Virtualisation maximises your infrastructure investment as follows;
- Rapid deployment of new services using virtual devices
- Greater utilisation of existing hardware
- Reduced Power requirements
- Reduced Cooling requirements
- Reduced Footprint/Space requirements
- Reduced Cabling/switch-port requirements
- Charging is simple – provide only contracted resources (bandwidth, connections per second etc), allowing increases if required and the appropriate charge uplift
- Reduced Cost due to increased utilisation of existing hardware, licensing, support, physical ports
- Simplified management
The following diagram shows a relatively simple Internet e-commerce environment housing multiple customers/departments within a single physical device, hosting their services on high-powered virtual servers. Within this model, each customer/department can be assigned dedicated resources, yet the utilisation of these resources can be uplifted by a factor of 40-250, whilst massively reducing the associated costs.
