Today, taking cost out of IT while delivering solid performance is critical on business. As growth organizations cope with rapid data growth, the need to drive increased agility while reducing complexity and cost has become one of IT’s great challenges. Linux provides a cost effective platform that delivers optimal performance and can be easily managed and scaled. Just as important, the scaling of the IT infrastructure management can be done without increased complexity. No wonders the business world has embraced it enthusiastically, and used Linux for their data centers.

            These days Linux has played a key role in data centers where resource limitations such as space and energy are becoming an increasing concern, Linux provides high performance, greater efficiency and solid a return on investment for IT solutions. Linux is on the prowl. Corporate America loves it. Most of Fortune 500 corporations have already turned to Linux to power their “Big Iron Computing works”. It’s an awesome platform; it’s free, versatile and can be customized to perform almost any large scale computing task and best of all its blessedly crash resistant. An army of programmers backed by some of the world’s most powerful corporations like IBM is constantly working to improve it and introduce new feature. Linux is not new to us, it has been around for about 20 years, we have already felt it presence and it has made big strides recently. It has transformed itself from realm of research labs and geekdom’s operating system to a world class OS that will power most of a modern business’ needs. It’s already created a strong mainstream buzz in the tech world and recently gained a strong foothold in the server market. For me Linux strength are on costs, Linux is open source that’s mean nobody own the code, software isn’t bought, users pay for maintenance and support not licenses. This kind of software business leads to cheaper hardware. A well tuned Linux client consumes less memory are disk space than a regular client, Linux is an efficiency driver. Storage plays an increasingly important role in managing IT costs, reducing risk and improving performance. Storage is a key element of dynamic infrastructures. Using Linux is great its increase the processing power and storage of the company’s IT machines.

            I strongly believe that in the future more and more businesses are considering ditching Windows for Linux, a move that could hurt the Redmond’s behemoth (Microsoft). If there’s one thing out there that could poise a major threat to Windows that’s could be Linux. Linux has already move out of academia and its already firmly entrenched in the enterprise, taking on software stalwart Microsoft. Linux got lot of potentials and promises.