Over the past decade, cloud computing has taken the spotlight, making IT operations more efficient and scalable. With just a few clicks, businesses can deploy infrastructure, scale it, and keep everything running with minimal effort. The cloud is like magic, with infrastructure invisibly handled in the background while you focus on what matters. Meanwhile, virtualization—once an IT game-changer—feels like it’s lagging behind, weighed down by its complexities.
Virtualization: From revolutionary to cumbersome
Virtualization did amazing things for IT when it arrived on the scene. It allowed businesses to consolidate workloads onto fewer machines, increasing efficiency and resource use. But as cloud services have streamlined automation and scalability, virtualization seems stuck in a more manual era, tangled in layers of complexity and routine management.
Challenges of traditional virtualization
Cloud environments scale automatically, resources are provisioned with ease, and everything happens with minimal manual intervention. In contrast, traditional virtualization demands constant attention. What was once an innovation now feels like a chore. Traditional virtualization still requires manual configuration, and it hasn’t kept up with the rapid, seamless scaling that cloud solutions offer. Virtual machines need constant tuning, which increases overhead and reduces the agility businesses expect today. The more virtual machines you add, the more complexity you introduce. IT teams are left juggling resource allocations, monitoring for performance issues, and troubleshooting configurations that seem to grow endlessly in complexity.
The real difference: Cloud vs. virtualization
The cloud is designed to make things easy and is built on the principle of abstraction. You request resources, and it delivers—automatically scaling and optimizing behind the scenes without much oversight. You don’t need to understand what happens under the hood—just tell it what you need, and the cloud makes it happen. It’s efficient and built to adjust on the fly.
The complexity of virtualization
Virtualization, on the other hand, feels more like driving a stick shift in a world where autonomous vehicles are the norm. It works, but it requires constant attention. Every additional virtual machine adds layers of complexity, which, in turn, means more manual configurations, more resource management issues, and more chances for something to go wrong.
Shouldn’t virtualization be more like the cloud?
It’s no surprise that businesses love the simplicity of the cloud—its ability to scale, adapt, and optimize automatically. Why deal with the hassle of managing virtual environments when the cloud can handle scaling, adapting, and optimizing without all the extra steps? Virtualization, however, is still critical for many businesses, offering the control and customization they need for on-premises workloads. And for many organizations, moving everything to the cloud isn’t an option due to regulatory, security, or performance constraints. But why does it have to come with so much manual overhead? And the real question: why can’t virtualization adopt the best parts of the cloud?
VM Squared: Virtualization with a side of cloud magic
Enter SoftIron’s VM Squared, the hero we didn’t know we needed. With VM Squared, all those pesky manual configurations, performance tweaks, and scaling nightmares? Gone. VM Squared automates resource provisioning, performance optimization, and much more—without the baggage of legacy virtualization environments.
The benefits of VM Squared
VM Squared is the Swiss Army knife of virtualization. It turns that patchwork quilt of VMs and tools into a streamlined, cohesive platform—giving your IT team back their weekends (and sanity). Need to deploy quickly? Done. Want rapid scalability? Easy. VM Squared lets IT teams deploy, scale, and manage virtual environments just like they would in the cloud (through a console or Infrastructure as Code). It’s virtualization for the modern IT landscape without the forklift workload overhaul.
And with advanced automation features, VM Squared doesn’t just keep the lights on—it adjusts on the fly, responding to your workload needs without human intervention. It’s like having a co-pilot that knows what you need before you even ask. Host failure? No problem. VM Squared swoops in with automatic failover, keeping things running smoothly, no drama required.
The future of virtualization looks an awful lot like the cloud
Let’s face it, the future of IT infrastructure is all about reducing complexity and increasing efficiency. The cloud has nailed that. Now, it’s time for virtualization to catch up. With VM Squared, you get the control and customization of traditional virtualization with the simplicity and automation of the cloud. It’s a win-win.
So, instead of treating virtualization like yesterday’s news, it’s time to embrace a reimagined version—one that can flawlessly handle yesterday’s workloads and keep pace with the demands of today’s fast-moving IT environment. VM Squared isn’t just an upgrade; it’s a game-changer, bringing the future of virtualization to the present.
