Mitel and VMware build a bridge
In a partnership made in data-center heaven, Mitel® and VMware® have cracked the final frontier of voice telephony: virtualization. It took the combined forces of Mitel, a company in a voice telephony league of its own, and VMware, the leader in virtualization, to solve a previously unmanageable problem. The partnership attacked the chasm between voice telephony and virtualized software, and succeeded. Now, mission-critical voice applications have been virtualized alongside other enterprise business applications in the mainstream data center.
Virtualized voice in the data center
Already, with virtualized voice, some CIOs are enjoying a new perspective on voice communications. Instead of having to handle voice communications with a separate budget and separate sets of hardware, processes, and tools – and often staff – CIOs can treat voice like any other business application in the data center. Instead of managing boxes, CIOs can manage the overall services that IT provides to the business. And in the process, reap the benefits and cost savings of a simplified test/development/production cycle, streamlined administration, and a single disaster recovery/business continuity plan that applies to the whole data center. Not to mention the capital and operational savings in real estate, hardware, power and cooling, and server provisioning costs.
With the voice virtualization chasm spanned and the Mitel and VMware bridge up and functioning, CIOs are crossing over to a data center in which virtualized, unified communications helps enterprises respond to today’s market challenges.
- To learn more about how CIOs and other IT managers straddle the two worlds of data centers and telephony, read Uniting the Worlds of Data and Voice whitepaper.
Why virtualize voice?
Top 5 Reasons to adopt the Mitel Virtual Solution within your data center:
- CIOs can now fundamentally change the way they think about their IT infrastructures and their resources. Resources and personnel that have traditionally been devoted to maintaining separate voice and data infrastructures can now be focused on a single infrastructure developing new applications and services that build competitive advantage for the organization.
- Reduce datacenter costs by reducing your physical infrastructure and improving your server to admin ratio: Fewer servers and related IT hardware means reduced real estate and reduced power and cooling requirements. Better management tools let you improve your server to admin ratio so personnel requirements are reduced as well.
- Increase availability of hardware and applications for improved business continuity: Securely backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no interruption in service. Eliminate planned downtime and recover immediately from unplanned issues.
- Gain operational flexibility: Respond to market changes with dynamic resource management, faster server provisioning and improved desktop and application deployment.
- Get more out of your existing resources: Pool common infrastructure resources and break the legacy “one application to one server” model with server consolidation.
