Why Should You Build a Virtual Appliance?
Save time and money from both a technical perspective and a business perspective when you build a virtual appliance. You’ll lower development and distribution costs, accelerate time to market, expand customer reach, and provide an easy-to-use, more secure software delivery system – all while leveraging industry-leading virtualization platforms. Your customers and channel partners can easily deploy, evaluate, and purchase your solution when it is packaged as a virtual appliance.
See how virtual appliances benefit the following groups:
Benefits to Customers
For customers, virtual appliances represent an easier, more secure, and more reliable way to deploy and manage enterprise software. Virtual appliances can help customers accelerate software deployment, simplify software management, and improve security and control while leveraging the advantages of running applications on a virtual infrastructure platform.
Accelerating Time to Value
Virtual appliances are faster and easier for customers to evaluate, purchase, and deploy than traditional enterprise software because they come packaged as an integrated unit of pre-configured application, OS, and virtual machine components, reducing the complex, expensive, lengthy, and potentially error-prone tasks associated with OS and hardware configuration.
Simplifying Software Management
Virtual appliances also simplify IT management by allowing customers to manage and maintain application, OS, and virtual machine components together as a single encapsulated entity. Customers also gain the convenience of dealing with a single vendor who can guarantee the total quality of the appliance as a whole instead of bouncing back and forth between support technicians at separate OS, application and hardware vendors, all of whom are motivated to blame each other for any issues and incompatibilities that arise in order to minimize their own support costs.
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