VMWare has now been available approximately 5 years and has become the industry leader in virtualisation. There are a number of other companies that currently offer a virtualisation solution, but are new to this marketplace and are not operation system independent. Virtualisation is a technology that can benefit anyone who uses a computer. Millions of people and thousands of organizations around the world-including all of the Fortune 100 use VMware virtualisation solutions to reduce IT costs while increasing the efficiency, utilization and flexibility of their existing computer hardware. Read below to discover how virtualisation can benefit your organization.

Five Reasons to Adopt Virtualisation Software

• Server Consolidation and Infrastructure Optimization:
  Virtualisation makes it possible to achieve significantly higher resource utilization by pooling common infrastructure resources and breaking the legacy 'one application to one server' model.
• Physical Infrastructure Cost Reduction:
  With virtualisation, you can reduce the number of servers and related IT hardware in the data centre. This leads to reductions in real estate, power and cooling requirements, resulting in significantly lower IT costs.
• Improved Operational Flexibility & Responsiveness:
  Virtualisation offers a new way of managing IT infrastructure and can help IT administrators spend less time on repetitive tasks such as provisioning, configuration, monitoring and maintenance.
• Increased Application Availability & Improved Business Continuity:
  Eliminate planned downtime and recover quickly from unplanned outages with the ability to securely backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no interruption in service.
• Improved Desktop Manageability & Security:
  Deploy, manage and monitor secure desktop environments that end users can access locally or remotely, with or without a network connection, on almost any standard desktop, laptop or tablet PC.

Virtualisation software enables you to create VMs that share hardware resources and transparently function as individual entities on the network. Consolidating servers as VMs on a small number of physical computers can save money on hardware costs and make centralized server management easier. Server virtualisation also makes backup and disaster recovery simpler and faster, providing for a high level of business continuity. In addition, virtual environments are ideal for testing new operating systems, service packs, applications, and configurations before rolling them out on a production network.