VM Ware

Choose VMware for Greater Efficiency, Control and Flexibility
Maintain your company’s competitive edge by choosing the best virtualization infrastructure solution that meets your business requirements today – and can grow with your business tomorrow. VMware, as the world's leading desktop and datacenter virtualization provider, offers the best and most trusted solutions for transforming today’s often inflexible IT environment into a flexible, automated cloud infrastructure, helping you reap cost savings and productivity benefits.

Virtualize Your Datacenter at a Lower TCO
Maximize your hardware and software investments across servers, network, storage, operating systems, and applications. VMware vSphere has scalability and density advantages that result in lower cost-per-application, even lower than other vendors’ so-called ‘free’ products. VMware vSphere and the vCenter Product Family also reduce operating costs by an average of 33% compared to physical environments. Less hardware means lower energy costs and less physical space taken up by machines.

Improve Visibility and Gain Control of Your Resources
Get peace of mind with the most complete set of availability and disaster recovery offerings to keep your applications up and running. Control virtual server and desktop sprawl before it starts by managing your virtualization infrastructure, across the complete virtual machine lifecycle, with the VMware vCenter product family. Integrate virtual machines with your existing physical management solutions by leveraging the work VMware has done with a large ecosystem of management partners.

Respond to Changes and Disruptions with Confidence
Deliver on service level agreements even in the midst of rapidly changing business demands by transforming your existing IT environment into a flexible cloud infrastructure, built on VMware technology, including the world's most trusted virtualization platform VMware vSphere. Maximize choice and protect your existing investments with vSphere’s broad hardware, application and guest OS support. Benefit from the 1500+ VMware technology partners with products designed to work well with a VMware deployment, from the desktop to the datacenter to the cloud.

Microsoft HyperV

Simplified, Reliable, Optimized
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 provides a simplified, reliable, and optimized virtualization solution, enabling improved server utilization and reduced costs. Since Hyper-V Server is a dedicated standalone product, which contains only Windows Hypervisor and the virtualization components, it provides a small footprint and minimal overhead. It easily plugs into customers’ existing IT environments leveraging their existing patching, provisioning, management, and support tools, processes, and skills.

IT pros can easily leverage their existing knowledge and skills with Microsoft virtualization products, as well as the collective knowledge of the community, minimizing any learning curve. In addition, with Microsoft providing comprehensive support for Microsoft applications and heterogeneous guest operating systems, customers can virtualize with confidence and peace of mind.
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 Features and Benefits
Microsoft Hyper-V Server uses the same virtual machine model as Windows Server 2008 w/ Hyper-V enabled so there is no need to re-tool your management infrastructure.

• VHD format: To move a virtual machine from Hyper-V Server to a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environment (or vice versa), simply export the virtual machine and import it on the other host using the standard management tools.
• BitLocker support: Hyper-V Server can take advantage of BitLocker technology to encrypt a Hyper-V Server so that even if it is stolen and the hard disks are removed, the data is still safe because it’s encrypted. This is particularly useful for branch offices or environments where physical security is a concern.
• Live Backup support: Hyper-V Server includes native support for Volume Shadow Services so that it can provide Live Backup of running virtual machines without downtime.
• Flexible hardware support: Microsoft Hyper-V Server leverages the Windows Server driver model and is compatible with a wide variety of server hardware and driver support for newer peripherals such as 10 Gb/E.
• Flexible Storage: Hyper-V Server offers flexible storage support, such as:

o    Direct Attach Storage (DAS): SATA, eSATA, PATA, SAS, SCSI, USB, Firewire
o    Storage Area Networks (SANs): iSCSI, Fiber Channel, SAS
o    Network Attached Storage (NAS)

• Virtual Machine Snapshots: Hyper-V Server fully supports virtual machine snapshots.
• VSP/VSC/VMBUS: Both products fully leverage the driver enlightened architecture (VSP/VPC/VMBus) for high performance I/O. There is no conversion when moving virtual machines between Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 w/ Hyper-V.

Citrix

Citrix Unleashes the Power of Virtual Computing

Citrix delivers dynamic virtualization solutions from the datacenter to the desktop, which frees both IT and users from traditional computing. With virtual computing, IT has the power to manage desktops, applications, servers and data. Users are free to work securely and productively anywhere, anytime, from any device.

Citrix desktop virtualization, application virtualization, server virtualization, application networking, cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service offerings radically simplify computing. Going beyond consolidating servers, virtual computing powers the cloud and takes online collaboration and desktop computing to a whole new level. Management and datacenter operations costs are cut up to 50 percent with the optimization of servers, networks and user devices to provide fast, efficient application performance regardless of user location.

Citrix Virtualization

With Citrix virtualization, IT updates just one copy of each application and operating system in the datacenter, rather than having to manage many, or hundreds or thousands of user devices spread throughout the organization. New applications are delivered in minutes and updates to applications occur in seconds.

Citrix solutions include virtualization and networking products – Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenServer and Citrix NetScaler – to create an end-to-end system that virtualizes desktops, applications, and servers, and centralizes them in the datacenter and broadcasts them to users over any network as an on-demand service.

Citrix virtualization solutions make businesses more efficient and more agile. Industry experts agree the time is right to make the move to dynamic virtualization solutions from Citrix.

With Citrix virtualization, you can

• Cut facilities expenses with tele-working and remote working initiatives
• Reduce labor costs with secure, productive outsourcing and off-shoring
• Attract and retain key talent with flexible working alternatives
• Rapidly deploy branch offices
• Quick time to value for mergers and acquisitions
• Minimize down-time with business continuity

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Microsoft Exchange

Now, more than ever, your organization requires cost-effective and flexible communication tools. With Microsoft Exchange you can achieve new levels of reliability and performance with features that simplify your administration, help protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater mobility.

Microsoft Exchange is a flexible and reliable messaging platform that can help you lower your messaging costs by 50-80%, increase productivity with anywhere access to business communications, and safeguard your business with protection and compliance capabilities that help you manage risk.

Lower IT costs with a flexible and reliable platform

Pressure to optimize your IT infrastructure for ever-changing business conditions requires you to be agile, so investing in solutions that provide reliability and choice is critical. Microsoft Exchange Server and Exchange Online give you the flexibility to tailor your deployment to your unique needs and provides a simplified way to help keep email continuously available for your users.

Delight users with anywhere access to communications

Your business success relies on technology solutions that make your users more productive. With Microsoft Exchange you can cost effectively provide your users the freedom to securely access all of their communications—email, voice mail, instant messaging, and more—from virtually any platform, Web-browser, or device to get more done wherever they are.

Manage risk with protection and compliance capabilities

A growing number of applications and devices access your email infrastructure, so it is more important than ever that you consider the protection of your mission critical email data when you choose an email solution. Your organization has many reasons to protect and archive email, from regulatory concerns to internal organizational governance. Exchange 2010 delivers integrated information protection, control, and compliance tools focused on helping you simplify and automate this process.

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