Virtualisation

Virtualisation is becoming one of the most talked about trends, with businesses of all sizes excited about the opportunity to vastly reduce costs through consolidated hardware and maintenance, reduced management and increased efficiency. Many organisations are looking at server virtualisation as the first step on a journey towards cloud services and IT as a service.

Lato Networks assist organisations of all sizes in virtualising their infrastructure and beginning the journey towards the cloud. We partner with VMware, the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure. VMware accelerates an organisation's transition to cloud computing while preserving existing IT investments and enabling more efficient, agile service delivery without compromising control.

Lato Networks ensure all our other vendor partners are Virtualisation "Ready and Aware", often being available as a Virtual Machine themselves, or aware of a Virtual Machine's presence and mobility with our storage and network solutions.

Principle reasons to Virtualise

• Server consolidation means significantly higher resource utilisation
• Infrastructure cost savings resulting from a reduced number of servers - by as much as 90%
• Improved operational flexibility and responsiveness by managing IT infrastructure and resources more effectively
• Increased application availability and improved business continuity by eliminating planned downtime and enhancing backup and recovery times
• Improved desktop manageability and security by deploying, managing and monitoring secure desktop environments where end users can access virtually any device