FD Insights Issue 13 | Page 54

. Virtualisation

First Distribution ’ s leading vendor virtualisation product offerings enable users to save up to 70 % on overall IT costs by consolidating resource pools and delivering highly available machines . By dividing a single physical server into multiple logical servers , virtualisation creates a more dynamic and flexible data centre whilst also drastically reducing the total cost of ownership of IT infrastructure .
IBM : Simplify management with IBM ’ s end-to-end virtualisation . IBM offers a range of virtualisation solutions designed to help your business be more agile .
Oracle VM : Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together for your data centre , from servers and storage , to database and middleware , through to applications . Oracle offers an optimised and fully integrated stack of business hardware and software solutions .
Samsung ’ s Thin Client Monitors combine a premium quality monitor with a built-in thin client , offering cost savings , simpler maintenance and support .
CommVault ’ s Simpana software delivers virtual server data protection that solves virtualisation challenges , such as the ability to rapidly scale the protection of virtual machines , accelerate the recovery of business critical applications by virtualising fearlessly , unify data protection of physical and virtual environments and support cross-platform ( VMware ® and Microsoft ® Hyper-V ) data protection .
Vblock™ Systems from VCE seamlessly integrate best-in-class compute , network , and storage technologies from industry leaders Cisco , EMC , and VMware , and provide dynamic pools of resources that can be intelligently provisioned and managed to address changing demands and fleeting business opportunities .
Huawei offers a range of virtualisation solutions , including their powerful FusionSphere software which provides powerful virtualisation and resource pool management functions , cloud service components and tools , and open application programming interfaces ( PIs ).
Riverbed Technology is an awardwinning technology company that specialises in improving the performance of networks and networked applications . Riverbed products are designed to solve network bandwidth and performance problems in the following areas of technology : application acceleration , bandwidth optimisation , data centre , branch office & server consolidation , data protection and disaster recovery , visibility and network performance management , and cloud server and storage acceleration .
Tintri builds smart storage that sees , learns and adapts , enabling IT organisations to focus on virtualised applications and business services instead of managing storage infrastructure .
Veeam Software develops innovative products for virtual infrastructure management and data protection . Customers can reduce costs , minimise risks and fully realise the promise of virtualisation with Veeam .
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