How can virtualization contribute to companies’ new business model?

There were many trends that accelerated the revolution of 2020 and one of them was virtualization. How have virtual machines helped businesses in the current situation?

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Amid the confusion, those who managed to keep their jobs were moved to remote environments, corporate networks blurred their boundaries, and cybercriminals did not miss an opportunity.

A report from INTERPOL revealed that in just the first 90 days after the WHO declared the global pandemic, there was a 569% increase in the creation of Malware, malicious domains and DDoS attacks.

There are many reasons why companies should undertake a series of initiatives and investments to protect their networks and safeguard their data.

One such measure was the support of centers and databases through better virtual machines (Virtual machines).

It’s no surprise that virtualization represents multiple benefits for modern businesses. This helps reduce the hardware load in IT management, improves the efficiency of physical devices, and allows you to consolidate different functions and operating systems.

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Let’s explore how businesses have found benefits in virtualization, even in adverse environments like 2020.

Virtualization: a brief definition

In simple terms, virtualization is the use of software to create layers of abstraction on top of hardware, which make it possible to split physical computing elements such as processors, memories, or storage devices into multiple virtual computing units or “virtual machines” (VM) in increasing its efficiency.

Virtualization creates useful IT resources by expanding the traditional hardware base into a property that Red Hat “distributes functionality across multiple users or environments, allowing the full capacity of a physical machine to be used”.

And it is precisely within this functionality that the Virtual machine management software and applications of Virtual desktop infrastructure They found enormous applicability in the face of the technical difficulties that companies faced in operating amid the health crisis.

Virtualization and security platforms endpoint (PPE) They made it possible to expand the reach of corporate IT networks, and millions of people brought their offices home.

How has virtualization contributed to modern businesses?

With millions of corporate workers confined to their homes, similar technologies Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and above all Desktop as a service (DaaS) arrived as saviors and allowed thousands of businesses to continue operating.

DaaS, for example, has made the separation between the desktop and the office PC possible, allowing any worker to connect to their work applications from remote environments and mobile devices.

Virtualization has been a time and effort saver, giving employees and managers the ability to access all their data and applications remotely with a login or a few clicks.

Another contribution of virtualization to modern businesses in the midst of crisis is the resolution of technical problems, allowing the IT support organization to resolve problems on endpoints remotely.

“Virtualized environments” have made it possible to provision and deploy replicas of servers, data centers, and even affected VMs on other virtual backup drives or clones, reducing disaster recovery processes from days or hours to minutes or seconds.

On the other hand, since its first steps, virtualization has represented savings in investments since companies do not have to invest in physical infrastructure, facilities and spaces, they will have less infrastructure occupying surface area, fewer components and even lower energy consumption and “carbon footprints” in their processes.

IBM He summed it up like this: “The benefits of virtualization for businesses include reduced IT infrastructure costs, reduced downtime and network resilience, greater efficiency, productivity and independence”.

Virtualization is a journey that has just begun

The contribution of virtualization to modern business models had already been underway for several years, but the effect of the pandemic triggered its implementation more.

Faced with the crisis, companies had to act in a «situation room» orcommand and control” and many still need to review and continue to adapt their setups and processes.

Greater accessibility, deployment and administration in the cloud, firewall next generation and PPE, increased remote support and automated incident routing; They are constraints that limit the greater impact and contribution of virtualized machines and environments.

Virtualization and the move to the cloud are not a trend, they are the future and the unfortunate crisis of 2020 was a catalysis of this.

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