Server Virtualization

Once upon a time, way back in the late-1990s, software companies often advised their customers to dedicate a specific physical server to the running of each key application.

This made design sense—for obvious reasons you didn’t want storage solutions or backup software running on the same physical machines as the programs they were designed to support.  And it made technology sense—the physical capacity of servers made them clumsy when asked to host too many applications.  In other words, they were easily overtaxed.

Fast forward to today...

Jump ahead ten years or so.  Most companies have found business use for dozens of applications, where they used to rely on three or four.  At the same time, the processing speed, storage capabilities, and overall performance of server hardware has increased exponentially.  Yet each of these apps sits in its own server, which hums along at about 2% of capacity all day and all night, its engine purring, its fans spinning, burning up kilowatts every hour of the year.

There is no longer any reason to separate applications onto individualized machines.

(Well, actually, there are two reasons that crop up again and again:  Because that’s how we always did it is one.  And, I don’t know any other way to do it is the other.)

BLM Technologies of Florida is at the forefront of the server virtualization model. With our help you can . . . Free up physical space in your facility Lower your energy consumption, which saves money and is good for the planet Save significantly on the cost of IT administration (Fewer machines = fewer hours needed to manage them)

Most important, the operating expenses of a virtualized data center are dramatically lower than the old model.

That’s how we always did it is no longer a valid excuse.  I don’t know any other way can be resolved quite easily:  We will project-manage the virtualization of your servers, then teach you how to effectively administer them with dramatically fewer labor hours than you ever spent before.