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| A Client Systems Company |
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| Merger & Acquisition Services
Virtual Technologies offers virtualization consulting services to companies and firms who are either planning to acquire companies or have recently acquired companies. The intention of these service offerings is to help companies assess and create additional value from their acquisition candidates. The services are classified in two groups:
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Target Area for Value Creation
| IT Infrastructure and Operations
- Organization who has responsibility for the computer and data storage assets within a company
- Manage computer servers (Windows/Linux) and SAN storage devices
- Responsible for the desktop infrastructure for the company (PCs, Terminals, Thin Clients)
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How Does Virtualization Create Value?
What is Virtualization?
Virtualization Benefits
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- Virtualization drastically reduces (75%+) the number of physical servers (Windows/Linux)
- Significant cost avoidance for technology refresh
- Material reduction of operations (space/electricity/cooling) costs
- Reduction in personnel to manage the resulting environment
- Virtualization enhances business continuity and disaster recovery
- Reduces system and application outages
- Significantly reduces time-to-recovery
- Virtualization centralizes desktop administration and security
- Reduction in personnel needed to manage resulting environment
- Data security significantly enhanced
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What is the General Process? |
- Initial "Due Diligence" (also known as a Pre-Assessment)
- Paper review of existing IT inventory (servers, desktop PCs, SAN storage devices, applications)
- "Top line" virtualization assessment (rough order of magnitude savings)
- Initial Due Diligence report
- Due Diligence Deep Dive (also known as a Strategic Virtualization Assessment)
- 30-45 day formal virtualization assessment
- Installation of system monitoring software to discover inventory and monitor performance
- Complete formal virtualization assessment report (includes value forecast, virtualization implementation roadmap, and financial business case)
- Virtualization Implementation (Value Creation)
- Implement server virtualization per assessment roadmap
- Implement desktop virtualization per assessment roadmap
- Measure results
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