July 2008 Top 5 reasons to adopt virtualisation

How virtualisation software can help your company improve efficiency and make your IT budget go that little bit further.

Virtualisation is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people use IT. Today’s powerful computer hardware was originally designed to run a single operating system and a single application, but virtualisation breaks the mould. It makes it possible to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same computer at the same time, increasing the utilisation and flexibility of hardware.

5 reasons your company should adopt virtualisation software are: 

1. Server consolidation and infrastructure optimisation: Virtualisation makes it possible to achieve significantly higher resource utilisation by pooling common infrastructure resources and breaking the legacy “one application to one server” model.

2. Physical infrastructure cost reduction: With virtualisation, you can reduce the number of servers and related IT hardware in the data center. This leads to reductions in real estate, power and cooling requirements, resulting in significantly lower IT costs.

3. Improved operational flexibility and responsiveness: Virtualisation offers a new way of managing IT infrastructure and can help IT administrators spend less time on repetitive tasks such as provisioning, configuration, monitoring and maintenance.

4. Increased application availability and improved business continuity: Eliminate planned downtime and recover quickly from unplanned outages with the ability to securely backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no interruption in service.

5. Improved desktop manageability and security: Deploy, manage and monitor secure desktop environments that end users can access locally or remotely, with or without a network connection, on almost any standard desktop, laptop or tablet PC.

As a partner to VMware, the global leader in virtual infrastructure technology, we are committed to helping organizations, large and small, to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their IT operations. For further information about Virtualisation and how it can help your company get more from your IT budget click here and request a call from our marketing team.