Virtualisation in the context of hosting has come a long way in recent years. Creating and using VM's was once a risky business, used only by the brave on low risk projects. These days, Virtualisation is fast becoming an industry standard as the technology behind it has matured, offering a totally robust and reliable product. Businesses across the globe are already taking advantage of the overwhelming benefits that Virtualisation provides:

Better utilisation of resources

Multiple Virtual Servers / applications can be consolidated onto fewer sets of physical hardware, making better usage of physical resources. Though the Virtual environment is ‘shared’ across physical hardware, each virtual server still has it’s own dedicated physical resources (RAM, CPU etc.).

Reduced risk

The architecture of Virtual environments allows for more redundancies (as with centralized SAN storage) to be built in, significantly reducing down-time in the event of hardware or software failure. Things can fail independently. For instance, one operating system can fail while others running on the same machine continue to function normally.

Virtual servers consist of a single system file, which means you can easily create a backup copy of your entire Virtual Machine. If you encounter problems, you can easily replace your existing VM with your backup copy.

Scalability & Availability

The process of ‘installing’ new servers or allocating additional resources to a particular server is now faster and easier to achieve. Combined with a shared storage device, Virtualisation enables you to migrate from one physical machine to another without a single second of downtime.

It’s Greener

Better utilisation of resources reduces energy consumption in Data Centre environments. As much as 70% energy consumption can be achieved in most cases.

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