| This deep recession has many businesses looking for | | | | servers. Fewer of these expensive machines saves |
| ways to reduce their bottom line. Some expenses | | | | money. There is less expense for all the associated |
| are fixed and provide no savings incentives. Energy | | | | hardware, like routers and cables. Not only does this |
| costs continue to rise and will probably continue to do | | | | save money immediately, but also in the long run. |
| so in the future. As a business grows, so does its | | | | There is less hardware to replace and less associated |
| computing costs. Additional hardware and storage | | | | repair bills. Fewer servers also reduces IT related |
| systems are expensive. Expanding servers takes up | | | | expenses. Server virtualisation dramatically reduces |
| valuable floor space and results in "server sprawl". | | | | energy consumption. |
| Server virtualisation provides a solution to the money | | | | Saves Space |
| and space crunch problems. | | | | More and more hardware keeps floor space at a |
| What is Server Virtualisation? | | | | premium. There's only so much space, and it takes |
| Just the name "server virtualisation" sounds like | | | | creativity to make sensible use of it. Outgrowing a |
| make-believe, and in a way it is. It's akin to the | | | | space because business is booming and growing is an |
| imaginary playmates some children have. The fantasy | | | | event any company looks forward to. Outgrowing a |
| playmate serves the purpose of providing friendship | | | | space due to a vast network of servers and |
| to a lonely child, but it, in fact, doesn't exist. In the | | | | hardware is not cost efficient. No company wants to |
| computing world, a virtual server is basically one | | | | incur the extra expense of paying for more space |
| machine pretending to be many. This is achieved by | | | | when it isn't taking in more revenue. Server |
| the use of highly developed software that partitions | | | | virtualisation nips the sprawl problem in the bud, and |
| the hard disk so each part acts like a separate hard | | | | allows creative problem solving skills to be directed at |
| drive. With this "virtualisation" more than one | | | | growing profits, rather than expenses. |
| operating system can be run at a time on the same | | | | Expense reduction is becoming a necessary strategy |
| server. | | | | for companies to stay in business. Costs on many |
| Saves Money | | | | goods and services are rising. Businesses are failing or |
| What this means for the business owner is that less | | | | limping along. Server virualisation is one way to |
| physical servers are needed to get the job done. | | | | control costs. |
| Server virtualisation makes workhorses out of fewer | | | | |