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Disaster Recovery While most businesses have realized that they can’t afford not to have a disaster recovery facility, their cost-conscious stakeholders also don’t want to spend more money than is necessary. D/R servers may not need to be as powerful as their real-time production counterparts. Virtual servers with less memory and processor allocation allow businesses to fully replicate their production environment without doubling the hardware costs. Enterprise Application Servers Whether it is the customer relationship management software or the special-purpose accounting package, application servers can be the heart and soul of a company. Application servers do not always require an entire piece of server hardware dedicated to it, but best practice guidelines dictate that each system reside on its own server to avoid potential conflicts with other software. Running on a virtual machine ensures that the proper amount of resources are dedicated, while still meeting best practice guidelines. Data Center Floor Space & Power Utilization Many companies are drastically reducing data center costs by virtualizing, or consolidating, servers. With fewer physical servers, power utilization and cooling requirements are reduced, and much needed floor space and rack space can be recovered. Testing and Evaluation Environments The old approach to testing and evaluation usually consisted of old, unreliable hardware, or PCs sitting in the data center or under someone’s desk. It also required a lot of time to build, administer, and sometimes rebuild the system so that testing could be done. Server virtualization enables IT to provision servers on reliable, server-class hardware, within minutes. |
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