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 Virtualisation is gaining pace in the PC server market in the face of tightening IT budgets, as companies try to curb IT acquisition and licensing costs, says Herman van Heerden, a virtualisation specialist and MD of Starship Systems.

 This is in response to growing global pressure on everyone to find more energy-efficient ways of working.

 Starship Systems is a local technology company specialising in the provision, implementation, maintenance and support of virtualisation technologies. “All great inventions and adoption of cutting-edge innovation is born out of necessity, and SA is not lagging too far behind other countries when it comes to virtualisation,” says Van Heerden.

Virtualisation is a method of running multiple independent virtual systems on a single physical resource, but it should not be confused with consolidation, Van Heerdon notes. Also termed ‘operating system virtualisation’, this is the segmentation of a single operating system, allowing business tools to run separately on that operating system without interference.

Virtualization in the desktop world is more about control, reducing support costs and improving the ability to deliver, you should not be thinking of saving money, but transforming the way you provision the pc. Keep in mind the business transformation that you can achieve simply by being able to dynamically deploy new machines and upgrade/improve performance on demand? An interesting article, do check it out.

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