NetSoft Communications Inc., a leading Microsoft Gold Certified consulting firm, is located in Mississauga, Ontario. Experts with a wealth of industry experience comprise NetSoft’s knowledge base. Our professionals possess expertise in Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Terminal Services, Clustering and SharePoint. Our Active Directory (AD) consultants can benefit your company by helping you to implement, fully utilize and maximize your Windows Server capabilities. We can improve your overall IT environment, complete with improved security, easily manageable user accounts and groups, and maximized operational efficiencies.
One of the industry’s hottest topics, server virtualization is being considered by many to determine efficient ways to optimize existing infrastructure to creating disaster recovery plans. NetSoft, a Microsoft Gold Partner with the Virtualization Competency, understands how and why server virtualization plays a key role component of enhancing efficiency and effectiveness of IT enterprise environments.
Wide scale budgetary cuts have heightened administrators’ awareness of viable solutions. The pressure is on to do more with less and find ways to reduce IT operational costs without sacrificing current quality of service delivery levels. Moreover, security and maintaining data integrity also takes its place as a nagging concern.
NetSoft’s capable consultants can enlighten you about the many benefits that virtualization affords. One of the tried-and-true ways to decrease costs and simplify your environment, virtualization has withstood the test of time and can increase operational and end user productivity. A more virtualized system ensures manageability and a sure-fire means to tactically address needs to advance your business.
When you hire NetSoft, our dedicated, knowledgeable team will work for you. We seek to comprehend our clients’ business issues and provide customized solutions that can change the way you do business. NetSoft’s very experienced technology professionals will ensure that our clients’ IT projects always succeed. We have been involved with virtualization in various forms for many years and have implemented virtualization solutions for enterprise organizations looking to optimize their IT infrastructure, control their budget and improve their IT efficiency.
NetSoft is and has been designing and deploying virtualization solutions for customers for many years. NetSoft’s powerful capabilities in this area help customers simplify and accelerate a server consolidation strategy. NetSoft is the right resource to help start a new server consolidation project fit into an existing virtualization infrastructure, or building a new Microsoft-based virtualization infrastructure as part of the server consolidation project. Our Citrix certified experts can help you evaluate, test, install, and support XenServer as well as other important virtualization products from Citrix by providing Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V consulting services, and Citrix XenApp support.
- A cost-effective way to control your IT budget; virtualizing servers decreases the need for redundant physical hardware in your data center
- Easy setup and administration
- Server consolidation, a way to utilize the full potential of server performance
- Enhanced application accessibility and improved business continuity
- Rapid and centralized application deployment
- Effective disaster recovery
- Lower TCO, higher ROI
- Increased System Security
- Efficient Use of Resources
- Faster, easier and more efficient testing
XenServer benefits include but are not limited to:
The only enterprise-class, cloud-proven virtualization platform that delivers critical features of live migration and centralized multi-server management at no cost, Citrix XenServer radically reduces datacenter costs by transforming static and complex datacenter environments into more dynamic, easy to manage IT service delivery centers. By providing features like live migration, shared storage support, centralized multi-server management plus P2V and V2V conversion tools in the free version, XenServer enables any organization, no matter the size or budget, to immediately benefit from the power of server virtualization.
Understanding Citrix XenServer’s Architecture, with the Xen Hypervisor
Xen hypervisor, a performance-optimized “base-metal” design that communicates directly with its hardware host without requiring the intervention of a full-blown, high overhead operating system, forms the core of XenServer. It mirrors VMware’s vSphere hypervisor and contrasts with Microsoft’s Hyper-V, which must be installed on top of a specialized version of Windows Server 2008. Unlike VMware’s proprietary approach, the Xen hypervisor features an open architecture that has been field proven in more than a dozen commercial virtualization products. In fact, the Xen hypervisor drives the Amazon Elastic Cloud, the world’s largest virtualization deployment. An example of the advantages of XenServer’s open architecture approach is that customers can utilize the advanced capabilities built into their existing storage systems such as snapshotting, replication, and provisioning without configuring and managing unfamiliar, proprietary utilities.
XenServer introduced the concept of paravirtualization, which allows the guest operating system to participate actively in the virtualization process. Paravirtualization, which has also been adopted by Microsoft in Hyper-V, offers close-to-native performance and minimizes the size of the Xen hypervisor, allowing XenServer to support more virtual machines (VMs) on each physical server. Higher VM density lowers total cost of ownership by reducing equipment purchases, simplifying management and support, and reducing expenses for cooling, power, and data center space.
The Xen hypervisor has been paravirtualized for all major releases of Linux, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell SUSE, Debian, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and CentOS. Although Microsoft Windows cannot be completely paravirtualized, XenServer can take advantage of the hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities of the Intel VT and AMD-V processor families. Citrix offers additional support for Windows environments with Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V, which focuses on storage management and dynamic provisioning in Hyper-V environments, and with Citrix XenApp, the flagship Citrix platform for virtualizing and delivering Window applications.
Versions
XenServer comes in a variety of versions. NetSoft’s experts can analyze your needs and help to determine which would work best for your organization. You can chose from the following versions:
Express Edition: A free package for bringing virtualization to every server.
Standard Edition: High-performance, feature-rich server virtualization with multi-server Enterprise Edition: A powerful platform that provides substantial computing resources and storage, to manage dynamic virtualized environment, suitable for businesses.
All versions are fully compatible, with additional capacity and functionality can be activated by License Key, Requires no additional software or downtime for the upgrade between versions.
Free Demo
Reading is good, but NetSoft’s free demonstrations are better. We can come to your place or you can come to ours. NetSoft can address all organizational levels and help you gain a thorough understanding of how we can enhance your business operations. We can provide viable, cost-effective Citrix XenDesktop solutions, customized to meet your needs. Contact NetSoft Consulting today via email (info@netsoftcommunications.com) or telephone (905.812.2923) to arrange a demonstration. Get the information you need to empower your organization.
Free Consultation
NetSoft’s status as a Microsoft Gold Certified partner catapults our company to a higher level. Our seasoned team of information technology experts can provide information pertaining to Microsoft, Citrix and VMware. Our versatile professionals can address issues with your IT experts as well as novices. We refuse to “talk down to you” or offer bells and whistles that will not improve your business operations. NetSoft consultants make themselves available and can meet with you at your convenience and on your terms. We can address large or small audiences and are willing to repeat the presentation, if needed. Let our consultants show you how to leverage your system and how NetSoft can best meet your business needs. Our demo and estimates are free of charge. Call us at 905.812.2923 or email us at info@netsoftcommunications.com to set an appointment for your free consultation.
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- Microsoft Gold Partner for last 5 years
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- Several Hundred Deployments
- Excellent Customer Service
- Efficient, Cost-effective Solutions
The NetSoft Edge
Why Choose NetSoft?
Plain and simple, NetSoft knows. NetSoft’s experts, the core of our company, know what works. All have extensive industry experience. They have utilized tried-and-true methods and stay abreast new technologies and IT updates. NetSoft professionals have vast experience with key Microsoft, Citrix, VMware technologies and can communicate their business benefits. Additionally, NetSoft professionals are certified with Citrix, Microsoft and VMware and have completed hundreds of successful engagements. When we work for you, we work with you. Our consultants recommend viable solutions for you, but we do so only after we have listened to and thoroughly comprehend your needs. We collaborate with you every step of the way from the initial consultation and estimate to the proof of concept, pilot deployments production roll-outs, and training and support.
NetSoft explores all the options for you. We will analyze third-party technologies that may benefit your organization and help you improve your operations. NetSoft seeks your satisfaction, and we will leave no project undone. That means that we won’t stop until we have reached the goal that we set. We will perform pilot installations to automate processes; optimize and enhance your infrastructure for growth; install upgrades or patches; train your team to manage installation and configuration; improve your network security; create and document discovery procedures; increase system speed and delivery, and provide low-cost, high-quality face-to-face or online Help Desk services.
How Can You Contact Us?
NetSoft offers expertise in Microsoft, Citrix and VMware based technologies. Call our consulting team at 905.812.2923 to find out how NetSoft consultants can assist you with your environment.
