Brits are notorious for being stuck in their ways, but with the growing trend of virtual hosting the UK, will there be much resistance?
When it comes to technology, Japan and other areas of the Middle East are already one step ahead. Not only are they ahead, but they are happy to flaunt their technological advancements on all their high streets and markets, and Westerners are more than happy to travel for their futuristic gadgets. Will virtual hosting take off the UK as it will in the rest of the world?
Currently, there are a growing number of virtual hosting providers in the country and they all offer a range of low-end to high end service – but most of the products/packages for virtual hosting, currently are very similar. As virtualisation is still a new platform for computing, there is little competition. But as predicted by market watcher and researcher, the Aberdeen Group, this could all change in 2010. Virtual hosting could be set to boom and competition could become fierce.
Virtual Hosting and Money
Although cloud computing is already significantly more cost effective than conventional IT, prices could also be expected to drop. Virtual hosting completely shifts the way that energy is used and consumed with contemporary computation. Moving away from the one computer/one server mentality, virtualisation is the way forward for environmental awareness. Reducing our carbon footprint, cloud computing can completely eradicate underutilisation – sometimes by as much as 95%! This means that we could be making a 95% reduction in energy wastage, saving money, whilst contributing to the environment.
Small to medium enterprises in Britain were hit by the recession, and they quickly grabbed the opportunity to get Software as a Service to save money and reduce in-house resources.
Virtual Hosting During the Recession
Britain was hit hard by the recession – cloud technology arrived just in time. Virtual hosting provides software, computing, platforms and applications as a service so that you can pay for what you need when you need it. Instead of powering an in-house server or several physical servers, virtual hosting is the pooling and sharing of servers for shared use by all subscribers. This is a more cost effective way to compute and it also guarantees 99.9% uptime, without fail. In-house servers require maintenance, upgrades and repairs. This all adds up to create ‘scheduled downtime’ which interrupts the daily business processes.
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