server virtualization
Overview
IPM’s experts employ our renowned business solutions by using a cutting-edge technology solution: Server Virtualization. Virtualization enables companies to save money on hardware by providing efficient server consolidation. Additionally, the technology allows companies to manage, deploy, and recover complex server environments with unparalleled speed and accuracy.The Technology
Server Virtualization enables companies to quickly provision new server capacity by partitioning a physical server into multiple virtual machines. The technology creates isolated and secure virtual private servers (VPSs) from a standard Linux or Windows OS, on a single physical server to enable higher server utilization availability and automation. Each virtual server performs and executes like a stand-alone server. Implemented Server Virtualization technology includes the following:
Partitioning – mediates activity and ensures that no single server can take down an entire server system
Computer Resource Control and Flexibility – monitors minimums and maximums in capacity and allows for simple real-time changes that do not affect the servers or application performance
Hardware Abstraction – separates the virtual private server from the physical hardware server.
Efficient Management – provides a centralized point of management to view, access and control all servers.
Historically, typical organizations consisted of 100s to 1000s of Windows, Linux, UNIX, and other servers. Under this system, where one server was dedicated and deployed for each application or department, costs were astronomical, due to infrastructure costs, hardware costs, software costs, and management costs. Additionally, the system tended towards high complexity, low service levels, and low flexibility. Server Virtualization reduces these costs and alleviates these inefficiencies. IPM uses the award-winning products of Microsoft and VMware and its alliance partners to implement this technology. To learn more about these products and implementations, including Microsoft's implementation of both HyperV and Vsphere technologies, read more about IPM’s Technology Implementations.
White Papers / Links
Citrix
Application Delivery Infrastructure - an EMA Analysis
Optimizing Web Applications
Practical Guide to Web Application Security
Microsoft
Virtualization for Windows: A Technology Overview
How Customers are Cutting Costs & Building Value with Microsoft Virtualization
VMware
The Roadmap to Virtual Infrastrucutre: Practical Implementation Strategies
