Virtualization is slowly becoming the norm with the business community and for good reason, too. When you virtualize your servers, your entire business can benefit in more ways than one.
Here are the top 5 reasons to virtualize your servers.
1. You’ve had it up to here with hardware (enough is enough).
Maintaining hardware is not an enjoyable thing. It can be time-consuming and littered with question marks. But luckily for you, there are ways around all this tedious upkeep and those annoying repairs.
When you virtualize your servers, you reduce your need for physical, on-site servers. Instead, you have multiple virtual servers acting on behalf of one physical server. In theory, you should require less maintenance, upkeep, and IT support.
2. You’re looking to cut costs (well, yeah).
Hardware isn’t just confusing; it’s also expensive. With all that upkeep and all those repairs, you will be forced to spend money at one point or another. But again, virtualize those servers and the need for upkeep and repairs will all but disappear — ultimately reducing your overall IT-related expenses.
3. You’re worried about data recovery (and rightfully so).
No business is a friend of downtime. It creates too many problems — more specifically, it hurts your reputation, damages customer service, and negatively affects productivity. So, the quicker you can recover lost data during a downtime event, the better off your business will be.
With virtualized servers, quick recoveries are actually in the realm of possibility. Since your data is no longer tied to one physical server, massive downtime in the event of a server malfunction is no longer an unavoidable situation. You can simply use the latest snapshot of a virtual server to restore your physical server to a particular point in time.
4. You’re done with downtime (D-O-N-E, done).
When it comes to virtualization, data recovery isn’t the only way you can avoid IT-related downtime. You can deploy new applications quickly, and you can distribute workloads evenly among virtual servers. As a result, you can achieve and maintain productivity for longer periods of time.
5. You’re ready to go green (or just reduce energy costs).
Because virtualization gives you the opportunity to reduce your need for physical servers, you’ll end up using significantly less energy. In some cases, this means up to 80% reduction in energy consumption. And you know what this means … you reduce that energy bill, as well.
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