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Virtualization enables a whole new vision for enterprise computing – one of a consolidated, optimized approach to the data centre as service delivery centre, where your IT responds flexibly to address new business challenges.

Whether you're looking at optimizing budget, space, or infrastructure, consolidating servers or storage, or being more efficient and cost effective with power and cooling, virtualization offers compelling benefits for your organization.

An end-to-end solution

Bell offers a complete set of virtualization solutions to solve your data centre issues – from application delivery and virtual desktop, through server consolidation and unified networks, to storage virtualization.

Our specialists have delivered data centre virtualization solutions for customers with all types of consolidated and distributed data centres. Whatever your problem, Bell can deliver the right solution to meet your needs, requirements, and budget.

With Bell, you get an end-to-end solution that encompasses:

Business strategy and planning
Technical assessments and design
Implementation and testing
Ongoing support and optimization

Benefits of virtualization

Virtualization is the core approach to moving your data centre from a support model to a service delivery model.

A virtualized data centre can more flexibly support your business by:

Enabling rapid support of new business initiatives
Providing better insight into the costs required for service delivery

Virtualization will enable your organization to optimize and consolidate servers and storage. You will be able to more flexibly deliver new applications and desktops to users – including new generations of smartphones and netbooks. The dynamic provisioning enabled by a virtual infrastructure will also improve your business continuity and disaster recovery processes.

Virtualization solutions are also proven Green IT solutions. Bell partners with greenhouse gas management specialists to help your organization reduce emissions, demonstrate environmental and social responsibility, and achieve economic returns and operational efficiencies.

Your virtualization needs supported by Bell investments in new data centres across Canada

Bell has launched a national initiative to increase the size of its data centre footprint in order to meet the growing needs of our enterprise and mid-market customers for co-location, hosting and managed services in Canada. By June 2011, Bell will have five state-of-the-art data centres in the regions of Montréal, Calgary and Toronto.

Learn more about this data centre build by reading the full news story.

Why Bell?

At Bell, we can help you sort through the various tools and approaches offered by leading vendors.

Our industry partnerships and certifications include:

Citrix – Platinum Solution Advisor
Hewlett-Packard – Virtualization Solutions Elite Partner
VMware – VIP Enterprise and VMware Authorized Consultant
EMC – Velocity² Premier Partner
Microsoft – Gold Partner
Sun Microsystems – Certified Reseller Partner
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) – Service Partner
Symantec – Platinum Partner

With Bell, you’re backed by certified professionals who have extensive expertise in servers, storage, networks, and more.

As Canada’s leading network provider, Bell is in a unique position to transform the data centre into a delivery centre with unified networking, security and virtual solutions.