Virtualization
Virtualization
Overview

Underutilized assets, overburdened facilities, and rising energy costs all drive enterprises to seek relief in virtualization technologies. Virtualization enables organization to consolidate assets, reduce their facility and energy footprints, and increase infrastructure agility.

EMC Consulting can help you adapt the ecosystem supporting your virtualized servers, storage and networks. We have proven experience in accelerating the benefits of virtualization. Keep your technology goals and business vision aligned as you implement virtualization across your entire infrastructure.

EMC helps IT professionals address the impact of virtualization on managing their new physical/virtual infrastructure. We work with your enterprise to accelerate your virtualization return on investment and achieve operational readiness with virtualization best practices.

EMC consultants develop virtualization strategies that include:

  • Infrastructure design
  • Actionable virtualization roadmaps
  • Operational recommendations

Tap our virtualization strategy and design expertise to improve operational agility, raise service quality, ensure IT/business goal alignment, and lower total cost of ownership in your virtual infrastructure.

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  • Transforming Data Center Infrastructure
    Transform your data center into an agile, service-based infrastructure and a critical driver for business strategy through consolidation, virtualization, protection, and service-level initiatives.
  • Optimizing Infrastructure
    Achieve the best return on your IT investments. Optimize your data center and remote office infrastructure across the enterprise to generate economies of scale.
  • Rationalizing Infrastructure Costs
    Extract more value out of IT infrastructure. Keep IT spending under control despite information growth and business changes.

Successful virtualization initiatives involve more than deploying virtualization technology. They must also address the impact on IT operations. EMC Consulting has deep knowledge of data center operations and processes to help organizations integrate their virtual and physical infrastructure.

To ensure that IT operations benefit from the flexibility of virtualization, we address such operational processes as capacity management, provisioning, change management, backup and recovery, and business continuity. EMC can help you develop a phased integration so your processes and IT skills grow as your organization develops more experience.

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  • Achieving Operational Excellence
    Remove inefficient business processes, information silos, and the limitations of disconnected legacy systems hindering performance.

As virtualization changes the IT landscape, methods for protecting and securing data must change as well. EMC Consulting advises organizations with mixed physical and virtual environments, providing a smooth transition into this increasingly virtual world. We help you understand how to back up virtual content, replicate this data, and secure your applications in a virtual environment.

EMC Consulting works with you to:

  • Discover the virtual-to-physical relationships in your application infrastructure.
  • Determine how your IT run books need to change.
  • Develop replication solutions that capitalize on the virtual environment.
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  • Rationalizing Infrastructure Costs
    Extract more value out of IT infrastructure. Keep IT spending under control despite information growth and business changes.
  • Managing Risk
    Protect your critical information with the right policies and strategies. Optimize risk and increase performance to make your business more effective.
  • Optimizing Infrastructure
    Achieve the best return on your IT investments. Optimize your data center and remote office infrastructure across the enterprise to generate economies of scale.
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