In the style of the Atomium in Brussels, which is the famous landmark of the Expo in 1956, we managed to sum up the main aspects of virtualisation in the world of information technology in a clear diagram. This body-centred cubic model of an ice crystal from the 1950s, consisting of nine atoms, was ground-breaking in its reference to the heydays of iron and steel production.

AUTOMIUM ^® - process for IT virtualisation - ©2010

Today, in the information age at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the changes brought about by new IT technologies are far-reaching and require the reconsideration of technological interrelationships. This situation requires a new order of IT knowledge and company processes as regards information infrastructure.

The problem:

When reviewing IT with regard to its productivity, as is done with all other company investments, it often emerges that with conventional systems and concepts many of the components employed show a very low utilisation rate. According to studies conducted by IBM, Windows-based servers have 'nothing to do' and are practically running on idle. As opposed to the technical utilization, the investments and operating costs are, however, always 100%. This imbalance presents a challenge to any business person. Even the technical department is increasingly faced with the problem of having to provide service and maintenance for a growing number of systems, without being able to adequately make use their purchased resources. The supposed performance in GigaHerz (Ghz) or the number of CPUs are misleading when considering the actual available performance of an IT environment. Planning simultaneous use of applications on the same system often fails because of the system requirements from software manufacturers, which leads to a cry for a new server with every new programme that is to be installed.

The solution:

The procedure is to change the systems - away from the all-round system to the specialist system. This enables the management of the respective resources from one dedicated unit, while also making them available to other units. Typical IT resources can be divided into permanent storage (data), CPU computing performance with a volatile memory (compute), platform I/O software (operate), display systems, clients (view) and connecting systems for communication (network). Each of these systems can be employed as a virtualisation component. Pooling:

Pooling:

These components provide a pool of benefits and services which can also be used by the other components. Which of the components is actually used depends on the current requirements demanded by the service or application. There are several ways of limiting or distributing the use of pools, depending on the pool itself. Our core competence is the efficient utilisation of IT resources. Take advantage of our experience by employing Virtualisation 4.0.

The following depicts the 5 building blocks of IT automation through virtualisation according to the "Automium".

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