Virtual Reality of Cutting Costs

October 2008

Why is Virtualisation so important and what is the business gain?   

Virtualisation addresses the key business issues of total cost of ownership and high availability. By pooling hardware resources it makes IT more flexible and highly cost effective.

Virtualisation allows you to reduce your hardware assets, or use them more efficiently.  Typically, one application runs on one piece of hardware. With Virtualisation the application is put inside a “virtual machine” that can run on any piece of hardware.  This gives you greater flexibility and is a huge cost saver. In addition you can run more than one virtual machine on that same piece of hardware lowering your costs even further.

For example, general estimates indicate that most servers are under-utilised by a massive 75-85%.  By consolidating 3-5 under-utilised servers onto one virtualised server, there is still adequate resource but at 25% of the current hardware and server licensing costs. These incredible savings are also reflected in the reduced power consumption and cooling requirements.

Virtualisation delivers greater efficiencies and creates a solid foundation on which to build a highly fault tolerant server environment to ensure quick recovery from systems failures; critical in maintaining business continuity and disaster recovery deployments.

Virtualisation is about reducing costs, consolidating servers and maximising on your IT infrastructure.