Understanding Virtualization and the Cloud with IT Support in Sacramento

IT support in Sacramento does many things for businesses. We at Noverus Innovations, Inc. offer top-tier, cutting-edge solutions to cost-effectively enhance operations. Manufacturing is streamlined, personnel costs reduced, rental costs abridged, infrastructural expenses downsized, and visibility in a more marketable, cost-effective sense is achieved. What makes such things possible is cloud computing. However, many are confused between cloud computing and virtualization. The two have a bit of crossover, but they’re not the same.

Virtualization Is The Foundation Of The Cloud

Virtualization is the mechanism that makes cloud computing solutions possible. Think of it as large-scale hard drive partitioning. If you’ve got a laptop, you can “partition” the drive, so different operating systems can be loaded on the same machine. You can have Linux on one “startup disk” and Windows on another. With the right emulation software, you can even run Apple and Windows OS from the same computer.

Partitioning and emulation software is basically combined for virtualization purposes. The right virtualization software allows a server, or a network of them, to run a variety of operating systems and applications simultaneously. IT support in Sacramento through Noverus Innovations, Inc. can provide your business such services while simultaneously providing security and cost-effective networking. Efficiency, flexibility, and utilization of existing hardware/software can be maximized via virtualization in a way that saves money.

Possible Savings Scenarios

So, cloud computing results from virtualization. Virtualization is the mechanism from which “floats” the cloud. The cloud is the service virtualization makes possible.

Now imagine this scenario: you gradually outsource internal operations to the cloud in order to offset the transition cost. From there, you use virtualization to create a desktop solution remote employees can access as necessary from anywhere with internet access. This is called Desktop as a Service (DaaS). For protection, you use Backup and Data Recovery (BDR) solutions through the cloud to mirror your network in the event of an emergency and ensure no files are lost if systems must be wiped and rebooted. You use Software as a Service (SaaS) to run applications on your DaaS platform. You can even use Hardware/Infrastructure as a Service (HaaS/IaaS) to surrogate your internal server arrays.

Possible Savings

You could save more than $100k a year for an office of 20. How? Well, an internal server requires a dedicated tech professional (or two) to maintain the minimum cost of which will be $30k annually. Additionally, you’ve got the cost of servers themselves at around $15k annually. Then you’ve got office space for 20 employees at around $5k or more a month, plus the cost of equipment. With the cloud, you can:

• Institute bring your own device (BYOD) for 15 employees, cutting office costs; save $1k per computer per employee using BYOD ($15k);
• Conserve $48k in rent;
• Cut $15k in server cost; and,
• Save $30k in support personnel.

All these savings result in a total possible savings via cloud support of $108k.

Innovative Progress

IT support in Sacramento through Noverus Innovations, Inc. can provide cost-effective virtualization and cloud solutions. Contact us in order to see what sort of advantages these technological innovations can bring to your business.