Eliminating Hardware Updates and Improving Security
If you haven’t yet realized how virtualization can keep your small business alive, you need to see how essential it’s becoming in a volatile business world.
We’re living in a time now when running a server on your own not only costs considerable money but also poses serious risks. With hacking and other threats going on nearly every minute of the day now, a small business is constantly vulnerable to potential shutdowns.
Virtualization is a major solution because you can move much of your hardware into virtual mode as a way to cut down on server space. You’re essentially compressing everything down so all the physical hardware you’d have to buy is internal.
A small business particularly benefits thanks to numerous virtualization methods that can remove the potentials of nightmare scenarios.
Creating Virtual Machines
A major expense for small business is keeping up with the expense of hardware. Virtualization allows a small business to nearly eliminate hardware and virtualize an operating system. Called virtual machines, you can eliminate the need to install a physical operating system on your network. You also don’t have to worry about a virtual machine conflicting with a host operating system or even other virtual machines you’re running.
In all, you create a better efficiency that lets you use a virtual machine for a specific task without bogging your server down.
More Efficiency with Your Physical Server
All small businesses soon realize how running a server can be expensive. When you have to put all your data there, you’re going to need to spend more money for more server space as well as cooling technology to keep it from overheating. Virtualization helps you to cut down on needing to purchase physical servers to keep up with your hardware demands. With that much capital savings, a small business doesn’t have to play as much risk as they already have.
Data Recovery and Business Continuity
Virtualizing any sort of infrastructure in your small business and making copies of it is one of the most efficient ways toward data recovery should you ever need it. It’s a very simple process to copy something virtualized without taking huge amounts of storage space. That can be very important if your main server gets destroyed and you have copies of your virtualized network available on smaller servers in other locations. Buy loading up your virtualized infrastructure there, your business continuity won’t be any concern.
CIO.com also mentions how live migration is being used now in virtualization for business continuity purposes. This involves moving your virtualized infrastructure to other servers without having to worry about powering the servers down first.
It’s time your own small business looked into virtualization to start saving you money on the constant issue of finding ways to expand. Here at AE Technology Group, we’ll help you get set up with virtualizing your business infrastructure and show you how to manage it properly.
Contact us if you need us for any other IT services in your small business. We work as consultants and can give you many other solutions to help you save money, including moving your network to the cloud and superior network support.
