Virtualisation - An Overview

Virtualisation technology powered by VMware is driving a revolution in servervirtualisation, infrastructure delivery, deployment and management.

Virtualization technology applies a layer of abstraction (or virtualization) onto physical hardware, allowing far greater flexibility, efficiency and availability.

Virtualization benefits are many and varied but are centered around core benefits including:

• Efficient Resource Utilisation
• High Availability
• Complete Freedom from Hardware (purchase, upgrades, failures, refresh cycle)
• Seamless Scalability

Secondary benefits of virtualization include:

• Fast Deployment
• Customisable Server Specification
• Separation of Application Environments

In 2006, Bulletproof became Australia's first Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider with the launch of its high availability Dedicated VM Hosting platform.

Whether an organisation chooses to deploy their own fully virtualised farm, a hibrid virtualised/physical farm or employ the services of Bulletproof's Dedicated VM Hosting on a per-VM basis, server virtualisation is increasingly the way hosted and application infrastructure is being deployed.

Additional information on virtualisation can be found on this Wikipedia page.