by Angela Guess
A recent article covers Inbox Financial Sector Institutions General Manager Khurram Kaleem’s opinions on data virtualization. According to Kaleem, “Virtualisation is the future as it not only saves a lot of money, but allows maximum utilisation of resources and is a green initiative.”
The article states, “Addressing an event on Thursday, which highlighted how organisations could secure their data with the latest technology, Kaleem said that virtualisation can do wonders for any company. ‘Savings are about 50 per cent on your overall routine work including, not just IT, but also operational costs – capital and operating expenditures,’ he said. Kaleem explained that with virtualisation all resources were bundled together and used as a common platform. It is when common resources were used for multiple tasks. Prior to that, every application had a separate hardware system for operations and that had changed with virtualisation, he said.”
The article continues, “Referring to a study which Inbox conducted in Pakistan for an IT company, Kaleem said that the company was using 50 servers but with virtualisation, these were replaced with just 10, at $5,000 per server. ‘This is a remarkable number in terms of cost savings, in terms of bandwidth reduction, in terms of power and cooling requirements,’ he said. Companies in Pakistan are becoming larger and more elaborate, their data management and security needs are growing and they need to better manage and secure their data, according to experts. They pointed out that even mid-sized businesses were pursuing more virtualisation and security measures to deal with diverse business applications and data.”
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