6 Ways to Reduce Your Costs with a Virtual Machine Solution

posted by Sandy Sidhu in Email Security on Aug 31, 2010


In his post, Six major trends for Email Security Companies, Mike discusses the trend of virtualization and the cloud.

In case you still need convincing, here are 6 ways to reduce your IT costs through optimization of resource utilization:

 

  • Regroup various servers and services into a single powerful     hardware server with several VMs sharing the same physical resources
  • Scale your VMs up and down according to their resource     requirements, company headcount, email volume
  • Reduce the number of hardware servers and thus reduce costs:    electricity bills (power, cooling), rack and floor space, maintenance and upgrades (parts, labor)
  • Improve the turnaround: a new VM can be up and running within     minutes, whereas a physical server takes hours or even days to setup
  • Streamline your software and security update processes since each VM runs as an independent server: installing the latest Windows patches or upgrading to IIS 7 on your web server VM will have no effect on   your email security VM
  • Simplify backup and recovery plans
  • Increase security with independent VMs and an invisible host OS:    each VM has its own service, a security breach in one service/VM doesn’t carry over to the other services/VMs and each service VM has lesspotential security risks than a single machine with multiple services.

 

Using virtual machines can you save you real money with immediate results.


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