If you haven’t thought about taking advantage of virtualization to make clustering more cost effective, you might take some time to explore the idea. Clustering with VMs gives you versatility and lets you combine physical machines with VMs. For example, you can deploy clustering multiple VMs within a physical server, clustering VMs across physical servers, and using a VM as a cost-eff...

Virtualization can have a greater positive impact in a small business than it does in a larger business. It can get your existing applications off old hardware, provide some much-needed fault tolerance, and it can allow your IT capabilities to grow as the business grows. How cheaply can you get virtualization into your small business? Pretty cheaply, but you still must plan it out.

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