IMPROVING IT SERVICES THROUGH VIRTUALIZATION
IMPROVING IT SERVICES THROUGH VIRTUALIZATION

Summary/Abstract: Even if virtualization was used for the first time in the middle of the ‘90s its true advantages are being applied today. Virtualization presents an attractive solution for organizations looking to savemoney and generate value from their IT investments because of its potential to reduce capital expenses and energy costs.The technology has found important applications over a wide range of areas such as server consolidation, supporting multiple operating systems, kernel debugging and development, system migration, etc, resulting in a widespread usage. Most of them present to the end user a similar operating environment however they tend to vary widely in their levels of abstraction and the underlying architecture.This article discusses what virtualization is and how organizations can benefit from adopting virtualization into future IT plans.

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