FD Insights Issue 7 | Page 45

.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. VMware: As virtualisation is now a critical component of an overall IT strategy, it is important to choose the right vendor. VMware is the leading business virtualisation infrastructure provider, offering the most trusted and reliable platform for building private clouds and federating to public clouds. 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. M