Virtualization offers compelling strategic advantages. Here's how your organization can benefit.
In a survey published last month, CIO Insight found that virtualization of servers and storage would get the highest percentage in I.T. spending this year. But with all the advantages virtualization offers, that shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. Here are just five examples of how your organization can benefit from virtualization:
3. Virtualization Can Help Cut Energy Costs.
PG&E helps its customers cut costs in their data centers. But the utility also practices what it preaches, through virtualization software and a review of its energy policies.
4. Virtualization Can Power Up Your Hardware.
Virtualization software can help you get more oomph from your processors and, just maybe, run more than one always-on application on each of those expensive servers.