Virtualization Analysis Suite

Designed for Technology Architects, Planners, and Buyers, the Ideas International Virtualization Analysis Suite brings together a unique and powerful set of planning, assessment, and research tools to support corporate organizations embarking on a virtualization program. This package will assist organizations with system selection decisions, consolidation planning, scenario modeling, and analysis of virtualization implementation outcomes.

Background

Virtualization is clearly having a major impact across the IT industry. It is generating genuine excitement in the IT community, and many vendors and solution providers are rushing to capitalize on the opportunities that this fascinating technology presents. Virtualization has already proven its ability to deliver several fundamental business benefits in a variety of real-world environments, including:

• Server consolidation

• Lower hardware, software, support, and facilities costs

• Increased server utilization

• Greater operational efficiency, flexibility, and scalability

• Increased speed to deploy new servers and applications

• Reduced vulnerability and improved security

• Optimized disaster recovery and business continuity

As the adoption of virtualization gains momentum and moves beyond the experimentation stage, users are becoming aware of certain strategic decisions that they have to confront as they start to deploy virtualization for production workloads. With an extensive history of analyzing system performance and an in-depth working knowledge of IT Infrastructure hardware and software technologies, Ideas International (IDEAS) is well placed to actively and objectively counsel organizations on building, examining, and implementing a virtualization program.