Virtualization
Digital Criterion Enterprises knows that in today's business world, flexibility and scalability, not only of systems but the total environment on which your specialized industry and productivity applications run, is critical to your growth. One of our primary responses to meet this need is to help you create a resource-rich, secure, multi-platform IT environment on which you deliver information through the use of virtualization.
Virtualization, the abstraction layer that separates operating systems from hardware, lets you utilize a wider array of technologies in your data center to enhance the performance of your critical business applications. With virtualization where performance is optimized by drawing efficiently upon heterogeneous IT resources, you are also able to implement and manage applications and model data in ways that transcend operating systems. This creates the ideal level of flexibility in the delivery of applications, built in all development frameworks, across Microsoft, Linux, UNIX, Solaris, and other open source systems.
DCE's virtualization solutions encompass a modular hardware and software environment that draws upon the shared pool of resources enabled through server, storage, and network virtualization and consolidation. With our strategic partners for IT hardware, networking, applications, management software and physical infrastructure (including cooling, power and cabling), we utilize virtualization to dynamically allocate information resources across business processes, which dramatically reduces your computing costs. We also introduce such technologies as blade servers, networked storage and virtual backup that, if you choose to implement into your newly virtualized environment, give you increased economies of scale, security, recoverability and performance.
Key Focus Areas:
Our portfolio of virtualization services includes:
- Analysis and planning services for how to make the most of your existing and new IT resources in a virtualized environment.
- Strategic hardware and software selection to identify for you the most efficient, economical IT business environment through the implementation of new hardware and management software for a fully virtualized environment. DCE supports solutions from all major IT hardware manufacturers, including Dell, HP, and IBM, as well as major software vendors, including Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware.
- Implementation services to provide you with subject matter expertise in hardware, applications, business requirements analysis and project management to deploy virtualized solutions that create powerful return on investment and give you a flexible workplace.
- Data center design services that help you best utilize technology resources in a virtualized environment. We help you to leverage the virtualized paradigm, both at the systems management level and at hardware level with more efficient solutions to reduce operating costs and improve operational processes, such as those related to power, cooling, real estate, space utilization and cabling infrastructure.
Key Partners:
- Citrix
- HP
- VMware
- Oracle
Key Benefits and Value:
- More efficient overall use of IT resources -- better utilization of servers, storage, network switches and personal computers
- Dramatic cost reductions on hardware -- virtualization enables you to increase the capacity of high performance systems, thus, reducing hardware and maintenance costs
- Reduced real estate and physical space burden
- Increased application performance
- Increased application and information security
- Greater scalability of applications, data and services
- IT environment optimized for remote and virtual office computing
- High availability of applications and data with dramatically reduced backup windows, increased system reliability and faster throughput
- More efficient application delivery with the ability to implement applications quickly and nimbly in all operating system environments, regardless of application limitations