Enabling Always On IT for SMBs
Small businesses face many of the same IT challenges as larger businesses, trying to accommodate increasing demand for new IT capabilities and services. Small businesses often place even greater emphasis on cost savings and on protecting business critical systems and data, since shrinking IT staff and budgets and a “do more with less” mantra make it extremely difficult to simultaneously maintain day-to-day business operations (keeping the lights on) and invest in new strategic projects that can yield longer-term efficiencies to help the business grow.
VMware vSphere for small business is the most cost effective way to enable Always On IT – the high availability, reliability, and manageability of enterprise-class operations optimized for small and midsized businesses.
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VMware Always On IT Solutions for SMBs
As the global leader in virtualization, VMware provides a complete range of robust, reliable and cost-effective solutions, from free virtualization tools to start experiencing the benefits of virtualization today, to comprehensive platforms that can be deployed as building blocks in a flexible and configurable way to scale as the business grows.
" If you are using VMware technology in production, you are two thirds of the way to a robust disaster recovery plan before you even begin to design it. "
— Tim Antonowicz, Senior Systems Engineer, Bowdoin College
Always On IT Solutions for Small IT Environments
Designed especially for small IT environments with fewer than 20 physical servers, VMware vSphere Essentials Editions combine the high availability, performance and reliability of our enterprise class solutions in a package ideal for smaller IT environments and a price starting at less than $1,000 USD for a complete solution that includes central management.
- VMware vSphere™ Essentials provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to consolidate and manage many application workloads while reducing hardware and operating costs with a low up-front investment.
- VMware vSphere™ Essentials Plus adds high application availability and data protection for a complete server consolidation and business continuity solution for the small office IT environment.
Both editions are all-inclusive packages that enable you to virtualize and consolidate many application workloads onto three physical servers running vSphere and centrally manage them with vCenter Server for Essentials.
Scalable Always On IT Solutions for Midsize Businesses
VMware vSphere Editions:
vSphere is available for midsize and larger businesses in four main offerings targeted for various deployment scenarios. Each edition is licensed based on the number of processors on the physical server hosts that you want to virtualize and scales easily by adding more licenses to your environment.
- VMware vSphere™ Standard provides an entry solution for basic consolidation of applications to slash hardware costs while accelerating application deployment.
- VMware vSphere™ Advanced provides a strategic consolidation solution that protects all applications against planned and unplanned downtime to provide superior application availability and data protection.
- VMware vSphere Enterprise provides a strategic platform for minimizing downtime, protecting applications and data, and automating resource management.
- VMware vSphere™ Enterprise Plus includes the full range of vSphere™ features for transforming datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing environments that can provide the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services to their businesses.
Management Servers:
VMware vCenter Server is the central management tool for configuring, provisioning and managing distributed virtual IT environments. Purchased separately, it is required for managing VMware vSphere server hosts and enabling many of the features.
- VMware vCenter Server Standard enables SMBs to scale up their virtual infrastructure to achieve the highest levels of efficiency, automation, simplicity, and security, with centralized management for organizing, monitoring, and configuring the entire IT environment through a single interface, resulting in lower operating costs.
- VMware vCenter Foundation provides users all the benefits of vCenter Server, but is designed to serve the needs of a smaller IT environment with the ability to manage three or fewer physical server hosts running vSphere.
VMware vSphere™ Acceleration Kits for Midsize Businesses
VMware vSphere™ Acceleration Kits are solution bundles designed for midsized customers that are new to virtualization. These Acceleration Kits combine a VMware vSphere™ edition together with VMware vCenter Server and are often offered at promotional discounts for significant savings. Visit www.vmware.com or contact your local reseller for more information on the latest acceleration kits.
Virtual Desktop Solutions
The deployment of hosted virtual desktops is rapidly growing in organizations worldwide, including in SMBs. This adoption is driven by the need to provide corporate end users flexible access to their personalized desktops and applications 24x7 and to enable IT to provide a cost effective way of managing the desktop infrastructure while improving desktop security and compliance. Hosted virtual desktops provide end users the ability to securely access their personalized desktops including their applications and data anywhere, anytime using multiple devices.
- VMware View™ is built on the industry leading virtualization platform and provides rich, personalized virtual desktops to SMB users by delivering data and applications to any device with all the benefits of centralized enterprise desktop management. VMware View reduces the total cost of desktop ownership by significantly minimizing the desktop and application management and operations costs. This solution lets the IT team securely provision, manage and update virtual desktops from a centrally located server, which improves security and compliance while giving end users a single view of all their applications and data in a familiar, personalized environment on any device at any location.
- VMware Workstation is the gold standard virtualization software for desktops, enabling users to run multiple operating systems on a single PC. Users have the ability to run and switch between different computing environments rapidly, set multi-tier configurations and networks and easily create multiple snapshots of virtual machines.
- VMware Fusion® lets users seamlessly run Windows applications and devices on any Intel-based Mac. Built from the ground up for the Mac, VMware Fusion lets users run all windows applications on the Mac platform.
