| Taming Virtual Machine Sprawl: How to Get Your Virtualization Under Control |
| Wednesday, 24 May 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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Under-utilized servers are an enormous factor in today's IT budget crisis, with system utilization inside large corporate data centers rarely exceeding 10 percent. Virtualization has the potential to slash IT costs by letting organizations accomplish more work with fewer servers. But virtualization projects often don't deliver the expected cost savings. The problem is not virtualization itself, but the lack of a management strategy that addresses all of the costs and risks that result when you increase the number of applications that share each server. A comprehensive virtualization management strategy that addresses hardware, software, power, real estate, and administration costs is vital to realizing the cost-saving potential of virtualization technology. This white paper will show you how to develop a virtualization management strategy that minimizes business risks related to system failure, reduces software costs, maximizes application performance, meets the multi-system needs of large-scale applications, and eases management burdens inherent in virtual machine implementations. You'll also learn how to change a static data center into a dynamic, real-time IT infrastructure that allows physical and virtual resources to be repurposed to support the most critical applications without an extensive labor investment that increases operational costs. Read it here.
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