Virtualisation and cloud computing can be confusing, especially to business owners who are not familiar with them. But when you understand their differences, you’ll be able to best take advantage of these technologies. Virtualisation Imagine a company with five servers, each assigned a single task such as storage, email, etc. If there were a spike in email traffic, it would …
How thin and zero clients can reduce IT costs
It’s no secret that cutting costs is one way to increase profit. When it comes to tech, most businesses do this by bringing their operations to the cloud,
Fighting ransomware with virtualization
Ransomware takes your data hostage and demands a payment for its recovery. While it may seem like there’s no other choice but to pay the ransom, you should never give in to the hacker’s demands. Before the next wave of ransomware comes around, it’s important to protect your business with virtual disaster recovery solutions. Virtual DR Virtual DR solutions allow …
How thin and zero clients save money
Businesses are always looking for ways to cut costs without sacrificing growth. For the longest time, many believed that they had to purchase workstations with its own processing power, RAM, and hard drive. But thanks to virtualization, companies can save money and get the computing processes they need with thin and zero clients. What are thin and zero clients? Thin …
The 5 most popular virtualisation platforms
Just understanding what office virtualisation is can be difficult enough; picking from the long list of software providers that help you achieve it can feel impossible. Since virtualisation is a relatively new practice for small and medium-sized businesses, there isn’t even a standardised way to go about virtualisation for your company. So why not start with this simple list of …
Enterprise level virtualisation for clients
Virtualisation has permanently changed the world of IT and computing and bringing with it the overhaul of IT architecture and workflow. One would think that it would reach its saturation point sooner or later but with constant innovation and development, virtualisation has permeated and penetrated deep as to reach the client level. Here are three virtualisation options for SMB’s wishing …
A guide to virtualisation and licensing
Software licensing has been a thorn in everybody’s side for as long as we can remember. It’s no surprise that as software begins to help us to consolidate and combine pieces of hardware through virtualisation, we’re confronted with this problem yet again. SMEs are often unfortunate victims of licensing models that favour individual or enterprise purchasing, without enough options in …