Virtualization

Cost reduction, flexibility and reliability

ICT organizations are increasingly challenged to achieve a seemingly contradictory goal. They want to reduce cost and enhance flexibility, while at the same time requiring reliability and time-to-market reduction. This means that traditional outsourcing and consolidation strategies no longer suffice. If carefully and efficiently implemented, an on demand business model based on virtual services is the answer to these demands.

Vancis on demand Virtual Server solutions

Vancis BV provides an extremely efficient solution based on industry-standard components such as VMware ESX software. By using virtualization software one can make use of the overcapacity of physical machines (cost reduction), while retaining the advantages of the required flexibility, scalability and availability of the ICT infrastructure. The Virtual Server platform of Vancis meets all these requirements! The use of high-quality components and possible additional features, such as VMotion and High Availability, results in a very high availability of the environment. Scheduled maintenance does not affect the availability of the entire service. It is even possible to run an environment in different Vancis datacenters. This guarantees an availability of 99.99% on an annual basis!

The specifications of the virtual machines can easily be adjusted to the requirements. The following virtual components can be dynamically extended:

• computing power (CPUs)
• additional memory (GB Memory)
• storage (Vancis offers storage on the Vancis Enterprise SAN infrastructure)
• required bandwidth

Vancis BV can install and manage different operating systems on the virtual machines.

Organizations that want to do the management themselves can make use of a secure connection to get access to our virtual hosting platform. This makes it possible to install and manage applications so that one is fully “in control”, while Vancis takes care of the continuity of the underlying physical infrastructure.