Personally I do think that server virtualization will helps your company to stay competitive. If your are a software based company, you will need a numbers of servers for your code simulation and testing, code version control as well as your database server. Each server will easily cost you around USD 5-20k depends on your server specifications.

However, if your analyst your server performance and utilization in details, you may been shock and realize that each of your server may be only utilizing 10-20% of the total server’s CPU and memory usage. The remaining 30-70% of your server resources are remain idle in most cases.

Will it be nice that you can fully utilize your server resources and you will most probably needs 2 out of 5 servers running in your company. What you will get in returns? Here are the 5 main reason that you shall always make use of server virtualization:

1. Saves money $$$$$

The is the main important in any business case as it keep your products competitive and saves $$$ on buying too many servers that you actually not needed. Of cause, this will not saves you on your Microsoft Server OS licenses but it saves on your server hardware in the long run.

2. Saves spaces on your data center (server room)

As you do not have to maintain so many servers, you can fully utilize the spaces in your office for other purposes, additional office space for more staff as your company growth? Further more, Server racks is also an expensive equipment to locate all your servers, you save space and save $.

3. Save on server maintenance

You will need specified professionals in fields like System Engineer/ IT Engineer to take care of your servers. Windows Security Patching, hardware monitoring, performance monitoring on hardware failure as well. If you cut down the numbers of server you actually needs, you can saves man power in this area and may be they can focus on other area which will improve your business competitive further.

4. Save the environment

Less servers = less power consumption. With lesser servers, you need less power cable, less high power air con to maintenance the server room temperatures; and at the end, it’s more environmental friendly and you play your part in saving the environment from Global Warming.

5. Improve your product build time/time to market

During coding implementation and testing, you may crash your own coding and causing the testing environment stop working. With virtual server, you can actually create a snapshot of the ‘working’ version prior to your new release or testing. If anything happens to your coding, you can just ‘playback’ your previous ‘working version’ in no time. It will definitely improve the time to market of your products.

Above are just some of the examples and reasons that I recommended for virtual server.

You can google it for the virtualization software in the market and make good comparison to math your business needs. Meanwhile, VM Ware and Microsoft Virtual Server are some of the BIG players in the market.

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I come across an article from AsiaNewNetwork that South Korea is currently developing new technology that would allow online shoppers to buy clothes that fit their taste and bodies through Avatars; which means Avatar for Shoppers. Do you ever think of this idea before?

The company that launch this online revolution is iFashion Clothing Technology Centre (www.iFashion.or.kr). Can i called this a Blue Ocean technique? It doesn’t compete with other brand on its branding, marketing and design in the so called Red Ocean and create themselves a new range of target customer? It has been very competitive in order to boost sales, especially online sales; and that’s why i think that we got so many opportunities to write paid reviews online and other online advertising have been like a hot cake in Asia like NuffNang and Advertlets. This boost of online sales created a tremendous make money online opportunities as well, especially bloggers.

According to this article, online shoppers can create their own virtual image or avatar, by recording the exact size and shape of their figure, including height, length of arms, and legs, as well as the size of the waist, hips and thighs, onto a smart card. This card could be saved for future use.

You can even try cloths using mobile phones and computers. What a brilliant idea!

Microsoft Paint and Google Picasa2 serves me well on this as I’m only using normal features like crop, resize, exposure adjustment or auto-fix most of the time.

Now we have another alternative of FREE online photo editing website, Picnik. No software installation required, what you need to do is just create an account with them and you are on your way to edit your photos online.

I provides a wide range of function as you can also import your photos from your computer, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums or Facebook for editing purposes.

It’s really convenience and easy to use. Just choose to get your photo in the “Photos” tab, as i mentioned earlier, you can get it from your computer, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook or even from Yahoo Search.

Then you can edit your photo from the options provided in the “Edit” tab.

You can then save the edited photos back to your computer or choose to share or email them with your friends and family.

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