Virtualization and Application delivery are technologies that are capturing the mindshare of many CIO’s as they deliver cost effectiveness, enhance performance, reduce global warming and enhance IT security. Keeping pace with technology, Frontier has made investments in developing the skills and expertise required to deliver state of the art solutions to its customers. By our partnering with technology leaders in this space, customers are assured of excellent and appropriate solution design and flawless execution.

About Virtualization

Virtualization is an approach to IT that pools and shares resources so that use is optimized and supply automatically meets demand. It is a proven software technology and reduces costs, promotes green IT and vastly reduces the computing footprint in ever expanding data centers.

Virtualization makes it possible to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same computer at the same time. Customers can use virtualization for their servers, storage, Networks, Applications, Desktops, Printing etc.

Facts on Virtualization

India is predicted to be a big potential for Virtualization in 2008.
45% of X86 Servers to be Virtualized in 2008 in India- IDC India
Virtualization market in 2007 was roughly 2.2 billion and estimated growth by 2010 is 4 billion. IDC Worldwide.
Countries like Canada etc are almost virtualized by 95% and in India we are not even at 5%.
Virtualization will be the most impactful trend in infrastructure and operations through 2010 -Gartner
The total number of virtual machines deployed worldwide is expected to increase from 540000 at the end of 2006 to 4 million by 2009.

Benefits of Virtualization

Reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by maximizing server and data centre utilization
Support multiple applications and operating systems within a single physical system
Consolidate servers into virtual machines on either a scale-up or scale-out architecture
Treat computing resources as a uniform pool to be allocated to virtual machines in a controlled manner
Reduce complexity and manage increasing heterogeneity within the data centre
Lowers costs of server acquisition, maintenance, and operations
Reduces physical space needed for hardware and server racks
Leverage cutting-edge technologies to improve IT service, availability and utilization
Drives standardization of hardware platforms and improves manageability
Improve the effectiveness of your production and DR environments
Ensure maximum performance and availability of your consolidated environments