Unlocking Business Agility with Data Center Virtualization
In the modern landscape, enterprises that are a step ahead in adopting the latest technology have successfully executed business strategies and expanded globally. However, they often face challenges while conceiving strategies which allow IT to support growth endeavors within stringent budgetary limits while facing intense competition. Eventually, this shifts the focus of CIOs to agility and asset-light operation model. Among the gamut of IT infrastructure services available, virtualization emerges as the solution to deliver on both these fronts.
Data center virtualization has disrupted the traditional “one server per application” approach. The emergence of public cloud infrastructure has led to the evolution of virtualization where its power has extended to Software-Defined Storage (SDS) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN). HCLTech also offers unified Virtualization-as-a-Service (uVaaS), where we take over the client’s hardware, virtualize it and ‘rent’ it back to the clients.
Several Fortune 1000 organizations have successfully undertaken data center virtualization services by partnering with us for data center virtualization.
Virtual Data Center Lifecycle Services
At HCLTech, we have developed a five-step service pack, the Virtual Data Center Lifecycle Services. The phases are
Assessment
Involves analysis of the base architecture, measurement of performance statistics, and review of infrastructure
Architecture
The project plan is created, and the impact of IT infrastructure virtualization is determined
Implementation
Includes building virtual machines which are then integrated with application and network
Operations
Outline and documents are provided for production capabilities
Transformation
Infrastructure consolidation is undertaken, green virtualized data center is set up, and enhanced customer experience is ensured
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Frequently Asked Question
It’s the transformation of traditional physical infrastructure into virtual environments including compute, storage and networking, often delivered as Unified Virtualization as a Service (UVaaS).
UVaaS means HCLTech takes over your physical hardware, virtualizes it and provides it back as a service, so you get the benefits of virtualization without fully managing the underlying hardware yourself.
We analyze existing architecture, measure performance statistics and review overall IT infrastructure to understand readiness.
Building virtual machines, integrating with applications/networks and deploying the virtualized services.
Consolidating infrastructure, creating green virtualized data center setups and enhancing the customer/user experience.
Virtualization helps improve agility, reduce assets/lighten infrastructure footprint, control costs and support growth under budget constraints.
The lifecycle consists of five phases: Assessment, Architecture, Implementation, Operations and Transformation.
In this phase, we plan the virtualization strategy, design the architecture and determine how infrastructure will support it.
We define production-capable operations, set up monitoring, manage performance and maintain service quality in the virtualized state.
By dispensing with one-server-per-application models, supporting software-defined storage/networking and enabling virtual operations, virtualization helps optimize costs, mitigate infrastructure risk and speed up responsiveness.