Gulf-TCS’ Virtualized Dedicated Servers allow businesses at all levels to leverage the benefits of VMware server Virtualization without the need for significant upfront expenditure for server, SAN storage, network and security devices.

VMware environments can be complex to manage and require a significant level of expertise and certification. That's why you can rely on Gulf-TCS’ expert knowledge, skills and staff to support and run your own 24/7 VMware environment for you.

Why Virtualize?3 key reasons why more and more companies are opting to virtualize their IT infrastructure are:

1. Organizations utilize computers and software more intensively in everyday business than realistically envisaged. As a result, the computing power and the amounts of data that are critical to our businesses are ever increasing..
2. At the same time, costs of running all these computers and servers are also increasing exponentially.
3. Ominously, the future of our environment is in the balance as we must improve the technologies we depend on.

Virtualization of IT infrastructure is the future model for IT as it supports high-performance organizations, and Gulf-TCS is very much a part of transition.

• Virtualization offers a flexible and efficient way of delivering IT processing power and applications at exactly the time and place needed, while minimizing overcapacity, redundancy and unnecessary costs.
• With a virtualization layer in place, organizations can share their computing capacity across all business systems, leading to overall reduction in redundant data center capacity and an increased use of base assets.

How Does VMware Server Virtualization Work?In essence, virtualization lets you transform hardware into software.

• Gulf-TCS employs the VMware ESX Server platform to transform or “virtualize” the hardware resources of an x86-based server or Mac server or Linux server—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 server.
• Gulf-TCS’ VMware platform is summarized in the diagram below. By decoupling the entire software environment from its underlying hardware infrastructure, virtualization enables the aggregation of multiple servers, storage infrastructure and networks into shared pools of resources that can be delivered dynamically, securely and reliably to applications as needed.

VMware Server Virtualization - Key BenefitsHosted virtual machines deliver better availability than dedicated servers because they can be migrated from one server to another with no downtime. Hosted virtual machines are also easier to scale without purchasing additional hardware, and more secure because each virtual machine is completely abstracted from the hardware and isolated from other virtual machines.

Virtualized VMware Servers allow you to -

1. Enjoy superior levels of agility, performance, scalability, and business continuity.
2. Reduce hardware costs while ensuring your critical applications remain available and responsive to customers.
3. Consolidate IT Infrastructure and save power.
4. Leverage existing processes, certifications, skills, and industry leading 24x7 Data Centers.
5. Save power & consolidate server sprawl.

Additional benefits include -

• optimum availability
• dynamic load balancing
• flexibility to provision and deploy new workloads in minutes, not hours
• rapid recovery from failures
• pay only for the computing capacity you require