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Key Considerations for Leveraging Virtualization and Keeping Your Applications Available
A SunGard Availability Services White Paper
www.availability.sungard.com
Abstract
Today's IT organizations are faced with the daunting task of optimizing all aspects of their departments, including people, processes and technology. Optimizing and streamlining server utilization through virtualization represents one particularly exciting example. According to Gartner, Inc., "One of the most popular usage models for virtualization is to drive down server procurements in development, test and production environments. When this model is followed, future server purchases are avoided; instead, new workloads are established on existing systems."
Since its inception, the term "virtualization" has been defined as the pooling of various IT resources in a way that masks the physical nature and boundaries of those resources from the users. It promises to unlock underutilized server capacity through partitioning, enabling the ability to run multiple operating systems on one
server. The most obvious benefits of virtualization
are not just the ability to achieve higher server
and overall computing infrastructure utilization,
but also improved responsiveness and flexibility --
since virtual resources can be moved or modified
dynamically to reflect changing business needs.
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