A leading Information Technology company, DELL, has called on Nigerian businesses to embrace latest server's technology towards enhancing virtualisation of their operation to reduce costs.
While making this call in a statement, Head, Corporate Communications, Europe, Middle East and Africa at Dell, Ms Gladys Elia, said as a company moves beyond the small business stage and looks to develop new products and services for its customers, it will require additional servers, which can lead to increased costs and the need for extra storage space.
Elia noted that rather than invest in physical servers, small businesses are increasing looking to implement an Information Technology virtualisation strategy as a way of reducing risk and minimising operational costs. She stated that a virtualised environment provides small businesses with a way of effectively managing their growing business, enabling them to streamline their IT Infrastructure, improve business scalability and respond quickly to changes in the business.
Explaining how businesses can advance their virtualised strategy, Elia said, "Windows Server 2012 comes with the latest edition of Hyper V, special transformational technology software which enables small businesses to advance their virtualisation strategy. It can support up to 512GB of RAM and 2TB of disk storage allowing small businesses to run one or more virtual servers across a single physical server."
Elia said Server 2012 clusters can contain up to 64 nodes, compared to Server 2008 which contained 16 node capabilities, stressing that each virtual server has similar properties to that of a single physical machine which means that organisations won't need to invest in more physical servers in order to support the growing business.
She said: "With Hyper V, small businesses can eliminate unnecessary hardware and maintenance costs by consolidating applications and running multiple applications on one server.
For example where an organisation once required six servers the use of virtualization means that they can now be replaced with just one or two physical servers and a couple of virtual machines.
"Virtualisation is ideal for organisations looking to offer specialised services or to grow beyond 25 employees. Through the use of virtualisation small businesses can put in place the infrastructure to support the deployment of new applications quickly and easily and can reallocate resources as necessary by improving virtual machines across servers.
