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The amount of computing power in commodity hardware has grown wildly in just the past couple of years. You may wonder how you can best utilize a 16 core box. We can help you take full advantage of this more powerful hardware using the latest virtualization technology.

Here are some of the benefits to using virtualization:

Increases Server Utilization

Move multiple servers onto a single machine with complete isolation. It is rare to find any server completely utilized and with the latest multi-core server technology computing power has well outpaced the needs of most applications.

Reduce Costs

By increasing server utilization you reduce the amount of hardware you are required to buy as well as reducing the amount of space required for the hardware.

Reduce Time To Market

Virtualization allows you to prepackage what used to require the provisioning of a complete machine into a software image. If you require a new system be set up you no longer have to wait for a new server to arrive. Instead you just create a new virtual instance and start providing your services.

Increase Reliability

By decoupling the server from the operating system you can free yourself of some of the most troubling hardware related issues. If you need to increase the memory of a server you no longer have to shut down the entire machine but instead can migrate the operating system to a new machine without missing a beat and once you have installed the new memory and restarted you can migrate back all without any downtime. Coupled with a SAN you can reduce hardware related downtime for instances where you have a live machine fail by simply restarting the images from the SAN on a spare machine.

If you're interested in learning more please contact us.

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