Server Virtualisation

Virtualisation refers to technologies designed to provide a layer of abstraction between computer hardware systems and the software running on them. By providing a logical view of computing resources, rather than a physical view, virtualization solutions make it possible to do a couple of very useful things: They can allow you, essentially, to trick your operating systems into thinking that a group of servers is a single pool of computing resources. And they can allow you to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single machine.

What is it?

With a legacy knowledge of virtualisation technologies that dates back over 10 years from our UNIX partitioning history, Origina have leveraged this knowledge to build a high level of skills on INTEL virtualisation technologies. We have a team of in-house experts who are certified on technologies such as VMware and HyperV. Our expertise in this space has been recognised in the marketplace a number of times:

• 2007: Irish ICT Excellence Award for pan European VMware project completed for European Fund Services
• 2008: Irish ICT Excellence Award for UNIX virtualisation project completed for Department of Education resulting in savings of over €300k
• 2010: European Excellence award for HyperV virtualisation project completed for Lakeland Dairies

What are the benefits?

Our Virtualisation solutions deliver the following benefits:

• Reduces Power and Cooling costs through lower server count
• Reduces amount of rack and Data centre space required
• Reduces amount of time required for day to day server administration
• Allows a cost effective way to make systems highly available and reduce Disaster Recovery times

Technologies:

• IBM PowerVM
• VMware ESX
• Microsoft Hyper-V

See related case studies

• European Fund Services Case Study
• Department of Education and Skills Case Study
• Lakeland Dairies Case Study (Video)