Enter the computer room of the average mid-sized company and you're likely to see a few high-end servers running mission-critical applications, and next to them a bunch of desktop-style PC's providing secondary services. The reason is simple: cost. It's difficult to justify the expense of a proper server -- with redundant drives, fans, and power supplies, multiple network cards, and loads of memory -- for an application of limited importance and benefit to the company. Only mission-critical systems warrant that expense. Further, many applications don't play well together. You may have a powerful, multi-processor server, but if you try to run several disparate applications on it, even applications that in themselves have a small footprint or light requirements, and you're likely to bring the server to a crawl, if it will run at all. So you run those applications on separate pieces of hardware, sized -- as closely as feasible -- to the application's need. The problem is that low-end servers can cost just as much to maintain, if not more, than their high-end counterparts. Operating systems must still be patched, backups must still be performed, anti-virus and other security measures must still be maintained. And if a hard drive on a ...

Virtualization has long been the domain of large enterprises. Beginning with time-sharing technology on massive mainframes, virtualization required large data centers and larger IT budgets. The advent of high-performance workstations and servers based on Windows, Linux and similar technologies brought the benefits of virtualization to small- and mid-size businesses that might have only a limited IT staff and an even more limited budget. Today, virtual operating systems from companies such as Microsoft, VMware, SWsoft and XenSource allow companies of all size to take advantage of hardware that would have made yesterday's IT managers salivate in envy. Multicore processors, inexpensive system memory and commodity-priced massive disk drives are putting the disk farms and mainframes of years ago into a small chassis. The result: technology that once was the province of multinational companies can now be used by small- and mid-sized businesses as well — assuming they have the technological wherewithal to implement these capabilities. For example, instead of being confined to a single operating system on each physical computer, companies can leverage virtual server technology to deploy multiple environments on the same box. Companies can use virtual servers to eliminate costs of managing and upgrading legacy hardware by migrating older applications onto virtual ...

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