Teneo’s Virtualization Assessment service launched
Published on: 02 June 2009
Teneo, a leading infrastructure optimisation specialist, launched today its virtualisation assessment service. Teneo’s Virtualization Assessment (TVA) service is designed to help companies plan server consolidation and virtualisation programs.
The TVA will discover and audit companies’ server infrastructure. It will collect usage and specification data linked to CPUs, RAM, hard disk drives, operating systems, patch levels and applications. The audit also covers workload, usage patterns and overall performance levels. Usage trends and inefficiencies are identified and documented during a 30-day assessment period.
The resulting report details which servers can be virtualised and recommends a ‘host’ machine for any newly virtualised servers to run on. The report also details energy (power, cooling) and operating cost (maintenance and licenses) savings that could be achieved from any recommended server consolidation. Teneo is working with Platespin, one of the leaders in virtualisation software solutions, to deliver its new assessment service.
As an expert in the WAN Optimisation sector, Teneo is seeing a strong trend towards reducing the number of servers at companies’ remote offices, centralising and consolidating them into the main site or datacentre and using technologies such as Riverbed to ensure performance to remote sites does not suffer. As Riverbed’s European Reseller Partner of The Year Teneo has vast experience in this sector, with over 1000 units shipped to the field. Moving into the Virtualisation sector is a logical step as the company helps customers to centralise servers and then virtualise them at the same time, leading to some dramatic cost savings.
With the general market economy in a fragile state, Teneo is seeing the twin issues of cost saving and improving efficiency as very strong drivers within its customer base. A combined Optimisation and Virtualisation solution allows customers to reduce costs whilst also making remote offices more efficient, through faster access to data and files.
James Hall, marketing director, Teneo, explained:
“Our assessment service forms an ideal prelude to any server consolidation, virtualisation or business continuity program. We are expecting high demand for this service as organisations continue to sweat their existing IT infrastructure investments whilst planning for the inevitable increase in the amount of data being stored and moved around their companies.”
Steven Rollingson, IT director, Dyer, a global architectural practice, explained the value of using Teneo’s new service:
“Teneo’s Virtualization Assessment Service report was definitely a very useful tool in planning a server consolidation exercise. It laid out very clearly what our virtualisation options are, allowing to make informed decisions on exactly how we can undertake a consolidation exercise. This could see us halving the number of servers we maintain in the future, simultaneously reducing our storage costs by as much as 50 per cent whilst actually expanding our storage capacity and spreading it more evenly across our new SAN (Storage Area Network).”
Cost savings from storage virtualisation flow from reduced physical infrastructure and IT support requirements with fewer servers to own and manage as well as reduced power consumption. Virtualisation also enables mirroring of data on servers in multiple locations to help mitigate against business failure in the event of a building being damaged or destroyed.
