Web Drive, a web hosting provider, today launched a virtualisation service that will make enterprise-level server infrastructure available to small businesses across the country who are looking to cut IT costs and reduce risk.

The company explains that virtualisation has become the technology in recent times as businesses look to move from standalone servers, to clustered servers and now the resources of a single enterprise-grade server are shared by multiple users.

It states that it is offering virtual servers on both Linux and Windows platforms and customers can configure their own server requirements and order online. The server network is hosted in a high-availability data centre meaning the company can offer customers a service level of uptime, it adds.

“There’s a whole range of benefits in using virtualisation” says managing director Daniel Williams. “If a single piece of hardware in the cluster fails there is redundant hardware waiting to kick into actionimmediately. This means hardware-related downtime is most often completely eliminated or at least limited to a few minutes.” Users also have the ability to change hardware specifications as required to copewith seasonal changes. “Let’s say Christmas is your site’s busiest time and you need more server resources. Simply up the memory and CPU resources on your server and the upgrade takes a matter of minutes. Noneed to go and physically upgrade components on a machine. The customer is now in control as and when needed,” says Williams.

He adds “Having an in-house server or dedicated Internet server means worrying about hardware upgrades, backups, redundancy, and network support charges. With virtualisation customers can spend onaverage $300 a month, and save thousands of dollars on all those things.”

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