Historically, a company will have one server dedicated to each application – inventory, financials, CRM, email, order-entry, security, website, and so on – each customised to the application.

There are downsides to this multiple server setup. Firstly, there is the waste of energy. Then there is the space needed to house the multiple servers, the downtime experienced when a server is down for maintenance and the cooling costs involved in keeping the servers at the right temperature.

The obvious way to improve efficiency is to run more applications on the one server. The solution that allows this is called Virtualisation. So instead of having 5 servers running at 15% capacity, you have 1 server running at 85% capacity. That means far less electricity and far less cooling.

Technicalities has partnered with the industry’s leading virtualisation provider, VMWare, offering the best and most trusted virtualisation solution. Technicalities have helped a number of businesses move to a virtualised server environment, including the use of SAN storage and fibre channel drives.