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In the traditional approach, every new software application required a new physical server (or an upgrade). This added cost to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl.

Application workloads were directly dependent on server reliability for uptime. Even planned hardware maintenance and software updates negatively impacted productivity.

IT managers were challenged to meet increasing organizational demands on limited budget and time while more and more resources were needed just to power, cool and maintain existing servers and the number of servers continued to grow. The growing number of servers needed more time, money and people.

At a certain point in a company’s growth the traditional IT approach became more and more costly and complex. More time to deploy and maintain servers, more money to purchase, power and cool server rooms, and more people needed to deploy and maintain them (without budgets increasing) became a growth inhibitor for the company.

Growing IT Smarter

Virtualization helps remove the limitations of the traditional IT approach. It enables a single server to operate multiple applications simultaneously in “virtual machines.” This takes full advantage of the server’s performance.

New applications can then be rapidly deployed without purchasing, configuring or testing a new physical server every time. With virtualization you need fewer physical servers to keep up with your organization’s growing demands.

Fewer physical servers need less energy to power and cool them, and less server room floor space to house them. Your IT staff spends less time maintaining and more time innovating.

Virtualization provides a sustainable growth strategy for your company. It has a great number of benefits, some of which are as follows:

1. More efficient use of computer processing power
2. Less energy consumption
   1. Run ONE physical server instead of several
   2. Less air conditioning usage to keep the environment intact
   3. Less power backup resources required
3. End of endless hardware purchases and upgrades
   1. All the hardware is virtualized so no need to purchase controllers
   2. Hardware upgrades are on software level (memory, processor, or any controller)
   3. No need to physically install hardware
4. Safer, faster backups and restore
   1. Ability to take live snapshots while OS is running
   2. You can schedule snapshots of OS
   3. Less time to recover the whole OS
5. Reduced IT overhead.
6. Simplified IT Management from a remote location (from anywhere in the world using an Internet connection).
7. Ability to use Thin Clients (low-cost centrally managed computers devoid of diskette drives, CD players and expansion slots, and which require no hardware maintenance).
8. Ability to use existing computers for remote desktop connection to virtual machines located on the main server.
9. Faster server/client connection speed through a virtual switch.