VMware Virtualization

• Reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50%
  
• Reduce the time it takes to provision new servers by up to 70%
  
• Save more than $3,000 per year for every server workload virtualized
  
• Increase utilization of existing hardware from 10-15% up to 80%
  
• Reduce hardware requirements by a 10:1 ratio or better
  

CRI in conjunction with partners such as VMware provide proven best practices with assessing, planning, designing, building and optimizing customers’ virtual infrastructure

environments which will maximize investment throughout the deployment lifecycle. The list below includes the standard PS offerings in the VMware Virtualization Solutions area; others are also available. Please contact your CRI account representative or PS solution manager with your special requirements.

CRI’s virtualization solutions give you the means to eliminate planned downtime, deliver

high availability, and be better prepared for disaster recovery. Virtualize your datacenter

and make it easier to build solutions for the following:

• Data protection, including non-disruptive backup and restore processes
  
• High availability through reduced planned and unplanned downtime
  
• Disaster Recovery with hardware independent recovery

• Migration of virtual machines
  
• Snapshots of automated restarts on alternate hosts in a resource pool
  
• High availability across the entire virtualized environment without the cost and complexity of failover solution tied to either operating systems or specific applications.

Proven Enabling Methodology™
To provide the most secure and useful solutions, CRI follows a Proven Enabling Methodology, a structured approach and framework to plan, design, implement and optimize unique solutions.

•  Business Discovery

•  Assess Current State

•  Gap Analysis

•  Solution Design

•  Plan & Test

•  Implement

•  Support/Transition

•  Monitor