EMC Virtualization Services help you consolidate and optimize critical infrastructure assets including servers, storage, and networks. We increase the operational agility of your virtual infrastructure by employing virtualization, data protection, and networking best practices.

Virtualization can provide added agility, availability, and scalability as your organization strives to make IT a strategic asset. First you must address virtualization’s impact on infrastructure management. EMC will help you:

• Define a strategy for enterprise deployment.
• Adjust existing policies, processes, and procedures.
• Align best practices to ensure operational readiness.
• Understand the cost impacts of virtualization.
• Adapt data protection, networking, and consolidation strategies.

EMC Consulting analyzes and optimizes your virtual infrastructure performance, availability, operations, and costs. EMC virtualization consultants:

• Assess virtualization’s technology, financial, and business impacts.
• Increase your operational agility to meet service-level requirements.
• Address information protection, backup, recovery, and archiving in your virtual infrastructure.
• Consider the impacts of virtualization on your networking infrastructure.
• Implement virtualization best practices to attain operational readiness.
• Reduce infrastructure, footprint, and facility costs through improved server, storage, and network utilization.
• Identify ways to optimize energy utilization and realize your Green IT goals.

EMC has extensive virtualization and information infrastructure knowledge. Our consulting expertise, methodologies, tools, and best practices provide you with a:

• Virtualization deployment strategy with roadmap and operational recommendations.
• Detailed plan for adapting operational processes and developing staff skills.
• Variety of services catalogs and run books optimized for virtual infrastructure.
• Comprehensive virtualization design and deployment plan.
• Virtualization center of excellence to support enterprise-scale deployment.