If you’re investigating the benefits of virtualization and considering how it will impact your business, you should pay particular attention to the role of IT in the virtualization process. It might seem obvious to say, but IT will be doing the majority of the heavy lifting during the rollout process, and it’s vital that your […]
Virtualization Strategy: Establishing a Phased Workload Selection Plan
If you’re developing a virtualization strategy to plan how you’ll switch over to your new virtual server systems, we strongly recommend you implement a phased deployment. This gives you the freedom to slowly expand your the virtual systems as your technical staff becomes more confident in their abilities. […]
Virtualization Services: Application and Hardware Specification
If you move to using virtual networks, you’ll quickly find that virtualization services offer numerous benefits to your business. One of the most dramatic improvements come from the changes you can make to your application and hardware specifications, as well as to their provisioning. A virtual network can make this process significantly more efficient, as […]
Virtualization Strategy: Preparing Your Team
When planning the deployment of a virtual network, one element we strongly recommend for your virtualization strategy is the creation of a core team – a SWAT team – which is tasked with overseeing the rollout and its integration into your existing procedures. A virtualization project is big enough that it needs to be led […]
Virtualization Services: Understanding Changes To IT Infrastructure
Perhaps it goes without saying, but when you’re rolling out virtualization services throughout your company, many of the most dramatic changes to your organization are going to occur within your IT infrastructure. To properly deploy a virtual environment and reap as many benefits to it as possible, you and your IT staff need to be […]
Selling The Benefits of Virtualization to IT Management
In our experience, one of the biggest barriers to the successful implementation of virtualized server systems doesn’t come from technological or training issues, but rather from management. Upper management, quite understandably, tends to be wary of large expenditures or major architectural overhauls. However, for virtualization to work, they must be onboard and fully backing the […]
Virtualization Technology: Choosing A Starting Point
One of the toughest decisions your business will face when looking to implement virtualization technology is choosing a starting point. This will be different for every business, but in all cases, finding the right place to start is vital for the successful implementation of a new virtualized server setup. […]
Virtualization Strategy: 3 Best Practices For Deployment
There are numerous benefits to virtualization that make it attractive to businesses, but the initial rollout of a virtual network can be daunting. Deploying these new systems can be easy or hard, mostly depending on how robust your virtualization strategy is. The more you plan ahead and focus on integration, the better it will go, […]
Virtualization Strategy: Conducting a Proper Infrastructure Assessment
Whenever any company moves their physical servers onto a virtual system, they need a strong virtualization strategy informing every step of the changeover. Better planning leads directly to better implementation. Therefore, we strongly recommend anyone investigating the benefits of virtualization conduct a thorough infrastructure assessment before beginning implementation. […]
Virtualization Strategy: Going Beyond The Initial Project
Virtualization can be the proverbial gift that keeps on giving. Once you’ve implemented your initial virtualization strategy and begun moving your systems over, you shouldn’t stop there. You can continue to reap increasing benefits of virtual networks as you transition more workloads and find new uses for the system. […]