Virtualisation Services

Virtualisation technologies can dramatically transform the way IT delivers its service to the business, with a potential return on investment in months rather than years. If your objectives include making your IT service more cost effective, efficient and resilient then consider one or more of Charteris’ Virtualisation services.

Charteris Virtualisation solutions help clients:

  • Reduce their operating costs - Virtualising underutilised servers can save power, air conditioning and hardware hosting/accommodation costs
  • Keep their business running - Virtualising servers makes disaster recovery more cost effective and feasible due to reduced hardware, power, air conditioning and hosting costs. Virtual servers can be replicated, while running, to your disaster recovery site, enabling very quick recovery in the event of a failure in your main data centre
  • Lowers their Carbon Footprint - Server virtualisation helps to reduce carbon emissions by lowering you energy consumption

Charteris Virtualisation Services cover server and desktop environments.

Desktop Application Virtualisation

  • By virtualising applications most of the problems traditionally associated with application compatibility are eliminated, meaning faster time to deployment for your new business applications
  • Virtualising applications also means more straightforward security patching for desktops, as the applications run in a virtualised environment on top of the desktop operating system. This will increase business productivity as desktops are more available due to being both more secure and less prone to application errors caused by security patches

Desktop Presentation Virtualisation

  • By virtualising the presentation of the desktop you can optimise bandwidth over wide area links, thereby avoiding upgrade costs to network links
  • By utilising new features in Windows Server 2008 you could save on Citrix software license costs, as Citrix equivalent features are now part of the new server operating system

Why should you use Charteris for Virtualisation?

Charteris is one of only three Practice Level Microsoft Virtualisation Partners in Europe. As such we have almost unrivalled knowledge of Microsoft Virtualisation technologies, best practice design and supporting operational processes. Allied to this we have a vastly experienced and business focussed infrastructure team who have been together for over 6 years and are used frequently by Microsoft to design and deploy enterprise infrastructure solutions for their customers.

To enable you to deploy virtualisation effectively we offer an assessment service which analyses your current server environment and produces a report which details the servers which should be virtualised and the expected savings you should realise from virtualisation. For details on Charteris’ Server Virtualisation Assessment service please click here.

Click here to download a brochure or, for more information on any of our Virtualisation services or to discuss how we can customise these services to suit you, please email steven.black@charteris.com or call Charteris on 0131 477 7741 and ask for Steven Black.