Virtualised Voice & Data Communications

We're doing it. Right now.

In a partnership made in data centre heaven, Mitel and VMware have cracked the final frontier of voice telephony: virtualisation. It took the combined forces of Mitel, a company in a voice telephony league of its own, and VMware, the leader in virtualisation, to solve a previously unmanageable problem. The partnership attacked the chasm between voice telephony and virtualised software, and succeeded. Now, mission-critical voice applications have been virtualized alongside other enterprise business applications in the mainstream data centre.

In today's global economy, companies are, more than ever, looking to reduce capital and operating expenses. When it comes to the IT data centre, there has been, and continues to be, an opportunity to reduce business application server sprawl by consolidating applications to fewer servers managed under a consistent, rich management umbrella.

Server Virtualisation and comprehensive management tools such as those provided by VMware enable data centres to save costs through physical reduction in server equipment. You could reduce your carbon footprint, get power savings, real estate savings, as well as server management automation and data centre process standardisation. Virtual infrastructure management tools also readily facilitate high availability for business applications, including maintaining business continuity through disaster recovery.

Mitel has recognised this industry evolution and is now offering its core voice telephony component as a virtualised software application deployed alongside other traditional virtualised business applications in VMware enabled data centres. Mitel collaborated directly with VMware to allow its Unified Communcations applications to run in a virtualised environment.