Virtualization Benefits

Virtualization is a technology that can benefit anyone who uses a computer. Millions of people and thousands of organizations around the world—including all of the Fortune 100—use virtualization solutions to reduce IT costs while increasing the efficiency, utilization and flexibility of their existing computer hardware. Read below to discover how virtualization can benefit your organization.

Top 5 Reasons to Adopt Virtualization

1. Server Consolidation and Infrastructure Optimization: Virtualization makes it possible to achieve significantly higher resource utilization by pooling common infrastructure resources and breaking the legacy “one application to one server” model.
2. Physical Infrastructure Cost Reduction: With virtualization, 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 & Responsiveness: Virtualization 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 & 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 & 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.

Experts on Virtualization

Server Consolidation
“Most servers are only utilizing 5 to 15% of their CPU capacity and in most cases only run one application. Using virtualization software, physical servers can be replaced by virtual servers. Many customers are running up to 25 virtual servers on one dedicated physical server.”

Disaster Recovery
“The most stressful and worrisome task for IT Operations Managers is implementing a disaster recovery plan. Using traditional methods, disaster recovery is costly, and at best partially effective. Using virtualization’s live recovery option the data is never lost and the virtual servers will be automatically started on another physical server. With the ability to clone any virtual server, the server can easily be stored offsite; and in the case of a site disaster, the data center can be re-created.”

Business Continuity
“Within a “virtualized” data center, virtual servers can be configured to automatically move from one physical server to a different server in the event of a physical server failure. Before virtualization, the failed physical server would have to be repaired before the server was brought back online; taking hours and in some cases days to come back on-line. With virtualization software, the restore process takes minutes.”

Test & Development
“In traditional software test and development groups, engineers take hours to create development and test servers from scratch, loading several OS versions and applications on different physical servers. With server virtualization, test and development servers and applications can be cloned and created in minutes. Several different OS and application revisions can be tested using several virtual servers residing on the same physical server. The resulting benefits include: reducing the number of servers needed and maximizing testing time.”

Capacity Management
“Virtualized data centers can be configured with policies to automatically move virtual servers from one physical server to a different physical server when a capacity threshold is reached (such as CPU or network utilization).”