Datacenters are the biggest consumers of utility power in most companies. Power needs range from 1 kilowatt per rack to more than 25 kilowatts per rack for dense blade servers. With rising prices in the energy markets, the electricity bill for your datacenters could take a big bite out of your budgets. Increasing energy efficiency in the data center is not only an environmentally friendly strategy, but also a smart way to cut costs.

At its most basic, Virtualization enables rapid and repeatable provisioning of new resources (servers, storage, network and applications) to support, development, test and production environments. Virtualization has also proven effective in providing the infrastructure for “thin client” computing, whereby “virtual desktops” are deployed and managed in the datacenter and accessed by users via thin client devices. Lumen21 Clear Vision Methodology™(CVM) provides the means for dynamically adjusting IT resources to meet the business needs. CVM creates a feedback loop whereby the computing environment is constantly being captured, analyzed and adjusted to meet business demand. Products such as VMware and Platespin have created tools that help monitor and facilitate this type of activity.

Lumen21 Virtualization Solutions:

Server Virtualization: Hides the physical nature of server resources, including the number and identity of individual servers, processors and operating systems, from the software running on them.

Application Virtualization: Identifies and migrates candidate applications from existing, single server environments to a virtualized environment.

Storage Virtualization: Creates a virtual storage environment that is easy to manage and provides dynamic application of storage resources without the need to reconfigure.

Network Virtualization: Combines computing resources in a network by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned to a particular server or device in real-time. These solutions combined with Lumen21 Virtualization Expertise and industry best-of-bread