I keep seeing articles, posts and features around virtualisation and the benefits it offers to businesses but before we can begin to consider the benefits we need to know what it is.
I can’t be the only one who is not completely technologically minded and new to the world of IT (as a new employee at IIS) so I went on the hunt for some simplified information that I thought might be of use or interest to the SME owners, managers and employees.
The traditional approach to IT required a new server for every new software application which of course added substantial costs and weeks to projects. Even planned hardware and software updates and maintenance impacted productivity. IT managers were challenged to meet organisational demands with limited time and budgets available to them.
The increase in the number of servers being introduced resulted in more money, time and people being required.
Virtualisation means that one single server can be used to run multiple applications simultaneously in virtual machines. New applications can now be rapidly deployed.
Virtualisation is the smarter way to grow IT; less time, money and people are necessitated.
The main benefits are:
Minimum spend on power and cooling facilities
Allows you to take full advantage of hardware performance
Facilitates a rapid response to organisational needs
The focus shifts from maintenance to efficiency and innovation with less people being needed to support the IT environment, their skills and knowledge can be utilised more efficiently elsewhere within the organisation.
Virtualisation will help small and medium businesses achieve enterprise-class levels of IT high availability and continuity at a significantly lower cost if they have the appropriate IT infrastructure foundation.
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