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Research shows that about 70% of a typical IT budget in a non-virtualized datacenter goes towards just maintaining the existing servers, with little left for innovation. This has made organizations to consider server virtualization to help lower costs, improve the efficiency, higher availability, faster recovery, and also free their IT admins from spending so much time managing servers rather than innovating.

The benefits of hosted virtual servers are not only limited to saving cost of buying new servers or reducing clutter in your server room. But there are many other benefits that an organization can enjoy after virtualizing servers:

• 60-80% utilization rates for x86 servers (up from 5-15% in non-virtualized PCs).
• Cost savings of more than $3,000 annually for every workload virtualized.
• Ability to provision new applications in minutes instead of days or weeks.
• 85% improvement in recovery time from unplanned downtime.
• Being able to power down servers without affecting applications or users.
• Increase in service availability while eliminating error-prone manual tasks.
• Turn the datacenter into “Green datacenter” while decreasing costs and improving service levels.
• Ability to run applications on fewer physical servers, and dramatically reducing hardware, software, power, cooling, and datacenter space costs.
• Strong backup and recovery with the virtual machine’s hard drive image file. And the ability to restore the virtual machine to its original state by simply restoring a single file.