application virtualisation - business needs addressed

The business needs addressed by application virtualisation centre around enhanced security, disaster recovery, reduced IT operational costs. These are discussed below.

demand for improved security

Now, more than ever, organisations are placing increasing emphasis on the security of their (and their clients’) data. This is driven by the ubiquitous nature of the internet, coupled with a series of high-profile incidents involving data theft. Cheap access to broadband technology has opened up new ways of working, with more and more employees now working, at least some of the time, from home and other non-office locations.

These factors have sought to disseminate organisational data to ever increasing locations. The need to improve control over these ‘islands’ of data has never been more pressing.

disaster recovery

For years, ‘disaster recovery’ simply meant ‘regular backups’. IT managers are now aware of the need to implement a more stringent and comprehensive approach to disaster planning, in order to provide business continuity should things go wrong. A series of recent events have brought this need into sharp focus, as organisations across the UK (and indeed the wider world) have found themselves displaced from their offices.

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