Business Virtualization - Enabling Always On IT for SMBs

Small businesses face many of the same IT challenges as larger businesses, trying to accommodate increasing demand for new IT capabilities and services. Small businesses often place even greater emphasis on cost savings and on protecting business critical systems and data. As many businesses shrinking IT staff and budgets and a “do more with less” attitude make it extremely difficult to simultaneously maintain day-to-day business operations. 

Virtualization for small business is the most cost effective way to enable Always On IT – the high availability, reliability, and manageability of enterprise-class operations optimized for small and midsized businesses.

Why Virtualize

SMBs are adopting virtualization for a variety of reasons. The common reason cited is to improve server utilization; 72% of SMBs chose virtualization for this reason. But that’s not the only benefit: 57% sought to reduce or contain the number of servers, 49% to improve security, 48% to improve availability and uptime, 47% to improve server and application management, and 47% to improve data backup and protection.

Virtualization Key Benefits

Virtualization is not just for the Fortune 500 companies anymore. SMBs are rapidly adopting virtualization and achieving significant benefits in a number of areas. Specifically, SMBs are seeing improvements in:

• Time spent on routine IT administrative tasks
• Backup and data protection
• Application availability & deployment
• Ability to respond to changing business needs
• Business continuity & disaster recovery Company profitability and growth rate