Why virtualization?

Creating a virtualized IT environment is a vital step toward enabling an adaptive infrastructure. Your IT organization can gain the flexibility to quickly adapt to the changing demands of your business via virtualization.

Your organization can achieve substantial, long-term benefits from virtualization that include:

• Accelerating business growth.  By making your infrastructure more flexible, your IT organization can deliver new applications and business services faster. Adding capacity to meet new or expanding computing requirements can be completed in a matter of minutes or hours.

• Reducing costs. Since servers, storage, networking and other resources are pooled, resources can be allocated as required. Putting unused data center capacity to work on business priorities helps your IT organization achieve greater asset utilization, improve IT staff productivity, extend the life of datacenters by reducing space and energy requirements and reduce operational costs.

• Mitigating risks.  The ability to quickly analyze your resource needs and dynamically allocate resources helps your IT organization enhance availability, continuity, and security, and meet – or exceed – service level agreements.