Newly minted as a gold-level VMware certification holder, Verizon Business is now hawking with enterprises its abilities to help them realize server savings via virtualization.
Conventional wisdom says that roughly 80 percent of computing capacity on corporate servers is sitting idle. Verizon Business is trying to appeal to businesses with an offer to design, build and/or manage architectures that more efficiently use companies’ existing server resources. In typical server scenarios, each server supports just one application, but with virtualization as many as 10 applications can run on a single environment.
As a result, virtualization not only saves companies in terms of the server costs themselves, but also in terms of management, real estate costs, and cooling requirements, noted Christopher Gesell, director of global product marketing for IT Solutions & Hosting; and Jeffrey Deacon, who’s in product marketing at Verizon Business.
Verizon Business sells this offer as a standalone professional service or bundled with its managed services. As part of the service, Verizon Business will assess enterprise environments and define what resources are ripe for virtualization, and it will provide the company ROI data relative to prescribed virtualization plans. Verizon Business can implement and manage that for the business customer as a virtualization environment either at the company’s data center or at a Verizon Business data center.
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