Virtual Systems

Virtual systems is basically the concept of buying larger then usual hardware and using that system to "Virtually" host multiple servers. From the users perspective, everything will seem like you have a seperate servers for different tasks, but all of the servers actually exist in one platform. You may ask why this technology exists, and the best answer is administration and cost. condensing multiple servers into one system makes administration more centralized, smaller footprint, less energy and cabling, and over less moving parts. There can be a catch, which is that if that one system fails, it will impact all servers. We can walk you through all the pros and cons and see if this is the right choice for you. Some of the benifits are listed below:

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is very similar to Virtualization above, but addresses some of the downfalls of single virtual hardware failures. Typically, your virtual server is really split into multiple copies, running simultaneously, so if there is a hardware failure, there is virtually no downtime. Your servers are in whats canned a "High Availibility" status, meaning that it would take a national or even International catastrophic event to cause an outage. Some of the benits (outside of virtualization) are listed below: