Virtualisation

 

Most small businesses are looking for cost-effective ways to add newer and richer applications to fuel and grow their businesses. Small and mid-sized businesses want access to the latest technology, but often don't have the time, money, or need for multiple servers running more than one OS. Server virtualisation—typically something reserved for large enterprise—is changing the way small and mid-sized businesses manage IT resources and deliver technology to their employees, partners, and customers

Virtualisation in practice

Today, businesses are initiating virtualisation projects not only to reduce costs, but to make specific improvements to their infrastructure, including:

• Server consolidation - Virtualisation technology to host several servers on one physical server.

• Disaster recovery - Maintain disaster recovery site without using same number of physical servers. For example, the daily backup can by placed on a standby virtual machine for rapid disaster recovery.

• Test and development - Use of virtual machines to quickly provision and scale test machines and rapidly transition to newer projects.

• Client consolidation - Host several clients on high capacity servers, reducing the manageability burden associated with stand-alone clients.