Surrey, Egham. "Top 10 Reasons to Have Virtualisation" The author explains the major reasons for implementing virtualisation technology and server consolidation in a business.
Businesses are constantly changing and in the current economic situation it is vital for companies to save as much as possible and to remain technologically advanced. Virtualisation techniques help companies respond to changes quickly and to be more efficient. There are many benefits of implementing virtualisation and consolidating the number of servers used in a company. They include:
1. Cost Savings: A business must reduce their costs as much as possibleto be successful. Companies are turning to virtualisation solutions as a method of reducing expenses. Virtualisation technologies lower the number of physical machines because of the ability to run multiple applications that share the same physical hardware. This reduces the amount of physical space that is needed for servers or data centres and dramatically reduces cooling and electricity costs.
2. Operating Systems Flexibility: The fast changing business environment requires companies to be flexible and efficient. Server virtualisation enables customers to run multiple identical or different operating systems and applications on a single hardware server while using different “virtual servers.” This provides the opportunity to test new Operating Systems without acquiring new hardware.
3. Flexibility in Running Applications: Virtualisation reduces technology conflicts when two applications are running on the same server. Virtual technology allows each application to have its own “virtual server” but still run applications on a single piece of hardware and prevent the impact of one application on another.
4. Easy Disaster Recovery: Virtualisation technologies provide value added services related to disaster recovery. Traditionally, a company had to duplicate the machines and software from one data centre to another. Disaster recovery plans and strategies tend to be the most expensive. Virtualisation has made disaster recovery extremely easy. Virtual machine technologies provide solutions for better protection against data loss and downtime for the entire environment. This helps data centres run more efficiently and smoothly.
5. Control Over IT Resources: Virtualisation technologies optimise IT efficiencies and simplifies IT operations. This gives IT specialists more time and freedom because they do not have to manage servers.
6. Lower response time: A great advantage of implementing virtualisation technology in your business is that related applications can achieve better performance and response times.
7. Ease of Testing and Development: Virtualisation drives significant process improvements in application development and testing. By using virtual machine technology, software project completion could be increased by increasing individual and team productivity. Additionally, developers and testers can test applications with multiple operating systems and multiple hardware and software configurations.
8. Lower Risk: Virtual environments provide lower risk levels. The decreased number of physical machines means the risk of having a fault or problem with a machine is lower, therefore decreasing the downtime that a company may experience and reducing impact on work.
9. Easy Outsourcing of the Computer Requirements: Outsourcing service companies offer off premises server housing, providing monitoring and customer support, more office space and lower electrical fees.
10. Opportunity to Work with Leading IT Specialist: ISG technology is working with global leaders that provide virtualisation solutions. The company has extensive experience with upgrading server networks and with the latest virtualisation technology.Call ISG technology today for a Virtualisation Assessment and see how much your company can save!
Virtualisation technology is fast changing IT infrastructure. ISG technology is knowledgeable and extremely experienced in providing virtualisation to both small and large companies. No matter the size of your company, you can take advantage of the newest server technologies and experience great benefits.
