The Challenge: Companies are looking for significant ways to cut costs and improve productivity.
The Solution: Iomega® StorCenter™ PX series network attached storage (NAS) products are all certified as VMware Ready™ creating cost-effective and cost-cutting solutions for your small-to-medium-sized business (SMB).
Virtualization is the creation of a ‘virtual’ version of an operating system, a server, a storage device or other network resources. This is accomplished through technologies designed to provide a ‘layer of abstraction’ between computer hardware systems and the software running on them. Understanding the ‘what’ or ‘how it is done’ of virtualization are underscored by the benefits of virtualization; the ‘why’ of virtualization.
All Iomega Network Attached Storage Solutions are VMware Ready
For SMB’s, virtualization continues to grow in popularity as it delivers additional material benefits the more it is used. As economics and competition make profitability more difficult, many companies seeking ‘new’ money-saving initiatives are turning to virtualization as one of their new cornerstones.
One of the most obvious benefits is in the significant cost savings of server consolidation. By reducing the number of servers and the types of servers that support your business applications, companies can realize immediate savings. As servers become more proficient, with higher capacity and performance thresholds, industry analysts are reporting that up to 80 percent of IT departments will pursue server consolidation projects.
While server consolidation is one way to improve your company bottom line through cost efficiency, virtualization offers other savings-promoting possibilities. Server consolidation means less power consumption. Alternately, better utilization of your server’s resources also conserves power consumption and increases the product life accordingly. Additional savings can also be realized by the smaller server footprint required, reducing your business need for space and reducing the productivity time required to manage these systems.
The world leaders in providing SMB’s with a virtualization solution that is enterprise-quality at a small-business price are Iomega® and VMware®. Iomega, the leading innovator in data storage solutions for SMB’s, offers a wide variety of NAS devices designed to meet the many dynamic variables facing companies today for flexibility, stackability, reliability, muscle and economy. For servers running VMware vSphere™ 5, Iomega’s PX products are VMware Ready™, opening up new possibilities for cost-effective storage solutions for VMware® cloud infrastructure and virtual desktop deployments.
For more information about the exciting possibilities offered by Iomega and VMware through virtualization, check us out at http://iomega.com/about/prreleases/2011/20111130-vmware-vdi.html.
About Iomega
Iomega Corporation, a subsidiary of EMC® Corporation, is a worldwide leader in innovative storage solutions for small businesses, home offices, consumers and others. The Company has sold more than 425 million digital storage drives and disks since its inception in 1980. Today, Iomega’s product portfolio includes industry leading desktop and rack-mount network attached storage products ideal for content sharing, data protection and backup, and data storage for virtualized environments, video surveillance and vertical applications for small and medium businesses and distributed enterprises; a broad selection of direct-attached portable and desktop external hard drives; and multimedia drives, making it easy to move video, pictures and other files from the computer room to the living room. To learn about all of Iomega’s storage products and network storage solutions, please go to the Web at http://iomega.com/nas/network-attached-storage.html. Resellers can visit Iomega at http://iomega.com/ioclub.