What is Virtualisation?
Virtualisation is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute.

Today’s powerful x86 computer hardware was originally designed to run only a single operating system and a single application, but virtualisation breaks that bond, making it possible to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same computer at the same time, increasing the utilization and flexibility of hardware.

Virtualisation is a technology that can benefit anyone who uses a computer, from IT professionals and Mac enthusiasts to commercial businesses and government organisations. Join the millions of people around the world who use virtualisation to save time, money and energy while achieving more with the computer hardware they already own. As an enterprise partner with Vmware, Quadnet are specialist in this field and can help you understand, deploy and reap the benefits of virtualisation.

Top 5 Reasons to Adopt Virtualisation Software

1. Server Consolidation and Infrastructure Optimization: Virtualisation makes it possible to achieve significantly higher resource utilisation by pooling common infrastructure resources and breaking the legacy “one application to one server” model.

2. Physical Infrastructure Cost Reduction: With virtualisation, you can reduce the number of servers and related IT hardware in the data centre. This leads to reductions in real estate, power and cooling requirements, resulting in significantly lower IT costs.

3. Improved Operational Flexibility & Responsiveness: Virtualisation offers a new way of managing IT infrastructure and can help IT administrators spend less time on repetitive tasks such as provisioning, configuration, monitoring and maintenance.

4. Increased Application Availability & Improved Business Continuity: Eliminate planned downtime and recover quickly from unplanned outages with the ability to securely backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no interruption in service.

5. Improved Desktop Manageability & Security: Deploy, manage and monitor secure desktop environments that end users can access locally or remotely, with or without a network connection, on almost any standard desktop, laptop or tablet PC.

How Does Virtualisation Work

In essence, virtualisation lets you transform hardware into software. Use software such as VMware ESX Server to transform or “virtualise” the hardware resources of an x86-based computer—including the CPU, RAM, hard disk and network controller—to create a fully functional virtual machine that can run its own operating system and applications just like a “real” computer.

Multiple virtual machines share hardware resources without interfering with each other so that you can safely run several operating systems and applications at the same time on a single computer

Reduce Your Power Consumption with Virtualisation
VMware virtual infrastructure reduces energy consumption by allowing you to run your applications on fewer physical servers, which in turn reduces your power and cooling requirements. Cost savings can be significant, approximately $500-600 per server per year. These cost savings are only a part of the ROI of virtual infrastructure.

Understand What's at Stake – Your IT Budget & The Environment
While a typical server in the year 2000 consumed only 100W of power, the average server today consumes at least four times as much. Combined with rising energy costs and increased server density, the growth of data centre energy spending could far outpace the rate at which IT budgets grow, leaving less budget for other vital IT initiatives and projects.
• Gartner Group says energy costs may increase from 10% of the IT budget today to over 50% in the next few years
• Forrester says servers would use about 30% of their peak electricity consumption while sitting idle
• IDC says the cost to power servers will exceed the cost of the servers by next year
• The U.S. Department of Energy states that data centre energy usage can be 100 times higher than those for a typical commercial building