With Systems Apps Controls (SAC) you will follow hassle-free virtualization roadmap to achieve information technology domination in building competitive business advantages.
Virtualization Management
Virtualization project is not only a modern trend but also a challenging expensive project that has a strategic-important business impact. It will cut cost substantially; increase IT capacity and business continuity advantages with optimized IT investments.
Systems Apps Controls (SAC) consultants assist in all the aspects of virtualization from comprehensive IT infrastructure assessment and gap analysis, infrastructure planning and design, financial analysis (including licensing optimization), implementation and migration to ongoing management and maintenance using Microsoft, VMware, Parallels, and Sun virtualization solutions.
Virtualization may answer the toughest problems of the enterprises IT infrastructure and bring tangible business benefits.
Issues
- Underutilized hardware, data centers run out of space, increasing power costs
- System administration brings increasing cost of operations and is usually co-located with servers
- High-availability service level agreement (SLA) requirements
Virtualization Solution
- Reducing equipment, facilities, and operating costs, achieving storage and energy efficiency
- Reduced system administration requirements, effective coordinating management and operations across virtualization environment
- Enhancing business continuity metrics by improving system manageability and security
Migrating to Virtual Environment
Decision to move to virtual environments is based on a thorough investigation of the current infrastructure. At this stage we assist you with evaluation of your running system as a virtualized platform and find niches for operational costs optimization by means of virtualization.
The assessment and planning phase of a migration project is crucial for its success and covers the following aspects:
- Designing of network architecture ready for virtualization;
- Backup and recovery;
- Network and server power backup;
- Virtualization roadmap development (including testing piece virtualization, planning of services interruption, licensing package optimization, monitoring and virtualization management tools implementation, and others).
Based on the project plan Systems Apps Controls (SAC) specialists can perform full-cycle migration including but not limited to the following activities:
- Creation of virtual data centers on host servers;
- A physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual server migration (based on VMware, Microsoft, Xen Server or Virtual Iron platforms);
- Special solutions for distributed servers consolidation (mail servers, database servers), hot and cold conversion;
- VM monitoring;
- VM optimization;
- VM backup and restore mechanisms.