Accelerated storage hardware and software investments are expended in supporting exponential data growth.  This investment in creating highly complex storage environments makes it difficult to respond quickly and efficiently to changing business requirements.

DPF deploys EMC’s Virtualization Solutions to assist clients in optimizing their organizations computing assets, including applications, databases, servers and storage into a simple, cost effective, flexible, tiered architecture that aligns with business requirements.   These solutions leverage the following key technologies:

Server virtualization:   Deploying server utilization allows for consolidation, application testing and disaster recovery, creating a virtual infrastructure for information systems across the enterprise.  WMware helps optimize resources and improve flexibility by providing server abstraction.   This allows the management of applications and services to be decoupled from the physical servers that these applications need in order to run.  This fundamentally transforms traditional models by enabling you to support and maintain these applications independent of the server platform.  WMware enables greater flexibility for managing your underlying hardware and provides dynamic provisions of computing and utilizations across server environments.

-  File virtualization:  Utilizes the Rainfinity Global File virtualization software platform to optimize IP-based storage, NAS and file servers.  It builds upon industry-standard namespace services to provide location transparency and full read/write access to file-based access to file-based data that is being relocated dynamically which dramatically improves utilization and speeds migration.

- Block storage (SAN) virtualization:  Utilizes insista, a solution that enables the virtualization of storage, in networked storage environments, reducing down time associated with data movement across storage tiers.

DPF Professional Services Group will employ the EMC assessment service for infrastructure virtualization which examines client’s current infrastructure and aligns technology recommendations with client’s business objectives.

These virtualization solutions provide:

- Lower cost infrastructure with total cost of ownership (TCO) reduced 30-70% and utilization rates pushed beyond 60%.