Making virtualisation pay
- Posted:
- 11:45 10 May 2006
Topic Making virtualisation pay
Time 11.00am
Date Live Wednesday 21 June 2006
Duration 60 minutes
Description
There is no doubt that one of the key topics in the IT industry right now is virtualisation.
In short, virtualisation is a technique that enables organisations to pool their essential IT resources into one flexible and manageable entity. This gives organisations the opportunity to consolidate IT assets and remove the overall complexity in their IT estate.
It means that in order to do their jobs, organisations can purchase fewer more powerful servers while increasing their capacity by improving resource utilisation and making them easier to administer. Such a move is beneficial not only in terms of reducing upfront capital expenditure, but also in cutting the cost of administering such systems.
Some industry experts are going as far as saying that virtualisation capabilities are already becoming commoditised and have entered the mainstream. Yet there exists a variety in the virtualisation techniques that are in use, each with different characteristics that affect the way in which companies use IT and ultimately the results they gain from them.
This webinar will endeavour to investigate virtualisation in general and will
Format:
Five minute introduction followed by three 10-minute presentations plus a 10-minute moderated Q&A session. Interactive polling carried out throughout the event.
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