Hewlett-Packard White Paper Sample

Executives of medium-sized businesses (250.999 employees, 10.100 servers) may wonder how virtualization can help with their problems - a set of problems different from those of larger global enterprises. Medium-sized business executives seek specifics on how and how much virtualization can help. Few of their peers in this mid-market class of enterprises have reached a high level of experience in virtualizing, and these executives all need a dollars-and-cents rationale before considering beginning the virtualization process. Given hard experience adopting new technologies, they also need assurance that they can engage in virtualization without severely interrupting their business. This paper addresses these concerns and presents how virtualization improves their business.

What Problems Does Virtualization Solve?

Like most businesses of any size in this economy, midmarket players seek operational cost savings to reduce growing infrastructure costs and almost any means to reduce the workload of their IT staff. Increasingly -- with the business central role that email, Web, and other applications running on their servers play -- they also seek better protection from the risks posed by downtime and a much better means to recover from any downtime and disaster. Unlike larger enterprises, midmarket firms typically have not found the resources to sufficiently invest in and plan for disaster recovery capabilities. Many feel exposed.