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Virtualization Technology: How Things Work in a Virtual Software World

Updated on March 30, 2017

Small and Medium Businesses are now undergoing the same cost savings and environmental benefits derived initiatives that the larger companies are implementing and realizing similar benefits.

Virtualization is a technology by which techno-scientific software is installed on a computer, typically a server, allowing either many independent, instances of an operating system or multiple independent, operating systems to be installed and therefore, making one computer look like many computers concurrently on a network.

Why even entertain this concept?

Well, the average server at its maximum load averages 30% or less utilization of its highest capability, which means 70% is idle. The average computer utilizes between 15-20% of its maximum capacity. The predicament is that the same industrial electric rate is still being implemented to that hardware as long as that unit is powered on.

What Experts Say

An IT expert could recommend that only two real servers remain maxed out on hardware upgrades to the point where everyone could hold up to ten virtual machines a piece, thus becoming host servers for all virtual computers. Regenerate all of the physical servers to virtual machines. Connect a FireWire external disk array to one of the virtual hosts to store backup storage for the guests and other files. This takes care of data restoration.

Dominating Companies

The virtualization market is controlled mainly by VMware, Citrix, and Parallels. Every one of them offers advanced and dominant hypervisors, the kernel component of any virtualization platform. These enterprise-class products assist larger organizations to achieve remarkable results in reducing their environmental and physical systems tracks.

Virtual software is not expensive. VMWare Fusion or Parallels offer the best features, affordable pricing and many other utilities. You can read reviews and find pricing details in various tech blogs.

Free Versions

Modern trade strategies and continually changing products and business models have spurred free versions of those same enterprise-class virtualization products.

The companies have realized that while Small and Medium Businesses do not need all of the feature sets that are unique to enterprise-class businesses, there are traits common to both market divisions. They are expecting that the SMBs will find enough value in utilizing the cheap, enterprise tools that they will pay and invest in more big solutions as their businesses start to scale up.

Getting The Right Version

Virtualization is not for all. A favorable implementation will depend upon many factors such as specific hardware program assessments, a careful plan of implementation paths and consolidation among many others. This technology will serve the Small and Medium Businesses market well. As always, an SMB should regularly consult with a qualified IT expert to know the options available and to obtain a precise grasp on the tasks that need to be done as well as the basis for creating them.

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