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Virtualisation is the new hot topic however it also as real business benefits.
Most people are familiar with VMware, Virtual PC and/or PearPC but only consider them products for a testing environment however products such as VMWare and XEN can provide the following benefits:
- Consolidation of existing systems onto a single super server reducing hardware and support costs
- Reduced hardware maintenance downtime
- Increased resilience through server farms where up and running virtual servers can be migrated between hardware platforms almost instantly with no loss of service
- Automated load balancing of virtual systems within a server farm environment to make maximum use of system hardware
- Ability to clone existing images, created super-fast scripted install and revert Virtual servers back to pre-determined instances
- Ability to cluster Virtual servers within the server farm providing all the service level 24/7 compliance with all the extra benefits of a virtual environment, imagine 2 super servers running multiple 2+ node clusters, maybe with multiple operating systems, to protect all your services!
ST-FOUR are experts at advising organisations of how they can take advantage of the new and exciting technology and surprisingly in may instances we can actually save you money!