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Virtualization is fast becoming one of the most talked about terms in IT right now.
And why not?
Virtualization - the process of installing multiple operating systems into a single physical workstation or server - is efficient, green-friendly, and cost effective.
Now the company that is considered to be the gold standard in virtualization, VMware, is touting virtualization benefits for small business. They list five good reasons why small business virtualization is the way to go:
- It’s cheaper to have several virtualized machines residing on one physical machine than it is to purchase multiple machines.
- Server room size requirements can be decreased saving you time and money retrofitting your office space to accommodate a larger server room.
- Save money on electricity required to power the multiple machines as well as save on your server room cooling bills.
- Workstation and server maintenance and upgrades, as well as machine replacement are cheaper when you only have to worry about one physical workstation or server.
- Less hardware to babysit means less software to upgrade.
That said, small business VMware performance can be driven by a wide suite of VMware products including…
- VMware vCenter Server- this solution will allow you to decrease the number of physical servers that your business has to have. By virtualizing multiple servers, you will reduce your need for physical servers, decrease the amount of server storage space, and lower your energy bill.
- VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager- this solution will keep your system running, even if there is a hardware failure. If one a physical servers crashes, this program will automatically move all the hosted virtual servers to another physical server. Your business will have constant system availability and will not lose any uptime while waiting for someone to fix the broken server.
- VMware View- is an application that manages desktop workstations by making the brains of the workstations virtual. Software installations and updates are managed in one place. This saves time and money and makes it easier to support, manage and control workstation usage.
- VMware vCenter Lab Manager- allows you to test software, system configurations, and updates without committing time and effort to modifying workstations.
Virtualization.
If you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet - now’s the time.
(And, no, VMware did not pay me to write this.)
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