Virtualization Tools - the Art of Science!  

Many experts in the field of information technology will argue that virtualization tools can be a very expensive proposition as compared to running hundreds or dozens of servers in a business or data center. However, the fact remains that virtualization tools are a very handy technology that eliminates the need for multiple servers, servers pace and all the network devices that guzzle electric power.

The ‘art of science' is how many an IT engineer has described virtualization tools. These virtualization tools are the magic that data center managers were praying for. With the help of virtualization tools a data center manager can use a single server to work as multiple self contained servers. These can host multiple application environments on a single physical machine giving the impression that there are multiple servers servicing the network. Virtualization tools are delivering more than they promise. They are not only saving businesses bags of money in the long run, but virtualization tools are actually making computing more efficient and easy to manage for the administrative staff.

Virtualization Tools Saves Big Bucks – and Fast!
So far as the expense of virtualization tools is concerned, they pay for themselves and one does not have to wait for years to recover the investment. Depending on the requirement it will not take over 18 months to recover the investment made in virtualization tools compared to the amount a business would have to invest in additional computing hardware.

There is at least one success story about a newspaper that needed to add 120 servers to its already existing 150 machine data center. This publication, the Charlotte Observer, was paying $7,000 per month in power bills to run the data center alone, and the data center occupied 2000 square feet of prime office space, and they needed more. Virtualization tools, when applied, reduced the number of computers to 30 and also reduced the power bills to $3,500 per month. Apart from this the publication freed up 1200 square feet of office space. And all in as little as 14 months, the management says that the savings on power bills alone will pay for the virtualization tools, and add to this the cost of the additional hardware that the publication saved by making a few servers do the job that would normally be done by over a hundred servers.

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