Virtual private servers 'can help expanding firms cut costs'

Companies can enjoy greater control over their IT costs by using virtual private servers, it has been suggested.

According to Computerworld, the evidence of this is particularly clear in the case of US labour organisation firm HotSchedules.com, which managed to reduce 42 physical servers to just four.

This is despite the firm boosting its revenues by over 100 per cent in recent years, as well as taking on major clients that demand major data storage requirements.

Matt Woodings, HotSchedules.com's chief technology officer, told the website that virtualisation proved to be more cost-effective than other cloud computing services.

He explained that the latter was available for "prohibitive pricing", adding: "So I thought, well, there's got to be a better way to do this. I've got to get more bang for my buck."

Recent figures from Gartner found that 35 per cent of industry professionals in emerging markets are planning to up their investment in virtualisation.

Written by Chris Ball