Servers are the backbone of any IT environment. But, along with procuring servers comes OS licensing, maintaining, upgrading, patching, and troubleshooting - only to purchase new servers again in three to four years.
Even when purchased and deployed on-site, servers are often under-provisioned and over-utilized. That can cause slowness, outages, data loss, and even downtime.
From server procurement and operating system licensing to monitoring, management and reporting, Netgain’s server solutions protect your business from the unforeseen events of failing equipment, loss of IT personnel, or misconfigured servers.
Operating system licensing & security patches
In Netgain’s Desktop Hosting solution, we manage the operating system licensing for our clients, so they are never incompliant. By renting Windows OS licensing from Netgain rather than purchasing it from Microsoft, clients upgrade their licensing with no additional cost.
In addition, Netgain installs security patches released by the OS vendor to protect your organizations from viruses, spyware, adware, and other threats that can cause harm to your servers. Not keeping up with the installation of the latest security patches on each workstation or server can put the organization at serious risk.
Server virtualization
Server virtualization can improve reliability and scalability for enterprise organizations, while decreasing the cost of computing. And, for smaller organizations that want the benefits of virtualization but not the cost and complexity of having it on their site, Netgain’s Desktop Hosting solution affords them the benefits.
What is server virtualization?
Server virtualization is the ability to share the components of one physical computer across multiple virtualized servers. This creates an efficiency that isn’t available in the traditional model of running one application on one physical server. With the power to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same physical computer, virtualization is gaining popularity in healthcare IT.
How do I benefit from server virtualization?
Server virtualization allows you to reduce your IT costs while increasing efficiency, utilization, and flexibility of your existing assets.
• Improve desktop manageability and security.
Deploy, manage and monitor secure desktop environments that users can access locally or remotely, with or without a network connection, on almost any standard desktop, laptop or tablet PC.
• Get more out of your existing resources.
Break the traditional “one application to one server” model by pooling common resources.
• Reduce costs by reducing your physical infrastructure.
Fewer servers and related IT hardware means reduced space and reduced power and utility requirements.
• Improve business continuity by increasing hardware availability.
Securely backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no interruption in service. Eliminate planned downtime and recover immediately from unplanned issues.
• Gain operational flexibility.
Respond to market changes with dynamic resource management, faster server provisioning and improved desktop and application deployment.
How do I start virtualizing my servers?
While the benefits of virtualization are plentiful, the time required to learn about, evaluate, and deploy a virtualized infrastructure can be burdensome to an organization. Often, organizations hire additional, specialized staff to deploy the virtualized environment. And then, there’s the risk of that staff person leaving in the middle of the virtualization and leaving your organization with an unfinished project.
Netgain works with organizations to move to a virtualized IT environment either on-site or deploying the hosted environment in our data center.
We’ve done the leg work on evaluating virtualization vendors and have become experts in deploying virtualized servers and integrating them with the rest of the IT environment.Using VMWare virtualization technology, Netgain has a team of experts dedicated to virtualization. Plus, for the most efficient and truly virtualized IT environment, Netgain utilizes storage virtualization to complement server virtualization.
For more information on working with Netgain to deploy your virtualized infrastructure, contact us.