Virtual Infrastructure Technologies for Retail and Manufacturing
Times Are A Changing
Retail and manufacturing companies are undergoing significant transformations in an attempt to maintain competitive advantage. Organizations need to run their IT systems more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before. Major chains are expanding their presence across geographic regions and in many cases across national boundaries. Additionally, they are expanding into new markets that extend their brand to into new product categories.
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Meanwhile, with the Internet having raised expectations for customer services, customers are expecting both retailers and manufactures to deliver a consistent experience, regardless of whether they are inside the store, phoning a call center, or at their computer. Also, as wireless technologies emerge, consumers will expect their retail and manufacturing company to interact with them using the new proximity-based mobile services on the horizon.
Change Is Becoming Virtually Possible
With a Virtual Infrastructure solution, companies can create a platform for software development and quality assurance, legacy and customer applications, network and Web infrastructure servers, and collaboration servers - bringing multiple benefits that include:
- Cost savings - retail and manufacturing companies leveraging a Virtual Infrastructure platform can realize up to a 70 percent savings using virtual machines instead of physical servers
- Server containment - Add 50+ virtual machines to you IT infrastructure without buying any more physical servers
- Time savings - IT departments can provision new servers in hours instead of weeks. With faster server-provisioning, the IT team will be better positioned to rapidly respond to more revenue-driven business requests.
- Increased CPU utilization - With most standalone servers running at 5 percent utilization, virtual servers are often running at 50 percent plus utilization.
- Streamlined development & testing - Virtual Infrastructure allows developers to quickly and easily set-up different configurations for development and testing on a single piece of hardware
Isn't It Time To Change Your Results?
By deploying vital applications on a consolidated Virtual Infrastructure platform, retail and manufacturing businesses are able to more quickly roll-out goods and services. Many have also realized substantial IT-related savings and improved up-time and availability.
The result: Higher profits, reduced business disruption, and enhanced productivity.
