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Introduction

What is Virtual Infrastructure?

Virtual infrastructure provides a layer of abstraction between the computing, storage and networking hardware, and the software that runs on it. Think of virtualization as a comprehensive method of resource management. Virtual infrastructure simplifies IT so companies leverage their storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and respond faster. In a virtual infrastructure, users see resources as if they were dedicated to them.

Why consider a virtual infrastructure?

VMware's virtual infrastructure architecture enables business to lower IT cost through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. Managing a virtual infrastructure allows IT to link resources to business needs quickly. With virtual infrastructure, IT organizations can provision new services and change the amount of resources dedicated to any service. Your data center can be treated as a single pool of processing, storage and networking power.

  • Adopting virtual infrastructure lets IT be responsive to business needs
  • 60-80% utilization rates for Intel servers up from today's 5-15%
  • Provisioning times for new applications measured in tens of seconds, not days
  • Response times for change requests measured in minutes
  • Zero-downtime hardware maintenance without waiting for maintenance windows

How Can Commerx Help You?

Commerx helps enterprises lower costs, deliver better productivity, and improve speed of response to business units.

Reduce Costs

  • Fewer servers means lower capital expenditure
  • Easier to seperate the strategic IT investments from the commodity IT functions
  • You don't pay for excess capacity

Deliver IT services that are more productive

  • Leverages technologies you are already investing in
  • Provides lower-cost platform options
  • Lowers risk and increases responsiveness

Respond faster to business demand

  • Integration with partners and customers is easier
  • Expansion or M&A activities can happen faster
  • Resources can be deployed or moved quickly to the business units that need them