture on his own, Mr. Chen chose to rely on our WebRunners hosted SAN solution. “With my limited initial budget, the ROI for deploying my own SAN would take years. I needed a solution that alleviates my budget concern without hindering growth and productivity.”
While growth is a good thing, it can be very expensive without a good growth strategy. Investing in your own high-performance, scalable computing resources may not be possible due to limited internal budgets. This is just one example of how cloud technology can help you more effectively allocate limited resources across your IT department and minimize up-front costs.
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Virtualize Business-Critical Applications
It’s quickly becoming common knowledge that virtualization is the way to go for managing server infrastructure, but how about in the context of an entire application? Let’s take a moment to look at virtualization from the application point of view.
Managing hosted applications can feel like a never-ending battle. Often times these applications are tied to specific (or even legacy) hardware platforms that require a large investment to implement and support, making them difficult and costly to scale. On the flip-side, many times they are simply a single-node instance running in Windows or Linux. Either way, dealing with both hardware and software simultaneously can create a large time sink for a system administrator. How can IT managers focus more of their resources on what matters (the application) and not on what shouldn’t matter (managing hardware)? Virtualization is how.
Through amazing progress in virtualization technology by companies like VMware or Citrix, it’s relatively painless and easy to migrate entire application instances in to the cloud – whether it be one server or several acting as a cluster. Many of our own customers have done the same, saving huge power and hardware costs in the process to free up valuable cash flow to other areas of their business.
Our VMcloud platform allows you to virtualize your entire application without costly downtime or re-install depending on the configuration, adding unprecedented flexibility, reliability, and performance. In addition, it allows you to reduce wasted computing power by allowing you to scale resources to the exact size you require and expand later as demands increase. VMcloud gives you:
- Breakthrough performance
- Outstanding reliability
- Accelerated application life-cycle
- Protection from costly downtime
- Quick and dynamic scalability
- Enterprise-grade computing hardware and storage
Our VMcloud platform provides these capabilities because it’s powered by VMware. VMware is the gold standard for virtualization and used by enterprise to drive billions in revenue. In fact, every Fortune 500 company relies on VMware for business-critical tasks. Now with WebRunners VMcloud, this enterprise-level product is accessible and affordable because we’ve invested in building a robust platform so you don’t.
