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Virtualization technology allows you to take physical hardware and split it up into multiple different services or applications all running simultaneously on one system.
1. Cost reduction:
Virtualization enables the consolidation of servers and greatly reduces the number of servers in an organization. An indirect cost reduction would be the reduction of operational costs such as maintenance, power and air conditioning.
2. Reduced hardware vendor lock-in:
Virtualization removes the need to be dependent on a specific vendor, server or, in some cases, platform. This helps the organization look into a lot of options when they plan to upgrade or expand their equipment.
3. Better disaster recovery:
Virtualization helps the organizations create snapshots of their server to quickly roll back to the “last saved point”. Also give the ability to move the virtual systems elsewhere thus giving increased flexibility to the organization.
4. Migration to Cloud:
The future steps to virtualization would involve moving into a private Cloud and when the time is right and security measures in place, the public Cloud maybe.
5. Segmentation for development and test environment:
The virtualization allows creation of isolated segments (or a test environment) on the server for the developers and testers to play with and if incase the systems crashes, it can instantly be imaged on another server.
Virtualization is becoming the main backbone of IT as it is reducing cost and increasing ROI. It increases the IT availability, capacity, and Disaster Recovery. Also the cloud technology is built over it.
