Virtualisation

What is virtualisation?

Virtualisation has become an essential data centre technology, allowing businesses to consolidate their IT infrastructure and meet the increasing demand on IT services while reducing costs and enhancing service levels.

Virtualisation allows businesses to create virtual computing platforms to support business applications. Given sufficient processor power, memory and disk storage, a single hardware system running virtualisation software can support many virtual machines. Applications and data are then managed in exactly the same way as they would in a physical environment.

Optimising virtualisation with VPLS

When virtualisation is underpinned by Exponential-e’s Smart Wires, even greater value can be derived. The most important feature of our Smart Wires for virtualisation is its layer 2 VPLS service layer delivered over MPLS.

This VPLS service layer unites geographically-dispersed LANs into a single LAN-like WAN so virtualised resources and applications cab be distributed acros the network to meet your businesses current needs.

If virtualisation is the technique for managing systems and resource functionality regardless of their physical location, then VPLS next generation networking is the service-oriented architecture which allows it to happen across the WAN.

Features

• Transform physical hardware resource into a shared computing platform.
• Define resource allocation policies allowing for improved service levels
• Designed and tested to work across wide range of enterprise computing hardware and operating systems.

Benefits

• Reduced operating and capital expenditure
• Improved utilisation of computing assets
• Faster resource provisioning and workload balancing
• Increased IT staff productivity
• Enhanced business continuity capabilities