Persuasive Essay On Virtualization

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Virtualization has come a long way from when it was found. In the 1960’s IBM had a huge range of systems. Every generation passing brought along a long different system then the previous generation. As this kept it harder on the user to keep their current system without buying a whole lots of parts that are needed to keep up with the new systems. The computers of that time were only able to run one thing at a time. If you needed multitask you need long scripts to automate everything. But it wasn’t until recently that the virtualization became affordable and more useful in a company environment.
My purpose behind this brief history of virtualization was to inform you how virtualization became I have a proposal for you. I would like …show more content…

If in future we decide to get a cloud storage, we can back up all our virtual machines to the cloud. The great part about this feature is we can grab them where ever we actually need them. This could be all the computers that are only needed only a few times a year.
“Different virtual machines can run different operating systems and multiple applications while sharing the resources of a single physical computer.” (What is Virtualization, web). With having only one machine I can boot in to any different types of operation systems ranging from Linux to Windows Server 10. I believe having this we can reduce the amount of hardware we carry around on both of our locations.
One last thing I would like to mentions is having the ability to control any machine from anywhere. We can have out IT team over in the LaGrange location and allow them to patch soft wares over at the Davenport warehouse. This would save a lot of time. The time it takes to go from LaGrange to Davenport is over two hours. Our IT team can only work in one location a day if it comes to …show more content…

With a price tag of $70,000 dollars upfront is a lot to spend. We could buy better hardware with this money or even invest into further development of our products. I would hesitate to even put up that kind of money if this was my company. But this is just an investment like any other. In the long run we are covered for a long time. We don’t have to invest any more money for our employees to be able to get a hold of their stuff. If for whatever reason their hard drive crashed and its beyond fixable we can just restore their stuff on to another hard drive and have them boot and pretend like nothing ever

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