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Virtualization for Small & Medium Businesses

Enabling Always On IT for SMBs

Small businesses face many of the same IT challenges as larger businesses, trying to accommodate increasing demand for new IT capabilities and services. Small businesses often place even greater emphasis on cost savings and on protecting business critical systems and data, since shrinking IT staff and budgets and a "do more with less" mantra make it extremely difficult to simultaneously maintain day-to-day business operations (keeping the lights on) and invest in new strategic projects that can yield longer-term efficiencies to help the business grow.

VMware vSphere for small business is the most cost effective way to enable Always On IT - the high availability, reliability, and manageability of enterprise-class operations optimized for small and midsized businesses

Always On IT

Virtualization technology simplifies IT so that companies can more effectively utilize their storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and respond faster. The virtual infrastructure approach to IT management creates virtual services out of the physical IT infrastructure, enabling administrators to allocate these resources quickly to the highest priority applications and the business needs that require them the most.

With virtualization, hardware management is completely separated from software management, and hardware equipment can be treated as a single pool of processing, storage, and networking power to be reallocated on the fly to various software services. In a virtual infrastructure, users see resources as if they were dedicated to them - while administrators gain the ability to efficiently manage and optimize resources to serve the needs of the business.

VMware equips SMBs with technology solutions that allow them to cost effectively optimize the use of their existing IT assets and resources as well as protect the systems, data, and applications that run the business, ensuring Always On IT. With analysts predicting the adoption of virtualization among SMBs to double in the next 24 months, these benefits are making this compelling technology a mainstream mandate for SMBs.

Benefits

Slash capital costs through consolidating servers and containing additional hardware spend. VMware virtualization delivers improved utilization of their servers, resulting in fewer resources to manage, power, store, and buy - enabling SMBs to increase utilization rates for x86 servers from 5-15 percent up to 60-80 percent.

Enhance staff productivity. VMware vSphere solutions are easy to deploy, use, and manage. They provide IT professionals with the freedom to be released from menial tasks, enabling them to take a more strategic role in the enterprise.

Improve business continuity. VMware solutions offer complete data protection, truly continuous application availability and automated disaster recovery across physical sites. VMware virtualization helps SMBs protect critical data and applications that keep the business running with zero-downtime hardware maintenance, eliminating the need for maintenance windows.

Improve business responsiveness through improved efficiency, flexibility, and responsiveness. Managing a virtual infrastructure allows IT professionals to quickly connect and manage resources to meet ever-changing business needs. VMware virtualization can result in faster provisioning of new applications in minutes, not weeks, and can accelerate change request response times from hours or days to just minutes.

Improve application quality and deployment. With VMware virtualization, SMBs can test more applications by optimizing pre-production staging environments, resulting in less downtime for the applications that run and drive the business.

Strengthen security. VMware virtualization enables automated patch management of server hosts and virtual machines and an integrated firewall that maintains security policies across the mobile, flexible environment and decreases operational costs of managing them.

Always On IT Solutions for SMBs

Scalable Solutions

As the global leader in virtualization, VMware provides a complete range of robust, reliable and cost-effective solutions, from free virtualization tools to start experiencing the benefits of virtualization today, to comprehensive platforms that can be deployed as building blocks in a flexible and configurable way to scale as the business grows.

• Always On IT Solutions for Small IT Environments [View More]
  Always On IT Solutions for Small IT Environments
  Designed especially for small IT environments with fewer than 20 physical servers, VMware vSphere Essentials Editions combine the high availability, performance and reliability of our enterprise class solutions in a package ideal for smaller IT environments and a price starting at less than $1,000 USD for a complete solution that includes central management.
  
  

  • VMware vSphere™ Essentials provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to consolidate and manage many application workloads while reducing hardware and operating costs with a low up-front investment.
  • VMware vSphere™ Essentials Plus adds high application availability and data protection for a complete server consolidation and business continuity solution for the small office IT environment.

  
  Both editions are all-inclusive packages that enable you to virtualize and consolidate many application workloads onto three physical servers running vSphere and centrally manage them with vCenter Server for Essentials.
  
  

• Scalable Always On IT Solutions for Midsize Businesses [View More]
  Scalable Always On IT Solutions for Midsize Businesses
  VMware vSphere Editions
  vSphere is available for midsize and larger businesses in four main offerings targeted for various deployment scenarios. Each edition is licensed based on the number of processors on the physical server hosts that you want to virtualize and scales easily by adding more licenses to your environment.
  
  

  • VMware vSphere™ Standard provides an entry solution for basic consolidation of applications to slash hardware costs while accelerating application deployment.
  • VMware vSphere™ Advanced provides a strategic consolidation solution that protects all applications against planned and unplanned downtime to provide superior application availability and data protection.
  • VMware vSphere Enterprise provides a strategic platform for minimizing downtime, protecting applications and data, and automating resource management.
  • VMware vSphere™ Enterprise Plus includes the full range of vSphere™ features for transforming datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing environments that can provide the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services to their businesses.

  
  Management Servers
  VMware vCenter Server is the central management tool for configuring, provisioning and managing distributed virtual IT environments. Purchased separately, it is required for managing VMware vSphere server hosts and enabling many of the features.
  
  

  • VMware vCenter Server Standard enables SMBs to scale up their virtual infrastructure to achieve the highest levels of efficiency, automation, simplicity, and security, with centralized management for organizing, monitoring, and configuring the entire IT environment through a single interface, resulting in lower operating costs.
  • VMware vCenter Foundation provides users all the benefits of vCenter Server, but is designed to serve the needs of a smaller IT environment with the ability to manage three or fewer physical server hosts running vSphere.

  
  VMware vSphere™ Acceleration Kits for Midsize Businesses
  VMware vSphere™ Acceleration Kits are solution bundles designed for midsized customers that are new to virtualization. These Acceleration Kits combine a VMware vSphere™ edition together with VMware vCenter Server and are often offered at promotional discounts for significant savings. Contact IronOak IT Inc. for more information on the latest acceleration kits.

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  Virtual Desktop Solutions
  The deployment of hosted virtual desktops is rapidly growing in organizations worldwide, including in SMBs. This adoption is driven by the need to provide corporate end users flexible access to their personalized desktops and applications 24x7 and to enable IT to provide a cost effective way of managing the desktop infrastructure while improving desktop security and compliance. Hosted virtual desktops provide end users the ability to securely access their personalized desktops including their applications and data anywhere, anytime using multiple devices.
  
  

  • VMware View™ is built on the industry leading virtualization platform and provides rich, personalized virtual desktops to SMB users by delivering data and applications to any device with all the benefits of centralized enterprise desktop management. VMware View reduces the total cost of desktop ownership by significantly minimizing the desktop and application management and operations costs. This solution lets the IT team securely provision, manage and update virtual desktops from a centrally located server, which improves security and compliance while giving end users a single view of all their applications and data in a familiar, personalized environment on any device at any location.
  • VMware Workstation is the gold standard virtualization software for desktops, enabling users to run multiple operating systems on a single PC. Users have the ability to run and switch between different computing environments rapidly, set multi-tier configurations and networks and easily create multiple snapshots of virtual machines.
  • VMware Fusion® lets users seamlessly run Windows applications and devices on any Intel-based Mac. Built from the ground up for the Mac, VMware Fusion lets users run all windows applications on the Mac platform.

  
  Both editions are all-inclusive packages that enable you to virtualize and consolidate many application workloads onto three physical servers running vSphere and centrally manage them with vCenter Server for Essentials.