25% of SMEs have server virtualisation in place, does that include you?

The use of virtualisation in small and medium businesses is now becoming more common and they are finding it holds many benefits for their business. Some businesses may have lost sales or customers as a result of not having virtualisation.

Are you one of those businesses who considered adopting virtualisation but haven’t yet?

So why should you consider virtualisation?

Investing in a virtualisation solution can save your business a considerable amount of money. Let’s say you currently have 10 different servers, it is more than likely that you are only using 10% of the resources of these servers put together. So overall you may just be using enough data for one of these servers. By using virtualisation and reducing the number of servers you have, you will save your business money, as fewer servers’ means less hardware, less maintenance costs and less energy being consumed on a daily basis.

Virtualisation will also help increase your network and system reliability. For example, if you are running 2 Hosts in your network and one suddenly crashed, then through the use of virtualisation it will boost up the other 2 that are still running. Virtualisation will allow you to move your VM’s from one Host to another whilst they are still running.

Implementing a virtualisation solution can also help with your disaster recovery plan.  Automatic virtual machine backups can be sent to the cloud. This means that whenever a server crashes, the full server image can restored quickly, resulting in less downtime for the business.

Are you interested in becoming part of that 25%?

Posted: 12/06/2013