- Mature virtualization technology and industry-proven robustness

- Functional Isolation: Each virtual machine behaves like a dedicated server and allows users to test or run application/programs concurrently.

- Fault Tolerance: Errors or user actions that interfere with the operation of, or even crash, the operating system and applications running in one virtual machine have no effect on the continuing operation of other virtual machines on the same system. This provides increased availability for multiple applications, compared to running them in a single non-virtualized environment.

- Performance isolation: Heavy traffic or CPU loads do not affect other users on the same physical server. Resources can be allocated to independent workloads despite their sharing of common hardware. This allows us to define, provide and guarantee levels of service.

- Enhanced Security: protects businesses against the vulnerabilities of physical machines. Entire computing environments can be captured in software, instead of hardware.

- Hardware independence: Each virtual machine presents to its operating system a consistent set of virtual hardware, regardless of the underlying physical hardware. In addition to delivering a more reliable environment due to the small number of device drivers required, this makes virtual machines simple to transport between systems even if their configurations differ significantly.

- Hardware stability: Rather than using a low-cost commodity dedicated server, a more reliable Altaway/VM running on highly scalable, reliable enterprise-class servers is provided. The use of high-end stable hardware (HP/IBM servers, Ultra320 SCSI RAID disks, dual power supplies, multi gigabit backbones) helps minimize system failures for the customer.
Obsolete hardware and system software can be upgraded without losing compatibility. The legacy computer system and its applications are simply transferred to a virtual machine.

- Cost Effective: One physical server system can host several virtual machines reducing total cost of ownership.

- Encapsulation: A virtual machine is contained in a data file that can be copied like any other files, duplicated or moved to another system, making it possible to manage multiple hardware systems as a resource pool on which virtual machines can be deployed and redeployed easily and flexibly.

- Standardization: Virtual machines simplify deployment and improve use of computing resources by hiding the details of the underlying hardware and system software, allowing for consolidation and the ability to adapt to changing demand.

- Customization : Dynamically configurable hardware improves performance, reliability and cost optimization.

- Flexibility and scalability : Applications running on dedicated systems can be moved into separate virtual machines on a single, more reliable and scalable system.

- Increased availability : Mainframe-class architecture provides unprecedented scalability. Fully dynamic resource controls adapt to the needs of mission-critical applications.

- Rapid deployment: the use of virtual infrastructure accelerates installation and upgrades without the usual delays and downtime associated with physical dedicated servers.

- Rapid recovery: if a virtual machine goes down, it can be restored in 5 minutes .