Impact of Server Virtualization on Real Business World
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Among the leading business challenges confronting CEO’s and IT managers today are: cost-effective utilization of IT infrastructure; responsiveness in supporting new business initiatives and flexibility in adapting to organizational changes. Server virtualization has come just in time for IT departments caught between the pressure to cut costs in the face of a developing worldwide recession, steadily increasing energy costs and maxed-out data centers. Virtualization attacks the problem of the low utilization of single application servers. This paper describes the background behind Server Virtualization, its latest trends and different products used in server virtualization. This paper mainly focuses on server virtualization impacts on business in today’s IT world.
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