Virtualisation from Desktop to Data Centre

In an era where cost reduction, increasing efficiency and driving business agility are at the top of the organisational agenda – deciding how to achieve these goals is infinitely more complex.

One area that the IT department is turning to in order to help achieve these objectives is virtualisation. Even though the virtues of virtualisation are well understood, very few organisations are realising the true value that the pervasive adoption of virtualisation can bring.

Dimension Data’s desktop and server virtualisation solutions will help you maximise the benefits of virtualisation to enable business agility, increase the availability of resources and applications and support the journey to cloud computing.

Our Services

Dimension Data offers virtualisation solutions in the following areas:

• Server consolidation and virtualisation

• Desktop virtualisation

• Virtualisation infrastructure

We offer solutions tailored to your organisational requirements based on best practices garnered from deploying, implementing and supporting virtualised server and desktop environments for clients around the world.

Find out more about Dimension Data’s virtualisation services:

• Next Generation Desktop Assessment

• Server Virtualisation Assessment

• Unified Computing Systems Workshop

• Data Centre Maturity Assessment

Virtualisation Acceleration

While virtualisation is prevalent in data centres today, it is estimated that typically only 20% of the server estate is virtualised. Accelerating the adoption of virtualisation to include the virtualisation of mission-critical applications will enable you to see even greater cost savings, streamlining of business processes and greater speed to market.

Our extensive experience in virtualisation deployments from file and print servers to mission-critical applications means that we have the expertise to address the data centre requirements for wide-spread virtualisation adoption – from the data centre to the desktop.

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Naxoo drives down costs and ensure scalability by virtualising 90% of their IT infrastructure.

Virtualisation Touches Everything Virtualisation can improve business agility, assist in disaster recovery preparations and position organisations for cloud computing

Wood and Company Financial Services Modernisation of the data centre through virtualisation to improve the performance and availability of critical server applications

Server Virtualisation Assessment A consulting service that provides an understanding of how you could accelerate the adoption of virtualisation

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Leading Thinking

Desktop Virtualisation on the Fast Track to Mainstream Adoption - This opinion piece looks at the forces driving organisations to move away from the traditional desktop and embrace virtualisation as a better way to operate their end user environments.

The Client Virtualisation Imperative Thought Leadership Paper - Provides new insights into the global desktop virtualisation market, uncovers the principal drivers and restraints to adoption, and explores the timelines that businesses have assigned to their desktop transformation journeys.

Virtualisation Touches Everything Virtualisation can improve business agility, assist in disaster recovery preparations and position organisations for cloud and utility computing.

Mitigating the Painpoints of Virtual Service Operations Operating critical applications on virtual infrastructure brings a whole new set of considerations and challenges from an operations management perspective.

Swing to Data Centre Consolidation A trend towards consolidation of data centres – to achieve not only cost savings but consistency of service.

Understanding the Software Licensing Implications Around Virtualisation A practical guide to avoiding the pitfalls of virtualisation software licensing.

Preparing Storage for the New Age in Computing – key considerations for managing data in a virtual world.

Client Successes   

National University of Singapore Virtualisation reduces physical server ration by 5:1 and reduces costs.

Wood and Company Financial Services Modernisation of the data centre through virtualisation to improve the performance and availability of critical server systems.

Asiana The virtual solution reduces overall administration costs, simplifies installation and software updates and allows users to safely access their work data at any time and from anywhere.

Holmesglen TAFE UCS solution resulted in a 30% reduction in server hardware costs and uses 50% less space of the data centre floor.

Naxoo Naxoo virtualised over 90% of their existing server infrastructure to drive down costs and ensure scalability.