by Reeshma Mathews | May 4, 2020 | Server Management
In 2013, Amazon suffered a 40-minute downtime, that resulted in around $5M loss for the company. A website that is down for even a few minutes can cause reputation damage and drive away customers. To maintain business credibility, business owners prefer to purchase...
by Visakh S | May 5, 2018 | Server Administration
“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” It’s a common sense advice, and many IT managers use this to explain why their infrastructure isn’t virtualized yet. Server virtualization technologies have been around for more than a decade now,...
by Reeshma Mathews | Feb 2, 2016 | Server Management, Technical Support
In 2010, Virgin Blue Airlines reported a $20 million dip in profit due to an outage in its online reservation system. Hardware failure was identified as the reason for the outage, but it caused severe damage to Virgin Blue’s reputation, customer loyalty and...
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 13, 2016 | Server Administration
When Netflix faced an outage in 2011, they had to offer a 3% credit to their customers. The outage was due to a resource crunch in the Amazon cloud they were hosted in. It’s tough for a business to survive if such outages happen frequently. A cloud hosting...
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 12, 2016 | ovirt, Server Administration, Technical Support, VMware, WordPress, WordPress Hosting
Surveys indicate that 70% of online businesses adopt server virtualization solutions to reduce their costs [1]. But many times, the virtualization software costs outweigh this cost-benefit. That is where open source server virtualization technologies make a...
