Virtualization provides organizations with tremendous benefits. It’s a proven method to reduce cost, increase operational efficiency, and provide a platform for cloud services. CyberNorth helps organizations capitalize on the benefits of virtualization while avoiding common pitfalls and oversights.
Improve Resource Utilization and Build Resiliency
Data center virtualization and the use of virtual machines (VMs) increases flexibility and allows your business to deploy new applications and services faster and with less administrative load. VMs also contribute to a robust cybersecurity strategy through isolation and other security measures.
Data Center Virtualization (Cloud)
Every area of IT now has some form of virtualization, from desktops to storage to networks, and everything in between. Modern data centers are dynamic, flexible, and robust environments, using cloud technology to move physical data center assets into their virtual counterparts. Now any business can have enterprise level performance and availability without the huge investments once required.
The virtualized data center is the definition of cloud computing. Whether it’s internal, public, or hybrid, all cloud computing is built atop a virtualized data center.
Hardware Virtualization
Discrete hardware assets can be part of a virtualization strategy. VMs act like traditional computers, with operating systems and applications running in a virtual environment. Servers can also be virtualized, and the result is infrastructure consolidation and reduced costs to purchase and maintain the hardware to support your business needs, as well as to provide additional capacity on demand.
The degree of hardware virtualization can be carefully structured, enabling you to move forward with a plan tailored to your operational requirements and growth forecasts.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
VDI transforms the way users access applications and other resources. Rather than requiring a physical machine, enterprise systems can be available through nearly any device, from smartphones to personal laptops. These devices essentially act as highly performant portals, avoiding the need to download apps and data directly. It largely eliminates the costly and time-consuming hardware update and refresh cycles most organizations follow yet still provides centralized management of the virtual desktop environment.
Users are free to work when and how they like and IT no longer needs to worry that sensitive company data is living on easily lost or stolen devices.
