While all businesses, (especially SME’s) continue to look for ways to reduce their costs, for many virtualization has become a key strategy for reducing expenditure.

Virtualization is a broad term but essentially it is the creation of virtual IT resources such as storage, server(s), a network, or even a workstation. For example you can take one physical server and run multiple instances of different operating systems on the one piece of hardware.

It is expected the use of virtualisation technology is set to increase by as much as up to 70% among SME’s (25- 100 users) over the next 2 years