How can vSphere transform your Business IT?

Vmware vSphere is the industry’s leading and most reliable virtualisation platform. vSphere separates applications and operating systems from the underlying hardware, so that your existing applications see dedicated resources, while your servers can be managed as a pool of resources. The end result is a business that runs on a simpler, more resilient IT environment.

vSphere Key Benefits include:

·         Business Continuity and always-available IT

·         Reduced IT footprint and simplified management

·         Drastically cuts hardware and datacenter running costs

·         Improved service levels and application quality

·         Strengthened security and data protection

vSphere is made up of numerous key components, including:

Vmware ESXi hypervisor architecture – a high performance virtualisation layer, enabling multiple virtual machines to share hardware resources, while maintaining high performance levels.

VMware vCenter Server – providing centralised management and performance monitoring for all virtual machines and vSphere hosts.

VMware vSphere VMFS – a key technology, allowing virtual machines to access shared storage devices and enabling other vSphere components, such as VMware vSphere Storage vMotion.

VMware vSphere Thin Provisioning – enables implementation of a tiered storage strategy and reduce storage spending by up to 50 percent.

VMware vCenter Update Manager – allowing for automated tracking, patching and updating of vSphere hosts, as well as applications and operating systems running in VMware virtual machines.

VMware VMsafe APIs – provides higher levels of security by enabling the use of security products that work in conjunction with the virtualisation layer.

vSphere High Availability – in the event of hardware or operating system failures, vSphere high availability provides cost-effective, automated restart for all applications, within minutes.

vSphere vMotion – eliminates the need to schedule application downtime for server maintenance, as vMotion enables live migration of virtual machines across servers with no disruption or service loss to users.

vSphere Data Protection – enables agent-less backups with built-in deduplication, to provide simple, cost-effective backup and recovery for virtual machines.

vSphere Endpoint – an agent-less antivirus and antimalware protection to keep all your virtual machines secure.

Why vSphere?

With vSphere your business can leverage a comprehensive and cost-effective virtualisation solution to protect your business, reduce your IT footprint and dramatically reduce your IT costs.

For more information contact Andy Potts on 01723 587240.

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Cloud Backup - How can it benefit you?

Cloud backup is increasingly more popular within our current technological environment, so we are taking this opportunity to keep you up to speed with what cloud backup actually is and why there has been an increase in its popularity.

Data Backups

Before cloud backup we relied on local backup, local backup is simply a copy of data to be stored in a different location to the original data, most commonly on tapes or another hard drive. However this form of backup cannot be seen as an effective form of disaster recovery. In order for this to be an effective form of disaster recovery the tapes or hard drives containing the copies need to be stored in a secure offsite location, to ensure that in the event of a fire the copies of your data are not lost along with the originals. This is where cloud backup comes in.

What is Cloud Backup?

Cloud backup or remote backup, as it is also known as, works in the same way as local or tape backup, except that your data is copied to highly secure off site data storage facilities over the internet. This form of backup is completely automatic, thus providing a more effective form of disaster recovery than local backup, due to data being stored offsite.

Why Cloud Backup?

Backup of this type offers a number of benefits to businesses, such as:

·         You only pay for the storage (GBs) you need

·         It offers a large retention period allowing for retrieval of accidentally deleted or modified  files

·         Flexible, limitless storage that can be scaled up or down as you require

·         Backup data can be accessed from any computer, even on the move

·         Backups can be completely automated, no user intervention is required

·         Offsite storage adding an element of disaster recovery

·         Scalability – it can easily adapt to deal with business growth

·         Most online backup services have redundant systems in place, increasing the safety of your  data

If you want to know more about online backup and how it can benefit you, why not give Andy a call on:

01723 587240

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