He said the benefits dedicated VMhosting offers over shared hosting include increased availability, speed of deployment and the ability to upgrade and downgrade and create clones for development.

"Before server virtualization, organizations typically ran multiple applications on the same server which reduced performance and stability," Modesto said.

"The only alternative was to buy a new physical server for each application, which could take weeks if not months to implement and often led to overspending and under utilization."

Modesto said VM hosting can be commissioned rapidly and removes the need to purchase and manage hardware.