I’ve seen it a hundred times. A customer invests in a server only to have it experience some kind of failure.
Be it storage, memory, some other component, or even time.

But what if there was a way to help safeguard your backbone and allow your business to become more flexible?

It’s simple, virtualize!Imagine taking your servers and putting each in a little box, then putting those boxes in a bigger box, then copy it at least once.
You’re now left with at least 2 big boxes copying each other, with all those little boxes holding your servers.

Now, let’s say your smaller boxes get damaged, or they need to become bigger.

Traditionally, you would have to buy a brand new server, or spend serious money on upgrades, both with downtime and excessive testing.
If your boxes are virtual, you can easily repair them while having your backup box take the load. Or, if you need more room, you can easily add more memory or storage to the big boxes, and give your servers their new resources with drastically reduced downtime.

Another scenario, are the dreaded but always required upgrades.
You can “clone” one of your servers and put it in an isolated environment for testing without dealing with the unknowns of purchasing MORE equipment. Will the new one be fast enough? Will my applications even work?

While the initial costs can seem high, the benefits are amazing.
It also gives you time to upgrade your virtual hosts (the bigger boxes) and your guests (the smaller boxes) at your leisure.
Need to keep an old server around for an extended period, but want the rest of your network to move forward? Not a problem!

With a virtualized backbone, you can scale up quickly, and if need be, scale down.
You even have the ability to migrate into the cloud a lot faster should you so desire (depending on which platform you coming from/going to).

Even if you only have a tiny environment with a single server, the ability to take a “snapshot” or “checkpoint” before making a large change can mean the difference between being down for 30 minutes, or down for days.