Virtualization and Storage

In tight economic times, businesses have opportunities to use energy-efficient technologies to produce substantial savings. For many businesses, the savings start with servers because they take up space and require a sizable energy expense.

Through server virtualization, businesses can operate more than one server on the same piece of hardware and manage multiple servers from a central location. Organizations of all sizes are consolidating their servers because of the clear ROI. Here are three ways it delivers savings:

• Lower energy costs: Over the next five years, businesses are expected to spend as much on energy for their data centers as they do on hardware, according to technology research firm Gartner Inc. Every virtual server delivers an 80 percent reduction in total energy costs on average.
• Less hardware demands: Server virtualization reduces hardware costs by 50 percent. This combined with lower energy costs saves businesses $3,000 a year for every server that they consolidate. Firms can reduce the number and types of servers by 10 to 1.
• Optimize utilization: Most servers operate at about 5 to 15 percent of their total capacity. Through server virtualization, that increases up to 80 percent.

Marco provides virtualization and storage solutions from VMWare and Microsoft Hyper-V.

Server Virtualization - Marco's hosted server virtualization platform installs like an application on any existing server hardware and partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines allowing you to:

• Easily evaluate software in ready-to-run virtual machines without installation and configuration.
• Simplify IT testing of patches, new applications, and operating systems by allowing systems administrators to test in a secure virtual machine environment.
• Re-host legacy operating systems such as Windows 2000, Windows NT Server 4.0, and Windows 2003 in a virtual machine running on new hardware and operating system.
• Leverage pre-built, ready-to-run virtual appliances that include virtual hardware, operating system, and application environments.

Desktop Virtualization - Marco's desktop virtualization solutions help increase your desktop flexibility, security, and mobility by letting you run multiple operating systems on a single physical computer. We'll help you:

• Streamline desktop management and control, reduce operating costs and deliver complete desktop environments with greater application compatibility.
• Upgrade operating systems and stream applications without having to upgrade or replace legacy applications.
• Deploy and manage secure, virtual desktops to remote workers and business partners.

Ask us how your organization can save time, energy, and resources with Marco's virtualization solutions.

Off-site Storage Backup and Disaster Recovery
Protect your organization's valuable information from a power outage, fire, or natural disaster with Marco's off-site storage backup and disaster recovery solutions. An effective data storage solution seamlessly scales to meet your organization's growing need for capacity, while ensuring availability and fast access.

Marco provides the most advanced storage area network (SAN) technology available today from industry leaders such as Xiotech, HP/Lefthand Networks, and IBM. You can be assured your critical business data is safe and you can quickly get your business back on track in case a disaster should occur.  Talk to a Marco technology advisor to recommend a storage solution that gives you a solid foundation of reliability, scalability, and performance.