The main goal of XLServer is to save infrastructure costs by reducing storage footprint, software and hardware license cost and accelerate time to market of the projects.
Database virtualization offers a business many advantages ranging from improved IT disaster recovery protocols to efficiencies gains in server storage. However, benefits of XLServer also include several potential areas for significant cost savings when done correctly. Here are some examples of how XLServer can help your business cut costs while increasing productivity and efficiency:
- Always, one large live database cloned to several environments for development, testing,...etc. these environments consume a lot of storage as the production database is cloned block to block in non production. Using XLServer permits you to have only one copy of the production database from which all non production databases can be cloned without taking more disk storage. Doing so, your footprint of storage will be drastically decreased and you will never need to do investments on new storage hardware.
- Because the virtual databases do not consume a lot of storage, you can mutualise a lot of database instances in the same server which help you save costs of database software license.
- XLServer is a pre-packaged solution helping you to manage your entire database infrastructure without need to have advanced skills. Using XLServer means that your IT service provider has fewer resources to manage, saving your business thousands of dollars a year.