Virtualization is a widely accepted technology which can assist your business with hardware consolidation, decreasing power consumption, decreasing hosting costs and simplify disaster recovery. This is possible by installing software (commonly called a Hypervisor) on server hardware which then shares the underlying harddrive, memory, processors and network cards. These shared resources are then allocated to multiple virtualized instances of servers. This enables servers that are traditionally underutilized to be better utilized. A virtualized server is also completely hardware independent, so it does not matter whether the virtualized server is running on Dell, IBM or HP server hardware. This virtualized server can therefore be easily moved between any of these and other vendors, simplifying disaster recovery and upgrades. evolv networks is certified to design, deploy and manage virtualization environments built on VMware ESX as well as Microsoft Hyper-V.