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Deciding to enter the virtual infrastructure environment is one of the biggest infrastructure changes any company will ever go through. Because of this it is important that the whole experience is fully explained to the customer by our fully qualified consultants before venturing down the virtual route. Research shows more than double the amount of IT budget is spent on admin costs than on new hardware in any datacentre, this is now the norm in most companies, because of this any reduction in costs must come through reduced administration and more efficient use of resource. Most datacentres run on an average 20 - 40% utilisation ratio of hardware, this means savings can be on not only hardware purchases but on power requirements, support contracts, real estate to name just a few. Virtualisation can ensure 60-80% utilisation of hardware along side of the other savings. Other realisations of virtualisation include High availability, clustering, backups, disaster recovery etc. Virtualisation is not a quick process however in any environment where Virtualisation is being considered planning is paramount to correct measurement of virtualised needs and hardware requirements before implementing a well planned strategy. In simple terms if you have a rack of servers and plan to expand consider talking to our consultants who may be able to implement this technology and therefore take advantage of the new phenomena known as HP Virtualisation.
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