SMBs get more efficient servers with virtualization
July 29, 2011 No CommentsAs hardware power increased over the years IT pros used to wonder about what we’d do with all that capacity, but no longer. Virtualization has enabled everyone, from SMBs to enterprise IT, to get better utilization out of their hardware and make management easier too.
This feature of virtualization is all the more valuable to SMBs because every server is a big investment. Buying different boxes to perform file and print serving, database processing, email, line of business apps and more will soon get you a group of underutilized boxes requiring excessive maintenance, not to mention pulling a lot of electricity and putting out a lot of heat.