Everyone wants the computing power but no one really wants to own the hardware or technology. Almost from the day you buy it, it's out of date. Keeping up with your computing needs is always a challenge. What if there was a better way? What if someone could deliver computing power to you, as you needed, when you need it?
Virtualization has arrived...
SLPowers leverages extensive business and technical expertise to deliver virtual IT infrastructure solutions that optimize today's data centers and are creating the data centers of tomorrow. Our people, methodologies and tool sets are the key components to integrating hardware, software and IT services into complete solutions to meet your business requirements. We offer a range of solution sets to help you minimize the time, cost and risk of implementing an end-to-end virtual IT infrastructure.
GN "On Demand" Overcomes Business/IT Challenges
As employees become increasingly mobile, IT faces the dilemma of providing convenient access to desktops and applications while retaining control over the security of those resources. These challenges are magnified by new federal and state regulations, requiring tighter controls on employee network usage. The inherent risks of traditional desktops, added to the spiraling costs of maintenance and administration, are the driving forces behind desktop virtualization.
Each time a business expands, either organically or through mergers and acquisitions, they inadvertently introduce increased cost and complexity into their IT infrastructure. The strategy of optimizing individual business unit systems rather than the end-to-end enterprise has yielded a staggering number of disparate hardware and software platforms. The proliferation of servers has been compounded by a trend to run "one application per server." The effects of excessive infrastructure and complexity can be substantial and cost prohibitive to administer. By reducing complexity, eliminating redundancy, improving the utilization of their assets and minimizing space, power, and cooling consumption, virtualization can help businesses to reduce their IT infrastructure costs by 15-30%.
Virtualization is not a new IT technology. It has been successfully deployed for years in mainframes and high-performance technical environments to optimize the utilization of processors, storage and networks. Now is the time for SMB to begin leveraging virtualization technology... on demand. Until now, when a customer needed to add the functionality of an additional server, after writing a scope of work, we would need to create the specifications, source the hardware, wait for delivery, schedule the build, load the operating systems, provision the server into your infrastructure, schedule the installation and then begin the testing phase. If all went well, a new server could be ready to use in about three weeks. Virtualization technology allows us to provision a server and deliver its functionality to you almost instantly, our target is to have it ready for you in 48 hours... and it's managed for you.
- Ability to scale server configurations & computing power
- Automate peak workloads
- Rapid deployment of applications
- Protects investments in legacy applications while harnessing the performance and economics of current hardware platforms
- Increased IT agility, data and application resiliency
- High Availability / Optimize Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Solutions
- Reduced complexity and cost
For more information, please read this article featuring our CEO discussing the future of small business computing.