05 May 2010

Server virtualisation 'helps improve flexibility for business'

Businesses could improve their flexibility and ability to recover quickly from setbacks by investing in virtualisation technology, it has been argued.

According to Ramesh Rajandran, product marketing manager at Microsoft Malaysia, this is proven by the fact more firms are now switching to virtualisation as part of their IT infrastructure.

Indeed, the number of businesses in the country that now use virtualisation technology has risen from two per cent in 2005 to more than 30 per cent in 2010.

He told attendees at the recent Microsoft Virtualisation Summit 2010 in Kuala Lumpur: "Our customers are beginning to better understand server virtualisation."

Elsewhere, Nathaniel Martinez, programme director at IDC's European, Middle Eastern and African systems and infrastructure solutions group, recently pointed to research from the firm which showed that shipments of physical server stock increased by 2.8 per cent during the last three months of 2009, while revenue for virtualisation software rose by 3.9 per cent.