VIRTUALIZATION SERVICES

Nexio’s virtualization services are designed to support you in every phase of your projects, from the strategy and planning stage to implementation and migration.

For IT services, the main benefits of virtualization are:

  • Optimization of the use of your IT infrastructures
  • The reduction of the number of servers – and the operating costs – by the full use of processing power and memory

In a context of budget restrictions and cost control, virtualization lets you meet the challenges posed to your computer centres, while increasing your service level.

Virtualize to cloud computing
Revitalize your IT
Avoid current virtualization errors

Are your virtual servers underutilized?

While virtualization was supposed to free us from the constraints of physical servers, too often we have repeated the same behaviours:

  • The physical footprint has been replaced by a logical footprint.
  • With easy commissioning, virtual servers are multiplying even faster than the physical units they replace!

Is their management really streamlined?

Management has not been reduced. Instead virtualization has favoured the explosion of the number of servers, making management of virtualization farms even more complex.


Take your pick: 3 complementary virtualization levels

Predictable major migrations, increasingly complex server management and the necessary mobility in the current context are all factors working in favour of a return to virtualization.

To avoid repeating the same errors – and accounting for the organizations’ lack of preparation - Nexio developed a three-phase service offer to ensure optimum use of the cloud. Since each of these stages is profitable, you can proceed according to your priorities, without any obligation of continuity.

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1. IT process analysis

Server virtualization

  • Planning
  • Architecture
  • Processes
  • Sizing and forecasting tools
  • Use reports
2. Process automation

Service catalogue

  • Infrastructures, applications and desktops
  • Precise monitoring of resource allocation
  • Partial automation
3. Process review and adjustment

Cloud

  • Services on demand
  • Dynamic resource allocation and real-time reports
  • Complete automation

Optimize your virtualization


Planning and architecture

  • Reviewing virtualization according to the cloud computing; evaluations via tools and agents allowing presentation of various virtualization scenarios
  • Integration of business processes allowing forecasting of consolidation scenarios
  • Planning of robustness levels and recovery strategies
  • Production of development, certification and preproduction services
  • Overview of virtualization strategies, including user experience and infrastructure consumption considerations
  • Integration and planning of related resources
  • Storage services, Active Directory and data management
  • Desktops: same elements determined according to needs
  • Integration of application virtualization services

Development

Implementation of the common infrastructure, including the related modules:

  • Automatic procurement (lifecycle manager;
  • Business continuity (recovery manager)
  • Capacity management
  • Configuration management
  • Billing: module allowing billing of consumption by business units
  • Conversion of a virtual farm into a shared resources centre
  • Migration of existing environments
  • Version changes
  • Application and desktop virtualization
  • Development environment

Monitoring

  • Constant reevaluation via the agents, reports and adjustments as needed
  • Depending on the type of project, Nexio includes onsite review to evaluate the variances between the target and implementation, and to recommend the required adjustments;
  • Support and training: we can offer various support scenarios, transfer of expertise or training adapted to the client’s needs
  • Documentation of environments
  • Reports
  • Establishment of capacity and performance reporting mechanisms for the virtualization centre
  • Constant review of server farm targets with agents allowing integration of new business rules
  • Confirmation of the validity and effectiveness of the business processes put in place (automated or not)

BENEFITS

  • Avoid underutilization of the servers
  • Reduce the footprint in the processing centres
  • Reduce the number of administrators
  • Increase the agility for commissioning
  • Standardize desktops and reduce the licensing costs