Virtualization for SMEs: Doing More With Fewer Servers

One App Per Box Is a Habit, Not a Rule

Many small businesses still run one application on each physical server. The result is a rack of half-idle machines, each drawing power and needing maintenance.

What Virtualization Changes

A hypervisor lets several virtual servers share one physical host, each isolated from the others. You get better hardware use, faster provisioning of new servers, and far simpler backup and recovery — a virtual machine can be snapshotted and restored as a unit.

It is not free of trade-offs: a host failure affects every VM on it, so sizing, redundancy and backups matter more, not less. Done with a plan, virtualization shrinks your hardware footprint and your maintenance burden at the same time.