Virtualisation Solutions

The latest buzzword in the industry, "virtualisation" enables multiple "virtual" servers to run on one physical machine. With products such as Microsoft Hyper-V, Breakwater IT has wholeheartedly embraced virtualisation as means of leveraging our client’s investment in server hardware by increasing scalability, simplifying recovery and driving down both maintenance and energy costs.

The biggest driver for adopting virtualisation technology is server consolidation. This gives you the benefits of virtualisation while helping to reduce license management headaches and costs, thus helping:

• Simplified, reliable, and optimised virtualisation solution, enabling improved server utilisation and reduced costs;
• Logically consolidate servers and streamline management;
• Reduce the cost associated with power, cooling, and data centre space;
• Increase the availability of your systems (easily move running virtual machines between physical hosts);
• Reduce server sprawl by using multiple virtual machines hosted on a physical server;
• Ability to rapidly grow and change and can easily scales to adapt to the increased needs of data warehousing and transaction processing; and
• Native support for Volume Shadow Services so that it can provide Live Backup of running virtual machines without downtime (virtual machine snapshots) and would create a more advanced operational and disaster recovery facility.