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Virtualization

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Key Advantages
  • Hardware consolidation reduces capital expenditures and energy costs
  • OS standardization reduces errors
  • Rapid provisioning improves time-to-market
  • Automation reduces staffing costs
  • Physical servers made more interchangeable
  • Portability improves availability, recovery, and flexibility

With the speed of business today, your enterprise needs a high level of scalability without compromising stability, cost, or efficiency. So we provide the technology and services you need for employing virtualization within a dedicated environment to create a private solution that optimizes your technology resources and costs and achieves unprecedented utilization rates.

SoftLayer’s proprietary architecture and automated platform give us uncommon advantages as well as the proven level of performance and reliability required for enterprise-class virtualization. Virtual machines running on a SoftLayer dedicated server seamlessly integrate with the rest of your environment, including dedicated servers and CloudLayer® Computing instances, all managed through the same Customer Portal and API.

Ideal For:

  • Private cloud
  • Disaster recovery
  • Business continuity
  • Maintenance windows
  • Load Balancing
  • Abstraction layer
  • Development and testing
  • Patching
  • Security
  • Thin client

SoftLayer Virtualization Flow

SoftLayer Virtualization Flow
Mon, 21 May 2012 01:42:00 -0500 - http://www.softlayer.com/solutions/virtualization/citrix-xenserver