The introduction of virtualization technology presents a number of opportunities for reducing cost and gaining operational efficiencies from existing environments.

Possibly one of the most talked about areas of IT today and one that has received the most exposure and the highest adoption rate is server virtualisation. The main drivers for the implementation of server virtualisation has been the under utilisation of server resources coupled with the increased power of today’s server hardware. Server virtualisation brings unmanageable server sprawl under control by using server virtualization to run multiple workloads on fewer physical servers reducing future requirements for physical servers, reducing hardware and operational costs.

As companies have moved from distributed to more centralised storage solutions through the introduction of Storage Area Network and Network Attached Storage solutions, new challenges have been introduced in the management and deployment of storage. Many companies find themselves purchasing more capacity than necessary due to inefficient use of their storage infrastructure and administrators are finding that storage provisioning, often across different vendors storage systems is becoming ever more challenging and time consuming.

Storage virtualisation consolidates all available storage capacity across vendor, cabinet, interface, OS, and connectivity boundaries and typically centralises management of all storage under a single umbrella. Storage Virtualisation addresses these new challenges by maximising storage resource utilisation and by simplifying management resulting in lower hardware costs, lower software costs and dramatically lower management costs.

Further to the virtualisation platforms/solutions themselves, Redstor has solutions to optimise virtualised environments through management, monitoring, high availability and backup and recovery

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