Cost-Effective, High-Performance Virtualization Made Easy [pdf]

The Challenge Businesses of all sizes have long struggled to make the most efficient use of their computing resources. During the technology boom of the 1980s and 1990s, for example, they invested billions ... of dollars into IT environments in a continual cycle of upgrades and replacements. For many businesses, however, these investments resulted in extraordinarily complex environments, characterized by an ever-expanding array of diverse and incompatible operating systems, hardware standards, and applications. These complex environments, and their associated costs, continue to this day. For example, under the “one application, one machine” IT infrastructure model used by most businesses, a new computer is added along with each new job function. As the needs of a business grow, so do its attempts to purchase enough new computers and upgrade enough existing ones to meet those needs. Another factor in the struggle to use IT dollars wisely is the practice of deploying computers to handle wors   [More...] [Less...]