VMware and Intel Bring Virtualization Solutions to Small and Medium Businesses

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Virtualization allows small and medium-sized businesses to streamline their operations by running multiple operating systems and application simultaneously on the same server—delivering a range of cost-saving benefits.

Virtualizing servers can help businesses make full use of their existing IT resources as they deploy new applications, improve availability and ensure business continuity. Thanks to virtualization, businesses can dramatically reduce capital and operating costs while increasing IT staff efficiency. Virtualization also brings enterprise-class high availability, performance and reliability to the IT environments of small and medium businesses.

It's no wonder that many small and mid-size businesses are planning to deploy virtualization solutions within the next year.

Moving to Virtualization: A Guide to What's Possible with VMware and Intel VMware and Intel are partnering to make sure small and medium businesses get the facts about virtualization and how it can help them compete. Read this online guide to virtualization for information about the benefits of virtualization, critical factors to consider, how to get started and more.

VMware and Intel are partnering to make sure small and medium businesses get the facts about virtualization and how it can help them compete by publishing an online virtualization guide, a self-assessment tool and more.

There are a number of reasons that small and medium business should adopt virtualization for their IT environment.

Performance: Combine Intel® Xeon® processor 5600-based servers with VMware vSphere™ and the servers will deliver up to 160 percent better performance in a virtualized environment than previous generation processors and better utilization of legacy 32-bit guest applications on virtual machines.

Application Deployment: Virtualization makes fast, simple application deployment a reality because you don't have to configure new servers.

Provisioning: Small and medium businesses can reduce the complex process of ordering, configuring and provisioning servers on the network with virtualization. They can also avoid using servers running at less than maximum capacity.

Data Mobility: Small and medium business can make the most of the capacity they have across their network because virtualization allows users to consolidate applications on a single server.

Management: The monitoring and management tools that are used in a virtual environment can automate tasks and issue alerts.

Disaster Recovery: Virtualization allows automatic rollover to available network resources when there's a problem.

No unplanned downtime: With virtualization's ability to move data between physical servers, during a patch update for example, small and medium businesses can maintain systems without bringing them down.

Get More for Less: Enterprise-Level Virtualization Solutions from VMware and Intel Learn how VMware and Intel have partnered to make virtualization more affordable, easier to deploy and manage, and more reliable with improved backup, recover—and much more.

Small businesses with fewer than 20 servers will want to consider the VMware vSphere Essentials editions, which deliver enterprise-level capabilities at an affordable price so users can optimize and protect their IT assets with a minimal up-front investment. These affordable, all-in-one solutions will help small business consolidate and manage multiple application workloads while reducing hardware and operating costs.

VMware vSphere Essentials Plus now includes VMware vMotion® to eliminate planned downtime. This gives small businesses an enterprise-level business continuity and server consolidation solution that won't break the bank. Users can eliminate planned downtime with vMotion, reduce hardware and operating costs and improve application uptime and data protection.

Businesses with between 20 and 50 servers that are looking for a robust consolidation and high availability application solution might be interested in VMware vSphere Advanced. It provides a strategic consolidation solution that protects all applications against planned and unplanned downtime to provide superior application availability and data protection.

Businesses with more than 50 servers that are looking for the complete range of vSphere features will want to explore VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus. It delivers the full range of vSphere features, transforming data centers into dramatically simplified environments with next-generation, flexible and reliable IT services.

Thanks to an online self-assessment tool, small and medium sized businesses can get a VMware solution recommendation after answering just a few brief questions. With affordable, reliable solutions that are easy to setup and manage, there's no reason small and medium businesses shouldn't be taking advantage of the benefits of virtualization today.