Why Virtualize?

Server Consolidation – Reduce IT Costs While Maintaining Control and Offering Choice

Don't let server sprawl and platform dependencies prevent your organization from achieving its goals. Take control of your IT infrastructure with VMware vSphere. Cut capital and operating costs while increasing IT service delivery without being locked into limited choices of operating systems, applications, and hardware.

• Reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50% and energy costs by 80%,
saving more than $3,000 per year for every server workload virtualized

• Reduce the time it takes to provision new servers by up to 70%

• Decrease downtime and improve reliability with business continuity and built-in data
disaster recovery

• Deliver IT services on-demand now and in the future, independent of hardware, OS,
application or infrastructure providers

Business Continuity – Improve Business Continuity with Virtualization

While disasters and unplanned downtime get the big headlines, planned downtime for hardware maintenance and backups is the cause of most service interruptions. VMware's server, desktop and application virtualization products let you eliminate planned downtime, ensure data protection, deliver high availability and be better prepared for disaster recovery. Virtualize your data-center and make it easier to deploy:

• Data protection, including non-disruptive automated backup and restore processes

• High availability through reduced planned and unplanned downtime

• Disaster recovery with hardware independent recovery

Protect your Business-Critical IT Infrastructure - Get Full Data Protection for your IT Infra-structure

Simplify backup and recovery of your data and systems with virtualization. Easily recover impor-tant data within your recovery time objectives using your existing backup tools and methodolo-gies. Benefit from a simpler data protection plan, encompassing all systems and applications and leveraging the benefits of a virtualized datacenter.

Eliminate Planned and Unplanned Downtime

Make sure your applications have the highest level of availability with built-in service-levels that are easier and more cost effective than traditional solutions. The live migration of virtual machines eliminates the need for planned downtime, allowing IT to perform maintenance on physical servers anytime, without user or service disruption. Take advantage of VMware vSpheres Fault Tolerance (FT) feature, protecting against physical failures, including network card failures, storage path failures, and other hardware failures.

Build Reliable and Efficient Disaster Recovery Plans

Eliminate the cost and unpredictability of traditional disaster recovery solutions by taking advantage of the inherent flexibility of a 100% virtualized datacenter. Utilize this foundation to build highly effective disaster recovery plans and test your plan in a non-disruptive mannereliminating the issue of failure due to hardware differences between the primary and backup datacenters.

Energy Efficiency-Build a Green IT Infrastructure with Virtualization

Reduce the energy demands of your datacenter through server consolidation and dynamic man-agement of computer assets across a pool of servers. Deliver the resources you need where you need them with VMware vSphere.

• Reduce energy costs by 80%.

• Power down servers without affecting applications or users

• Green your datacenter while decreasing costs and improving service levels