Saturday, March 31, 2012

TMCnet Virtualization Week in Review

By Jamie EpsteinTMCnet Web Editor
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If you are in need of an efficient solution that can help dramatically reduce costs and allow you to keep up with increasing demands from clients, all you need is a virtualization solution as this technology can offer those capabilities.

This week, Carousel Industries, a major provider in the space, revealed that it was participating in Enterprise Connect (News - Alert) 2012, which took place from March 28-28, in Orlando, Fla.

At the event, the company showcased its UC/Virtualization solutions at its station, where it demonstrated how virtual desktop environments can drive productivity while simultaneously powering an ultra high level of security. As more organizations allow their workers to work remotely, it is imperative to implement a virtualization solution until it’s too late to do so and competitors have taken away a large amount of customers. 

Within Carousel’s portfolio, the company has multiple offerings including infrastructure consolidation, data center automation and virtualization acceleration, as well as desktop virtualization which can be used by any business to see multiple benefits.

In addition, as virtualization becomes increasingly popular around the world, IT departments are beginning to utilize this solution in order to make disaster recovery just another easy to use, always available service. According to a report from Computerworld, “Sometimes they are using the same servers, network and storage that run order entry, email, application development or other services.”

When combining both the disaster recovery functionality with virtualization solutions, companies can protect their businesses from cyber attacks, as well as human made errors or faulty equipment. 

Computerworld reporter Robert L. Scheier added, “Since 2010, the IT shop has been cutting costs and meeting its service and disaster recovery commitments by using a hybrid cloud made up of its own virtualized hardware at collocation facilities in Chicago, Frankfurt and Singapore. We're always using that architecture for something,"

Finishing out the week, ING DIRECT, Australia’s fifth-largest mortgage lender, was searching for a way to improve IT efficiency with a cloud-enabled operating solution that could ramp up the time to market of new products and services.

The company ultimately decided to go with Microsoft’s “Bank in a Box” service, a private cloud infrastructure, in conjunction with Dimension Data (News - Alert), Cisco and NetApp. Touted as a fully integrated solution that would allow for rapid provisioning of entire environments, the virtualization solution combined the bank’s applications, services, configurations and 5.5 terabytes of data all in one robust environment.

For the latest and greatest news in the virtualization industry, be sure to stay tuned to the Virtualization Community, exclusively on TMCnet!




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