Virtualization technologies are fast becoming a 
mainstream choice in business environments.
Virtualization is not a new concept to server technology; since the late 60`s it has been successfully adopted by mainframe servers. Up till the present day however, for the non-mainframe side of business, neither was there a business requirement nor the hardware technology to implement it upon.
In these last years, we have witnessed changes in the technologies; memory, storage, processor and networks have all grown exponentially in terms of speed and capacity. This has resulted in situations where the power and capacities of modern servers are not leveraged to their maximum potential in the majority of business scenarios.
Implementing virtualization techniques in the modern day business environment brings tangible cost savings and added agility to business processes. The consolidation of multiple physical servers onto a smaller pool of physical servers not only centralizes the management of such servers but also drastically lowers costs in terms of hardware investment, business continuity and power costs. It finally empowers businesses to unbind software from hardware, enabling the move of business processes across servers as easy as transferring files over the network. Fewer, better utilized and better managed servers mean that downtime can be minimized to an extent where multiple servers utilizing virtualization techniques can obtain the highest level of availability ever.
The largest players in this field today are Citrix, VMware and Microsoft. Citrix`s offering is XenServer, a product based on the highly successful and highly dependable XEN open source project. VMware`s line`s comprises two products: VMware ESX Server, an excellent enterprise level solution and VMware Server, a lower end product formerly known as GSX Server. On the other hand, Microsoft`s Virtual Server 2005 R2 is a solution soon to be superseded by Microsoft Windows Server 2008 which will include native, out of the box support for server virtualization through its Hyper-V technology.
While all of these vendors bring somewhat different solutions to the virtualization field, ultimately businesses end up gaining distinct advantages and cost savings through these technologies. Large, fast computers have finally come of age in the non-mainframe business environment and virtualization technology finally enables and empowers business to leverage their maximum hardware resources.
Integrating virtualization within your business processes requires a solutions provider that can not only supply the appropriate technology which enables a seamless migration to a virtualized scenario but also fully understands and contributes to the efficiency and cost savings that virtualization can bring to your business. With a highly trained and specialized engineering team and partner relationship status with all the major players in the virtualization field (Citrix, VMware and Microsoft) Computime is the sole virtualization solution provider that can truly offer you a complete service through which you can gain all the advantages that virtualization brings.