Microsoft Visio Professional 2007 Virtualization Solutions

Visio and System Center deliver an integrated solution for better managing energy consumption and physical server requirements in your data center.

Green IT virtualization solutions built around Microsoft® Office Visio® Professional 2007 provide companies with a unique opportunity to realize significant cost savings through highly effective management of their IT assets and data centers.

In today’s challenging economic environment, companies are looking for creative ways to save money without putting their business at a competitive disadvantage or compromising operational integrity.

Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007, through data virtualization, allows companies to monitor key IT and data center information to support cost-saving business decisions. Solutions built around this unique Visio connector capability can drive immediate cost savings within almost any organization while offering sustainable, long-term benefits.

SharePoint Integration

As part of the Microsoft Office family of products, Visio easily integrates with Microsoft Office SharePoint®, allowing companies to push their diagrams to the Web for easy access across the organization. The diagrams can be refreshed as often as necessary to provide a near real-time view into critical business information.

What is Virtualization?
Using Visio, companies can implement innovative solutions that take advantage of data visualization to turn complex data sets into clean and clear business representations of the information, reports, and analytics. Visio can connect with virtually any data source, so just about any company can implement a virtual diagram to assist them in their cost-savings efforts.

Learn More:

How to Analyze Rack Server Virtualization
How to Set Up HVAC Monitoring with Visio

Just a few examples of cost-saving scenarios include:

	HVAC ReadingHVAC Readings – virtual representations of a data center’s key HVAC data, including temperature and humidity, help companies better manage energy consumption and keep HVAC costs down.
	Server Capacity – quickly assess server usage at both the rack and individual server level to help support decisions around shifting workloads to less-utilized boxes and potentially shutting down excess servers in the event of extra capacity.
	Exchange Server Analysis – by quickly reviewing near real-time data from Exchange Server, IT departments can proactively manage potential issues to keep the workforce productive and minimizing costly downtime.

Realizing Cost Savings
So exactly what kinds of savings can these virtual diagrams help companies drive to? McKinsey, a consulting firm, cites that “companies can double the efficiency of their data centers through more disciplined management.” Simply raising data center temperatures by four degrees can equate to 10% or more in cost savings – and with a virtual diagram built using Visio, it’s easy to determine where and when to make the decisions that yield these savings.