Hi, I am Bruce Naylor your Frugal Tech and I wanted to talk to you a little bit about the benefits of virtualization for your small business or medium-size company. You know a lot of small business folks they hear the term virtualization and their eyes kind of glaze over all, “That’s going to be for the big boys. I heard about it probably going to be real expensive, and maybe not for us.” But listen, thanks to new hardware today with multiple course and free or inexpensive virtualization software. This can be a money saving and a very powerful subtle tools for your company.
Now as I said, most articles when they are talking about virtualization it is easy to get the ideas for the big boys, that’s really not. And there are some major benefits to your small business, so the good news is if you are a small business owner entrepreneur, there are plenty of short and long term benefits to virtualization.
Now, recently I was reading a piece written by Heather Clancy at JavaWocky.com who just came up with some very, very good points that I want to share with you if you’ve heard of this virtualization technology, but now I really took the time to investigate it. Heather goes on to say that there’s a big benefit of virtualization and I totally agree that instead of buying more than one server for your growing small business you can virtualized.
In fact, many things can be virtualized including the servers, desktops systems, storage devices, and even an entire network can be virtualized. And that’s all again thanks to things like ton of full inexpensive multiple processors. It’s a really great virtualization software.
Now the benefits of server virtualization for small businesses are many according to Heather. The good is if you use Microsoft software as your technology infrastructure you will reap the benefits and server virtualization is a core consideration and principle of Microsoft Server 2008 platform through the Hyper-V product.
So let’s get right to four benefits that Heather believes is very is very valuable to small businesses. And the first is, that one, adding another business application for database without increasing the number of physical hardware servers you have to worry about. That’s very true. If you have a powerful enough initial server, you can run multiple virtual machines or servers on that particular box without having to buy another server.
Now a common practice for many, many years is, is that you have specific line of business application and you need a database who would purchase a server, install the operating system, plug it in, get all connected, install the line of business application go on that was one more server you have to manage, but thanks to virtualization the input multiple servers on the one physical computer. And quite frankly that saves a lot of money.
Number two, by doing that you are cutting back on energy and technology maintenance cost. It can cost a lot of money to run a room full of service just in electric and cooling bills alone. And to that all the physical hardware that it has to be maintained and taken care of you shrink that down into just a few boxes it’s going to save you a lot of money. And that’s one of the big selling points of virtualization.
Now the third point is that it can enhance your disaster recovery plan. One very real strategy just made possible by virtualization is the disaster discovery plan. So what that really means is that, virtualization allows a small business to create an on-going backup, snap shots image of databases, image applications that can be replicated more than one place. So we have the main piece of hardware fails then the application can be restore from a fail over server in a few hours versus maybe even two or three days to get everything backed up and running again. Quite frankly I would be very, very upset if my business was down for a couple of days while I was waiting for everything to be put back away the way it was before the failure.
And finally, stretches your technology budget. Virtualization is compelling because it enables short term and long term cost reductions and system maintenance, office real estate, electrical costs. There is an additional upfront expense when it comes to the form of virtualization software, and maybe we’ll have to buy a little bit more powerful server or when you can get two or three servers running out of one. The cost savings become enormous.
Hey, I’m Bruce Naylor, your Frugal Tech. Check us out at www.frugalbrothers.com. If you like this video, you want to rate it we’d love to have you do that. Love to hear your comments. I’m Bruce Naylor your Frugal Tech. Remember if it’s within your shot not making you money or sending money get out of there. I’ll talk to you later.
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