Abacus Solutions Helps Customers Maximize Their IT Investment Through Virtualization Solutions and Cloud Computing

Abacus Solutions furthers its industry expertise and delivers enterprise virtualization solutions that enable companies to prepare their IT infrastructure for the future of cloud computing.

Marietta, GA (PRWeb) October 10, 2010 -- Abacus Solutions, an IT infrastructure solutions provider, sponsored the Georgia location of the Red Hat's Road Tour event earlier this month in Atlanta. The Road Tour allows IT professionals to gain valuable insight and best practices in virtualization solutions and cloud computing. The Red Hat Road Tour is a national, multi-city tour which features key discussions on how customers can unlock the value of cloud computing today.

The Red Hat Road Tour is a complimentary half-day seminar focusing on cloud computing, virtualization, platform, middleware and the future of IT. Participants gain insights into the best practices for virtualization and private cloud computing from Red Hat product experts, roundtable discussions, and real-world perspectives. Customers and partners will also learn how to build a cloud computing environment and prepare for the future, while leveraging the investments already made.

As a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner, Abacus Solutions has the expertise to deliver and integrate Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization solutions into customers' existing infrastructure in order to prepare them to take advantage of cloud computing when their systems require flexibility and scale.

“Virtualization provides a foundation for moving to the cloud and we are squarely focused on bringing these types of capabilities to our customer base,” said Patrick Hiller, CEO of Abacus Solutions. “There is no doubt that cloud computing is where the IT industry is headed and we intend to help our customers take full advantage of its potential.”

With projections indicating that over $44 billion dollars will be spent on cloud computing annually within the next few years, moving to the cloud is proving to be far more than a trend. According to one of the Red Hat seminars, 80% of server capacity and 65% of storage capacity are unused, and deploying into cloud environments will allow applications to run more efficiently on existing server capacity and without having to add more hardware to the data center.

“The information and industry perspectives presented at the Red Hat Road Tour were very valuable to our team. Red Hat's experts covered how virtualization provides the foundation for cloud computing but also expands IT capabilities while simultaneously reducing costs, which is something that our customers are looking to leverage,” said Hiller. “Additionally, it was nice to have real-world examples of cloud deployments and the seminar concluded with a current Red Hat customer explaining how he uses Red Hat to simplify the data center and increase its capabilities.”

About Abacus Solutions

Abacus Solutions strategically combines products, services and resources to deliver IT infrastructure solutions that solve your business needs. The company architects multi-platform enterprise-level, server, storage and networking solutions by offering technologies from leading vendors. Products include servers, software, new and refurbished networking equipment and storage solutions. Whether new or expertly refurbished and warrantied equipment is needed, Abacus works directly with, and across, the purchasing and IT departments at both strategic and deep-dive technical levels to match the right equipment, budgets and processes to a company's direct needs -- delivering technology much faster than working directly with OEM vendors, at a fraction of the cost.