Consulting

I've enjoyed the opportunity to work closely with IT Weapons, watching their business grow since its inception in 2000. We have always applauded their professionalism and technical expertise. We are certainly proud to have them as a partner.

Grant Aitken, Canadian National Manager of VMware Inc

Virtual Infrastructure Solutions

When you virtualize with IT Weapons you'll spend less, do more, and feel safe.

IT Weapons is a Canadian pioneer when it comes to virtualization technology. Our knowledge and experience with business-centric virtualization solutions are unrivalled. Our consultants maintain the highest levels of industry certification for the design and deployment of virtual infrastructure for server consolidation, application delivery, storage, and network devices.

The 3 C's of Virtualization:

Consolidate: Transform your physical servers to virtual machines and reduce your dependency on multiple physical resources.

Contain: Reduce complexity and contain server sprawl. New workloads can be provisioned as virtual machines rather than physical servers, deferring hardware purchases and dramatically reducing workload rollout times.

Cut costs: Reduce TCO and increase ROI by better utilizing Data Centre resources. Significantly reduce your environmental footprint (power usage, cooling costs, and server-room rack space) and reduce your operating costs.

Server Virtualization

Drive up availability and maximize productivity with IT Weapons' server consolidation and containment solutions.

Server consolidation with VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, or Microsoft Hyper-V will ensure your business processes are agile and scalable. Consolidation will significantly reduce your power and cooling demands. The benefits include:

Automated resource management
High availability and low-impact disaster recovery
Reduced hardware and operating costs - as much as 50%
Reduced provisioning times for new servers - up to 70%
Increased utilization of existing hardware capacity - up to 80%
On-demand scalability and performance

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

The annual cost of ownership for traditional desktops can be thousands of dollars per user. The management of application updates, licenses, and anti-virus software is cumbersome and expensive.

Let IT Weapons show you how to leverage the power and versatility of virtualization to meet all your desktop needs and stay under budget. Our team can help you with your desktop manageability and security challenges; enabling remote access and consolidating your desktop computing resources.

With our virtual desktop solutions, your system administrators can host and centrally manage your infrastructure in a secure Data Centre while the end users enjoy the ability to personalize their desktops and access any required applications remotely.

Storage Virtualization

Reliance on electronic information is always increasing, and so are the data storage demands of every business. You need a system that can scale easily and remain resilient.

A variety of data disasters—from accidental file deletions, to fires and floods—can threaten your operations and escalate the demands of your IT staff. Data storage can be virtualized to provide the flexibility to meet these challenges. A few of the benefits of storage virtualization:

Non-disruptive data migration
Remote data replication for business continuity and disaster recovery
Improved utilization
Point-in-time snapshots to copy or clone data for diverse uses
Pooling: virtual storage can be scaled up as demands increase. Pay-as-you-grow, giving IT departments the flexibility needed to meet increased performance and storage demands
Thin provisioning and on-the-fly disk expansion

With storage and backup solutions from EqualLogic, HP, and LeftHand you can eliminate storage bottlenecks and realize the full potential of a virtualized server environment.