Quest’s Virtualization Solutions:
Simplify and Save with Quest Virtualization
E very 10 or 15 years, a technology comes along that offers such dramatic improvements in capability and cost-efficiency that it’s simply too good to ignore. Virtualization is one of those technologies — especially when it helps power ‘the cloud.’
To help you take advantage of this game-changer, Quest offers its customers three new virtualization-focused cloud computing service solutions:
Quest Unified Virtual Data Center
Built with state-of-the-art hardware and software from several leading IT vendors — including Cisco, EMC, VMware, HP, NetApp, F5, and others — Quest’s Unified Virtual Data Center architecture anchors all of Quest’s cloud computing solutions and keeps every client’s data and applications both highly secure and highly available.
Simplified monitoring, provisioning, and management provide unsurpassed end-to-end security and isolation in virtualized environments. A single, redundant, uniform pool of resources can be configured on demand by Quest so quickly that it can be put to use in only minutes.
Secure virtual machine partitioning enables both dedicated environments and a shared infrastructure model. So regardless of the type of virtual cloud computing environment you prefer, with Quest your data and access are securely isolated without compromising workload performance.
Quest Desktop Virtualization Services
Quest’s Desktop Virtualization cloud services can help you shrink desktop hardware acquisition, management, and operating costs by as much as 50% — and do it without sacrificing service-level commitments.
Desktop images reside in one or more of our nationwide Service Delivery Centers for speedy delivery to almost any device, including smartphones. Desktop images can be kept separate from employees’ personal applications and data, thus protecting corporate data and applications. And Quest can quickly update your images and work around failed endpoint devices or even entire locations.
Quest Virtual Application Development Service
Now you can think about creating software applications unique to your business — without having to pay for an application development infrastructure.
Quest’s Virtual Application Development cloud services deliver the sophisticated infrastructure your developers need — including rapid prototyping, continuous application testing and integration, connectivity, security, and support — to quickly create high-quality applications.
Our customized environment includes easy-to-use web-based portals, a central virtual machine image library, dynamically-allocated administration and delivery of different types of virtual machines, and ability to scale from local to global deployments.
Quest’s commitment to a cloud computing environment built on a unified virtual data center architecture means Quest always has the flexibility to quickly create and deploy just about any sort of customized IT capability — so let us know what you need.
The Virtues of Virtualization
Most servers and desktop systems are in actual use just 5% to 15% of the time they’re powered on — but they consume 60% to 90% of normal workload power even when idle. Virtualization techniques target these inefficiencies, increasing hardware utilization to as much as 85%. In addition to lowering CapEx, virtualization can ...
- Reduce service failures. Problems can be fixed up to 24 times faster. Also, up to 43 hours of downtime a year
can be eliminated and uptime improved to as high as 99.999%.*
- Boost staff efficiency. Annual management costs can be reduced by $1,000 per server, admin efficiency can be improved
by an average of 10%, and as much as 270%, because a single administrator can manage up to 1800 servers.*
- Speed service deployment. New systems can be deployed up to 240 times faster, new applications can be deployed up
to 96 times faster, and nearly $2,000 can be saved in wage costs per deployment.*
- Curb energy use. Power consumption can be cut by an average of 16%, which adds up to roughly $700,000 per year for
a five-megawatt data center.*
* Source: Reducing Operating Expense with Virtualization and Virtual Systems Management, Enterprise Management Associates (http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vmware-solution-opex-reducing-opex-wp-en.pdf)
