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There are many tools for technical management of virtual infrastructures – hypervisor configuration, VM performance monitoring, memory management, etc. Without doubt, such low-level infrastructure management is important, but ultimately IT needs to be supporting business-critical application services, not just infrastructure. In fact, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research shows 74% of enterprises with virtualization are using their virtual infrastructure to support production applications .
Managing a vendor- or platform-specific virtual infrastructure is just one part of managing business critical applications. EMA data shows that most enterprises actually have multiple virtualization vendors – not just VMware, but also Microsoft, Citrix, Red Hat, IBM, Oracle/Sun, etc. Most enterprises also have multiple platforms – not just Windows, but also Linux, UNIX, i5/OS, z/OS, etc. In fact the average enterprise has four different vendors, and four different platforms, in their virtualization environment alone. Moreover, the average enterprise also has a significant traditional or physical infrastructure – EMA research shows that in most cases, only 25-30% of the server environment is actually
virtualized .
While virtualization vendors like VMware have great tools to support virtual infrastructure, they do not provide sophisticated tools for broad, multi-platform, multi-vendor, physical and virtual business workload management.
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Cloud computing is one of the most significant trends in IT today. Organizations of all sizes are evaluating various cloud computing solutions that can improve their performance. Increased productivity, lower cost, better security and reliability are all benefits that can be achieved with cloud computing solutions.
Coincidentally, IT organizations are working to improve email security and add compliance and e-discovery capabilities. Spam and malware are bad and are getting worse and the risk and potential costs associated with e-discovery are increasing. As a result, organizations need a better way to solve these problems. Cloud-based email protection and archiving can do just that.
SOME BACKGROUND
Email is the lifeblood of virtually any organization that uses it: users spend an average of 152 minutes on a typical workday using email (more than attending in-person meetings and talking on the phone combined). They send and receive more than 120 emails each day, and the majority of the content they need is tied up in email1.
In addition to the quite serious impositions on storage and bandwidth imposed by ever increasing volumes of spam, there are the much more serious threats that can expose corporate data to unauthorized parties, resulting in substantial financial losses, violations of the law, loss of reputation, and other increasingly serious consequences. Further, because email contains a growing proportion of corporate business records and other important content, organizations of all sizes must preserve this content through the deployment of appropriate archiving technologies. While security and archiving are absolutely necessary, they are also quite expensive to deploy and maintain. On-premise security and archiving systems themselves can be expensive to deploy, but they are generally much more expensive to maintain using in-house IT staff.
Further, IT staff that are responsible for maintaining these systems are not available to manage other systems that can enable a strategic advantage over their competitors – particularly important during periods of economic downturn.
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