Virtualisation

Reduce costs, increase agility, improve quality of IT service delivery

Optimise your resources – from desktop to datacentre – with HP virtualisation technology and expertise. Pool and share IT resources in a way that reduces costs, makes your IT infrastructure more flexible and assures supply automatically meets demand.

What is virtualisation?
Virtualisation is the pooling and sharing of IT resources, including servers, storage and networking. Through virtualisation, resources can be allocated dynamically across your organisation’s applications and processes.

In a virtualised environment, the logical functions of computing, storage and network elements are separated from their physical functions.  Elements from these pools can then be manually or automatically allocated to meet the changing needs and priorities of a business. These concepts can be applied broadly across the enterprise, from datacentre resources to PCs and printers.

Through virtualisation, people, processes and technology work together more efficiently to meet increased service levels. Since capacity can be allocated dynamically, chronic over-provisioning is eliminated and your entire IT infrastructure is simplified.

Virtualisation helps your organisation transform its IT environment to an adaptive infrastructure that enables automated 24x7 lights-out computing.

Why virtualisation?
Adapt to changing demands quickly in a virtual environment

Creating a unified IT environment through virtualisation is a vital step toward enabling an adaptive infrastructure. Your IT organisation can gain the flexibility to quickly adapt to the changing demands of your business via virtualisation.

Your organisation can achieve substantial, long-term benefits from virtualisation that include:

Reducing costs – Since servers, storage, networking and other resources are pooled, resources can be allocated as required. This helps your IT organisation achieve greater asset utilisation, improve IT staff productivity and reduce operational costs.  

Increasing business agility – By making your infrastructure more flexible, your IT organisation can more easily allocate IT resources to meet new service demands. Adding capacity to meet new or expanding computing requirements can be completed in a matter of minutes or hours.  

Improving the quality of IT delivery – The ability to quickly analyse your resource needs and dynamically allocate resources helps your IT organisation meet – or exceed – service level agreements.