Advanced Systems Group (ASG), a leading provider of enterprise IT consulting, architecture services, and complete IT infrastructure solutions, today announced the availability of its new virtualization whitepaper, Ensuring Virtualization Success: Advanced Systems Group's Proven Methodology. The whitepaper offers guidelines to help companies assess data center cost efficiencies and understand key virtualization strategies to attain business goals.

"Choosing the right virtualization strategy for an organization's business goals is the key to affecting ROI," said Mark Teter, chief technology officer at Advanced Systems Group. "With ASG's proven virtualization tools and methodologies, companies can be confident in having a tangible road map to optimize their resources and attain their utilization goals."

Organizations today are faced with huge challenges such as inefficient computing resources, management issues with multiple servers, and inefficient business processing pipelines.

Virtualization provides a remedy for these problems and is an effective strategy for meeting a number of today's business computing goals. By optimizing the infrastructure and its operations, companies can save costs on deploying and maintaining overall computing investment.

ASG assists organizations in designing and implementing complete virtualized application architectures.

One of the world's largest office products companies needed to upgrade their infrastructure of the 27 regional distribution centers across North America. The application "pick to light," an automated warehouse management system, provides warehouse workers an easy way to identify orders by illuminating a light for the appropriate stock/bin location for fulfilling orders. ASG played a critical role in this process with the deployment of virtualized servers.

Advanced Systems Group has a proprietary methodology to help organizations determine the best virtualization strategy to attain business computing goals. With its technology leadership, proven virtualization methodology and world-class training and support, ASG's Server Consolidation Assessment Services delivers faster, more accurate IT assessments, a clear roadmap for server virtualization, consolidation and more.

To download a complimentary copy of Ensuring Virtualization Success: Advanced Systems Group's Proven Methodology, please go to www.virtual.com/virtualizationwp

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