Virtualization is a hot topic in IT circles these days…. and its benefits are far reaching. Real tangible benefits include increasing efficiencies and reliability while at the same time cutting costs, both of physical hardware as well as its ongoing maintenance.
The reaches of virtualization are far and wide and certainly go way beyond secure file transfer. That being said, here’s a great article written by Sandra Kay Miller from Processor magazine about some benefits of an organizations file transfer solution being deployed in a virtualized environment. Here are a couple of quotes from her interview with Ipswitch’s Kevin Gillis to ponder:
“…Implementing load balancing within the file transfer infrastructure delivers better performance and uptime. For times when servers are experiencing increased traffic, it can automatically be spread across multiple virtual servers.”
“If one server goes down, I want to spawn another server on the spot in real time from a hot or cold backup. That’s a perfect situation for virtualization…. It’s pretty impressive to have an image spawn itself on the spot based upon predetermined rules, such as a server isn’t responsive for 30 seconds. It will increase speed, efficiency, and overall agility of your IT infrastructure.”
Interesting topic indeed and one that I believe we will hear lots more about in the coming months.

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