At the recent eBusiness Strategy Europe Conference, the general focus of the event was virtualization's effect on ecommerce and other online-based business ventures.

According to IMRWorld, the event's host, the ability to place online marketplaces on virtual private servers and other forms of hosted servers could revolutionize the industry, allowing businesses to store and organize more information with greater efficiency.

The industry, however, is facing problems as many business owners are not informed enough on technology to meet the needs of tech savvy consumers. As a result, ecommerce outlets are falling behind.

In order to fight this trend, moving to virtual server hosting for data center solutions could prove beneficial. Using a hosted server, businesses can reduce the costs of managing on-site IT infrastructure, free IT workers to perform innovative tasks instead of maintenance and experience new levels of scalability that are not possible with on-premise physical servers.

A recent report on a server hosting details the benefit of virtual private servers. By using a VPS server, companies can take advantage of a scalable IT architecture for data storage, while sharing space and subsequently, costs, with other organizations. Unlike a shared server, which will often house hundreds of companies, a VPS server only hosts a small number of organizations, leaving room for customization and optimization based on an organization's needs.