Virtualization has many benefits, one of the key items being resource optimization. By utilizing a single, virtual unit, a company can eliminate the majority of the costs associated with desktop hardware acquisition and maintenance costs.
To determine if your company is a fit for desktop virtualization services, our certified IT professionals will address all aspects of your computing environment to ensure you are getting the right IT solution to meet the demands of your business. Hosted virtualization services may be a perfect solution for your company if you run applications meant for small-to-medium bandwidth usage. If your company is running high-performance applications where one or more servers need to be clustered together to meet performance requirements of a single application, we would typically recommend using a virtualization model that is kept at the client's premise in order to avoid latency of applications. With larger performance applications, using a hosted virtualization model could cause added complexity to your IT environment and will decrease the overall performance.
Atantica’s technical assessment analysis can help you determine the right mix of IT virtualization services to meet your current and future IT needs.
Atantica provides two options in a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Both options have many advantages, and we will consult with you and your team to determine which virtualization option is the best fit. Within our server-based desktop virtualization infrastructure, users are added in large increments, whereas a virtualized blade PC infrastructure provides a more linear approach allowing you to add new enclosures and blade PCs as your company grows.
Atantica also offers server virtualization solutions for businesses wishing to make more efficient use of server resources. A virtual server can be divided into multiple isolated virtual server environments – or virtual private servers. Each virtual private server operates independent of the others and can therefore run on its own operating system. Server virtualization can also improve server availability, assist in disaster recovery, testing and development, and help centralize server administration.
Many of our customers ask about the benefits of a fully-hosted desktop virtualization platform at the Atantica data center versus maintaining the hardware on premise. In the initial discovery and consultation phase, we will help you determine the best solution for your business needs, and the key is that we keep the end-user in mind. Typically, the virtualization solution location is determined by the types of users and applications. Applications using a lot of processing power are usually kept on a virtual machine at the customer site to avoid Internet latency. Task-based users running 1-3 applications at a time that are more text based – as opposed to graphics-based applications – can have a fully-functional virtual environment hosted at the Atantica data center. Some cases allow for a hybrid solution combining the best of both worlds.
- Reduced licensing costs.
- Improved security due to centralization of data.
- Off-loaded responsibility from internal IT department to cloud computing services provider.
- Cost savings with hosted computing services for companies with low graphic requirements.
- Access to your applications anytime and from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.
- Blades are always running giving the user faster boot-up times .
- Software licenses are pre-loaded to each blade for reduced licensing costs.
- Crashing or infecting one blade only takes down one desktop – not the entire virtual infrastructure.
- Blades offer built-in, disaster recovery without the expense of a shared storage device.
- Each blade has its own graphics processor that can be leveraged to give desktop-like video performance.
- Thin clients are used to access a blade PC which means a reduction of energy use, less heat, and less noise.
- Total Cost of Ownership can be reduced by as much as 50 percent.
- Users can access their desktop and applications from any type of client device from anywhere in the world.
- All your data is kept on a secure server instead of being “spread out” on less secure client computers.
- Quick migration of a running virtual machine from one physical host system to another with minimal downtime.
- Administrators can deploy, manage, and support applications more easily since everything is centralized from a single point.