How does the emergence of virtualization impact Enterprise IT?
What could virtualization mean for an enterprise IT system but interoperability? By employing virtualization there is separation of the 1-on-1 relationship between OS and HW. Therefore one HW can have many OSes. On top of that, any OS can have many DBMS’s, CRM’s or any other software critical for the company. Extending that path, with virtualization there is no critical server failure. Losing the functionality of HW now means fewer resources for the virtualized instances to run, not critical failure. Virtualization therefore, enables companies to utilize more their HW resources while having a centralized virtualization management point. This very important technology, can be applied for Legacy application re-hosting or infrastructure provisioning and business continuity. Financially speaking, virtualization lower IT costs significally, approximately by 20-30% per application.
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