NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The key to a
truly successful, useful and fully functional IT environment –
whether on-premise or in the cloud – is being able to manage and
control available resources. According to Logicalis US, an
international IT solutions and managed services provider
(www.us.logicalis.com), a CIO's choice of centralized IT management
application will affect the efficiency and functionality of the
organization's IT environment as a whole – and ultimately, the
overall user experience – something that's sure to be a hot topic
at VMworld this week. To help IT pros explore their options,
Logicalis has identified four ways VMware can help IT pros manage
virtual resources.
"Proper management of a virtualized environment will of course
yield lower overall IT costs for an organization," says
Kevin Gruneisen, Senior Director,
Cloud and Data Center Solutions, Logicalis US. "But perhaps
the most important reason to manage those resources well is to
improve IT's ability to respond quickly to requests for
resources. If the IT department is properly managing its
virtual machines, when a corporate user requests compute resources
for an upcoming project, the CIO can simply open their self-service
portal, for example, and see what resources are available and
where. If they are, and if the project is budgeted, those
requested resources can be easily provisioned. The difference
between knowing and not knowing what you have available all comes
down to management and the tools an IT pro chooses to use for that
purpose. Speed and efficiency are two ingredients to business
success and byproducts of good management."
Four Ways VMware Can Help You Manage Virtual
Resources
- Controlling Virtual Sprawl: Justifications for moving
from a physical to a virtual environment are easy to find – reduced
costs and complexity, easier management, faster access to
resources. However, based on the simplicity with which
virtual resources can be created and allocated, IT departments have
to guard against virtualization sprawl, creating more virtual
machines than are needed. Because virtual machines have the
same support, security and compliance issues that physical machines
do, the cost of server sprawl can be significant. To capture
the advantages of a virtualized environment, IT pros need to
implement tools designed to help them pinpoint virtualization
sprawl and to reclaim virtual resources when they are no longer
being used.
- Creating Custom Dashboards: You can't manage what you
can't see. Creating customized dashboards that give you the
ability to oversee your environment on a day-to-day basis all from
a single pane of glass gives you the ability to monitor the
effectiveness and efficiency of your environment and the strategies
and solutions you have in place.
- Capacity Planning: After reigning in any virtual sprawl
and setting up a dashboard for clear visibility of your resources,
capacity planning is a good next step in effectively managing your
environment. It's critical to know when you are going to need
to add resources from compute and memory to storage.
- Automation and Orchestration: Once you have a highly
efficient environment, automation is a natural evolutionary step;
by automating important processes and creating templates for
routine procedures, you can ensure best-in-class IT performance
while keeping staffing and other overhead costs low.
Want to Learn More?
- Read a Logicalis press release, "Your Cloud Will Mirror Your
On-Premise Environment," then download a Logicalis+VMware white
paper, "Cloud – Less Talk, More Action."
- Find out how to simplify IT management across virtualized
environments with VMware tools: http://ow.ly/AeYpc.
- Read a case study to find out how Logicalis helped a client,
Conseco, develop a comprehensive virtualization strategy to ensure
high-level data center performance: http://ow.ly/Af2yQ.
About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international IT
solutions and managed services provider with a breadth of knowledge
and expertise in communications and collaboration, data center and
cloud services, and managed services.
Logicalis employs nearly 3,700 people worldwide, including
highly trained service specialists who design, specify, deploy and
manage complex ICT infrastructures to meet the needs of almost
6,000 corporate and public sector customers. To achieve this,
Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders
such as Cisco, HP, IBM, CA Technologies, EMC, NetApp, Microsoft,
VMware and ServiceNow.
The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues of $1.6 billion, from operations in Europe, North
America, Latin America and
Asia Pacific, and is fast
establishing itself as one of the leading IT and Communications
solution integrators specializing in the areas of advanced
technologies and services.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on
the Johannesburg and London AIM
Stock Exchanges, with revenues of over $5
billion.
For more information, visit www.us.logicalis.com.
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www.us.logicalis.com
Karen Franse, Communication
Strategy Group for Logicalis US
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866-997-2424
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