Enabling Always On IT

Small businesses face many of the same IT challenges as larger businesses but often place even greater emphasis on cost savingscost savings and business continuity. Shrinking IT staff and budgets make it more important than ever to make sure your staff can maintain day-to-day business operations while still having time to invest in new strategic projects that can yield longer-term efficiencies to help the business grow. Read this VMware white paper and see the benefits of virtualization for small and medium businesses.

VMware vSphere for small business is the most cost effective way to enable Always On IT – the high availability, reliability, and manageability of enterprise-class operations optimized for small and midsized businesses.

Slash Capital and Operational Costs

Begin slashing capital and operational costs by consolidating servers and limiting additional hardware spend. Virtualization lets you get more out of your existing servers and limit the physical resources you need to manage, power, store, and buy, directly impacting your bottom line immediately. Many small businesses increase their utilization rates for x86 servers from 5-15% up to 60-80% after introducing VMware virtualization. Consolidation ratios of more than 15:1 are achieved by consolidating existing workloads then leveraging remaining servers for the deployment of new applications and business continuity solutions.

Enhance Staff Productivity and Business Responsiveness

Free your IT staff from menial tasks with VMware vSphere’s management automation capabilities, enabling them to take a more strategic role in supporting business needs. VMware vSphere solutions are easy to deploy, use, and manage. Imagine being able to provision new applications in minutes, not weeks, and accelerate change request response times from hours or days to just minutes.

Protect your Applications and Data

Keep your business up and running with automated back up, application availability and disaster recovery across physical sites.

VMware vSphere helps you protect the critical data and applications that keep your business running with zero-downtime hardware maintenance. Test and deploy more applications by optimizing pre-production staging environments, reducing downtime for the applications that run and drive the business.

Find the Edition that Fits your Needs Whatever Your Size and Budget

• VMware vSphere Essentials provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to consolidate and manage many application workloads while reducing hardware and operating costs with a low up-front investment.

• VMware vSphere Essentials Plus adds high application availability and data protection for a complete server consolidation and business continuity solution for the small office IT environment.