Server Virtualisation 

Ten years ago, server virtualisation was an intriguing concept but not data centre ready. Today all organisations are looking at server virtualisation as a way of reducing financial and operational costs. Shoden Data Systems provides clients with a holistic view of virtualisation and how to effectively implement this within their environment.

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Server virtualisation is a paradigm shift in the way that servers are provisioned, applications deployed and services provided to business. Apart from the direct cost savings associated with operating your computing resources, from a business perspective, resource pools can now be seamlessly deployed, reallocated or configured as per the demand of the business.

However, server virtualisation comes with its challenges - therefore understanding these and planning a strategy to deploy server virtualisation is fundamental to ensuring a successful virtualisation adoption. IT processes, scoping and management of virtual resources are some of the top considerations that IT management and operations need to consider.

Shoden Data Systems approach to offering virtualisation solutions is to understanding our clients business in order to provide the optimal virtualisation solution. This is followed by consulting services to analyze, plan, implement and importantly manage the virtualisation strategy adoption.

Core products and solutions from Fujitsu, Hitachi, Microsoft, VMware and Vizioncore are incorporated within our toolset helping us to successfully architect, design and implement innovative server virtualisation solutions.

Solution benefits of a virtual and consolidated infrastructure:-

  • Increased utilisation of server computing resources.
  • Dramatically decrease costs of hardware, software and data centre facilities.
  • Ability to dynamically and efficiently move applications between resources.
  • Build a DR / HA strategy that eliminates downtime and minimizes the recovery time.
  • Proactively manage your environment’s resource performance, utilisation and availability through an intuitive management GUI.
  • Seamlessly provision, deploy, update and manage operating system images and applications versions.