What is Virtualisation?

Virtualisation is software technology which uses a physical resource such as a server and divides it up into virtual resources called virtual machines (VM's).  Virtualisation allows users to consolidate physical resources, simplify deployment and administration, and reduce power and cooling requirements.  While virtualisation technology is most popular in the server world, virtualisation technology is also being used in data storage such as Storage Area Networks, and inside of operating systems such as Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V.
 
Popular virtualization products include:

Why Your Company Should Virtualise

Virtualising your IT infrastructure lets you reduce IT costs while increasing the efficiency, utilisation, and flexibility of your existing assets. Our customers (of every size) benefit from virtualised solutions. Thousands of organisations use virtualisation solutions. Contact Datrix to find out how virtualising your IT infrastructure will benefit your organisation and save costs.

Top 3 Reasons to Adopt Virtualisation

  1. Get more out of your existing resources: Pool common infrastructure resources and break the legacy “one application to one server” model with server consolidation.
  2. Reduce data centre costs by reducing your physical infrastructure and improving your server to admin ratio: Fewer servers and related IT hardware means reduced assets and reduced power and cooling requirements. Better management tools let you improve your server to admin ratio so personnel requirements are reduced as well.
  3. Increase availability of hardware and applications for improved business continuity: Securely backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no interruption in service. Eliminate planned downtime and recover immediately from unplanned issues.