Virtualization Overview
Simply put, virtualization is a technology that will allow you to reduce the amount of equipment in your network, by making the equipment you do have work harder.
For most companies, this means that a data center or server room that once had 24 servers, might now have only 3. Imagine the cost reduction and benefits of only running and maintaining 1/8th of the servers that you currently have.
- Less electricity
- Less cooling
- Less maintenance
- Less e-waste
- A smaller carbon footprint (greener computing)
The benefits don’t end there though. With virtualization, your software can dynamically migrate and fail-over between the servers that you do have. Also, provisioning of new servers takes minutes rather than days. This translates to:
- Better uptime
- Less lost productivity
- Easier maintenance
- Lower total cost of ownership
- Easier scalability
So the simple answer is that virtualization is the technology that can help make you competitive and agile at a time when budgets and resources are tight. Virtualization makes you more efficient, scalable, and resistant to failure.