Server virtualization is helping control IT costs for many SME’s (small and medium-size enterprise) as it does for large enterprises. Server virtualization improves server utilization, reduces hardware and management costs, and improves overall disaster recovery and business continuity.
The scale of the SME environment may have 10 or 20 servers vs. larger organizations, which may have hundreds or thousands of servers. But the underlining value of server virtualization can reduce IT costs, both capital and operational. Server virtualization can enable organizations to improve server utilization, reduce hardware and management costs, reduce IT footprint, lower power and cooling consumption, and improve overall DR (disaster recovery) and business continuity. SME’s need advanced functionality, such as live migration of virtual machines, automatic failover and dynamic load balancing, as part of their server virtualization technology. They also need solutions that will scale to meet future IT requirements as their environments grow.
