Application Virtualization and Utopia: Proving the Value of Virtualizing Applications

Virtualization has become a major catch phrase being bandied about but what is it really?

Since so many have been confused by all of the hype in the market, The Kusnetzky Group has developed a tool, a pattern or model, to help its clients understand virtualization in greater detail. There are many layers of technology that virtualize some portion of a computing environment depending upon whether the organization is seeking performance, reliability/availability, scalability, consolidation, agility, a unified management domain or some other goal. This whitepaper by Dan Kusnetzky, Principal Analyst looks at each of them in turn.