France: Virtualization

Accelerate virtualization of your business-critical applications confidently with Symantec Starting with the traditional, slow-moving, well-defined physical infrastructures that have been purpose-built into static silos, virtualization has transformed these familiar architectures into consolidated dynamic workloads that are now more quickly provisioned and resourced to meet the increasing pace of business demands. As this dynamic new environment grows, the lines between physical and virtual become blurred. The segmentation of trust zones becomes less clear. The traditional silos of resources begin to collapse together. The tiers of critical applications span both physical and virtual components. And in the more mature organizations that have been on this path, the silos that used to define things like storage allocations, application resources, security trust zones, and other models of a physical environment become shared pools of resources that can expand and contract as services in direct alignment to the business requirements they serve. As businesses leverage virtualization to transform IT and enable agile cloud-based IT service delivery models, Symantec can help accelerate the path to business-critical virtualization. Symantec's essential portfolio, enabled with V-Ray technologies, can deliver the visibility you need into both your physical and virtual environments to control cost and ensure high levels of performance, availability, and effectiveness in business-critical operations. Regardless of where you are in your data center transformation, automating processes in key areas that impact service levels such as storage management, high availability, disaster recovery, data protection, and security and compliance are essential steps in delivering on the strategic promise of virtualization and cloud infrastructure. VISIBILITY AND CONTROL OF VIRTUAL APPLICATIONS Current virtual machine recovery solutions have no visibility into the application level despite that quite often it is the application failure that results in downtime. Tier 1 applications can also become more complex as multiple tiers become a hybrid mix of virtual and physical resources. And, OS clustering solutions can limit use of advanced platform features uniquely available in a virtual environment. Organizations want to meet stringent service levels with the capability to automatically orchestrate the recovery of their entire business service, including application and infrastructure layers, across virtual and physical platforms. PRODUCT SUMMARY: Symantec™ ApplicationHA ApplicationHA provides high availability for business-critical applications through unique application visibility and control. ApplicationHA, integrated with VMware® HA, vMotion™, and Site Recovery Manager can be managed through VMware vCenter™ to monitor hundreds of applications' health. In the event of a failure, it coordinates with VMware HA to restart the virtual machine. Highlights: • Simplify administration with full integration in VMware vCenter. • Minimize risk of application downtime with virtual machine application monitoring and automated recovery. • Centralize management of multi-tier applications across mixed physical and virtual environments with visibility through a single pane of glass. Infrastructure, which connects users to data, is transforming as the provisioning of IT resources become easier, faster, and more flexible. Virtualization is the enabling technology behind this transformation. Today, businesses have commonly implemented virtualization in predominantly noncritical environments due to perceived obstacles that prevent further virtualization in the data center. These obstacles include reduced availability and performance of critical systems and applications, complex configuration of storage allocations, reduced I/O path resiliency, and increased risk due to unknown security and compliance implications. The value of data center consolidation is compromised when applications are considered too large, too complex, or too high risk to virtualize.

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