For anyone who own a business, the ultimate goal is to stay competitive among its business competitors while maintain their technology expenses in a healthy level.

Personally I do think that server virtualization will helps your company to stay competitive. If your are a software based company, you will need a numbers of servers for your code simulation and testing, code version control as well as your database server. Each server will easily cost you around USD 5-20k depends on your server specifications.

However, if your analyst your server performance and utilization in details, you may been shock and realize that each of your server may be only utilizing 10-20% of the total server’s CPU and memory usage. The remaining 30-70% of your server resources are remain idle in most cases.

Will it be nice that you can fully utilize your server resources and you will most probably needs 2 out of 5 servers running in your company. What you will get in returns? Here are the 5 main reason that you shall always make use of server virtualization: