Virtualization
Virtualization and cloud computing are two terms that are heard quite often these days. Many organizations are directed toward virtulizing their environments without a solid understanding of the costs and benefits. Virtualization first came about as a means to maximize hardware efficiency, reduce power consumption and create a smaller footprint. Today, virtualization means much more then that.
Virtualized environments allow for rapid deployment of servers, moving server environments between systems, sharing peripherals, creating economical clustering, and low cost fail-over environments. Glenbriar's virtualization solutions are able to maximize your hardware utilization and allow for high availability to minimize business disruption and maximize productivity.
Virtualization is a key component in cloud computing solutions. Cloud computing is a relatively new word given to a technology that has been around for some time. It is the use of resources through the Internet. Many of us do it without evening thinking about cloud computing. Online banking, terminal services, Twitter, Facebook, and other Internet based applications are all part of the cloud computing experience. Today, the industry is moving entire companies to the cloud to remove the backoffice infrastructure from the business site. This creates security, privacy and performance concerns which must be addressed in order to achieve a business quality cloud computing environment.