Embotics Corporation, a pioneer in virtualization and
automated cloud management,
today announced the launch of a new joint service offering with
virtualization specialists, Xtravirt, to help organizations optimize
their virtual environments and reduce virtualization sprawl. The two
firms will work together to deliver free health-checks to organizations
to identify where virtual infrastructure is being underutilized or
incorrectly provisioned. With Embotics
vCommander
providing cost-comparison for running different workloads on Microsoft
Hyper-V Server 2012 vs. VMware vSphere, organizations will be given
advice around running multi-hypervisor environments. With this insight,
Xtravirt will be able to advise businesses on how their virtualized
environments can be optimized, with the potential to identify
cost-savings of up to 50 percent. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) can
also use the joint service to prove their customers' cloud readiness and
illustrate the benefits and cost-savings of moving on-premise IT to a
managed virtual data centre.
"Despite the widespread awareness of virtual sprawl amongst the heads
of IT departments, it still continues to pose a significant management
overhead and cost burden," said Mark Barrett, VP Sales & Alliances,
Xtravirt. "Gartner
recently hit the nail on the head when it identified that companies
need tools to help them with these challenges. By teaming-up with
Embotics, we are now able to demonstrate to businesses the actual
cost-saving they can achieve before they've incurred any expense. This
win-win scenario, where we can contrast the costs against accurately
projected efficiency gains, demonstrates how virtual data center
optimization can, in effect, pay for itself."
Embotics vCommander provides a 360-degree view of virtual and private
cloud environments, helping businesses to identify inefficiencies in
their virtual data centres; eliminating virtual server sprawl, ensuring
operational efficiency and thereby delivering cost and resource savings.
With support for Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as VMware vSphere
environments, Embotics vCommander can provide businesses with a
real-world cost and performance comparison, enabling them to identify
which services should be deployed on which hypervisors for the best
value. Specializing in virtualization, one of Xtravirt's focuses is
identifying where end-user costs can be reduced, improving value and
enhancing the user experience for its customers; aligning it perfectly
with the capabilities of Embotics vCommander.
"The combined virtualization management capabilities of Embotics
vCommander and services expertise of Xtravirt is the perfect match for
tackling the burdens of wasted virtual infrastructure," said Colin
Wright, vice president EMEA, Embotics. "With Embotics, it's easy enough
to optimize a virtual infrastructure and automate management processes,
but businesses need to be careful they don't fall back into bad habits
further down the line. They need to make sure that virtual estates are
well managed and the costs remain under control as their business
continues to grow. It's not just a case of reducing costs though; it's
now fairly common for IT services and infrastructure to be deployed
across multiple hypervisors. As a result, businesses now need to
consider which services should be deployed on which machines to ensure
the environment is optimized for the workload as well as the cost. It's
here that Xtravirt's expertise is indispensable in helping businesses to
implement enterprise-wide best practice and standardization."