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ZSL is a leading provider of IT Virtualization and Consolidation technologies and services to companies worldwide. We specialize in helping organizations utilize emerging technologies to solve their critical business challenges.

We are proud to call our IT Infrastructure Consolidation and Virtualization Service as 'Greenware'.

Our Greenware package offers IT Infrastructure consolidation and virtualization consulting, design, implementation and testing services to the enterprises. Greenware helps our enterprise customers to implement and promote energy-efficient technologies and hardware infrastructure that will enable continued progress while minimizing and even reversing damage to our earth.

Why Greenware?

Many organizations are consolidating, or centralizing, IT today using the Virtualization technologies in order to reduce the server farms thus minimizes the power and cooling systems utilization.. Virtualization is an abstraction layer that decouples the physical hardware from the operating system to deliver greater IT resource utilization and flexibility.

IT consolidation provides many benefits, including simpler, easier to manage applications and infrastructure. But accelerating application performance is key to a successful IT centralization project. Application performance optimization is an important component of consolidation because users are required to perform many more transactions over the wide area network than before.

Go Greenware Benefits

• Multiple applications and operating systems can be supported within a single physical system

• 60-80% utilization rates for x86 servers up from today's 5-15%

• Servers can be consolidated into virtual machines on either a scale-up or scale-out architecture

• New applications provisioned in tens of seconds, not days

• Computing resources are treated as a uniform pool to be allocated to virtual machines in a controlled manner

• Virtual machines are completely isolated from the host machine and other virtual machines. If a virtual machine crashes, all others are unaffected

• Change request response times measured in minutes

• Data does not leak across virtual machines and applications can only communicate over configured network connections

• Complete virtual machine environment is saved as a single file; easy to back up, move and copy

• Zero-downtime hardware maintenance without waiting for maintenance windows

• Standardized virtualized hardware is presented to the application - guaranteeing compatibility

Greenware Implementation Expertise

Our VMware Engineering team simplifies the complex design and implementation issues of the Virtualization so companies leverage their storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and respond faster. The VMware based virtual infrastructure approach to IT management creates virtual services out of the physical IT infrastructure, enabling administrators to allocate these virtual resources quickly to the business units that need them most. Our Hardware management is completely separated from software management, and hardware equipment can be treated as a single pool of processing, storage and networking power to be allocated and de-allocated on the fly to various software services.

Our expertise in implementing high performance enterprise application using GigaSpaces’ development platform delivers unparalleled dynamic scalability for high-volume transactional applications, without the overhead and complexity inherent in traditional multi-tier development & deployment environments. GigaSpaces’ innovative “space-based architecture” combines advanced services such as distributed data caching, distributed messaging bus, parallel processing, and grid-enablement with open standards and cross-language support to enable a “write once, scale anywhere” approach to the development and deployment of distributed applications.

ZSL uses Azul Systems’ Appliances which are based on multi-core chip technology is designed to handle processing-intensive workloads associated with dynamic web-based applications by creating a shared pool of compute and memory resources. The technology yields improved power and cooling performance and more predictable service levels. The Azul Compute Appliances enables transparent, massively scalable infrastructure that supports the business priorities of today’s most demanding enterprise environments and delivers increased capabilities, capacity and utilization at a fraction of the cost of traditional computing models.

Greenware offers the flexibility to the Mid-Size Enterprises to leverage their Microsoft Windows based infrastructure in conjunction with Windows Server 2003, Virtual Server 2005 by implementing the virtualization platform that runs most major x86 operating systems in a guest environment, and is supported by Microsoft as a host for Windows Server operating systems and Windows Server System applications. Virtual Server 2005's comprehensive COM API, in combination with the Virtual Hard Drive (VHD) format and support for virtual networking, provide administrators complete scripted control of portable, connected virtual machines and enable easy automation of deployment, and ongoing change and configuration.