contents 1. Server Consolidation 2. Business Continuity 3. Virtualization Management 4. Enterprise Desktop and Control 5. Cloud Computing 6. Data Center Automation 7. Remote Branch Office Capabilities 8. Vmware for web hosting

"VMware, Inc." a company founded in 1998 in California, is the designer of the VM software which "simplifies IT so that companies can more effectively utilize their storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and respond faster." (vmware.com).

Whether your business is small, medium-sized or large, Denver VMware hosting provides you with choices such as server consolidation, business continuity, virtualization management, enterprise desktop and control, cloud computing, web hosting and remote branch office capabilities.

With a VMware Denver co., providing you hosting service you will not have to spend additional money, which may be used on other more important company projects, on buying new hardware. At the same time, Denver VMware hosting will increase the productivity of your already-existing hardware. Also, it will save you money by cutting energy and operating costs.

With Denver VMware hosting worrying about business continuity is a thing of the past. In today's market place, as a business owner, you must ensure that there is as little lag time as possible. Denver Vm Hardware ensures that "down times" are less frequent and recovery periods are faster.

Virtualization, as defined by kernelthread.com, refers to "a framework or methodology of dividing the resources of a computer into multiple execution environments, by applying one or more concepts or technologies such as hardware and software partitioning, time-sharing, partial or complete machine simulation, emulation, quality of service, and many others." This is, possibly, Denver VMware hosting's most important asset. Firstly, it allows the company's IT administrator more time to due to less "failures" in your system. Another great Denver VMware hosting feature is that it will allow you to reclaim network ports which, normally, go unused.

Today's business environment depends heavily on flexibility and quick accessibility. On the other hand, the technology used for Blackberries and laptops, as well as other mobile IT-providing technology changes by the second. By controlling your desktop capabilities, Denver VMware hosting allows you to access such information from anywhere and anytime without having to buy new software to keep up with the industry's latest innovations. It also gets rid of the problems which normally come with application sharing and compatibility. Another incentive to Denver VMware hosting is information security. Data security, to include leakage, is not at its highest, especially, when being accessed from remote, mobile devices. Denver VMware hosting ensures that such is not one of the things you have to continue to worry about.

Wikipedia.org sees it as "the ultimate form of globalization." Cloud computing is the manner in which one is able to obtain computer services via the internet from a service provider.

Major advantages to cloud computing, using Denver VMware hosting, are numerous. One of them is that it will save your money. By paying the provider for the services used, you will save money on hardware, software and problem resolutions. Another area which improves is data security with Denver VMware hosting's data centralization. The different types of clouds available through Denver VMware hosting include public, hybrid and private.

The public, or "external" clouds, are those which are purchased from a Denver VMware hosting provider. The hybrid cloud is one that works "with multiple internal and/or external providers" (wikipedia.org). The private cloud, also known as the "internal" cloud, is an "emulation of cloud computing on private networks." (wikipedia.org).

With data center complexity increasing by the minute, IT managers are finding it more and more difficult to reign-in their data centers. Because of this data center automation normally requires numerous employees to keep it updated and yet another bunch to keep it operational. Now, Denver VMware hosting is able to provide you with data center automation which "automates data center tasks such as provisioning, monitoring, change and peformance management." (ZDNet's "Between the Lines").

Being able to manage and protect data in remote, or "branch" offices requires not only personnel but, also additional hard and software. With Denver VMware hosting, you are able to save on both. Another area where you will see increased improvement is the file access and internal web access, allowing your employees to access such in a speedier manner - thus, increasing productivity. When employee X access's ABC information, the Denver VMware hosting provider through their in-house technology will "copy" the accessed information; thus, providing faster access to the same information for employee Y to use. Retention of the copies may be done in one of two ways: 1) retention of the copies in a server outside of the remote or branch office ("peer to peer architecture") or, 2) the server is housed in the remote office.

Today's market is not only extremely competitive which requires business owners of to ensure that their employees have the correct tools to increase productivity and efficiency. Denver VMware hosting will provide you with capabilities and services which will place you toe-to-toe with your best competitor, while saving you money in the process.

At this point in time, virtual private servers or VPS are something of a hot item, but there's speculation they may become obsolete in the future. The real question to ask yourself is why you should compromise for part of a server in a software wrapper when you could get a full-on dedicated server?

Your focus should be on virtualization. The way to accomplish that is through utilizing VMware for your web hosting solution. VMware runs a small Linux server OS and allows you to maintain a virtual machine with different operating system. The VMware is the best when it comes to providing dedicated resources to each of your clients. And it is highly available where ever you go. That's all well and good, but you may be asking yourself, "Why is VMware good for web hosting?"

Virtual servers share their host's hardware (CPU, memory and network). This is good because even a mediocre server (for example: a 2U server from HP or Dell) can host and provide enough disk space and resources for between 10 and 20 virtual machines for your clients or yourself. This also saves you money in the long-run with things like hardware, power, and cooling and rack space.