By now you have probably heard of virtualization. Or maybe you hear the buzz about a “private cloud.” If you are waiting for these things to pass away like so many technology fads over the years, you will be disappointed. Virtualization is here to stay, and I’m going to give you seven reasons why you need to consider virtualization for your network environment.
1) Save Money
Did you know that each healthy server in your server room has between 80-90% of its resources going unused? Don’t believe me? Go to one of your servers, right click on the task bar and open task manager. Click on the performance tab and take note of your CPU usage. It probably spiked up when you opened task manager and then settled back in under 10%. Many times it will stay around 1%. If you have 10 servers in your server room, you are probably using the equivalent of 1 of those servers’ CPUs.
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