Verizon Business New Tips For Power of Virtualization

Verizon Business is reportedly offering a series of tips for effectively planning and organizing the often-complex of task of implementing virtualization technology.

The company said that it’s offering five tips for enterprises embarking on a virtualization project. Virtualization uses technology to remove the physical barriers associated with servers and applications.

The company said that this helps the consolidation or replacement of servers, storage, network and other physical devices, resulting in better use of computing capacity and also consolidates data centers and lowers energy consumption.

“Virtualization holds huge promise for the enterprise,” said Michael Marcellin, vice president for global managed solutions at Verizon , in a statement. He added that its ability to increase efficiency and agility while managing costs is “unparalleled.”

Noting that with that potential, however, comes complexity concerning deployment and implementation, Marcellin said, “Our hope is that enterprises will take this promising technology to heart and embrace our suggestions – based on our more than 10 years experience managing complex IT infrastructures – on how best to utilize it.”

The first tip for the business is that a business should first complete a thorough assessment of its current IT environment and computing resources, including a full review of all servers.

Company officials said that once the enterprise has a better understanding of its infrastructure, it is easier to determine which computing resources, such as servers and devices, are candidates for consolidation.

The second tip is regarding enlisting vendor support. Officials said that after compiling a list of applications that can be virtualized, it is important to confirm there will be very few, if any, issues with vendor support.

Suggestion regarding evaluating licensing costs is the third tip. Officials said that when assessing applications for migration, it’s better to evaluate the licensing costs associated with them. And, while consolidating multiple servers and devices into a single virtual machine will lower hardware and facility costs and this does not necessarily apply to software licensing costs.

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