Technology Solutions

Build a Rapid, Reliable and Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery Solution

Traditional disaster recovery solutions are often costly and complex — and can’t meet your recovery objectives even after doubling hardware (and cost) for protected applications. Testing them can be difficult because the steps are tedious and the documentation is hard to keep up-to-date. Likewise, keeping two sets of hardware in sync is nearly impossible. VMware vSphere lets you recover to any machine, not just specific duplicate hardware, reducing hardware costs and maintenance budgets and lowering the complexity of maintaining a backup site. Even if you haven’t virtualized all production servers, virtualize target servers for your data recovery to allow greater simplicity, reliability and cost savings.

• Recover from disasters rapidly
• Ensure reliable disaster recovery
• Reduce the cost of disaster recovery
• Automate disaster recovery

Recover Rapidly from Disasters

Traditional disaster recovery plans require many manual, complex steps to allocate recovery resources, perform bare metal recovery, recover data, and validate that systems are ready for use. How optimized is your disaster recovery plan?

Thrive Networks^sm can implement a disaster recovery solution for your organization that features the VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) VMware SRM simplifies IT environments. Hardware configuration, firmware, operating system install, and application install all become data stored in just a few files on disk. Protect these files using your backup or replication software and you’ve protected the entire system. These files can then be recovered to any hardware without requiring any changes because virtual machines are hardware independent.

Ensure Reliable Recovery

Traditional recovery plans are often difficult to test, difficult to keep up-to-date, and depend on exact execution of complex, manual processes. In a virtualized environment, testing is simpler because you can execute non-disruptive tests using existing resources. Hardware independence eliminates the complexity of maintaining the recovery site by eliminating failures due to hardware differences.

Reduce the Cost of Disaster Recovery

Reliable disaster recovery solutions traditionally require duplicating your entire production infrastructure — and with it, your costs. With VMware vSphere, you can provide rapid and reliable recovery without requiring identical hardware. With hardware independence, you can repurpose existing servers for disaster recovery rather than needing to buy duplicate servers for rapid recovery. Server consolidation also lets you slash the cost of server infrastructure needed both for production and disaster recovery.

Reduce IT Costs While Maintaining Control and Offering Choice.

Don't let server sprawl and platform dependencies prevent your organization from achieving its goals. Take control of your IT infrastructure with VMware vSphere. Cut capital and operating costs while increasing IT service delivery, without being locked into limited choices of operating systems, applications and hardware.

• Reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50% and energy costs by as much as 80%, saving more than $3,000 per year for every server workload virtualized
• Reduce the time it takes to provision new servers by up to 70%
• Decrease downtime and improve reliability with business continuity and built-in data disaster recovery
• Deliver IT services on-demand now and in the future, independent of hardware, OS, application or infrastructure providers

Reduce Costs by Consolidating Hardware and Increasing Server Utilization

By consolidating your server hardware with VMware vSphere, the most robust software suite in the industry for server consolidation, your organization can:

• Increase utilization of existing hardware from 5%–15%, up to 80%
• Reduce hardware requirements by a 10:1 ratio or better

Let Thrive Networks^sm help assess your IT environment to identify consolidation candidates and to calculate the potential savings from using virtualization.

Manage Your Virtual Infrastructure from a Single Point of Control

While most vendors offer only single-point solutions for server virtualization, VMware gives you the power to manage an entire virtual infrastructure from a single point of control. Using the production-proven VMware vSphere, your organization can:

• Accelerate provisioning time by 50%–70%
• Manage virtual machines from a central location 
• Monitor the performance of virtual machines and their hosts

These and other benefits have enabled more than 85% of our customers to use VMware virtual machines in production environments for a wide range of applications.

Improve Management and Control with Virtual Desktops

Gain key advantages over traditional client-server and server-based models. Configure, deploy and maintain hardware-independent desktop virtual machines from central locations for simpler management and more efficient desktop provisioning. Enable stronger policy enforcement and tighter data security by encapsulating your desktop operating system, applications and user data as a set of files in a virtual machine that can be stored centrally. Most important, for end users, VMware desktop virtualization solutions deliver a familiar desktop experience that does not require application sharing, software modifications or user traini

Remote and Branch Office Solution

Reduce the long-term cost of supporting transactional and fixed-function workers on corporate-owned or third-party PCs and thin clients in branch offices, call centers and other locations, while maintaining complete control over corporate information assets.

Secure Mobile Computing

Provide telecommuters, salespeople in the field, and other end users outside the corporate firewall with anytime, anywhere access to their own complete, unmodified desktop environment while minimizing the risk of a data security breach involving sensitive information.

Unmanaged Desktops

Extend secure temporary access to corporate information assets for consultants, contractors, customers and other third-party stakeholders to improve collaboration and reduce business latency while minimizing the risk of data leakage and malicious code intrusion.

Application Migration and Updates

Maximize application uptime during migrations and updates using agentless application virtualization to isolate applications from each other and the OS, eliminating interoperability issues.

Software License Compliance

Keep license proliferation in check using standard discovery and audit tools to manage and track the distribution of applications over both physical and virtual systems.